Reflective : Final Week

Last week we reviewed previews of the other groups projects, they were all pretty rough. It might have simply been because of the noise in the room, but from what I saw, none of the narratives in the videos were very clear. Looking at our rough documentary compared to the other groups I feel that we are in a good spot, especially because we have a good idea of where we want to go from where we are. Since it is easier to critique the work of other groups, it is a good idea to look at the things I did not like in other groups videos and then make sure that we do not do any of those things in our documentary. One of the groups had an introduction that was a lot of B roll and it took quite a while to get rolling. Another video contained a lot of interviews but no B roll. The last groups video was all interview and it was only with one person. Obviously these are simply rough cuts so they are not going to be like any of the final copies, but we can learn a bit from looking at these faults. A few things I learned from watching the other groups videos: we should not overuse B roll, we should not underuse B roll, if we include any music when there is also other audio playing make sure it is quiet enough, and make sure to use multiple interviews. Doing all of these things help make the documentary more engaging as well as less confusing to watch. The goal of the documentary is to provide information and an opinion about a discourse community. If we want viewers to take in information and correctly interpret our opinion, we need to make the documentary clear and interesting. As of right now I feel that our documentary does a good job of explaining our position. We do not go into the mechanics of League of Legends at all really, we focus almost solely on the community, which will make the documentary easier to follow for people who do not know about the game. I feel that our documentary will be successful.