Faversham Trip to the Shepherd Neame


On Friday we went to the Shepherd Neame in Faversham which is the oldest Brewery in the UK, dating back to 1698. We were given the task to film actuality of the factory in running business and then produce a sequenced film in the edit. The idea was to be able to take the challenges of the location and surrounding people and be able to overcome the problems that we faced to produce a piece of work that could coherently cut together to make a narrative. 

 In our screening session, Helen gave us feedback regarding our editing and how to improve it for next time. For example, starting the interior sounds of the bottles clacking together before we enter the building so that it doesn't come as such a shock to the audience and it makes the flow of the edit much smoother and more invisible. It's important that we watch out for sign posts so that we don't confuse the audience as to what the documentary is about. For example, we do a tilt at the front of the Shepherd Neame but as it doesn't have a sign saying what it is, it makes it difficult to understand what it is about. 



I've learnt from this how important cutaways are and that it's important to shoot absolutely anything and everything so that there is lots of variety to chose from in the editing stage. Tripods are so important to use and when we shoot it's important to go prepared and shoot as much as we can from one set up to another. Below is the edit I did for our piece.








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