The writing up of a Peer2Peer review had come up one or two times during the week, but today when we was in our group meetings, we had to give feedback to each team member, giving strengths and weaknesses.
It was about half way through the exercise however that I had a bit of a problem with the task, during Jack's review, we each stated that he can get stressed quite easily, and put it down as a weakness for him to work on, I myself have been guilty of being stressed during this brief, yet it was never brought up. I thought that perhaps people was putting down safe, obvious weaknesses so not to offend a team mate, while this is nice to see, I didn't walk away with any constructive critism, thus making my review a little redundant.
Of course this could just be me reading too much into something and my team genuially couldn't see a weakness in my performance but I doubt that, I myself have found faults in which I being up in my evaluation.
As for the strengths, I have heard these good qualities that I bring to a team on other briefs so it is nice to know I am still keeping up the good work.
My strengths included:
Works well independantly
A good leader
Great communication
Controlling, but in a good way.
Great at assigning team roles and tasks.
Ideas are always being put forward.
Monday, 19 March 2012
Evaluation
The brief started with the Student Union coming in and asking us to create a Documentary on the topic of Drug Abuse, we were split into 3 groups of 5 and then each sat down to assign roles and plan what we want to go into it. With it being such a big brief, each members of the team took various roles, for example, one day during production I stayed in a little make shift office we made and did nothing but paperwork (Scripts, Action Plans, Etc) whilst the others members of the team ventured out and filmed Vox Pops and Cutaways, whereas another day I was on the camera during interviews, and in front of a camera during a sketch. This was great for our team as it meant everyone had a big role to play.
We broke the 2 weeks we had in this brief down into two sections, the first week was all planning and filming, and the second week was all editing. This was all well and good on paper but there was some things during edit that needed to be fixed, reshoot, things needed added, meaning we had to venture out and get them, this took precious time from our edit. Next time, during a big brief like this one, I feel that I should edit along the way, of course that may mean the team may still be behind due to the long edits, but it would of helped during the brief to see mistakes in our work quicker than we did.
As for my roles, I found that the day I spent in the make shift office was my most comfortable role. I felt that even though I had a lot to do that paticular day, because I was in one room, and was on my own, I managed to get everything done independantly and efficiantly. My role in front of the camera was really fun, it has been a while since I have been in front of it. The only set back we had with the sketch I was in was getting access to the location itself, we had 3 attempts to get into the Nursary to film, we came against a few restrictions that meant we had a 45 minute free slot after college hours to shoot, the first day we managed to get the shots we wanted but upon reviewing the footage while capturing, we wasn't happy with it, we had rushed the shots, not rehearsed the script, and the character of Dino The Drug Talking Dinosaur was a last minute character that we found whilist setting the camera's up, we felt that he represented a more patronising parody that we was going for. The second attempt to film there, our time management went out the window, it was the same day we had recorded interviews, and our cooking sketch, so time seemed to pass us by that day, this was a little annoying as we had done such a great job all week with our time keeping and action plan. A problem I did come across when editing the piece however was the syncing of Dino, I had performed the voice for Dino on a zoom, and found upon listening back that at certain points I had enlongated words, such as Dinosaur, this was solved as two cameras was on Dino at all times, so I just simply cut from one angle to another to help the synching seem more naturally, of course when I showed my team this and told them my troubles with the synching I was told I shouldn't worry to much about it, as if you watch puppets on TV, they aren't synched perfectly, especially on children's television.
The interview's, I found myself on a camera each time, me and Jack devised a system to communicate with each other during the first interview, this was mainly a series and hand gestures that represented what we each wanted the camera to concentrate on, whilist this worked really well and we came back with great footage, the audio was terrible, we found out that a mic had been left on and had ran out of battery, worse luck still was the fact that it was this mic that had been used by our interviewee's, meaning that we couldn't venture out and reshoot, bad luck struck us more when it came to our third interview, during our set up, the camera I was on auto powered down, I switched on, recorded, then upon reviewing, my camera never recorded in 16:9. Whereas the audio incident couldn't be blamed on one member of our team, I took full responcibility for not recording in 16:9, next time I know I need to double and triple check settings before pressing record, especially when a camera auto powers down. Further trouble happened with that third interview, again, with the audio, Karma smiled upon us on that interview however as the audio problems was on Nathan's side, which means we was free to go reshoot his side of the interview, downside was that it took valuable time away from editing.
