Permission to use video clip

So in our documentary, we need a clip from youtube that will help us achieve the professional look we are aspiring to get. As we have seen in many scientific documentaries, they have some form of animation and thats what this clip is. Below is a print screen of me asking for permission to use the video.

The terms and condition we do not want to break:

7.7 You agree that Content you submit to the Service will not contain any third party copyright material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights (including rights of privacy or rights of publicity), unless you have a formal licence or permission from the rightful owner, or are otherwise legally entitled, to post the material in question and to grant YouTube the licence referred to in paragraph 8.1 below.

Depth of field

During my intense educational weekend, i finally found the name of the concept where things in the foreground are either blurred or in focus and vise-versa for the background. This is called depth of and the footage is raw footage of me trying to play with concept.

From looking a clips from other users of the EOS 550D, i came across this simple clip that pioneeried my inspiration to use depth of field to make my documentary more professional and less amateur.

The footage above is simply someone testing the depth of field concept at a skate park. Even tough some shots look look amateur by not conforming to common shooting techniques, there are some shots that i can visualise in a professional looking documentary.

Cannon EOS 550D Research

While taking home the camera to film my nephew and after watching footage after footage from documentaries to get inspiration, i came across the concept of field of depth that really intrigued me. To get that narrow field of depth in a footage you need to understand the exposure triangle. The exposure triangle consist of the elements. IOS, shutter speed and aperture. I watched a whole documentary on the camera i was using to film my nephew.

Ironically, the video used to help me understand the camera gave me inspiration in the establishing shots at 16:15 where simple shots help tell the narrative of the documentary. 

Evaluation 1st day of shooting

We filmed the responses people gave when asked questions about dopamine. When we met up in the cold, we were somewhat timid to approach strangers and ask them questions. We were turned down by a number of people and were feeling demotivated. To top things up, there were problem with the cannon 550D. The following message kept on appearing:


With those to hurdles combined we were going to call it a day. We thought to ourselves that we never planned through enough but just as we were leaving we saw a stationary man and decided to try our luck. With the success of him, a snowball effect occurred and we were on a roll. People were allowing to film them with ease and the mood really lightened up. We filmed a good amount of reactions and called it a day.

Final Story board

Shot List

A first draft of our shot list. It contains the scene, shot, shot type, duration, location and a breif description of the mis en scene of the shot as well as any other things that need to be included.

1st Day Call Sheet

A call-sheet for our first day of shooting

Callsheet 1