Filming the interviews

The Interviewees were baristas from different coffee shops near the law campus of Victoria university. I asked them a set of questions and also got them to incorporate the questions that I had asked into their answers so that I could create a clean narrative for the documentary without switching from interviewer to interviewee. 

Planning

For my video I wanted to give it a black and white look that will fit with the subject matter.

Concept

The theme for my video is student coffee addiction but I am looking at it 

from the point of view from the baristas making and serving the 

beverages. I want to explore the opinions of the people who have to put 

up with the legions of students buying coffee from them every day. Can 

they identify a customer that is a student as opposed to a non-student? Do 

they get sick and tired of serving the same students day in and day out? 

Do the students that they serve buy their coffee at a specific time of the 

day or even at a certain time in the year?  

 

I want to explore the ideas that there is an equal number of students 

buying coffee as there are non-students and that they only get their coffee 

to take away rather than have it at a café because of the hectic pace of 

the student lifestyle. These trends are what I want to look into for the 

documentary. I especially want to talk about how the coffee drinking habits 

of students differ from everyone else.  

 

I want to see if there is any identifiable difference between a student 

coffee drinker compared to a non-student as viewed by the barista serving 

them. 

The webpage

I have titled my movie "Otari Safari" because of the documentary footage style that it has with the brown tone. 

This is the link for the website:

http://www.designsupernova.com/otari.html

After Effects editing

In Adobe After Effects I wanted to make my footage appear as though it was from an old exploration documentary. To do this I used a brown tone over the top of the clip giving it an aged appearance. In a couple of sections where I walked with the camera I wanted to overlay on a semi-transparent layer above these footage of the bush to the sides of the path as I walk past. This way I show more information about the site in less time of film. 

Avid sound editing

The sound for my footage had a lot of background noise of cars driving past while I was near the entrance to Otari and a chainsaw was being used by staff to trim branches as well. When I got deep into Otari I managed to find some beautiful bird calls that I edited over the top of earlier footage where the sound was poor.

Avid editing

After watching through my footage I put together the clips filmed from outside Otari and looking down over the bush above a raised walkway as establishing shots to set the scene. Inside Otari itself I have a few scenes of panning over bush and shrubbery as well as scenes of birds.