We spent our final week of the semester editing the final touches of our League of Legends documentary, after having already assembled a rough cut of the entire video the week before. On Monday, we realized that to fit everything in, we would inevitably have to exceed the five minute mark. We also determined that we needed more transitions, as it was difficult to follow where exactly our documentary was going as it played. Our overall goal was to introduce how the community functions, reveal the misconception that League of Legend's gamers sit alone in their room all day on their computer, and then dispel that misconception by showing that the majority of the LOL club members play to socially interact with their friends. As of Monday, each of these main points was clearly addressed in our documentary, but their was nothing tying them all together, making it clear what our thesis was. For example, it was not immediately clear that the last section of the video was dispelling the misconception that was introduced in the second section of the video.
As of Monday, we decided that we needed additional footage of the game as well as someone playing the game. We needed this footage for the section of the documentary that explained what League of Legends was and how the game worked. To gather this footage, I recorded my roommate playing League of Legends in our room, on Wednesday. During this time, I was also able to capture a shot of him playing in the dark, so all you see is a glowing screen. This shot is perfect B-roll for our interview with Amanda, when she states that most people think that LOL gamers just gather in a dark room to play all day.
After recording a few more voice-overs later in the week, we were able to integrate transitions that made the entire documentary's argument much smoother than it was before.
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