Our location was on Plymouth Hoe, it was an old building that had been abandoned for quite some time, it was also on the sea front over looking the harbour. It looked like a very picturesque scenery. The building made an impression on us because it was something different and out of the way meaning that nobody else from our class was going to come and also film here. My first thought was; how are we going to turn this old empty building into a location suitable for a college film. To us the location offered a lot, the main factor in choosing this location was that it was close to the sea, which meant that it was going to be easier to get a better quality wild track. Although today the weather wasn't to brilliant, it didn't affect us to much this is because the majority of our filming was under the shelter in the building.
Inside of our location
In the actual building there wasn't too many objects, there was although some broken glass which proved very important to us. There was also pieces of broken wood inside the building that we used for the same reason as the glass. The atmosphere in there was almost creepy, it was dark with the feel that nobody had been in there for sometime. The atmosphere also set part of our sound because it meant that we were able to use whooshing sounds, the create the atmosphere. The scenery of the sea in the background was incredibly important because it gave the feel that this was some abandoned washed up building.
We did shots in three different areas, the first lot of shots that we did were of outside, such as shots of the sea, the steps leading down to the sea and then a panning shot. The next lot of shots were of outside of the building which was of the side of the building and then through the broken window, we took shots of the different angles of the window to show just how abandoned it really was. We then shot inside the building which was almost pitch black apart from the sunlight coming from the outside. These shots were important because it showed the loneliness of the place which was a good way to show the essence of the location which was the main focus that we had when shooting.
When it came to the editing I did it all of my own, I decided to start with the panning as I thought that this was a good starting point to introduce it. I then took to shots of the sea so the audience could get a sense of the location. I then went onto the outside of the building and then leading up to the main part of the filming which was of the inside of the abandoned building.
The 'multi track' worked really well I think this was because we recorded it for just over a minute, it was of the sea which gave us a really strong and powerful sound, the sounds of the waves crashing against the shore were really incredible. The other sound clips that we used were of someone stepping on the different pieces of glass, someone making the whooshing noises of the eerie atmosphere and finally of someone standing on the wood and cracking it. This worked well because each of these were inside of the budding and our sounds went really well with the footage, I think we match it up well. In the editing I repeated the sound throughout the video, this is so that it felt as though it was going round in a loop as each of the sound clips only lasting two seconds. I think that the best part of the editing was most definitely the soundtrack this is because I felt it was already really strong and didn't need too much tweaking, it just needed to be reorganised to fit with the footage.
I don't think that the footage was that brilliant. I think a lot of it was blurring and didn't look professional enough. I think in the future if we were to do it in this location again it would be important to keep it on the tripod so that it gives it more of a professional feel. However apart from that I am really happy with how the documentary turned out.
This is my edit of 'A Documentary of a Place'
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