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Generations Final Cut and Evaluation

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 After screening the first cut of my documentary to a small focus group and receiving feedback about what I could change, I began changing those parts of the documentary in editing to finalize the documentary. I shortened the intro of the documentary and changed the fonts of the title screen and credits. I also lowered the volume of the music that was underneath a few of the clips so that it was not too loud. Once I had done this I exported the final cut and uploaded it to YouTube.  I then wrote an evaluation, explaining what I did throughout the project and why. This was so that I could explain my ideas and thoughts throughout the production of this project.

Generations First Cuts and Feedback

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  Once I had finished editing my first cut of my documentary, I exported it from premier pro as a h.264 video and then uploaded it to YouTube. I then created a google form that I would send out to a focus group who I would screen my documentary to. This is so that I can receive feedback about the editing of the footage. After I had made the google form I started to collect responses from people about my documentary. The majority of the small focus group said that opening scenes and the transitions were good. There was one response mentioning how the opening scenes could be shorter, so I will change this in editing. There was also one response saying that the transitions were quite sudden so I will attempt to make the transitions smoother in editing the next cut of the documentary. I then asked the focus group what they thought of how the shots were put together. Here, the majority of the focus group mentioned that the sequencing of the shots were quite good, with only one person sa...