The cooking sketch I was sadly absent for as I was capturing and doing paperwork, but the footage I have seen looks like our team, once again struggled with audio, this seems to be the room itself that was the trouble as apposed to the mic, we did use a zoom however, which made our edit a little better, however we used a voiceover, we used it for two reasons, one, to mask the bad audio, and the other was because this sketch was influenced by Masterchef.
My last role was the role of team leader, this started with me and Jack taking it in turns, this was primarily to give each other a break, and to sit back a little and relax, but eventually I realised that Jack's stress levels was reaching a high and someone needed to keep people calm and happy, I fell into this role with ease.
During the planning stage, we concentrated a lot on what we felt we didn't want to include in the Documentary, the biggest no, no for us, was to make sure we never come across preachy. Our goals for the Documentary was to use dark humour to deal with quite a serious topic, we always stuck to this factor by using sketches. We started with a blank board and threw a lot of ideas together, a few of these stuck from the beginning, a few more was dropped, and others (such as Vox Pops) was just vague at that moment in time. The interviewee's we ended up interviewing we had in mind from the beginning, the one we relied on getting the most was our interview with Sarah, our target audience may be students around the college, but we felt that we couldn't give an accurate account of what it is like to take cannabis, perhaps become addicted to it without talking to someone who had been on it for a period of time, her interview also had the added bonus of her now getting an education to help others with drug problems.
This planning stage was handled really well, the vast amount of tasks however sometimes took far too long, for example, the Vox Pops and Cutaways was planned to be filmed and finished on the first day, 3 days later, the Vox Pops was complete and the Cutaways was still being collected the editing week, the Cutaways were understandable as we as a team would always see a shot that looked good, or took the opportunity to get a few extra shots whilist we was in locations such as the Library.
I think that the thing to take away from that was to spend more time reviewing the days work, there was moments during the production that we would tick a task off as complete but then upon reviewing the footage, there clearly wasn't enough Cutaways or the Vox Pops was poor. By that point though, other tasks had been set.
The way we came up with assigning tasks to certain people came about with someone volunteering really, we only asked a certain person to perform a task if they had nothing to do, and others was busy. I feel like everyone performed well, noone on the team complained about any task that was given to them. I feel like the only time I let the team down was when I got too stressed, I did control this as much as I could but there still is room for improvement.
After looking at the edited documentary, I see a lot of colours and effects, whereas on other briefs I would comment on that in a negative way, this seems so suitable, the trippy LSD style really stands out and is so suitable on a documentary about drugs, I also don't know what it is about this style of edit that just seems to relate to young adults, I know it does with me. It is hard for me to pinpoint exactly what kind of documentary we ended up producing, the personal stories and the very topic itself makes it a docu-drama but the dark humor approach sets it asside from others that I have seen, if I had to compare it's style to anything, I would compare it to "Bizzare Crime" another documentary whose very topic itself is a serious Docu-Drama, but presents itself in a silly, lighthearted manner.
I have already mentioned a few other sources that we took inspiration from, such as Masterchef and Bizzare Crime, but we looked at a varity of styles, even it was only used to inspire a 5 second sequence in our documentary. For instance there is a point in our cooking sketch in which Text appears to illustrate what ingredients are being added to the mix, originally I had the idea of it being a lot like a scene in Scott Pilgrim. in which the shot freezes and text pops up around the room showing items owned by Scott's roommate, this didn't go into the final draft but we still took away inspiration from that scene, in fact it was because of that scene and the thought process and discussion we had about it that we added text into the scene in the first place, it originally just had Helen describing what was going into the mix.
We did take a long look at the Panaroma episode with Alistar Cambell, particularly his pieces to camera, how the camera slowly glides round the room to add a touch more drama to a serious personal point he had just made, we decided to add these shots to not only add that little bit of drama to what was being said, but to also make the piece to camera a lot more interesting.
Looking at our teams documentary, I feel like we do hit a lot of the programs briefs, we hit the right target audience with our style and look (the effects we used, the humor etc), our message has always been pretty clear, we get across that recreational use can lead to serious problems in the future, but we never come across as preachy, we talk a lot about sensible and informed decisions when it comes to dealing with them.
