Major Project: Research-300 Pound Music Millionaire To Iron Man Athlete

Major Project: Research-300 Pound Music Millionaire To Iron Man Athlete

As part of my ongoing research for this project, I had a quick look at a documentary that was recommended to us. Namely "300 Pound Music Millionaire To Iron Man Athlete". Though this was quite a short piece I was still able to take some notes from it that may benefit us going forward. They can be read below.

• Great use of music from the start. We should keep that in teh forefront of our minds when opening our documentary. A strong music hook can grab an audience.
• Great use of graphics/text at the start. Often visual effects like this help to make a point.
• We meet the presenter straight away (but we have no idea who he is). If we do this in our documentary we must be sure to give background and set up for Alex as a person/character.
• Variety of camera angles and movements (particularly close up’s).
• Use of old photos/videos to connect us with the presenters past. I've mentioned this many times as an effective technique.
• The presenter is narrating us through their past, diary room PTC style. We may want to watch this when creating the plans for our sequence that follows this style.
• Some really nice editing techniques that I can think about when I'm putting together our doc.
• Pacing and narrative are pretty fast throughout but there are times when it is actually a detriment since it feels incredibly jumpy and all over the place.
• The presenter is passionate and engages the audience. As producer I hope to be able to guide Alex when he's on camera to give the same level of delivery.
• Music and camera angle changes a little too often, often ruins any atmosphere built up.

Closing Thoughts

• The documentary has a consistent tone throughout.
• A great example of PTC set up and how the presenter can sit down and take us through events in their life.
• The story felt very rushed and the constantly changing music bed and on-screen images, negated the full impact the story could have had.

Overall Relevance Score 7/10