Initial plans

Today we discussed our ideas for our programme, covering the subject matter of the programme, the scheduling, the channel and the title of the programme. We looked at the idea of books vs. kindles,  and the final agreements were the following:

Final Agreements
Name:- Moving Foreword
Channel:- Channel 4
Scheduled Channel:- 7:30pm
Target Audience:- 16 - 30

Brainstorming

We managed to come up with a whole variety of topics that we could cover ranging from clothing to obsessions. As a result of all the ideas that we came up with, we managed to narrow it down to three main ideas.                                                                                

Brainstorming from Belladog55
 

3 main ideas from Belladog55

Scheduling

In lesson we looked at various television schedules and through them, we were able to identify the various segments and the types of programmes within them.

Tv scheduling from Belladog55

Evaluation: Its Good to Talk

Once the class watched our short documentary in relation to the Preliminary Task: Its Good to Talk, they came up with some advantages and disadvantages for the documentary, as well some improvements that could be made in time for our next documentary; e.g. main task.

The audience felt that their were various advantages that made themselves present when they visualised the final product. The advantages that they came up with overall where:
     - Cut aways allow seamless translations and where relevant to the theme
     - Music went with the title (contemporary)
     - Pun (thrones to phones)
     - Music helped re-enforce competition
     - Graphics used
     - Sound through time mic
     - Range of phones
However, the audience also felt that were a few disadvantages with the documentary that made themselves present as well. These consisted of:
     - Passport appears half way through
     - Background has nothing to do with phones
     - Interviewee is sitting side ways and not straight at into the camera (interviewer positioning)
     - Doesn't last for the whole five minutes

After looking over the preliminary task that we completed, we came to realize that it was not done to the best of our ability. This being said then, the next time that we do a  documentary, the main things that we will have to make sure that it lasts the full five minutes, the background is relevant, interviewee looks straight at the camera, and that the mise-en-scene remains near enough the same. Neither the less, we also agreed that we need to take a larger variety of cut aways in relation to our chosen subject.

Documentary: Its Good to Talk

In lesson we finally managed to complete the Preliminary Task: Its Good to Talk.

Editing: It's Good to Talk

Today we started the editing for our perliminary task 'Its Good to Talk'.



            

• The first thing we did in relation to editing our film and cutaways, is that we began by importing all of the footage that we we had into Adobe Premier Pro, which allowed us to see and spilt each clip as we went a long. This also allowed us to add different parts together, which resulted in the being of our interview for the documentary. 
• This being said then, this also meant that we had to cut out the questions that we originally asked, which left us only with the answers the the interviewee had given us, and from there we dragged it onto the time line.

            

• We did this until we had majority of the answers placed onto the time line. Neither the less, the was only one issue that made itself present whilst doing this interview, and this was in relation to the second half of our interview; e.g. second half of our interview didn't record which resulted in us having only two minutes worth of interview instead of five for our overall interview. 
• We then started to look at the various cutaway footage and images that we had in relation to our documentary, and started to cut small sections of them, so that we were able to lay them onto the Video 2 layer, in order to cover up any of the jumpcuts that occurred during our interview. As a result, these varied between various lengths, due to the fact that some of the cutaways needed to be shown completely whereas some others didn't; e.g. somebody typing on a phone.   

                  

• From there we then went onto placing our cutaways onto video, so as to cover up the various jumpcuts that made themselves present in our interview. We also had to put left audio onto the audio as well, in order for all of the group to listen to it through both the speakers and headphones, depending the audience watched it. 
• We then began to add graphics onto our interview, which helped in identifying the interviewee's name and relevance to the topic that they where answering questions on.

• Finally we successfully added our titles and music base to the video. By having the music in the background of the interview this meant that the background didn't sound empty, and as for the title of the actual interview, this fades both in and out whilst over a still image.

Filming: Its Good to Talk

Preliminary Task: Its Good To Talk

On 12th September, 2013 we were split into groups of three, so we could creates short documentary (preliminary task) called 'It's Good to Talk'. The group consists of myself, Rachel Jones and Jake Hoey, and as a result of this, we started off by talking about the interview questions we were given. We then moved onto discuss the cutaways we could link in with them.

These were are our initial ideas:

• Somebody texting on the phone
• Somebody browsing phone sales contracts on line
• Displaying old phones
• Using App Store
• Using social networking sites
• Emailing
• Text language
• 4 people in a room sat at a table texting
• Phone shops
• Old to new transmition panning shot  

We then discussed the props we need for the task:

• A variety of new and old phones
• Computers

Mise-en-scene:

• People sat with a computer screen behind them
• Picture of phones

We then discussed a name for our documentary:

• Fones
• Game of Phones

Codes and conventions of filming and editing interviews

Codes and conventions of a documentary

I placed all the codes and conventions of a documentary into a powerpoint and uploaded it through slideshare and embeded it onto my blog.

Codes and conventions of documentaries from Belladog55

Don't Blame Facebook

In lesson we were told that we needed to analyse two other documentaries individually and the other documentary that I chose to do was 'Don't Blame Facebook'. I analysed the documentary focusing on the themes involved, narrative structure, camera work used, mise-en-scene,sound, editing, archive footage and graphics. Once collected I put the information onto a Glogster layout and embeded it onto my blog.