Inspiration behind the editing

I thought it would be a good point to talk about some of the films I have watched which have helped to inspire me throughout the whole process of producing my final piece.

Salesman
This film has been a great inspiration behind the making of the film. This starts from the camera techniques it uses, to which all of it is handheld. This is a big theme running throughout the film, especially during the interviews. I also liked the way it never has a presenter in the documentary, and with this is mind, this was always the idea to not include a presenter in my documentary. To get around this, I decided to use a voiceover/narrator to explain everything that is going on. I felt this was necessary because an explanation was needed as to what we were doing, why we were talking to the people we did, and what we learnt. However there is a shot near the end that I will be putting in tommorrow whereby the narrator and some of the production crew are in fact in the frame, but the reasoning behind this was that as the voiceover explains what we have learnt, I felt it was a good technique to show us all working on set, as a cutaway. I think this will work really well, and I aim to use one wide locked off shot, mixed in with a couple of closer shots to add emphasis onto 'us' the filmmakers.

Mark in Time
I like the way this film approaches its subject, and the way that the subject talks towards the camera, sometimes seemingly straight at it and almost addressing the viewer. I liked the editing to it, and again the camera work seemed to be mostly handheld.

Music
I also thought it would be appropriate to mention the reasoning behind the music. My first choice is FC Kahuna - Hayling, which only plays a few seconds at the start of the song. This is repeated several times throughout the film for parts where the future of media students looks grim, and connects well with the mood this creates. My next choice was Air France - No excuses, which creates a rather upbeat intro to the film once it really gets going. The aim of this is to create more of an optimistic feel when talking about Sheffield and the Media Courses it offers. After that I use Moulinex - Breakchops to bring the tone back down again once the public start talking about whats wrong with media students and why they shouldn't be doing that course. This creates a more serious section of the film, where what they are talking about is really quite concerning and addresses the whole problem to which we are documenting about media students and the struggle they have getting into the industry. The final choice is by The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage(Fred Falke Remix) which was the perfect choice for the conclusion I feel. It creates an upbeat glow to the final section of the film where we round off the postiives of what we have learnt, and hope to conclude them in an inspirational way. I feel that all my song choices are justified and make a real difference to the documentary, something that many documentaries over the years have done and acheived.