One of the biggest strength of the documentary is the clear message we get across and how we go about it, from the beginning, we always knew that we had to about this documentary in a very different style, we was really against having a structure of interview, after interview. Of course we took a big risk doing this, as we could be substituting facts and information for entertainment, whereas most documentaries could balance this structure, we only had 12 minutes, we could never get a great balance. This could be seen as a weakness of our documentary, but I don't believe it was our biggest weakness. Our biggest weakness was the mistakes that had been made during filming i.e the audio problems. As much as we tried to fix these problems, it is impossible to mask the mistakes.
We broke the 2 weeks we had in this brief down into two sections, the first week was all planning and filming, and the second week was all editing. This was all well and good on paper but there was some things during edit that needed to be fixed, reshoot, things needed added, meaning we had to venture out and get them, this took precious time from our edit. Next time, during a big brief like this one, I feel that I should edit along the way, of course that may mean the team may still be behind due to the long edits, but it would of helped during the brief to see mistakes in our work quicker than we did.
As for my roles, I found that the day I spent in the make shift office was my most comfortable role. I felt that even though I had a lot to do that paticular day, because I was in one room, and was on my own, I managed to get everything done independantly and efficiantly. My role in front of the camera was really fun, it has been a while since I have been in front of it. The only set back we had with the sketch I was in was getting access to the location itself, we had 3 attempts to get into the Nursary to film, we came against a few restrictions that meant we had a 45 minute free slot after college hours to shoot, the first day we managed to get the shots we wanted but upon reviewing the footage while capturing, we wasn't happy with it, we had rushed the shots, not rehearsed the script, and the character of Dino The Drug Talking Dinosaur was a last minute character that we found whilist setting the camera's up, we felt that he represented a more patronising parody that we was going for. The second attempt to film there, our time management went out the window, it was the same day we had recorded interviews, and our cooking sketch, so time seemed to pass us by that day, this was a little annoying as we had done such a great job all week with our time keeping and action plan. A problem I did come across when editing the piece however was the syncing of Dino, I had performed the voice for Dino on a zoom, and found upon listening back that at certain points I had enlongated words, such as Dinosaur, this was solved as two cameras was on Dino at all times, so I just simply cut from one angle to another to help the synching seem more naturally, of course when I showed my team this and told them my troubles with the synching I was told I shouldn't worry to much about it, as if you watch puppets on TV, they aren't synched perfectly, especially on children's television.
The interview's, I found myself on a camera each time, me and Jack devised a system to communicate with each other during the first interview, this was mainly a series and hand gestures that represented what we each wanted the camera to concentrate on, whilist this worked really well and we came back with great footage, the audio was terrible, we found out that a mic had been left on and had ran out of battery, worse luck still was the fact that it was this mic that had been used by our interviewee's, meaning that we couldn't venture out and reshoot, bad luck struck us more when it came to our third interview, during our set up, the camera I was on auto powered down, I switched on, recorded, then upon reviewing, my camera never recorded in 16:9. Whereas the audio incident couldn't be blamed on one member of our team, I took full responcibility for not recording in 16:9, next time I know I need to double and triple check settings before pressing record, especially when a camera auto powers down. Further trouble happened with that third interview, again, with the audio, Karma smiled upon us on that interview however as the audio problems was on Nathan's side, which means we was free to go reshoot his side of the interview, downside was that it took valuable time away from editing.
The cooking sketch I was sadly absent for as I was capturing and doing paperwork, but the footage I have seen looks like our team, once again struggled with audio, this seems to be the room itself that was the trouble as apposed to the mic, we did use a zoom however, which made our edit a little better, however we used a voiceover, we used it for two reasons, one, to mask the bad audio, and the other was because this sketch was influenced by Masterchef.
My last role was the role of team leader, this started with me and Jack taking it in turns, this was primarily to give each other a break, and to sit back a little and relax, but eventually I realised that Jack's stress levels was reaching a high and someone needed to keep people calm and happy, I fell into this role with ease.
