I feel the over all film is of a good standard. There was some dispute at the beginning over the direction of the film and when we first gave our initial idea out there was some confusion over what our aim and point of the film was. I think as a team we overcame this after much discussion and decided that the aim of the film was what impact the Beatles had as well as the impact they were still having today on Liverpool and the rock and pop culture it helped to create.

In terms of what we have achieved, we have put together a documentary that contains interviews with important people to the subject matter, got good shots of our subject matter, been able to use stock footage, worked hard together during every stage of production. Personally i have contributed at every stage, i helped to develop the ideas and establish what questions would best serve us for maximum usuable footage. Whilst on location I recorded all the sounds and made decisions aboout whether or not we need to re-record and such. i enjoyed doing sound as it was my first ever time in this role. I have learnt a lot both on location and in post production about my role, I feel more confident in using Soundtrack Pro to improve recordings. However i know not to rely on it and to ensure that in future to get the best obtainable recordings at the location instead of relying on post production.

The film does have some flaws, i feel we cold have got a bigger range of shots to accompany our content. Alongside maybe a more developed aspect that could have made our film truly unique. Ithink that with better planning this could have been achieved, I think the deciding of the idea took to long to form and be settled on which hindered our planning time. The quality of some of the sound recordings isnt as high as it could have been. I think we initially planned to rely on more public interviews on the day which was a no go area as we barely got a handful interviews from the public let alone any usuable ones.

We recorded the sound on a Mehrantz 660 using a rifle mic and a boom and filmed the footage on Maz's DSLR 3000 and tripod.
When it came to the editing suites we all chipped in in various ways to but Emma decided upon the main structure with Joe and Fiona also editing. We put together a transcript and also converted the footage through MPEG streamclip in order to reduce rendering times in FCP from times such as 30 minutes to 3 minutes.
I then made 3 sequences which contained our main 3 interviews, in each of them I lip synced all the footage up to the sound. This was so a rough cut could be made. once the cut of picture was put together and the snippets of sound decided upon i exported each sound clip out to Soundtrack Pro and put it through the compresser and noise reduction before putting it back again in order to improve the original recordings.
Joe also got a muscian he knows to play som acoustic Beatles tracks and this formed the basis of our backing tracking as well the recordings of buskars that we got the permission to record and use in Liverpool city centre. I feel this was an effective way to come up with the backing track to help link our images together and make the documentary flow better.

When we got to Liverpool we went to MAtthew street and gathered panning shots of the Hard Days Night Hotel and the statues of the Beatles. we then used the late afternoon sun to our advantage and got shots of the
-matthew street sign
-john lennon statue
-the engraved wall of fame
-the cavern club
-the cavern pub
-the john lennon pub

we also went inside the Hard Days Night gift shop where we interviwed  a guy named Paddy who was extremely helpful and eager to talk to us and let us film inside the gift shop. From him we set up interviews with the tour guide for Cavern Tours and also the manager Cavern Pub.

On the second day we went and filmed at the docks and got some other liverpool establishing shots, we then went to do our interviews inside the Cavern Pub with Jamie and Neil who were both very helpful gave us great interviews as well as background information about the beatles and their impact.
we also did filming inside the the Cavern Club which gave us great atmospere and panning shots to accompany the interviews.

Documentary:: The Brief

For our documentary brief we have decided to do The Beatles, we know that this is well trodden ground and our angle will be what The Beatles have done for the music industry, liverpool and what they continue to do. 

We then took up extensive research into news stories about The Beatles and how their fame has affected Liverpool. We discovered that the Mathew Street festival takes place each summer as well the The Beatles tribute week that thousands flock to from accross the world.