Production Unit - Nathan Caws Feedback

Nathan Caws is th Head of Finishing Editor at Ignition Creative and has worked on titles varying from Britains Got Talent, I'm A Celebrity, Saturday Night Takeaway, The Football World Cup, The Queens Jubilee, The Rugby World Cup, X-Factor and the Exposure documentary on Jimmy Saville to big blockbuster style productions such as Entebbe, Everest, Fast and Furious 8, Hard Sun, Goodfellas, Jackie, Logan Lucky, McMafia, Midnight Special, Now You See Me 2, Only The Brave, Pacific Rim Uprising, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Rellik, Taboo, The Glass Castle, The Missing, The Post, The Silence of the Lambs, Top of the Lake, Trainwreck, Warcraft.

When we sat down with him we briefly explained what the project was about and our angle on the subject. We then gave him some background information on our three contributors Eddie Jan and Liam and thier cases. Once he had a loose understanding of the background to the doc we then showed him the main parts e.g. the bulk of each interview and shots that we thought he could advise us on colour with.

(Clients Nathan has dealt with)

After seeing a large amount of the project he gave us some great feed back that we 100% agreed on with him. The points he raised are as follows:

• When cutting to the night time reconstruction shots darken them and then raise the highlights to give it a dark but cinematic look.
• On the shot that focus pulls on a picture of Jordan he is smiling which may be confusing imagery for the audience as he is meant to be a "victim".
• When there is a sharp cut with a white flash to a picture of Eddie and his wife the sound of a photo click is too loud and obvious
• The lamp in the background of Jerry Hayes' interview can be distracting because of how bleached out and bright it is, just need to mask it and fade it down slightly.
• When there is a shot that rotates around Liam outside the Royal Courts of Justice it ends on an angle that has a flashing zebra crossing light and that can distract the eye from the subject (Liam)
• Place the "Liam Allan" graphic as it cuts to him more to the left of frame (rule of thirds)
• Instead of pulling out of the shot of the Police car zoom in. If you pull out it usually means you are revealing something.

The only thing i didn't quite agree on was the smiling photo. I thought it was good to a have a photo of when Jordan was young and smiling because it symbolises happier times and that he was just a young care free boy when this happened to him. These changes have all been made now (exept for the picture) and we are just working on absolute final touches before we export it for the hand in on the 13th.