Summary and Reflection of Documentary: Nigel

I would like to say I had involved in most of the process in this documentary project. We don't really have specific roles but a collective input. The only thing that I did it on my own is the music but they also give opinions to modify it. I think my biggest achievement is composing the music to perfectly fit the timeline and the theme.

I definitely learnt a lot through the project, for example contacting and dealing with people, pre production, production, post production...... I now have a much better sense of the documentary making process and better post production skills such as editing the visuals, audios, sounds and colour grading. Since I am with the big camera most of the time, I am much more confident in using the Canon XF305 kit. And since I was filming the sports I had to react quick to the situations so after all that I am quite familiar with using the camera now.


The final documentary looks a lot better after colour correction but I think we can do better with the colours if we had more time. For example, in one scene we were trying to fix the colour of the sky which was purple:

Well it should be purple or that kind of blue but we just don't know how to fix it even though we tried different tools.


And for the sound, just when we were doing the edit we realised we didn't record the ambient of the interviewing room. Also, we didn't edit the interview before the visuals first resulting we need to cut out a lot of the interview to match the visual.