For our documentary, we allocated each person a role and a part of the documentary to do. Chlaryse spoke about the genre and its history, I worked on the codes and conventions of a teen romance drama opening, looking at different openings from films such as 'The Art of Getting By' and 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. Katie and Becky looked at the target audience and created a mood-board, as well as conducting audience research and collecting data.
Once we had all created our separate sections of the documentary, we put them together on iMovie, and started the editing process. For our titles we used stop motion; taking separate pictures and putting them all together at a quick speed to give it an animated effect. We used the same font and white background for the subtitles, except for the genre section where we unintentionally reverted it back to the original font. For our background sound we chose light, tuneful music with a soft instrumental so that it did not distract from what was being said, but it gave it a teen feel, as these types of "indie" songs are commonly associated with teen romance dramas such as 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'.
We are pleased with our overall product as it gives the right effect and relates nicely to the genre we are trying to portray, but if we were to improve on it, we would make the font consistent and make sure each section has similar colouring and lighting as some sections were darker than others. Also, we would make the music a decent volume so it does not overlap the dialogue, and we would try to improve the quality of camera, as it went out of focus at some points.
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