Documentary Rough Cut Feedback

In this session we were asked to produce a rough cut of our short documentary to present in class and received feedback from via post it notes and general class discussions. The most prevalent praise from our rough cut was our use of the drone which is owned by Ryan in the group. We decided to use the drone to capture the hard to reach places inside the building and to get an overall atmosphere of the building itself. We also used the drone for the viewer to feel more immersed within the documentary as though they are in the building having it gliding smoothly across from a point of view aspect. Another praise we got was from the use of an old movie filter which people in the class said fits in with the documentary nicely and the old music which Cameron composed on the computer. The old film filter and music used in conjunction elicits a nostalgic response. Our rough cut was intended to build anticipation by firstly not giving away exactly where the location is by using fast paced editing for the drone shots and then it slowly unraveling to reveal that it’s at Abbeydale Picture House.