rushes log

all the clips and voice overs for the vlog, and I used every single one of them for it.

vlog.

taskone edit - final

documentary

making this documentary we had to think about some of the legal considerations that would come with it, such as the privacy of others and had to ask for permission from the shop owner if we could film in the shop and be able to ask him some questions about his sales and the trainer.

feedback video

questions that we asked:


1. was there anything that needed improvement?

editing screen shots

Here is a screen shot of when i opened up premiere pro and added all my clips by importing them and the voice overs i made the software. and started preparing to edit by looking at the footage to see what was good and what wasn't good for when i start putting it all together,. 

after that i made a bin and labelled it 'voice' for the voice overs between me and Morgan from when i was asking her questions about her thoughts on the game and what they can do to you.

once i did that, i went on youtube and found two different uncharted 4 trailers, so i used a youtube converter, changed the format to mp4 and saved in my folder and then placed it into premiere pro with the rest of the videos.

after a while i went to the beginning of my time line and clicked on title at the top of the mac and made myself a still title that i can create and place it in the video. before i done anything i saved it as title o1. after that i made a title called, 'media products - game vlog' and i changed the font to something that i liked. once i done and it saved into my voice folder as it would be easier to find,i then dragged it onto the time line, placed it at the front and used the crop tool to make it a bit shorter as i didn't was the title to be showing for too long.

in this screen shot you can see that I've got all my resources in my folder and the one highlighted is one of the uncharted 4 clips that i saved and i dragged it into the space at the bottom with the rest of my videos. after that i started to watch the video.

a little after, i started getting my time line and my footage together. i started rearranging some of the footage into a better order, i also muted some areas (which can be seen with the green 'm'). what can also been seen in this screen shot that isn't highlighted, is that the audio for some of the clips aren't there because i deleted them and replaced them with something else so it can give a different effect of what i was talking about. 

this is a screen shot of my time line when i was making progress with the video, at the time i was using the crop tool to cut some of the footage that i either didn't need or i was going to use further down the line in the video.  

in this screen shot, i was adding some effects to a few of my clips and i to go through the video transitions sections and go to the dissolve part and actually use the 'cross dissolve' option, so it was dissolve the end part and the beginning of two clips into each other.  

in this screen shot, i added more titles to the sequence on the time line that can be seen on both the center and the bottom left corner. i also go rid a part of the audio that can be seen as well. 

for this one i created a new bin called 'voice 2' for the explaining part of my voice notes. this makes it easier for me to find as well, purely because of the other voice ones that i have, its just so they don't get mixed up in the same bin. 

near the end of making this video, some of the clips were too long as they were, and because i didn't want to cut the clip, i simply changed the speed and duration because i still wanted the whole thing. and changing the speed it makes shorter because the whole thing is sped up and it gives it a better look as i have a voice over so that it gets a better feel and look to it.


at the end of editing the vlog, I converted the video into an mp4, with a H.264 format and a resolution of 1080p HD and 1920x1080 dimension.

edit decision list

shot list


1. medium shots of the TV and Morgan
2. medium close up of the tv
3. video clips of uncharted advert 1
4. video clips of uncharted advert 2
5. voice over clips

purpose email.

task1 edit - draft

 Task 1.

In this essay I will be showing and talking about the development and the rules of editing techniques. I will also be showing some prime examples of the different developments, purposes, conventions and the techniques used within editing. I will also be talking about two films and a music video.

Film – fast 6

Purpose:

Fast and furious 6 is a typical action film with loads happen in it, and is a big example of having a lot of editing in the film. The purpose of this film is to follow on the franchise of the other films that have been done. The reason they had a story to this and the rest of the films is because it keeps engaging the viewer. The amount of drama that is in the film can keep an audience on their feet. Another way of keeping an audience interested in a film is by creating motivation. This is by determining how the audience feels and affects them in a positive way. For the editing team for this film, it is vital for them to cut at the appropriate and right time to make sure that the narrative develops. In order for them to persuade the audience on how they feel about a scene or a character, they need to edit it right when cutting from one scene to another or from one character to another.  Creating pace in this film is really important as it is about fast cars. Creating space is speeding up or slowing down certain parts in a film. Pace changes the way the audience sees the film and making them understand it in different ways. For example near the end of the film, there’s a scene where a car smashes through the airplane and it was the perfect opportunity for the editor to slow the scene down like they did, which impacted the film much more. In this film shots are cut quickly and move to other different shots to create the feeling of pace.