During the planning stage, we concentrated a lot on what we felt we didn't want to include in the Documentary, the biggest no, no for us, was to make sure we never come across preachy. Our goals for the Documentary was to use dark humour to deal with quite a serious topic, we always stuck to this factor by using sketches. We started with a blank board and threw a lot of ideas together, a few of these stuck from the beginning, a few more was dropped, and others (such as Vox Pops) was just vague at that moment in time. The interviewee's we ended up interviewing we had in mind from the beginning, the one we relied on getting the most was our interview with Sarah, our target audience may be students around the college, but we felt that we couldn't give an accurate account of what it is like to take cannabis, perhaps become addicted to it without talking to someone who had been on it for a period of time, her interview also had the added bonus of her now getting an education to help others with drug problems.
This planning stage was handled really well, the vast amount of tasks however sometimes took far too long, for example, the Vox Pops and Cutaways was planned to be filmed and finished on the first day, 3 days later, the Vox Pops was complete and the Cutaways was still being collected the editing week, the Cutaways were understandable as we as a team would always see a shot that looked good, or took the opportunity to get a few extra shots whilist we was in locations such as the Library.
I think that the thing to take away from that was to spend more time reviewing the days work, there was moments during the production that we would tick a task off as complete but then upon reviewing the footage, there clearly wasn't enough Cutaways or the Vox Pops was poor. By that point though, other tasks had been set.
The way we came up with assigning tasks to certain people came about with someone volunteering really, we only asked a certain person to perform a task if they had nothing to do, and others was busy. I feel like everyone performed well, noone on the team complained about any task that was given to them. I feel like the only time I let the team down was when I got too stressed, I did control this as much as I could but there still is room for improvement.
After looking at the edited documentary, I see a lot of colours and effects, whereas on other briefs I would comment on that in a negative way, this seems so suitable, the trippy LSD style really stands out and is so suitable on a documentary about drugs, I also don't know what it is about this style of edit that just seems to relate to young adults, I know it does with me. It is hard for me to pinpoint exactly what kind of documentary we ended up producing, the personal stories and the very topic itself makes it a docu-drama but the dark humor approach sets it asside from others that I have seen, if I had to compare it's style to anything, I would compare it to "Bizzare Crime" another documentary whose very topic itself is a serious Docu-Drama, but presents itself in a silly, lighthearted manner.
I have already mentioned a few other sources that we took inspiration from, such as Masterchef and Bizzare Crime, but we looked at a varity of styles, even it was only used to inspire a 5 second sequence in our documentary. For instance there is a point in our cooking sketch in which Text appears to illustrate what ingredients are being added to the mix, originally I had the idea of it being a lot like a scene in Scott Pilgrim. in which the shot freezes and text pops up around the room showing items owned by Scott's roommate, this didn't go into the final draft but we still took away inspiration from that scene, in fact it was because of that scene and the thought process and discussion we had about it that we added text into the scene in the first place, it originally just had Helen describing what was going into the mix.
We did take a long look at the Panaroma episode with Alistar Cambell, particularly his pieces to camera, how the camera slowly glides round the room to add a touch more drama to a serious personal point he had just made, we decided to add these shots to not only add that little bit of drama to what was being said, but to also make the piece to camera a lot more interesting.
Looking at our teams documentary, I feel like we do hit a lot of the programs briefs, we hit the right target audience with our style and look (the effects we used, the humor etc), our message has always been pretty clear, we get across that recreational use can lead to serious problems in the future, but we never come across as preachy, we talk a lot about sensible and informed decisions when it comes to dealing with them.
One of the biggest strength of the documentary is the clear message we get across and how we go about it, from the beginning, we always knew that we had to about this documentary in a very different style, we was really against having a structure of interview, after interview. Of course we took a big risk doing this, as we could be substituting facts and information for entertainment, whereas most documentaries could balance this structure, we only had 12 minutes, we could never get a great balance. This could be seen as a weakness of our documentary, but I don't believe it was our biggest weakness. Our biggest weakness was the mistakes that had been made during filming i.e the audio problems. As much as we tried to fix these problems, it is impossible to mask the mistakes.
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Production Journal - The editing stage
The team knew at the beginning of the week that editing was going to be a nightmare, we all knew that we still had one or two things to go out and record, that and some of our team had a day off, or appointments, on various days, giving us less people power to get everything done. When we actually got to editing, we encountered the worse luck, we had set back after set back.
