My Team

weekly progress

Pre production: Preliminary research

Final documentary & Thumbnail

 This is our final documentary and out final thumbnail

link to the youtube video

link to the drive

Behind The Scenes

 this is the behind the scene of the shooting for media project

Crime Documentary Behind The Scenes oleh cassandra dominica

Critical Reflection

 In the Project Documentary , we are asked to make an opening of a crime documentary with the duration of 3 - 5 minutes. Me and my group decided to make a crime documentary about a stalking case , which also involves kidnapping .  

            Branding is important for media text , so people could recognise the media text that we made. We created our own thumbnail , the purpose of the thumbnail is to make the audience click on our documentary , so we have to make it as engaging as possible. From the thumbnail (fig 1.1)shown audience could know that this is a stalker crime documentary from how there so many picture of an innocent person , which is the victim , also the victim’s face are not shown in every photo in the thumbnail , this is to give hermeneutic code and to make the audience curious . The letter “O” in the word Fixation we change it to a target , to show the audience that she is targeted by someone. The lighting of the thumbnail was shown in dark or low lighting , which creates a meaning that something bad is happening ,and to make the audience know that it is a crime documentary.

Research helped me to know what are the characteristics of crime documentaries and from the research I could know the common convention on the crime documentaries. So this help me to conform the convention so that people could know that our documentary is a crime documentary , and from the research it gives me inspiration on the idea we could use when making the documentary, like the cut used in the edit and what the interview is like and the footage use ,such as the cctv footage , so this could help us to know what to do . The research also helped me to know what subversion we could use in our documentary and the music we could use as crime documentaries mostly use high suspense music , and in crime documentary usually there the police department or detective saying that the case is different from other cases and we follow this convention could be seen in (fig 1.2) 

Our target audience are young adults or teenagers , in the age group of 16 - 25 years old, they are targeted by , first the actors in our documentary are teenagers , so people that are teenagers and young adults could relate to the documentary video we made . So this would make them enjoy watching the documentary , since they are seeing the character have the same age as them. Another way that teenagers and young adults are targeted is from the content of our documentary. Our documentary involves relationships , since young adults mostly relate to romance , relationship . So this might make them interested with our documentary video , also the victims were shown broken hearted which could relate with most young adults this relates to the theory of . We also use different mise en scenes , such as the room of the victim , would relate with most teenagers and the clothing is the clothes used by young adults conventionally or the trend in the young adults clothing. 

                                        

In our documentary, there are more than one social group represented, such as the victim (of stalking) and the victim (of kidnapping) , Detective , and the stalker/kidnapper. We represent the social groups to align with the reception theory , where we want the audience encode meaning same as our dominant reading . The victim is represented as a teenager that is innocent and traumatized with what had happened to her, this is shown from how she acted at the interview, she looks scared and full of anxiety. From the interviews the detectives were shown tidy and professional. It is seen from the clothing and it is shown that he shows sympathy towards the victim. The stalker was shown mysterious and covered with all black clothing , this creates a meaning that he is a bad guy. Also from the voice mail sent by the stalker it already shows how obsessed the stalker is towards the victim , until he desperately wanted to hear the victim's voice and how his jealousy overcame himself , when he knows that the victim have a boyfriend , until he had to commit a bigger crime , which is kidnapping the boyfriend. 

fig 1.1

        

fig 1.2

Editing

This is the our editing which is done by Maisie with the help of me 

Media Studies Editing Process oleh Maisie Halomoan

Classwork

 this is the classwork for the documentary project

Technical elements 

These Are The Camera angles We Learned In Class

1. Long shot

2. Extreme long shot

3. Medium shot

4. Cowboy shot

5. Close up

6. Extreme close up

7. POV

8. Over the shoulder

9. High angle

10. Low angle

11. Dutch angle

12. Establishing shot

 Camera movements 

Fixed	Camera remains static	Calm, peace, normal
Push in	Camera moves slowly toward subject	Brings the audience closer, more involved, getting more serious.
Pull out	Camera moves slowly away from subject	Takes audience away from the action, leaving a character. Detaching from subject
Pan	Side to side, camera fixed	Reveal information, mirrors natural head movement of the audience.
Tilt	Up and down, camera fixed	Same as pan, just a different direction
Dolly	Camera moves around freely	More immersive, we are moving inside the subjects world, we feel part of the action
Tracking	Camera moves around on tracks	Similar to dolly, but smoother.
Crane		Reveals the epic size of the setting, landscape.
Handheld	Camera is shakey	Very natural, immersive. High energy
Zoom	Zoom	Brings audience closer to budget. Draws our attention to something.

crane

Camera shots and camera movements would help us to know how we could attract audience attention and know how to make the situation more intense and good . 

Here Are The Sound We Learned In Class

 

	Description	Effect
Diegetic sound	Sound that can be heard by the characters within the media text.	Add a sense of realism. Reveal information to characters (and then audience)
Non diegetic sound	Sound that can only be heard by the audience.	Enhance meaning, create an emotional response in the audience
Trans diegetic sound	Sound that transitions from one to the other.	Creates a link between the audience and the world. More immersive

 

Knowing about the sounds could help us make the situation more intense in our opening scene . And sound help to make the audience more intrested in the film opening.

Edit 

Continuity Editing	Non continuity editing
Straight cut (cut) Eyeline match  Shot /reverse shot Cutaway / Insert  *Match cut	Cross cut (parallel cut) Flash back Flash forward Jump cut  *Match cut

Knowing about the edits helps us to know how do we change scene without making the film opening wierd. And helps make audience intreseted

Miss-en-scene:

Miss-en-scene refers to the arrangement and design of visual elements within a frame or a scene. The main key elements are:

1) Props

2) Set Design

3) Costume

4) Hair

5) Make Up

6) Colour

7) Performance

8) Lighting 

9) Blocking

10) Focus

11) Weather

12) Environment

 

Mis en scene helps me to know how to make the situation more realistic and more attractive , this also helps me on what costume to use to make it more intense and the set design.

USED IN OUR PROJECT :

for the mise en scene we used jacket to show professionalism towards the detective and for the stalker we used black outfir to connotes that the stalker is mysterious an a criminal 

for the camera movements and angle , we use medium shot for the interviews , to show how the person fit in the certain area and how it would creare meaning 

thumbnail and research development

 this is our thumbnail and the process of making the thumbnail 

Made by Cassie

Thumbnail oleh cassandra dominica

location scout and risk assesment

 

script and screenplay

 

story board

  This is the Storyboard for my Documentary project.

filming schedule

 

Scene	Date/Time	Location	People	Props	Equipment	Other
Candra Interview Scene	23/08/25 6:00 PM	Mai’s House	Full team + Felixen	Jacket, glasses	Ring light, phone, tripod, charger	Candra came super late so we filmed later at night
Bedroom/Teddy Bear Camera Scene	23/08/25 4:00 PM	Mai’s House (in her room)	Mai, Sagara & Cassie + Felixen	Teddy bear, photobooth strips, hair clip, makeup, iPad	phone	Candra was not present
Kidnapping Scene	23/08/25 7:00 PM	Mai’s House (in front of her gates)	Full team + Felixen	Towel, phone, jacket, mask	Digital camera, ladder	We had to wait for the streets to be empty to make it seem more believable