Development:

For this type of film the technique of following the action is pretty much self-explanatory. The camera basically picks up everything the character goes through, by following what they are doing. The following action edit is most likely used during the epic action scenes featuring guns, explosions and following car races. This is because there is always something going on, especially if the character attempts to dodge something and moves out the way, this means that the camera will follow the character when doing this. This technique is used throughout this film, as it is action packed with gun shots, explosions and definitely a lot of car racing/chasing. Multiple points of view are where something is happening in a scene involving multiple characters or even just one. This allows us to see what is happening with that one character and then it will cut to another character and on to another character if there is one. It shows a scene from the points of all the different characters that are involved.  This type of thing can be seen in a part of the film where roman is driving fast down the street and his car ends up flipping on it’s front side and  ends up going through a building and there are about 2 – 3 points of view when this is happening. The amount of shot variations in this film is unreal; the amount if action and emotion in the film explains itself about how many different shot variations there would be in one scene, let alone the whole film. The shots will vary from a medium close up of Brian’s face he’s upside down in his car in the tunnel to a birds I view of when Hobb’s jumps out of his car on a bridge to a moving car below him.   Manipulation of diegetic time and space is an editing technique used to show time in a different light. Flash backs, where the character thinks back to the past and sees images in their head, are to show the audience memories they may had. This can be seen several times during the film, but especially with Letty as she lost her memory, it makes it more significant that they would allow this part as it’s emotional and it gets the audience more involved.   

Conventions and techniques:

Seamless editing is when you put two different pieces of film together to create a clean and smooth part of a film that runs into each other easily. This could be where you are taking two different shots of the film from different times. This particular film doesn’t require a lot of this type of editing as it’s mostly continuity editing. Continuity is a style of editing that requires the director to try making the film reality as much like the audience’s reality as possible. It’s also the process of combining more or less related shots or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence to direct the viewer’s attention to a pre-existing of the story across both time and physical location. Motivated edit/cut is when the scene cuts to another scene or object that was not in the previous frame. Motivated edits are sometimes justified by narrative, this means like flashbacks, this is so it creates a sense of tension and reverse shots. This can definitely be seen when Brian goes to prison to see Braga, and when he explains what happened to Letty it caused a sort of tension between the two. Montage is a technique in editing in which a series of short shots are put together into a sequence to condense space, time and information. This sort of editing can be seen when Letty and Dom are racing around on London streets. There are a series of short clips with their hand work when driving the car. Parallel editing is the technique of alternating two or more scenes that happen at the same time but in different locations. This technique was used during the end of the film when there was a gathering with the antagonist and Brian calls Mia. The 180 rule is like a ritual for these of films, it makes the film more exciting when you get to see everything that is happening from every angle.  Throughout the fast film there are so many transitions, the film has such a variety of transitions and this is what makes an action film. Such as the film involves cuts, fades, cutaways, a few points of views, loads of shot reverse shots.

Music video:  Stefflon don – 16 shots

16 shots is one of my favourite music videos because of the visuals. The music video consists of the have many parts of Jamaica and some people who live there. The reason behind 16 shots and why it was filmed in Jamaica is because that is where Stefflon Don is from and it was a good way to promote her mother land. As the song was about her mum, it was a good way of coming up with a narrative that she got kidnapped and Steff would save her.  

Purpose:

The purpose of the song is to show how much she loves her mum and will do anything for her and that’s the same with the music video. For a music video the way to engage the viewer is by having good locations and good visuals because that’s what attracts a person to watch it left alone the song. Steff definitely pulled it out the bag when she was making this music video because of the location that she went to and the type of scenery that she picked to put in the video. For the development of drama, the edit can determine the intensity of the shots, where the drama is key. The camera shots in this video, the way they were taking definitely added the effect that there was tension. Creating motivation is vital when producing a music video if it has a story to it, this is a main aspect in keeping the audience interested in your product. Cutting from one scene to another and cutting from one character to another helps persuade how the audience will feel. Each cut will help motivate their emotions and cause them to react positively or negatively to the scene. Sound is also an appropriate place to cut to another scene or character as if there is a loud or extravagant noise the character may look away so cutting to the item or place that the character is looking at keeps the audience interested.

Development:

This music video has different development techniques to it such as following the action, because this has a storyline to it this sort of edit is a good way of capturing what is happening in the scenario. The amount of shot variation in the video is what’s actually makes the video.