We learned upon editing that all our interviews had a problem with them, 2 that took place on the same day had really bad audio problems due to a mix being left on and the battery running out, and our third interview (which also had audio problems) wasn't shot in 16:9. The audio problems in the third interview was from Nathan's mic, meaning that we could go out and reshoot all the questions (which we did on Friday) but sadly, the audio on the other two was from our interviewee's mics, meaning that we had to do what we could in post production.
Our biggest concern, other than the various problems we found with our footage, was the looming deadline, especially the draft edit we was asked to make to show Student Services what we had been up too, on that day, we only had one or two things completely edited and finished, it was all on different machines, harddrives and macbooks, and we had a bad start to the day due to the shard area being down, then full. It was at this point that we decided to put together a trailer, so we at least had something to show, and we could answer any questions student union had for our team. This worked wonderfully, the trailer managed to show the humour our documentary has with the Dino The Drug Talking Dinosaur sketch, as well as show off the factual and serious side of it with quick snippits of our vox pops and interviews.
...Continued...
Looking back through my Production Journal, I feel like I haven't written enough, trouble is I know my notes will cover a lot of what I have talked about in the last few production journals, and I hate repeating myself.
Now that we only have one more day to really polish of this brief and move onto what I hope to be a lot less stress free assignment, I can take the time to sit back and look over everything my team has accomplished, our biggest strength was the sheer amount of organisation we had, everything you see in our documentary has been discussed, re-discussed, planned out then performed, which made the edits a lot simpler, at least for me it did as I knew exactly what our team wanted the final outcome to look like, I hope the other 4 felt the same as well.
As for the faults, I could put it down to bad luck, but it was down to us at the end of the day to check the mic's were off, find another mic, double and triple check the camera's settings etc, the only plus I saw from those mishaps was have great it was to see that the team didn't blame eachother and fall out over them, we all got on to create the best piece we could, dispite the set backs.
I think I will go more in depth about the strength and weaknesses of the team and the documentary in the evaluation, this was more like a few thoughts I had and wanted to remember rather than a production journal on how editing went.
We learned upon editing that all our interviews had a problem with them, 2 that took place on the same day had really bad audio problems due to a mix being left on and the battery running out, and our third interview (which also had audio problems) wasn't shot in 16:9. The audio problems in the third interview was from Nathan's mic, meaning that we could go out and reshoot all the questions (which we did on Friday) but sadly, the audio on the other two was from our interviewee's mics, meaning that we had to do what we could in post production.
Our biggest concern, other than the various problems we found with our footage, was the looming deadline, especially the draft edit we was asked to make to show Student Services what we had been up too, on that day, we only had one or two things completely edited and finished, it was all on different machines, harddrives and macbooks, and we had a bad start to the day due to the shard area being down, then full. It was at this point that we decided to put together a trailer, so we at least had something to show, and we could answer any questions student union had for our team. This worked wonderfully, the trailer managed to show the humour our documentary has with the Dino The Drug Talking Dinosaur sketch, as well as show off the factual and serious side of it with quick snippits of our vox pops and interviews.
...Continued...
Looking back through my Production Journal, I feel like I haven't written enough, trouble is I know my notes will cover a lot of what I have talked about in the last few production journals, and I hate repeating myself.
Now that we only have one more day to really polish of this brief and move onto what I hope to be a lot less stress free assignment, I can take the time to sit back and look over everything my team has accomplished, our biggest strength was the sheer amount of organisation we had, everything you see in our documentary has been discussed, re-discussed, planned out then performed, which made the edits a lot simpler, at least for me it did as I knew exactly what our team wanted the final outcome to look like, I hope the other 4 felt the same as well.
As for the faults, I could put it down to bad luck, but it was down to us at the end of the day to check the mic's were off, find another mic, double and triple check the camera's settings etc, the only plus I saw from those mishaps was have great it was to see that the team didn't blame eachother and fall out over them, we all got on to create the best piece we could, dispite the set backs.
I think I will go more in depth about the strength and weaknesses of the team and the documentary in the evaluation, this was more like a few thoughts I had and wanted to remember rather than a production journal on how editing went.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Production Journal
This production journal will be reiterating a lot of what I have posted onto the Team Blog, but I will be concentrating on what I have acomplished as apposed to the team.Firstly, I will start from where my last journal ended, this will be from the 6/3/12.
