Analysis of Footage

One of the dolly shots zooming in on
this piece

Up close images of the graffiti

Examples of Tomo's work to go over when
he's talking

The first thing I noticed when I organised and looked over all the footage was that we didn't have the footage to make the documentary we originally wanted to make. To go for the gritty 'urban' idea we were planning on going with a lot of high energy handheld shots, instead we came out with a much more formal documentary, with a lot of pull focuses, zooms etc. This isn't a bad thing per say it just means that we have to re-plan how the film will work.

Keeping the frame colourful and engaging

The most similar to the look we were originally going for was Noah's footage which he shot with a dropped frame rate, since it came across juddery and very energetic with every movement.

One of the shots of the city

We took a lot of dolly shots while we were on location and we could tell some of them were going to be shaky as we shot them due to the ground we were on. However after watching them back there was actually very few perfect ones, meaning we would have to run them through the Smoothcam plugin on Final Cup Pro, which will help the image but not completely.


The interviews came out very well, the main problem coming from the ones with the people from Urban Canvas, this is because behind the camera was a big window and it was an overcast day so it gets brighter and darker as the sun went behind clouds etc. This isn't the biggest problem in the world as the lighting stays the same long enough to establish who it is before we can cutaway to hide the changing image.

Shot of person doing graffiti as seems key
in the docs I watched

Our other problem with Urban Canvas was that Catherine's interview in it isn't actually that good and instead of talking about street art as a whole (as we were intending to focus on) she talks a lot about her company. Normally we could just cut it out, however in this case it's a problem because she offered us an opportunity to get our film screened at an international festival of business, so since she got us that chance we think we should represent her more in the film.
Here are screenshots form each of our interview set ups showing our array of different colourful backgrounds:

Tomo

Urban Canvas- Catherine

Kieron

Tristan

Ryan

Helpfully Alex K did shot lists for all the shots he did too this as well as my own folders will help me find what I need in the edit much faster.

Screenshot of the shot list

Screenshot of the interview shot list