Conventions and techniques:

The music video starts off with an establishing shot then quickly cuts to a shot of Steff looking over the balcony. This type of shot allows the audience to get an understanding of what the music video may be about and where it is. In this the lyrics have a direct relationship with the visuals in the music video, this is so it could give a better storyline to it. There are several other techniques that were used to make this music. Such as it starts off with a long, slow establishing shot, that then turned into slow different shots of Steff till the music starts picking up a faster pace. There are a series of different shots that are edited together which cuts to the beat but doesn’t at the same time because it’s telling a story. There were shots of Steff and her mum in the video, and this is because they wanted to show how fully involved they both were in the story that they were trying to tell. In terms of camera work used such as there were a few panning shots in the beginning, a few birds’ eye view shots, following the actions shots for when they follow Steff around.  

Tv show: the walking dead

Purpose:                                                                     

The purpose of the walking dead is to give entertainment to the views and the world as they are a TV series that has been on since 2010. For this series it’s a big worldwide thing, so many people are into it. It has a big, big fan base. The series definitely has a storyline to it, otherwise it wouldn’t have a purpose. For this engaging the viewer isn’t hard at all, they know what they’re doing and know how to get the audience’s attention when they’re filming. This show wouldn’t be what it is today if it didn’t have the amount of drama that it has now. Creating motivation has two types to it, there’s audience motivation and there’s story motivation. For the audience they have to think about the cuts that they do and how it will motivate them through their emotions. This is a good way of determining how they react towards the series. For story motivation, how you cut the scenes determining on how the story will go on and it’s really the same thing for creating pace.

Development:

Everything in this category applies to the walking dead. In camera editing may be used in the walking but it was be told for sure as they do long takes of a scene but then again it might be used at they might do the scenes in order which means that the editing side of things is done and the programme is basically developed. The following the action edit is used countless amount of times in the walking dead, it’s one of the edits that make the programme, it makes it more exciting for the audience, it keeps them engages so much and it keeps them on their toes because their wondering what will happen next. The walking dead wouldn’t be the walking dead without all the multiple points of view, there’s just so much that goes on in the walking dead that you have to have more than one view that you can see it from more than one characters point of view and can see it form different shot variations, to make it much more interesting. Manipulation of diegetic time and space can be used to make a change in the speed that the show may go in. they use this to skip a period of time like, hours, days, months and even years.

Conventions and techniques:

Seamless editing may have been used in the walking dead; this is where you get two different shots of the programme at different times and put them smoothly together. Continuity is something that may apply to the walking dead as it is fictional but in some aspects they try to make it as real as the audiences reality, they make it like that through the relations that they have in there even though it’s in a zombie apocalypse. Motivated editing has definitely taken place here, this is because it takes the storyline much further and make the audience believe what their seeing. They use other techniques like parallel, 180 rule. These are all effect ways of making a good series as a whole and a good way to entertain the audience.   

legal consideration.

 

 

internet research^ on the most popular trainers in 2017 so far

equipment email

call sheet

name	number	meeting	location
1.       Abigail mbaki	07490496092	Thursday 23rd – 30th	Abigail’s house, dianni’s house, dalston shop, college
2.       Daisy abeka	Daisybk01@gmail.com	Monday 27th – 30th	College, dalston shop
3.       Lucy hollingsworth	07495910813	thursday 23rd – 30th	dianni’s house, dalston shop, college
4.       Dianni scarborough	07415824304	Monday 27th	Dianni’s house, college

Call sheet 

editing decision list

Edit decision list.

Keeping:

1.       Footage from college

2.       Footage from shoe shop in dalston

3.       Footage form diannis house

Getting rid of:

1.       Footage from abigails house

2.       Footage on the street in hackney

3.       Parts of the footage from dianni’s house  

ideas development

existing research ^ 

 Leyton sixth form college - Essex Rd, Leyton, London E10 6EQ
Westfield Stratford shopping centre - Montfichet Rd, London E20 1EJ
abigail's house - hackney
dianni's house - hackney

risk assessment

production roles

release form

TASK1 - FINAL

Reggie Yates – hidden Australia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04nc0s5/reggie-yates-hidden-australia-1-black-in-the-outback

This documentary is about Reggie Yates who visits an Aboriginal community suffering from addiction and generations of institutionalised racism. His plan is to go to a city in Australia called Wilcannia, to find out the cause of why it is so isolated, lifeless and why it doesn’t attract tourism. Reggie spends a couple days in Wilcannia to talking to those who live there and find out what life is like there and why they have such a bad name with tourists.      

