Evaluation

Doing this documentary had a lot of good points and bad points for me. The good parts were that I was actually doing something that I was interested in, so collecting information and videos was not that boring. While researching and looking for videos I found a lot of interesting footage, learned more about the music of the boy bands and the boy bands itself. 

My design changed once. I had an original design, which I didn't really follow that much, and then I changed a lot of my documentary, therefore I had to change my design as well. I think that it was better than I changed it, because the original one was hard to follow especially that we couldnt shoot in school, so I pretty much HAD to change my design. 

My plan was pretty accurate, and was very organized. Despite that it was hard to follow because I became lazy and did things randomly. I didn't really follow the plan even though I had one. I was shooting when I was editing, and collecting videos when I was arranging the documentary. So I was all over the place. I think thats something I can improve on. If I had followed my plan thoroughly I'm sure I would have done a lot better, and I wouldn't have rushed through it in the end. 

My documentary was not half as bad as I thought it would be. I think my documentary does not really teach anything, its just something informative and a documentary that people would watch just for fun. In the beginning I was really unsure on how I would actually start doing a documentary, because the ones I saw seemed so complicated, and I had never made a proper movie before, I just made like presentations. I think the easiest part was collecting the information and the videos. It got harder when I had to film people, because the school didn't allow the students to film inside of school which is really weird. So instead I had to go hunting for people, and I had to talk to people I didn't know. I couldn't interview teachers, which was sad. A option was to Skype them and video tape them, but I didn't feel like doing that. Perhaps if I did add that, my documentary may have become better. But I'm glad that I did get some people to interview, thanks to my friend in Shoba. I didn't get any girls in Shoba, which was really sad, because I'm mainly focusing on girls, but its okay. I got footage from youtube, with celebrities giving their opinion on which boy band they like, which was VERY helpful. 

There was a HUGE fail in my documentary and that was that in a lot of my archival footage ( the ones i got from you tube) the voice and the video didn't match. It worked alone, but after I edited the videos the video sound stopped matching. I think this kinda ruined my documentary because I can't stand it when the voice and sound goes off, so I doubt that others can. If it did match my documentary would be a lot more watchable. This was also what the people who saw my documentary said, they didnt like the fact that the voice was out of place. 

I think that a good part of my documentary was the music and the way I put my documentary in order. Like what was in it. I put things about the boy bands, the fans, and what the fans had to say as well. The music I used was mainly instrumentals, because I didn't want the wording to confuse some people, and my music didnt really have that much to do with the documentary it was just like background music. My music was catchy though, and I used it to emphasize some of the topics. LIke in the beginning when the music starts it starts like normal and then when my main topic (boy band) comes up the music booms up, which I think kind of emphasized the topic. Even when I was introducing the Teenage Girls, I used the same thing. 

The software that I used also made my documentary look much better. I used windows maker, but it was different compared to the normal ones. It had a lot of cool effects and animations that I used to make my documentary look much cooler than the normal ones. It was very easy to use as well and didn't get stuck as often as the normals movie maker that I used to use before.