I was really interested in the specific sound based concepts discussed within Jeffrey Ruoff’s ‘Conventions of Sound in Documentary’ essay. For instance, the essay discusses the way in which ” location sound” in documentary making “discrimination among sounds difficult” (pg.24). What is specifically great about this concept is it’s relation to our documentary. As we are making it episodic and distinguishing between the planning process and the two fictive featured films. Therefore, this concept can be used to our advantage by ensuring the spontenaiety of the planning moments lack clarity between different sounds, whilst the final 2 genre films will entail strong clarity between the different sound effects ( for example, the voice over will distinctly differentiate itself from the music track played within the film etc).

Similarly I was fascinated with Michael Rabigers instructions as quoted from ‘Directing the Documentary’:during the interview, you should maintain eye contact with your subject and give visual feedback while the interview goes on. Nodding, smiling, looking puzzled, signifying agreement or doubt are all forms of feeback that can be relayed through your expression” (pg.30). This is particularly relevant to our documentary as an enormous and salient portion of the film is centred around the planning process within the group. after watching several pieces of footage we found them somewhat disengaging in that the central figure would speak whilst we looked directly at them with very minimal visual reactions such as nods and interesting agreements etc. Therefore, this instruction provides much advice that directly influences our film as we attempt to create a planning process that is not too systematic that it results in boring scenes for the audience but rather ones they feel engaged in as they witness every individual in the meetings phsyically participating.