Accuracy:

In this documentary, Reggie went there with no accurate information but only on what he has heard on passing. So with this, he took the risk of going to Wilcannia, Australia to share only true facts with the public and report it correctly without making the rumours about them to be true. For Reggie to provide all the facts he’s going to have to get specific details from those he speaks to in this documentary to show people that this isn’t scripted or put on for show, and by doing that, Reggie normally tells his audience who he’s about to meet but in this case he doesn’t, he goes in blind and just walks up to random people on the street, greets them and finds out their story on what they do in this isolated area and what happened to it. For example, Reggie pulls up on family, the first family he comes across really, and just asks them a few questions and he speaks to one male in particular, Lendal King who tells him about how he’s drinking early in the morning because there’s nothing to do. Reggie then meets some young girls at a bus stop and asks them a few questions on why they think their parents drinks and if there is anything to do in the town. This is important for Reggie as well as the audience because both him and the audience are not given false information.

Balance:

Balance is finding out information from both side of the parties to those who are watching rather than favouring one side of the story to make the audience feel one particular way. For this documentary that Reggie is doing, it’s hard to sort of suss out if you’re really getting both sides of the story because Reggie goes around talking to people and to find out their side of the story but when he meets a radio dj (DJ Smacka), he tells Reggie what happened and why the town is actually the way it is. “The last time we had a camera come in was when, I think it was a bloke from 60 Minutes. He left and done a very horrible story. Then he came back to apologise and said that he’ll make it good, and the second story he did just made it worser.” For the viewers this might be hard for them to make up their mind because they’re not hearing it from the person who made the story but from those who have suffered the impact from it.

Impartiality and objectivity:

Impartiality is weighing views or opinions up fairly, without letting your personal view get in the way of how you see things. Objectivity is judging something without allowing your personal feelings to get involved. For Reggie, no matter what he is documenting, he never lets his view block his way of seeing things, meaning he may not like how they live or how the guy portrayed them. “I’m a little shell-shocked. I mean, as someone who hates the idea of stereotyping and gets incredibly frustrated whenever I feel that someone is, you know, being massively presumptuous about me based on their own prejudice. I’m a little disappointed that in the first hour of me being here, I’ve just walked into a living, breathing stereotype for these people.” From this you can clearly see what Reggie is feeling but that doesn’t stop him from finding out more and blocking his view of seeing things. Normally it’s important for those who are involved to not give out their personal view. But in this situation it’s different story because the party that is involved has to speak their opinion as they are the ones that are affected, and for them it’s just a hope that people do change their attitudes towards those who live in Wilcannia.

Subjectivity:

Subjectivity is judgement based on personal feelings and opinions rather than external facts. The citizens of Wilcannia, are honest about alcohol playing a big part of where they live and their lives. However Reggie has shown us, the audience more information and why they really do what they do, and shows how there really isn’t anything to do apart from drink for those who live there. From this we can see that the people who live there are the ones who are really affected and are hurt due to one person irrelevant opinion and this has made them guard themselves and had a hatred for those who are going to find out what happened like Reggie did and really hate those who are like Reggie.

Opinion:

An opinion is a personal view, a belief that doesn’t have enough evidence to be classed as a fact. Most opinions are formed from something that has happened. Within all documentaries that Reggie does, he has his opinions and views but they don’t count as facts, but he helps others make their own opinion on the documentary due to how they live and the issues in it. Some viewers may have mixed opinions because how they are living is from someone’s opinion based on where they live and how they live which left them in a terrible situation that made them result into drinking alcohol every minute of the day. Therefore from seeing and hearing this it’s given the audience mixed thoughts about it all.

Bias:

Bias is unfairly siding with one certain side of an argument without evidence to back it up. Reggie doesn’t take sides and he definitely isn’t biased. He balances his opinions and hears what both sides of the argument. This can be seen when he first gets there, he only knows one side of the story so he goes and finds out the other side. He doesn’t think it’s fair on how these people are now living because of something someone said and then made it worse by trying to put it right.

Representation:

Representation is how something is portrayed or stereotyped within the media. Many things in the media get taken the wrong way or interpret it in the wrong way by how they’ve been represented. In this case or situation, the damage has been done by someone else so by Reggie going there was only two things that could have happened, make it better or worse than what it already is. Reggie hasn’t portrayed it in a bad way, or said anything to make it look bad, he leaves that to the public to decide for themselves.

Access:

Access is being allowed permission to film but before you can do that you have to make sure you are given permission by those who you are meant to be interviewing so that there are no complications. For Reggie, it was a different story, he may have got permission to come in the country and film but because he wasn’t interviewing anyone in particular, he interviewed those who he just came across, yet he still had to ask if he could ask them a few questions.

