Group Work and Pre-Production begun

We have now been allocated into groups to complete pre-production, production together. I have been allocated with Matt Long and Max, I have worked with Matt before and we worked very hard together previously which is a bonus, Max is a hard working student, therefore our group is promising and positive. We have contributed within 2 meetings and recorded within our minutes records. Our first meeting we proposed individually our ideas for both factual and social action and community programmes, My idea for factual programme was what goes on within Chichester College such as; activities, course, events etc, a factual programme giving the audience facts about what is available within the college, my proposed idea for the social action and community was the cut of EMA and the effect it will have on students. Matts ideas were similar, however his factual programme was based just around activities within Chichester College and focuses on the activities available within the college, his social action and community idea was based surrounding the cut of EMA, Max proposed the idea for the factual programme on facts about gap years for students leaving college, and his social action and community was based around the effect on smaller businesses when Big Tescos arrived in Havant. We overviewed all potential ideas and looked at the advantages and disadvantages, as a group we came to a decision to establish the concept for the factual programme of activities within the college and the social action and community of the cut of EMA, with different ideas interpretated and expanded onto the basic concept.

We have begun our pre-production stage and completed two production schedules for factual programme and social action and community and allocated individial roles and tasks to be completed with ideal deadlines to follow the production schedule successfully and be able to film all shots in mind. My tasks include; completing for the factual programme; the treatment and shooting script and for the social action and community to complete; the script and risk assessment. We also divided both proposals equally and differently, therefore we have a chance to respond to different tasks within the proposal and have the same workload.

Completing Tasks Part 2 and 3 within Homework Assignment

I have now completed Part 2 and 3 within the homework asssignment booklet which included; identifying media regulators, government acts and the impact on media producers and case studys whereby media companies have broken guidelines and been punished by regulating bodies. Within task 1 of part 2, I have researched and found the regulating bodies within the media industiry of television, film, print publications and computer games, included with a summary and their contact details. Proceeding from this task, I have also researched into government acts and stating the summeary of the act with answers as to how they impact media producers.

Assignment: Film and Video Editing Techniques

We have been introduced to a film and video editing techniques worksheet, which consists of researching into the history of film and video editing techniques which should be presented in a timeline to show the dates and development of editing techniques with the people who have introduced the different techniques and for what reasons. On the worksheet there are also other tasks we should be completed which include examples od developments such as; development in shot variation, multiple points of view etc, included with examples of purposed which include engaging the viewer, relationship to genre, develpment of drama. Task 2 on this sheet there is also the task to research into at least 5 conventions and techniques within editing whereby I have given definitions and examples with techniques including; jump cut, continuity, shot reverse shot, montage and a transition effect.

Proposals Complete and Update of Social Action and Community Worksheet

I have now completed both proposals for proposed ideas for the factual programme and social action and commnuity, which includes and highlights; the audience, the budget, the equipment etc. The proposed idea for the factual programme which was based from MY Magazine assignment, was facts about Chichester College and what is available such as; activities, course information etc, Where as the proposed idea for the social action and community was the concept of the cut of EMA and the effect it will have on students. Through both proposals I have highlighted the establish concept and portrayed my knowledge within copyright, budget, codes of practice etc.

I have also completed the social action and community worksheet which gained me knowledge into different existing social action and community documentaries and understanding within a social action and communtiy documentary. I researched into existing social action and community documentaries to gain an unerstanding and highlighted the impact on peoples lives and the community. Within this worksheet I also highlighted Quantitative and Qualitative research methods and Primary and Secondary Research, and how I will be applying this within the production of pre-production and post production. Within this worksheet I also explained the issues and needs which I need to consider within creating a social action programme and how to overcome these.

Assignment: Social Action and Community Task sheet

I have now completed the task sheet based around social action and community factual programmes. Tasks included within this tasksheet consisting on highlighting and describing existing social and community documentaries which I researched into 'The Secret Millionaire', 'Home is where the heart is' and 'Living in the slum'. Through researching into each programme I identified and included each programme's purpose of the documentary, the director, title, year and production company. Throughout this worksheet I also highlighted Issues and needs with resolutions for the proposed Idea, the last task within this worksheet was to create a proposal to highlight the content within producing the production, through research I also included the budget, locations, facilities etc.

Assignment (Homework): Company Ownerships within the Media

I have now completed task 1 within the homework assignment booklet which was to research into two global companies with their history, ownership across different media platforms with a research dossier and powerpoint presentation. I have carried out secondary research into two large companies of The Walt Disney Company and The BBC News, and researched into the history and identified their ownerships within the media industry and their media outlets to the audience. Within part 1 and 2 of this task, I also identified both companies main sources of income, employees and their main competitors within the media industry, within part 2 I also stated how surprised on how much the companies own and the main advantages and disadvantages of owning such large companies. I have creating a research dossier of both companies and put together a PowerPoint presentation of both companies including detailed summarys of the companies. Within this work sheet there were also two questions to be answered which included the amount of employees of both companies with their main competitors, income and the disadvantages with advantages of owning such big companies.

Documentary Assignment; Investigation into Factual Programmes

We have now started the investigation into TV Factual Programmes whereby I have been researching into Issues needed to be considered on the television such as; the accuracy of material deliverd to the audience, privacy issues for the contributers with issues of consent from the contributer or a third party, also about information on withdrawing consent, also the issue of Impartiality and the priority to portray fairly equal information to the audience, with information on all sides of the story. I have also undertaken an investigation into the codes and conventions of factual programmes on of the News on TV such as; field reporters, interviewing, actuality footage etc. I also have included the different modes of documentarys such as; observational, interactive, reflexive etc. Within this investigation I have also learnt and highlighted examples of the different modes of documentaries and the styles used also I have researched and seen examples of codes and conventions used within factual programme of the News and how different factual programmes used these, I have compared different News Programmes such as;Sky News which is a 24 hour news channel which is targetted to a working audience of people at work or at home, another news programme of South Today which is a local news channel which is targetted to those who finish work at a generic time of 5, the other news programme was Newsround which is targetted for a more younger audience. I have researched into their different styles to target to a specfic audience such as formal, or informal. I have annotated onto all research undertaken within factual programmes and about to start writing my investigation in a word document to represent my findings.

Introduction to New Assignment: Factual Programme & Homework Assignment

We have now been introduced to our 4th Assignment which involves creating a factual documentary of a specific topic or subject which can portray informative facts and the audience will gain more knowledge into a certain aspect, the subject will also include social and the community, whereby we I am aware we will be creating our own factual programme and then editing another group's factual programme as a social community based film. I have also furthered my knowledge into documentaries and identified the components and conventions used to portray a documentary by watching a number of documentaries such as; Michael Moore's popular documentaries, and seen the different styles and modes which can be found in documentaries. Conventions of documentaries include portraying to the audience some background of the subject which films also generally use to portray the audience the scenery and become familar with the background and location, interviews are very popular within documentaries and they generally include interviews with experts within the subject, interviews with the general public and interviews that have been affected or have an opinion on the subject, therefore the audience can retrieve more knowledge and understand more.

Within the next few days, I will be developing and adapting an idea for a factual programme with some relevance to social and the community such as; health issues-smoking, drinking, STI'S, Enviroment Issues, Crime Issues to raise awareness and to hopefully be beneficial to people affected by these issues.  

Completion of Evaluation/Paper work & Responding to Feedback