After the interim crit, Sara had suggested we re-record our audio again, because it sounded too forced and not genuine. At this point in the module, I was feeling really disheartened with this project because everyone was telling us that it wasn't good enough and that we had to redo practically everything even though we had been spending a lot of time on it. I also realised that it is not that easy to just remake something in stop motion because everything is hand made, so when we got told to remake everything, I felt like a lot of time and effort had been wasted.
Nevertheless Hayley and I spoke with each other and agreed that we would record our audio again but use a different technique this time. Instead of writing out what we wanted our actors to say, we asked them particular questions instead, so that we didn't have any expectations, and we would have a variety of material to choose from.
I found this to be much harder than previously, because I had to make questions up as I was going along, in order to expand on the answer given, and keep the interview going; essentially like a conversation. It also took me SO long, because my mum didn't know that much about climate change, so kept pausing and having 'mind blanks'.
I narrowed the questions and answers to five minutes, out of approximately 20 minutes worth of audio. I tried to pick parts that I thought would be interesting to animate, and are actually relevant to our topic choice. I was going to ask some of my friends to be interviewed, but they didn't really know much about climate change either, and because my mum is older, I thought she would have some firsthand experience in seeing some changing patterns in weather and climate conditions, making this audio more useful and reliable.
I then removed my questions, and some of the answers, to make a three and a half minute audio, just to see if the answers themselves would be strong enough on their own. I think they are, and even though they are quite spaced out and have a lot of pauses, I think this is what will make our documentary more natural as opposed to our previous one which was scripted. Also with Hayley's audio, I think having this one interchanging it, will emphasise the contrasting opinions as her actor doesn't believe in climate change at all, so it will be nice to have that differentiation.
I then picked out some lines that I thought were more stronger for our animation, and I was still up to one and a half minutes so I will leave it up to Hayley to pick the ones she likes. I am glad that I recorded a lot more than necessary, because it means we have much more to choose from, and we are not just using material for the sake of it.
I am not sure if I prefer this audio however, to the previous one, I think it will be a case of more feedback because at this point I am struggling a lot with finding the balance between applying all feedback and sticking to what we want to do.
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