Post #20- How to Avoid Mistakes 1

-Not expressing a clear, deep narrative

To avoid making this mistake in my film, I will ensure that throughout my planning process I keep in mind my intended encoded meaning which follows a deeper meaning. The deeper meaning behind my documentary excerpt is the peace and hardships cheerleading brings to athletes. When planning like doing things such as creating storyboards, I will ensure that every decision helps develop this meaning. By doing this, my audiences will be encouraged to be active consumers and make connections to the deep meaning encoded. This follows Stuart Hall's reception theory which is significant because his theory shapes how meaning is perceived in film and as a producer, I want my meaning to be fully encoded dominantly and applied to audiences lives.

-Lack of research

I have already conducted a plentiful amount of research which has granted me with significant knowledge regarding the art of sports documentaries. Within my research phase I have been able to understand useful funding and budgeting techniques, successful cinematography techniques, the significance of a good editing software, how to create a magazine for my product, social media marketing techniques, etc. By gaining this knowledge I can ensure that my production contains popular conventions that attract my target audience. I also have soured that I understand how to market and distribute my content, which allow for maximum success margins.

- Minimal scheduling efforts

To avoid a lack of scheduling communication, I have planned to have conferences with all of my cast in which we will communicate our availability to one another. This will allow me to create a schedule sheet that expresses when each interview will take place and where it shall take place. This will allow pridgen productions to abide by the promised release date for my production with little to no scheduling difficulties. However, the difficulties of scheduling these conferences deserves recognition. Although I have made my best attempt to avoid minimal scheduling efforts, the process I had to follow to avoid this mistake was challenging due to my interviewees tight schedules. It was difficult to find times In each other's schedules where these conferences could take place, however, these conferences have been scheduled to ensure I can follow my timeline. These challenges were significant but should not stop any producer from making an effort to properly schedule for their film.

above is a picture depicting a creators conference

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Post #64 -Critical Reflection

The process of constructing this documentary required extensive research, planning, editing, marketing, and further refinement. When researching other products labeled as sports documentaries, I was able to identify what conventions would and would not be included in my products which in return link s to audience engagement. Conventions are elements that are commonly used within a specific genre, and audience engagement refers to the interest, involvement, and emotional connection someone has to a piece of media. I also identified what social groups and issues I would be targeting. During the research phase I studied the documentary " Starting 5". When studying the micro elements within the film, I recognized that the documentary failed to address the emotional aspect of basketball. Instead, the practices and principles of the sport were explored. This ...

Post #25- Gantt Chart For Documentary Excerpt

A Gantt chart is utilized to allow producers and their crews to visualize their schedule and the time in which each phase is taking place. These charts may represent past phases, present, and future. For reference, the Gantt chart attached above is a chart that I have constructed, and it depicts the timeline of my production process. This shows the dates in which I started researching, ended researching, the dates in which I started planning, the date I plan to end planning, the scheduled date to start filming, end filming, and enter post production which leads me to the final upload of my documentary excerpt. By creating this chart, I am able to keep myself on task and follow this timeline so that my audiences build trust in Pridgen Productions, encouraging them to spread positive press and maybe even create fandoms. This can be connected to Henry Jenkins' theory because he believes that audiences are active media consumers who share, interpret, and apply content within fi...

Post #32- Interview Questions

I have reached the stage of my production process where I have begun to consider what questions my interviewees will be asked in order to inspire their responses in which will develop the meaning I have encoded. To ensure I evoke immense emotion from my interviewees, I have constructed meaningful questions that will develop the deep narrative rather than surface level content. Since I have encoded a deep narrative, I have decided to use this as my unique selling point. This is considered a unique selling point because a common mistake many producers make is not including a deep narrative to their film and instead focusing on the principles of the sport. Therefore, including this detail makes my product appealing to a significant amount of people and creates emotional connections between the audience and documentary. After taking these factors into consideration, the following questions are being considered to include in my final product. - What is cheerleading and what...

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