Documentary Year 3 Final Term

 From editing this documentary there is a clear lack of sound in the moments when no video is playing, these moments are found when we are scrolling through a feed and searching the web. In these parts all you hear is the clicking of the mouse and typing of the keyboard. Rodgers makes it clear that sound in the past has been undervalued and neglected, when in fact it is just as important as the image we see. This is most certainly true and although there is a clear lack of sound in our documentary, this has been more of an active decision rather than something we have forgotten about.  I wanted to highlight the sound as for our desktop doc I believe it works really well. I believe it immerses you into the screen and what you are seeing. As you watch the break in the silence tends to come from familiar sounds of a mouse click or typing on a keyboard and this is important as at the end of the day we are attempting to replicate the day to day experience of being on your laptop or...

 This is a quick update highlighting what I have decided the intro sequence will be. We start on google and search twitter, here we scroll through our feed and find the tweet below by Sarah Millican about Onlyfans. This then spurs the user to look up onlyfans to find the official account of onlyfans. In the following seconds we will watch some of the promo videos for Onlyfans, the tempo here will pick up and this is when the screen will begin to fill up with sex pop ups, implying this content is 'tabboo' and 'wrong'.  To bring some information to this segment, the next thing to happen is the user will go onto youtube to find out more about the world of onlyfans, watching one of the videos we used in our pilot. This will; then give some necessary background info before we introduce our first pps through instagram. This will all move nicely into the next shots and will work perfectly.

 I have received footage from Josee of some things she has filmed of her 'diary accounts', her setting up shots and screen recordings of her screen. This is just and update to say I have gotten it and that with the screen recordings of her screen it makes our desktop documentary be on any laptop. As she has a mac and I have windows our screens will look different, but our documentary doesn't need to be on one device and can easily transfer to different devices, just like it transfers to different apps etc. To make the transition seamless we will need to get more screen recordings of different things, but this is something we will adapt over time.

The first desktop documentary we were introduced to was Kevin B Lee's Transformers documentary, where we see someone navigate the online world as they explore the story of controversies with the film. Looking into Kevin B Lee I found a short video from a lecture he did about the format of Desktop Documentary and the benefits behind it. From listening to this I was made aware it was a recent video as he mentions lockdown and how this is something that makes desktop documentary a much more viable choice to present your doc this way, not just for the stylistic reasons but for logistical ones as well.  In the video he discusses what a desktop doc needs to do, in a nut shell, it's to make a story out of your own screen life. The hardest part of making a doc like this is to remove yourself from the more traditional format and treat it as you would if you were genuinely online browsing things online. This can make things less formatted and a bit more reckless i.e opening multiple tabs...