Production work for documentary

Evaluation of Ghosts and the paranormal documentary

Evaluation of Ghosts and the paranormal documentary

In this evaluation I will be talking about what I did in this unit, what went well and what did not. In this unit I needed to make a documentary that was between 3 and 7 minutes long.

Research/Pre Production

The first thing I did was research into how a documentary is filmed; I watched other documentaries for example “John’s not mad”, I looked deeper into what codes and conventions were used in this documentary. This made me think about how to film my documentary and what codes and conventions I would use. The next thing I did was to think about what I wanted to make a documentary about; after a lot of thought I came to an idea of making a documentary based on paranormal beings to try and see if more people believe in ghosts than not believe in them. I also had to research stories about ghosts and other people’s paranormal experiences. This research lead me to create a questionnaire to see if people I know have had any experiences and if so what were they. But as well as finding people who believed in ghosts I also wanted to find someone who didn’t to make my documentary a balanced debate type of documentary.






Filming/Production

Edit/Post production

Documentary

Paranormal stories-secondary research

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/your-ghost-stories-readers-chilling-4344194

These are some of the stories of people's paranormal experiences I have read

Presentation

I presented a presentation to explain what my documentary is about.

Gif images of ghosts-secondary research

These are images I found using google images.

Images of ghosts-secondary research

I searched on google for images of ghosts and found these, these are part of my secondary research.