Tag: writing

Context

In this week I will be detailing the process of creating both of the documentaries. Again I aimed both documentaries to target them all at around 15 – 30 years old individuals no matter what gender, I also aimed them to target people who did have an interest in sports. The main idea of the documentary was purley just to make sure I create an informative documentary yet with good sound design to maintain the listeners ear and keep them entertained throughout the entire documentaries.

Research

Story

For this documentary I wanted to inform and entertain, I did this by making sure in both documentaries. One question was answered.

How can I maintain interest through 10 mins of talking?

I was able to do that by finding out that the general public of sports fans are generally interested in the back doors of the sports industry, how did the rise of basketball come about? How did it fall and come back all within years? Also along with the price to watch football I wanted to look at problwms football watching fans may have just like, why do they have to pay so much just to watch the game?

The Revival of British Basketball

For this one I started with how I could tell the story, from what angle. So I started looking at teams to tell the story from and the London Lions stuck out as I already had media accreditation there so I could gather an insight and within east london was the copper box arena that played a large influence towards the revival of british basketball.

From this I looked at the rise of the lions looking at their record breaking first game in 2013 all the way to where they are now. And as the Lions rose so did the british basketball scene as a whole. So using the Lipns as a lens to look through while telling the revival of the sport in britian was a good choice to make.

The Price to Watch Football.

In this documentary, I wanted to aim to tell an untold sotry within sport, something that is not loooked at enough or paid enough attentnion towards. And that was how much it costs to watch football in 2025. The idea I wanted to go towards with was effectivley inclducing case studies of different problems the sport has had within the tv distrubution rights. Looking at the tv rights deal problems in Ligue 1 coupled with having to now watch the Champions league on 2 different applications. All the way to the MLS putting their entire legaue behind apple tv and still bringing low quality.

Taking a generic problem and making sure it is given a problem and its spoken about on a platform online proved to be useful as I was able to craft a good story from it.

Stylistic

Stylistically, I was inspired by The Boot Room podcast, especially their episode The Story of Nike in Football again. Again I wanted to imitate their conversational informative style coupled with adding in relevant clips/interviews with figures within the industry.

Also their “Sports Science in the 1980s” proved to be useful in terms of telling the background of different things as well

Practical skills

Throughout the entire time I strengthened my long-form storytelling and multitrack editing skills inside Adobe Audition.

I organised my session using stepping to keep different layers of audio clearly separated, and used bricking to tidy up the final section of the timeline so everything hit its cue points. I added and labelled markers throughout the waveform to plan where interviews, SFX and music beds would enter or fade, which made it easier to jump back and fix mistakes or re-record certain lines.

I applied a Classic Soft Knee dynamics preset and used a Hard Limiter. I trimmed breaths, long pauses and repeated words as well.

All screenshots are annotated and shown below.

Technical

For this project, I used Adobe Audition as my main editing software to record, mix and finalise the documentary. My voiceover was recorded on an Audio-Technica microphone in a sound-treated room to ensure clean, consistent audio without background noise. I used Audition’s multitrack view to layer narration, interviews, SFX and music beds, applying fades, volume automation and panning where necessary to create a balanced stereo image. All recording, editing and exporting were completed on my MacBook Pro M2, which allowed smooth playback even with multiple high-quality audio tracks. I exported a final mastered version suitable for streaming platforms.

Evaluation and Reflection

WWW (What Went Well)

Strong Narritive Structure

It was a great peice to work on as the subject I chose was interesting and unique.

Improved Vocal Quality

Using dynamics processing and a hard limiter gave my narration a professional, broadcast-ready sound. My levels stayed consistent across the full 8 minutes, even when moving between quieter reflective moments and high-energy sections.

Much Better Pacing

Making many revisions to the project in 3 different mixdowns recieving feedback from my teacher and peers to have a great final product

EBI (Even Better If)

Time Taken

Many basic mistakes were made during this project hence it took longer to produce.