Badman Barlow - Final Documentary Evaluation
The documentary came out completely differently to what I had planned, but in most ways it was a good thing. The look and content of the film was different to what I had originally thought it would be, but I think it is better than it would have been if I had stuck to the original idea completely.
The planning was not as perfect as I had planned, because my main character - James Barlow was difficult to get hold of often, and could not act at all. I thought many times about changing the whole idea completely, when I thought I had lost all hope, but in the end it was not so different, but Badman Barlow never had an interview in it, and it changed more into a film about trying to get hold of Badman Barlow, and he of course died in the end, in the re-vamped version.
The nature of documentary is that things change, and you have to deal with the changes, and I think I coped quite well with the pressure of doing so thrust upon my poor soul. I was under the impression when we started this project that we had four weeks to do the documentary and nothing else, but two weeks into the four weeks we were given, we had not yet been told we could start, which was a little scary because I had already written the schedule!
My teacher Tim, when I showed it to him soon before it was completely finished said that he liked the documentary but I could add an extra layer of intreague to it if I focused more on the chase to get an interview with barlow, and make it more clear that he did not want to be in the film. So I took the advice on board and found footage of Barlow putting his hand up to the camera in an attempt to stop me filming him, and wrote overlaying it: "Barlow refused to be interviewed for this film." and Tim was right, such a little change made such a dramatic improvement!
'JordanandJoel' fromYoutube commented on the video "Fantastic! The end overstepped the mark a bit though :P but ha!", which refers to Badman Barlow dying at the end, but I think it was a necessary addition to the mockumentary/documentary.I'm happy with the reviews it has had though already, in one day it has had 200 views and 40 likes!
If I was to improve the documentary I would have thought twice about using the actor James to play Badman Barlow, because he was a terrible actor. The interviews with Sid and Ollie were great so it must've been James' acting! I liked the handheld shaky grainy camera look, I wasn't sure if it would work but I think it did! That's all I can evaluate really about it! I've stated what I liked about it, what people liked about it, what people disliked about it, what I disliked about it, and how it was produced! Stay safe.
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