'Pitfalls of Independent Living' Task

'Pitfalls of Independent Living' Task

For this task, we created a 1 minute documentary on the Pitfalls of Independent Living to introduce us to the Sony X70 camera and Adobe Premiere Pro software. My group and I decided to approach this brief by storyboarding our ideas and mind mapping what we wanted to film. We decided that we wanted to film close up shots of different aspects of everyday life and use a selective focus. We also wanted to do a point of view shot of someone walking around a supermarket doing a food shop. We wanted to highlight the things that you have to do whilst living independently. 

Here is the final documentary: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xfKo2riL0s

We wanted to make the video slightly humorous, instead of serious and to do this we decided to shoot  a sequence showing someone failing to cook and opting for cereal in the end as this shows the failure of independent living. We also used a close up shot of washing up to portray something else that you will need to do when living independently. 

If I were to re-do this task and make improvements then I would film more scenes and not just focus in the kitchen. I also like the idea of following someones life in a day living independently, furthermore editing continuity shots in chronological order of someones day.