Final Interim CritiqueBy Kate Haley

(Sorry I cannot be there)

What I’ve Done:

-Filmed I spent the 3 weekends through Easter (and a little

more) filming my documentary, this consisted of a series of interviews which I did by putting on nights at the church for the young people to come and part-take using pizza and pop to entice them. After a few scares of people not turning up, we actually got some good interviews and I am very pleased with how the

interviews went and felt I got a lot out of each one.

What I’ve Done:

-Began Editing I started editing after Easter, and am

finding it hard to use AVID as I haven’t used it since the first year, but have also kind of picked it back up again (I hope!) Nothing drastically bad has happened so far…

What I’ve Done:

-Research I have started to look at Hackney-specific research,

after getting to hear in the interviews a lot more about gang culture and post-code warfare and realising how prominent it is in life for my young people, I started to look into anything I could find out about it, videos, news stories, documentaries. It’s been shocking realisation; especially as one of my young people, who is a regular at youth church was recently stabbed 9 times (and survived), during the filming section of my

production.

Where I am now:

-Re-Shoot I have decided to re-shoot my driving scenes with a car mount, to get a more

professional look and feel into my documentary, I feel this will be the best option to make my documentary up to the standard I need. I will be doing that this weekend.

-Editing Editing will continue after this weekends re-shoot to splice in the new footage,

and then tidy up the rest of the documentary as I feel I have got the bulk of it in the correct order, and as I want, it just now needs that fine tuning to turn it into a real film. I also need to add the music tracks.

-Music Choices I need to decide exactly what tracks I am going to use, I have an idea but really

need to specify exactly this week.

Where I am now:

-DVD Case/Poster I am in the process of using stills from my documentary to put

together a DVD cover and poster for the film, also using the logo I have made by a professional Graphic Designer. (as above!)

-Deciding the Name Deciding the name has been one of the hardest things about

this documentary, I am at a real loss, I think the best name would be: Welcome to Hackney, as there is a strong theme of arriving in hackney throughout the film.

What I need to do:

-Finalise Name I need to make sure I am settled on Welcome to Hackney, and

then finalise it on my posters and DVD cover.

-Finish Editing I will be finishing the edit by Wednesday.

-Create DVD I hope to present my work on a DVD, with the main feature,

and 3 added bonuses. 1) Tia-isms, 2) Poems, 3) Photos

What I need to do:

-Touch Up Blog I need to make sure my blog is up to date, as that’s where all

my hard work, research, planning, production is all in. I need to make it shine.

-Reflections I need to finish off my blog by writing up my final evaluations

of the project, of how its been, what I would do differently, and have a good last reflect on the entire project, from 310 forward.