Privacy:   

Privacy is being free away from the attention of the public. As this isn’t a direct interview documentary meaning that he didn’t have to keep things private like addresses but at the same time he didn’t in a way, because he had to protect where he was going in Wilcannia and where about’s he filmed in the area and where he interviewed people, like when he went to a youth club for the kids. This is so no one can go and find them or try to do anything with their information. He had to make sure he wasn’t invading anyone’s personal space, such as when he saw a couple family members drinking and he went up to this boy who had strong feelings about how their lifestyle is and another member came up to Reggie asking question like who are you and what are you doing, getting defensive, this then made reggie explain himself.

Contact with viewer:

Out of this whole thing, this is the most realist thing about it, even though the whole documentary is real, this is the part where it isn’t organised meaning the people who comes across they aren’t planned. As this is called Reggie Yates – hidden Australia, it’s his job to give everything that is real for the audience which can definitely be seen in this documentary.

TASK1B - FINAL

Piers Morgan’s life stories.

Interactive: Piers Morgan’s life stories in a tv chat show hosted by journalist Piers Morgan, it’s an on-going series by ITV. This documentary sees piers himself interview some of the world’s most famous people. The encounter is between the film maker and subject which are recorded with a live audience. We see Piers engage with the situations that have happened to them in the life that have been shared with the public in the tabloids and ones that haven’t. This documentary incorporates interview and has a live audience as I have stated who are one of the most important parts of this whole documentary. In this show we can see a variation of emotions by images that demonstrate the validity or even verbal exchange. Piers who is one of the main stars in this show becomes the centre, an interviewer and in some sort a therapist to get a more understanding of what they went through in more detail as he is an outsider yet he knows about the situations that they went through. In this documentary there come several characteristics that come with it, for example the acknowledged presence of camera, crew and clearly seen audience.  Throughout the whole ‘interview’ which is based in studio, Piers doesn’t look at the camera, crew or even the audience once, he speaks directly to the one he is talking to and keeps his eyes straight on the subject to keep it professional but to capture the emotion on the subjects face. Monologues and dialogues are pretty much throughout the show, as most of it is talking so you can get an understanding from the person itself, and the monologues who are done by piers with a sort of slide show tells you the basics with detail but not that much detail. From this the audience is able to recognise what’s real by the flashbacks and some of the issues that are present can relate to some of those in the audience.

We all know piers doesn’t have a filter so he’ll ask the questions he wants to ask even if they come of rude or hurtful in some way, yet he always has multiple viewpoints that come back with different information. Whatever he says stays within the person but it never results into an argument from what he has said to the person, leaving the audience a better way of thinking for themselves. As this is an ITV show, there are bound to be ad breaks but none of the footage has been edited so it can have logical continuity.

Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Observational: keeping up with the Kardashian is a reality tv factual programme, that consists of real life places in America with some real (some call fake) individuals that airs on E!. The show focuses on showing the world what these five sisters (excluding their brother) get up to in their daily lives. The show counts as observational documentary because it follows these individuals around, their homes, and their work places/opportunities and even out for lunches. This simply allows us to see what’s happening and make our own mind up about the events with no voice over. With this sort of reality show there isn’t a sort of ‘fly-on-the-wall’ style of presentation because it’s not a sit down reality show. Keeping up with the Kardashian can also be classed as expository as the cameras are set up sharing a sense of realism. With this it doesn’t really have unobtrusive camera work to attract attention but this family get a lot attention by just walking out the door. KUWTK has very long takes in the show giving the impression that nothing has been ‘cut out’, even with ad breaks as it’s shown on E! but with some episodes of the show, if you really look at it you can sometimes see that some things have been edited/cut out but most of the time you can’t really tell. There aren’t really any zoom lenses but the whole thing is done with hand held cameras following the action. For speech that is over heard and not direct to the person can be seen, in an episode of KUWTK when they go on vacation to Thailand and Khloe is talking to Kim but ends up saying ‘I love him’ quietly in which they had to make a subtitle for it. Synchronous sound is throughout the whole show, its reality tv, you hear everything, to an echo in the room or even the wind from when their out and about.  In this observational documentary, the narrative is the presenters inform the audience with their opinion on their lives and is normally seen in documentary. This show in particular can be taken very negatively as its very strong in one opinion but can be told the opinions by others and be blow out of proportion and be exaggerated.

Wildlife – secret life of the zoo.

Expository:  wild life documentaries do contain the ‘voice of god’ and some don’t for the some I have seen, they don’t have ‘a voice of god’ they actually have the subject talking directly to the camera, explaining the action like what’s going on and the meaning behind some things. Secret life of the zoo is an expository and education documentary of animals as you get to see the person actually talking and interacting with the animals and the animals interacting with the cameraman. There is no interviews used in this sort of documentary or if there is we don’t get to hear it. In this documentary there is more than one narrator because it shows more than one part of the park, so you’ll get to see and learn about different animals in each episode and not just one. The last characteristic this documentary has is the audience, meaning us who just watch and listen. The voice of god allows us to understand what we are seeing in front of us. The main code and convention for these sorts of documentaries are facts, opinions and rhetorical questions which makes this an expository documentary.