Planning Table:
Script Writing
Completed By Danny
This is everything that was planned for my to do on that day, I was at first meant to stay in a little office we had set up in K Block and complete all the paper work needed, this included contacting interviewee's, script writing etc, while the rest of the team went out and got Vox Pop's, Cut Aways, and location rec's, but as I noted, it was getting late into the day and my team was still getting Vox Pop's, meaning I had to venture out and sort out locations we could film in, this included the Library, Catering and the Nursary. I also touched upon music as the scripts was starting to come together, I posted on the team blog ideas for suitable music that we could use, but upon furthur discussions about copyright laws, these could sadly not be used.
8/3/12
Today we have achieved in getting a interview with Becky Procter, we have captured that.
While shooting the interview we managed to give Helen a shopping list for all our props that will be used in our cooking sketch.
We have then filmed our cooking sketch and arranged an interview with Sarah for tomorrow.
We are still trying to find a time that we could film in the Nursary.
Some of us will be staying behind after hours to touch up our one on one with Nathan and get a lot more interesting shots with it.
Some changes:
We have permission to film in the nursary and will film that sketch at 4:15 today.
On the 8th, our interviewee, Becky Procter got back to us, so we had to quickly find a suitable place to conduct the interview, we settled upon the Access rooms upstairs in E Block, as we had quite a nice hussle and bussle of lessons behind closed doors, that and we didn't want to film in E Block like every other group had as it was a little boring at this point. The interview went great and as we was capturing, Helen returned with a bag full of props we had sent her out to get, meaning we was ready to film the cooking sketch, I stayed behind in E Block to write up that day's notes and action plan while the rest of the team ventured to catering. As for the the touch up on Nathan's one to one, we never got round to doing that due to the time we spent filming the sketch and then capturing.
9/3/12
Today we have managed to film our dealer sketch, and two interviews, we have captured everything and Jack will take all the footage home over the weekend to make our file management a bit more clear. We have been picking up cut aways throughout the day so we are armed with a variety of them during editing next week.
The 9th was a very busy day that we had timetabled so meticulously. We had two interviews in the morning and afternoon that we had already planned beforehand to avoid running round looking for a location. These went fantastically and was captured straight after. During the downtime, we managed to film our "dealer" cut-away near the bins on the side of K Block, this came out well, but I still uncertain whether or not to keep this in the final draft, it is a nice cut-away, but I am not sure what it is saying to the audience. "Drugs are dealt in college grounds." "Drugs are easy to obtain." As for the interviews, I was surprised, I thought we would get a better interview out of Sarah then Lizzie, as my first thoughts would be that we might get a few preachy answers about how bad drugs are out of Lizzie due to her line of work, but we got an unbiased, informative interview out of her, we did with Sarah as well, I was expecting a lot more of a personal interview during our time with her, I put this down to the questions I wrote down for Nathan to ask, they was very difficult to think of as I didn't want to pry to much, incase we offended or scared the interviewee off. That and I almost had to predict the answers we would recieve so I could lead onto the next question I had wrote down, not an easy task to do, I am no mind reader.
Planning Table:
E-Mail interviewee’s and arrange time and
dates.
Completed by Danny.
Waiting on the replies.
Script Writing
Completed By Danny
Arrange Filming Locations.
As off 13:30, this is not yet
completed.
Danny will go out and complete this task later
today.
Blog Team Work
Blog 7/3/12's Action Plan
Completed by Danny
Capture Footage
Will be done by Danny and Jack at
3:30
This is everything that was planned for my to do on that day, I was at first meant to stay in a little office we had set up in K Block and complete all the paper work needed, this included contacting interviewee's, script writing etc, while the rest of the team went out and got Vox Pop's, Cut Aways, and location rec's, but as I noted, it was getting late into the day and my team was still getting Vox Pop's, meaning I had to venture out and sort out locations we could film in, this included the Library, Catering and the Nursary. I also touched upon music as the scripts was starting to come together, I posted on the team blog ideas for suitable music that we could use, but upon furthur discussions about copyright laws, these could sadly not be used.
8/3/12
Today we have achieved in getting a interview with Becky Procter, we have captured that.
