The final film

After finishing ‘Liverpool’s Superlambanana’ I think it was unanimous amongst the group that we were really happy with the result. I fell that the tome of it is light and happy. The subject matter is fun and bright. We didn’t want to make a gritty, pessimistic, grey piece that seems to be a running theme through a lot of documentaries. It’s a colourful piece that looks into how people feel about modern art in Liverpool. In some ways I feel the Superlambanana is a vehicle in our documentary. It’s like a gate into the much broader theme of art and specifically contempary art. The piece tends to lean towards people opinions on the Superlambanana rather than its story.
Starting with the vox pops before the titles we introduce this idea of people’s opinions of the Lambanana. This introduces the subject matter but still in a way that is a little ambiguous so that the viewer is intrigued as to what it is. Then introducing the lambananas the viewer’s interest peaks with the strangeness o fit. However before the viewer get confused or bored we quickly introduce Pat who gives who gives the background and general knowledge needed to understand both the documentary as a whole and the subject matter in general.
Now we have given a comprehensive view of the Super Lambanana, we bring in the idea of what is means to Liverpool and what people think of it. We then Carry this through with the Interview with Sophie. She is like a case study of what the superlambanana means to Liverpool’s artistic community. This, for me is a really nice interview. It gives both a personal story which makes the film more engaging for the viewer but also help to reinforce what it means to the city.
Then we go back to the vox pops. Once more this gives the wider respective of what the Lambanana means to the souse people. Also what they think of it. This means we have a broad perspective of what the Lambanana means to Liverpool. All in all I’m happy with the result.
In terms of sound it’s a very speech heavy piece. Therefore the majority of my task was cleaning up dialogue and syncing into the Picture. I have gone in to more detail about this on a previous post.
As for how we worked as a team I think we did well. We all gelled and carried out our roles in a competent manner to the bestow our ability. I think the film we have made reflects this. We did a fair share of the work obviously there was a slight imbalance depending on what stage of the production we were at. For example at the beginning Grace was incredibly busy as producer, but the editor didn’t have anything to do at all really. However towards the end of the process it was all balanced out. The situation Changed around in Post production.
So in conclusion I feel we have made a good piece and worked well as a team.