Bear Grylls – breaking point.

Performative: bear grylls is a type of factual programming that is less straight forward, bear grylls himself is at the centre of the programme. It’s a documentary that gives an accurate account of a series of factual event, but at the same time it’s personal and subjective. As I said before bear grylls stars in his own documentary series in which he brings different everyday people (and some celebrities) on a personal journey to face their fears. This journeys that he takes these everyday people on are personal for bear grylls himself, as he is a survival expert and adventurer. This whole thing is self-reflexive for those who are staring in the documentary, for them to get over their fear. We also see some self-reflexive from Bear because this is something he’s done before and is personal for him. In this documentary he doesn’t really include or try to organise interviews but he does go along with them obviously so he has to talk to them and ask them how they are/feeling and anything about what’s happening on the journey. The whole thing is done by a hand held camera because it’s an adventure documentary, and it makes it easier for us to follow the filmmaker when he takes people on different journeys. One of the modes for this has the emotional feature of it. The codes and conventions is that the makers would touch on the making of the programme meaning the camera shots and movements.

News: Another factual programme is a news report; this is done by informing the audience directly whether it’s done by tv (bbc, itv, channel 4). Being said that they do the same thing, they just have different ways of doing it. Some are more worldwide based news and stories. Going along with how they dress is the most important part if the whole thing because in their eyes, the ones who look well dressed and smart gets the most respect and people from the audience side most likely think that, because they dress that why, they are more likely to be trusted in what they are saying. They also talk formally and use correct terminology that will not upset the public and sound more sophisticated. They present the news on a non-bias outlook but sometimes can be taken the wrong way; by the way they only show either the good or the bad.  

The news report I found is from the other day based on three men who are wanted over an acid attack in east London nightclub that has left two people partially sighted, in which one of them has been arrested. It’s been reported out of this attack there has been twenty people who were hurt and has been conformed Mr Collins (one of the attackers) is the boyfriend of The Only Way is Essex star Ferne McCann. This has been shown on the 6o’clock news on itv. With this comes the codes and conventions side to it. There are links to the studio, such as to another tv studio or to a live area with a field reporter. This can be found mainstream news channels such as the BBC and ITV and some American news channels. There are experts and a witness with opinions on a subject gives the viewers/listeners another opinion. The reporter will try to gain as a many witnesses as possible to gather lots of information. An expert provides reassurance and gives the audience facts and figures. This ties in to the news report about the attack in the night club as it has a lot of witnesses who were at the scene of the crime.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39668735

treatment

production schedule - final

recce

one day film

for this one day documentary that we did, we got some feedback from those who had seen it. the feedback that we got was, that it was good but we should have different camera shots in there, we should have changed some of the locations for some of the interviews because it was hard to hear, maybe used a mic. but other than that the feedback was good

script

pitch

Pitch proposal from lucy-jh

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Piers Morgan’s life stories.

Interactive: Piers Morgan’s life stories in a tv chat show hosted by journalist Piers Morgan, it’s an on-going series by ITV. This documentary sees piers himself interview some of the world’s most famous people. The encounter is between the film maker and subject which are recorded with a live audience. We see Piers engage with the situations that have happened to them in the life that have been shared with the public in the tabloids and ones that haven’t. This documentary incorporates interview and has a live audience as I have stated who are one of the most important parts of this whole documentary. In this show we can see a variation of emotions by images that demonstrate the validity or even verbal exchange. Piers who is one of the main stars in this show becomes the centre, an interviewer and in some sort a therapist to get a more understanding of what they went through in more detail as he is an outsider yet he knows about the situations that they went through. In this documentary there come several characteristics that come with it, for example the acknowledged presence of camera, crew and clearly seen audience.  Throughout the whole ‘interview’ which is based in studio, Piers doesn’t look at the camera, crew or even the audience once, he speaks directly to the one he is talking to and keeps his eyes straight on the subject to keep it professional but to capture the emotion on the subjects face. Monologues and dialogues are pretty much throughout the show, as most of it is talking so you can get an understanding from the person itself, and the monologues who are done by piers with a sort of slide show tells you the basics with detail but not that much detail. We all know piers doesn’t have a filter so he’ll ask the questions he wants to ask even if they come of rude or hurtful in some way, yet he always has multiple viewpoints that come back with different information. Whatever he says stays within the person but it never results into an argument from what he has said to the person, leaving the audience a better way of thinking for themselves. As this is an ITV show, there are bound to be ad breaks but none of the footage has been edited so it can have logical continuity.

Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Observational: keeping up with the Kardashian is a reality tv factual programme, that consists of real life places in America with some real (some call fake) individuals that airs on E!. The show focuses on showing the world what these five sisters (excluding their brother) get up to in their daily lives. The show counts as observational documentary because it follows these individuals around, their homes, and their work places/opportunities and even out for lunches. This simply allows us to see what’s happening and make our own mind up about the events with no voice over. With this sort of reality show there isn’t a sort of ‘fly-on-the-wall’ style of presentation because it’s not a sit down reality show. Keeping up with the Kardashian can also be classed as expository as the cameras are set up sharing a sense of realism. With this it doesn’t really have unobtrusive camera work to attract attention but this family get a lot attention by just walking out the door. KUWTK has very long takes in the show giving the impression that nothing has been ‘cut out’, even with ad breaks as it’s shown on E! but with some episodes of the show, if you really look at it you can sometimes see that some things have been edited/cut out but most of the time you can’t really tell. There aren’t really any zoom lenses but the whole thing is done with hand held cameras following the action. For speech that is over heard and not direct to the person can be seen, in an episode of KUWTK when they go on vaycay to Thailand and Khloe is talking to Kim but ends up saying ‘I love him’ quietly in which they had to make a subtitle for it. Synchronous sound is throughout the whole show, its reality tv, you hear everything, to an echo in the room or even the wind from when their out and about. 

Wildlife – secret life of the zoo.

Expository:  wild life documentaries do contain the ‘voice of god’ and some don’t for the some I have seen, they don’t have ‘a voice of god’ they actually have the subject talking directly to the camera, explaining the action like what’s going on and the meaning behind some things. Secret life of the zoo is an expository and education documentary of animals as you get to see the person actually talking and interacting with the animals and the animals interacting with the cameraman. There is no interviews used in this sort of documentary or if there is we don’t get to hear it. In this documentary there is more than one narrator because it shows more than one part of the park, so you’ll get to see and learn about different animals in each episode and not just one. The last characteristic this documentary has is the audience, meaning us who just watch and listen.

Bear Grylls – breaking point.

Performative: bear grylls is a type of factual programming that is less straight forward, bear grylls himself is at the centre of the programme. It’s a documentary that gives an accurate account of a series of factual event, but at the same time it’s personal and subjective. As I said before bear grylls stars in his own documentary series in which he brings different everyday people (and some celebrities) on a personal journey to face their fears. This journeys that he takes these everyday people on are personal for bear grylls himself, as he is a survival expert and adventurer. This whole thing is self-reflexive for those who are staring in the documentary, for them to get over their fear. We also see some self-reflexive from Bear because this is something he’s done before and is personal for him. In this documentary he doesn’t really include or try to organise interviews but he does go along with them obviously so he has to talk to them and ask them how they are/feeling and anything about what’s happening on the journey. The whole thing is done by a hand held camera because it’s an adventure documentary, and it makes it easier for us to follow the filmmaker when he takes people on different journeys.

News: Another factual programme is a news report; this is done by informing the audience directly whether it’s done by tv (bbc, itv, channel 4). Being said that they do the same thing, they just have different ways of doing it. Some are more worldwide based news and stories. Going along with how they dress is the most important part if the whole thing because in their eyes, the ones who look well dressed and smart gets the most respect and people from the audience side most likely think that, because they dress that why, they are more likely to be trusted in what they are saying. They also talk formally and use correct terminology that will not upset the public and sound more sophisticated. They present the news on a non-bias outlook but sometimes can be taken the wrong way, by the way they only show either the good or the bad.  

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Reggie Yates – hidden Australia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04nc0s5/reggie-yates-hidden-australia-1-black-in-the-outback

This documentary is about Reggie Yates who visits an Aboriginal community suffering from addiction and generations of institutionalised racism. His plan is to go to a city in Australia called Wilcannia, to find out the cause of why it is so isolated, lifeless and why it doesn’t attract tourism. Reggie spends a couple days in Wilcannia to talking to those who live there and find out what life is like there and why they have such a bad name with tourists.      