While shooting the interview we managed to give Helen a shopping list for all our props that will be used in our cooking sketch.
We have then filmed our cooking sketch and arranged an interview with Sarah for tomorrow.
We are still trying to find a time that we could film in the Nursary.
Some of us will be staying behind after hours to touch up our one on one with Nathan and get a lot more interesting shots with it.
Some changes:
We have permission to film in the nursary and will film that sketch at 4:15 today.
On the 8th, our interviewee, Becky Procter got back to us, so we had to quickly find a suitable place to conduct the interview, we settled upon the Access rooms upstairs in E Block, as we had quite a nice hussle and bussle of lessons behind closed doors, that and we didn't want to film in E Block like every other group had as it was a little boring at this point. The interview went great and as we was capturing, Helen returned with a bag full of props we had sent her out to get, meaning we was ready to film the cooking sketch, I stayed behind in E Block to write up that day's notes and action plan while the rest of the team ventured to catering. As for the the touch up on Nathan's one to one, we never got round to doing that due to the time we spent filming the sketch and then capturing.
9/3/12
Today we have managed to film our dealer sketch, and two interviews, we have captured everything and Jack will take all the footage home over the weekend to make our file management a bit more clear. We have been picking up cut aways throughout the day so we are armed with a variety of them during editing next week.
The 9th was a very busy day that we had timetabled so meticulously. We had two interviews in the morning and afternoon that we had already planned beforehand to avoid running round looking for a location. These went fantastically and was captured straight after. During the downtime, we managed to film our "dealer" cut-away near the bins on the side of K Block, this came out well, but I still uncertain whether or not to keep this in the final draft, it is a nice cut-away, but I am not sure what it is saying to the audience. "Drugs are dealt in college grounds." "Drugs are easy to obtain." As for the interviews, I was surprised, I thought we would get a better interview out of Sarah then Lizzie, as my first thoughts would be that we might get a few preachy answers about how bad drugs are out of Lizzie due to her line of work, but we got an unbiased, informative interview out of her, we did with Sarah as well, I was expecting a lot more of a personal interview during our time with her, I put this down to the questions I wrote down for Nathan to ask, they was very difficult to think of as I didn't want to pry to much, incase we offended or scared the interviewee off. That and I almost had to predict the answers we would recieve so I could lead onto the next question I had wrote down, not an easy task to do, I am no mind reader.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Production Journal Day 2
The first thing we did as a team was sit down and create an agenda. Ours was as follows:Agenda
- Research Findings and feedback
- Discuss the research we have gathered - Annotate
- Talk Relivance of information
- Narrow down questions and answers to form/script our documentary - Discuss style and presentation
- Discuss overall visual style and presentation
- Reverance any style of Documentary you have watched during research that you would like to recreate - If unknown, show snippits of the programme.
- Construct overall idea into a timeline
- Check idea meets the criteria of the brief
A.O.B
Questions for Adele.
You will find everything in the agenda in the little red folder I hand in, but as of 21:34, 1/3/2012, we still need to annotate each of our own research and construct a script, which suggests that our team is coming along nicely with our documentary, we already have snippits of a great idea in mind, it is just a case of writing the scripts and questions and answers.
With me not handing in this work until closer to the hand in date it is hard to prove that we have been working hard today, but we locked ourselves in a room (we wasn't forced to do this) and threw ideas around, these started to form into ideas that we could work with.
- Research Findings and feedback
- Discuss the research we have gathered - Annotate
- Talk Relivance of information
- Narrow down questions and answers to form/script our documentary - Discuss style and presentation
- Discuss overall visual style and presentation
- Reverance any style of Documentary you have watched during research that you would like to recreate - If unknown, show snippits of the programme.
- Construct overall idea into a timeline
- Check idea meets the criteria of the brief
A.O.B
Questions for Adele.
You will find everything in the agenda in the little red folder I hand in, but as of 21:34, 1/3/2012, we still need to annotate each of our own research and construct a script, which suggests that our team is coming along nicely with our documentary, we already have snippits of a great idea in mind, it is just a case of writing the scripts and questions and answers.
With me not handing in this work until closer to the hand in date it is hard to prove that we have been working hard today, but we locked ourselves in a room (we wasn't forced to do this) and threw ideas around, these started to form into ideas that we could work with.
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