Further Ideas For The Documentary

Now that we had finished all of our supporting pieces to go with the documentary, we knew we had time to look back over the documentary piece itself to see if anything should be changed or added. Looking back at it the interview was actually quite boring with regards to the way it had been edited. The questions and answers were very straight forward, one after the other with nothing in between to break it up. We thought it would be good idea to put in pictures in the interview relating to what Levi is saying, to help break-up the interview making the interview more engaging for the audience. Looking back at it, we were not too impressed with the introduction either. This was because although the archive footage with the narrative is describing how Levi made his fortune, it is again very repetitive and boring. Again we needed something to break it up a bit and perhaps have some upbeat reggae music playing in the background to liven it up! We looked into videos on the internet which we could use in between the archive footage at the beginning and liked a particullar video on a BBC website. However the video was not on iPlayer and there was no way of downloading the video. Here is a link to the video. Click on the link below to visit the website... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/entrepreneurs/leviroots.shtml We also liked a Youtube video called reggae reggae catchup. There is a scene where Levi Roots accepts the offers from the Dragons' in the Den and shakes hand with them as there is a narrative saying "Levi has done it! After a rollercoaster ride in the den, and giving away 40% in his company, having gained £50,000 and two extremely influential business partners, now he really has got something to sing about!" This can be found on the video below at 8:48 onwards... We thought that instead of having a narrative, we would use extracts of the interview and archive footage talking about levi roots followed by upbeat reggae music. We managed to download a piece of screen recording software called, CamStudio. This enabled us to obtain the video to use as part of our archive footage. We also liked this video as the music is in sync with the clips... After putting some of the archive footage together we thought it would also be a good idea to replicate the tachnique used in the video above of having music in sync with pictures. We thought to have archive footage at first then have the next scene with upbeat reggae muic fading in and getting louder then having a series of pictures followed by our title page which we created a while back and used for the previous version of our documentary. Whilst developing these ideas we then thought to use sections of the title page in conjunction with pictures from the internet, slowly building up the title for the documentary.