The Journey of Drumming Documentary - ID# 266
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The Journey of Drumming Documentary
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- 4/8 7:31 am - Keepers: Nice elements to this documentary overall, the broll is well filmed and varied and your interview setup was well done. Nice compositions are featured throughout the piece. Audio levels are good and your colors are consistent. Improvements: I would have liked to have heard from additional voice aside from just the drummer. His former teacher, parents, band members, etc. This would have added so much to the story as a whole. Work a bit on your editing. Specifically, incorporate more J and L cutting with your interviews so we can see broll while hearing the interview audio or hear the nat sounds of the broll while seeing the interview. This will make the pacing less choppy and lead to a more natural looking and sounding documentary overall. We saw some of this later on in the piece, but not in the beginning. Be consistent with it and with your nat sounds from the broll. For example the piece where you talk about your mentor teacher. Let's see and hear the marching band sounds right away while still hearing your story about learning music, etc. Try to avoid dips to black for transitions between story beats. Use broll instead with nat sound to take care of that. For example the ending piece during the credits. Use that footage in the actual meat and potatoes of the documentary! I think this documentary could have used some music in places as the sounds as a whole felt sort of thin. It would have been a tricky add to go between songs and drumming nat sounds, but it still needed something more in the soundtrack overall. This is a good story, overall. Continue to work on the nuances of telling it more fully and colorfully. Keep up your work!
- 3/6 6:26 am - Good b-roll that demonstrates what is being said. Good use of multiple angles of interview subject. Might help to have another interview subject or two for variety and to add further insight. Could use a music bed in second half
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