Accuracy:

In this documentary, Reggie went there with no accurate information but only on what he has heard on passing. So with this, he took the risk of going to Wilcannia, Australia to share only true facts with the public and report it correctly without making the rumours about them to be true. For Reggie to provide all the facts he’s going to have to get specific details from those he speaks to in this documentary to show people that this isn’t scripted or put on for show, and by doing that, Reggie normally tells his audience who he’s about to meet but in this case he doesn’t, he goes in blind and just walks up to random people on the street, greets them and finds out their story on what they do in this isolated area and what happened to it. For example, Reggie pulls up on family, the first family he comes across really, and just asks them a few questions and he speaks to one male in particular, Lendal King who tells him about how he’s drinking early in the morning because there’s nothing to do. Reggie then meets some young girls at a bus stop and asks them a few questions on why they think their parents drinks and if there is anything to do in the town. This is important for Reggie as well as the audience because both him and the audience are not given false information.

Accuracy is one of the most important things for news story, it’s like a religion, have to stick to the rules and make sure everything is based on truth. This goes for most or nearly all of the tv news based companies. This is so they are giving out correct information to those who are watching, as this is where they get the most views. For example the bbc have to get all the facts and figures of the story as in name, age, race (if needed), where the story was taken place and the day it happened. “Folajimi Orebiyi, known as Fola, was stabbed in the neck outside the Aston House estate in west London on 3 July 2016.”

Balance:

Balance is finding out information from both side of the parties to those who are watching rather than favouring one side of the story to make the audience feel one particular way. For this documentary that Reggie is doing, it’s hard to sort of suss out if you’re really getting both sides of the story because Reggie goes around talking to people and to find out their side of the story but when he meets a radio dj (DJ Smacka), he tells Reggie what happened and why the town is actually the way it is. “The last time we had a camera come in was when, I think it was a bloke from 60 Minutes. He left and done a very horrible story. Then he came back to apologise and said that he’ll make it good, and the second story he did just made it worser.” For the viewers this might be hard for them to make up their mind because they’re not hearing it from the person who made the story but from those who have suffered the impact from it.

The BBC has to keep everything balanced when they report news, as there is more than one party involved, such as the victim themselves or their family if the victim didn’t make it, in which this case the young 17 year old didn’t.

Impartiality and objectivity:

Impartiality is weighing views or opinions up fairly, without letting your personal view get in the way of how you see things. Objectivity is judging something without allowing your personal feelings to get involved. For Reggie, no matter what he is documenting, he never lets his view block his way of seeing things, meaning he may not like how they live or how the guy portrayed them. “I’m a little shell-shocked. I mean, as someone who hates the idea of stereotyping and gets incredibly frustrated whenever I feel that someone is, you know, being massively presumptuous about me based on their own prejudice. I’m a little disappointed that in the first hour of me being here, I’ve just walked into a living, breathing stereotype for these people.” From this you can clearly see what Reggie is feeling but that doesn’t stop him from finding out more and blocking his view of seeing things.

Subjectivity:

Subjectivity is judgement based on personal feelings and opinions rather than external facts. The citizens of Wilcannia, are honest about alcohol playing a big part of where they live and their lives. However Reggie has shown us, the audience more information and why they really do what they do, and shows how there really isn’t anything to do apart from drink for those who live there.

Opinion:

An opinion is a personal view, a belief that doesn’t have enough evidence to be classed as a fact. Within all documentaries that Reggie does, he has his opinions and views but they don’t count as facts, but he helps others make their own opinion on the documentary due to how they live.

With this sort of news the bbc are not allowed to express their own  opinion on the subject, they are only allowed to provide you, the audience the information.

Bias:

Bias is unfairly siding with one certain side of an argument without evidence to back it up. Reggie doesn’t take sides and he definitely isn’t biased. He balances his opinions and hears what both sides of the argument.

Representation:

Representation is how something is portrayed or stereotyped within the media. Many things in the media get taken the wrong way or interpret it in the wrong way by how they’ve been represented. In this case Reggie, hasn’t portrayed it in a bad way, or said anything to make it look bad, he leaves that to the public to decide for themselves.

Access:

Access is being allowed permission to film but before you can do that you have to make sure you are given permission by those who you are meant to be interviewing so that there are no complications. For Reggie, it was a different story, he may have got permission to come in the country and film but because he wasn’t interviewing anyone in particular, he interviewed those who he just came across, yet he still had to ask if he could ask them a few questions.

Privacy:   

Privacy is being free away from the attention of the public. As this isn’t a direct interview documentary meaning that he didn’t have to keep things private like addresses but at the same time he didn’t in a way, because he had to protect where he was going in Wilcannia and where about’s he filmed in the area and where he interviewed people, like when he went to a youth club for the kids. This is so no one can go and find them or try to do anything with their information.