Looking Through Footage

I went through all the footage that we filmed in London, and cut up everything that was useable. We have 10 minutes of interview that we can use, and 7 minutes of cutaway footage.

There were a few main topics mentioned that overlapped in the different interviews. These were:

• Skate culture viewed as delinquent
• Not sustainable (not enough resources)
• It's not as bad as people think
• Not many places to skate
• A lot of people dislike skate culture
  Think that it's lame
  Not serious
• Have to push each other to be better

I think we should group these ideas together, to form the basis our documentary. We can use the negative ideas and then relate back to how the skaters view themselves, and the benefits of skateboarding. I think it was interesting to hear the responses of the children who were aged 11 and their thoughts on skateboarding in the future. I think it would be good to end our documentary by making the audience think about these ideas, in a rhetorical style.

Jessie and I watched one of the student videos from last year to get some ideas on how to improve our own video:
To You, The Sea

• Establishing/location shot (x3)
• Mid shot of subject looking directly into the camera
• Subject performing action (swimming, surfing, etc.)
• How the sea impacts the subject's life

I think for our introduction we should include a montage of slow motion shots of our subject. This would give the audience a dramatic insight to the main character, whilst building up to the main narrative.