Final Dance documentary / Evaluation

Passion for Dance 

My documentary is about dancer named Nae that attends to Leyton sixth form, the documentary based on her as well as dance, showed how important dance is for people and what it means for them along with showing Nae collab with other dancers, I interviewed her so the audience can know her thoughts on dance, and I put some facts about dance as a voice over  so that the audience can know more about dance along with a bit about her. I came up with the idea of dance as my topic for documentary because I thought about my friend Nae, and I chose dance because I use to dance myself and I had a passion for it, but I decided to stop, however when I saw Nae dance with her friends, it just made that passion come back even though can't dance anymore and show people my skills, just thought why don't I show people dancers skills and what it means for them through a documentary.

 At times felt like changing my idea because for the documentary  Nae would be very busy at times because of dance, she would cancel on me all the time, when I wanted to get more footage of her dancing, but I didn't give up on the documentary, so I just use the footage I had, the documentary actually came out looking well. The documentary mode I used was participatory and observational, for the participatory I interviewed Nae in the national theatre where she trains for dance as well as for observational she was walking around showing me where she dances in the national theatre, I used a voice over when I filmed her dancing underneath a projector and in the voice over she is talking about her past within dance and the struggle about dance .

Furthermore the skills I developed through this project was editing, and editing was my weak point within media , I learnt how to  make videos bigger, duplicate the same video, video transitions , audio track mixer , video effects color correction, those are examples I've used in this documentary , never had a clue about them before , but friends around me in the class tort me how to do certain things for editing, now I just need to remember all the stuff I've learnt in editing. I manage my time by just asking Nae when she is free or when she is dancing after college and compare my schedules to hers. Working independently was a challenge for me because I would rather work in a group because I was weak in some areas in media but somehow I was able to do this on my own, a challenge I overcame, worked independently by filming, editing and recording the voice over, editing with a bit of help. The problems I had was travelling because the cost of going to the national theatre was a bit expensive , however my friends donated money to help me with the travel, the second problem was the number of times she cancelled on me when I wanted to film new footage, it was kind of frustrating, making me want to change my idea but I didn't give up, solve my problem by messaging her every day seeing if she is free.

What went well for me was Interviewing Nae because I knew her already so the bond is there between us , so the interview wasn't awkward at all and she was able to open up to me bit about her past in the voice over, making the  documentary be more professional along with the filming of her and her friends dancing, could have been better if I had more footage of her dancing, so I could use in the begin as well as for the interview should have recorded in a silent place in the national theatre and could of hold the camera more still while I was recording for the interview, would've of looked more professional.