We asked 3 people to watch our Documentary so we could get feedback on their opinion.
We let them watch it then asked them 7 questions to find out what they thought. The questions were:
*What do you think of the mise-en-scene in the frame?
*What do you think the strengths were in the documentary?
*What do you think the weaknesses were in the documentary?
*What would you improve in the documentary?
*Do you think it followed the codes and conventions of a documentary?
*Did you find the documentary informative?
*Do you think the documentary gave a fair arguement?
Here was our result...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NecpqgawGc
Sunday 20 December 2009
Thursday 17 December 2009
Final Week - - Lauren O'Donoghue
We have filmed our critical evaluation with three students, it is finall all coming together after months of hard work!
EVALUATION QUESTIONS
1. What did you think of the mise-en-scene in the frame and was it relevant to the interviewee?
2. What were the strengths of the documentary?
3. What were the weaknesses?
4. Did you find the documentary informative?
5. Do you think it gave a fair argument of both sides?
6. What would you do to improve the documentary?
7. Did it follow the general codes and conventions of the documentary genre?
Thursday 10 December 2009
Week 12 - Lauren O'Donoghue
We finally finished our documentary :-D
Nearly everything is done now, all our paperwork is up to date, our posters and radio trailers are finished, all we need to do now is film our final part of our evaluation, and then its all over!
Nearly everything is done now, all our paperwork is up to date, our posters and radio trailers are finished, all we need to do now is film our final part of our evaluation, and then its all over!
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Friday 4 December 2009
Voiceover Character Profile - Adele Kyriacou
Today we tracked down the elusive Andy Popperwell to be the narrator of our documentary, and it sounds fantastic as he has recieved pronounciation and uses standard english. And that is precisely why we chose to use him. He speaks with such elegance and puts emphasis on words at the right places that are typical of a documentary. It gives a sense of formality to the documentary that would otherwise be scarce as it is filmed, edited and directed by three amateurs. We did write quite alot of material for our voiceover and Andy was quite stunned at the amount but, we wanted to make sure we had more than enough to be on the safe side. Because whilst editing, i can change my mind at different times with what approach i want to go about with.
We are very happy that we were able to use him, the only thing is, i have leanred that a lot of people are also thinking of using him for the same advantages we did. We do like to take a different approach to things rather than the typical components people are using with their documentary, but because he is simply so fantastic who can refuse! We will sure enough buy him a card to show our thanks once this is all over!
We are very happy that we were able to use him, the only thing is, i have leanred that a lot of people are also thinking of using him for the same advantages we did. We do like to take a different approach to things rather than the typical components people are using with their documentary, but because he is simply so fantastic who can refuse! We will sure enough buy him a card to show our thanks once this is all over!
Thursday 3 December 2009
Week 11 - Katie Geraghty
Now we have all of our footage, we have begun working on our radio trailers. We are now doing radio trailers individually as this is more beneficial when it comes to marking and would be too hard to separate our roles.
We're also finalising our drafts of our posters and getting up to date with our paperwork, aswell as starting our evaluations.
We're also finalising our drafts of our posters and getting up to date with our paperwork, aswell as starting our evaluations.
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Score Notes - Adele Kyriacou
The music we decided to go with is titled "Changing World". This involves a simultaneous idea, ironically, as with our documentary our tone is to enable the world to see the world with both eyes open. So it was very fitting indeed. Its quite slow-paced and that, that matches the codes and conventions of a typical documentary. Other music we listened to, didn't quite have the tranquil feel to it as this, as i believe it helps easy viewing. We found with our target audience, documentaries are not their all time favourite thing to watch. So with the help of this music, we are hoping to ease them into a state where they are interested in watching it.
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Final Cutaways - Lauren O'Donoghue
After adding additional cutaways to our documentary, i edited the final cutaway documents.
Cutaway of Romford shopping strip - We decided to use this as the voiceover speaks about members of the public. Romford is always busy and a variety of different people of different ages and cultures walk through the strip everyday. So by filming the strip, we are representing a mixture of different people, which is essentially what 'the public' is.
Cutaway of Tesco - In my subject research I found that youths are very discriminated in certain situations. The Tesco express outside our college is a prime example of this. The sign says 'Only two students allowed in at a time', so students are left to queue up outside, regardless of whether they are in a rush to get something to eat because they have to go back and do work or not. We thought this was very relevant, especially as adults are allowed to walk freely in and out of the shop. This therefore bases an assumption, or at least angers students as they are treating them as if they are criminals and will steal something just because they aren't classed as 'adults' yet.
Cutaway of students walking in and out of college - We used this as obviously we are talking about young people, and our college is a place that inhabits many students. It is just a general impartial cutaway that leaves the audience to make their own decisions. The shot was relevant to our documentary when talking about youths of today and how they are portrayed in society.
Cutaway of News board/Newspaper cuttings - We used these as cutaways as we thought they were very relevant - news article about youths, and also negative. Especially when it came to John Murphy speaking about whether he thinks that journalists give an objective recollection of events.
Cutaway of Romford shopping strip - We decided to use this as the voiceover speaks about members of the public. Romford is always busy and a variety of different people of different ages and cultures walk through the strip everyday. So by filming the strip, we are representing a mixture of different people, which is essentially what 'the public' is.
Cutaway of Tesco - In my subject research I found that youths are very discriminated in certain situations. The Tesco express outside our college is a prime example of this. The sign says 'Only two students allowed in at a time', so students are left to queue up outside, regardless of whether they are in a rush to get something to eat because they have to go back and do work or not. We thought this was very relevant, especially as adults are allowed to walk freely in and out of the shop. This therefore bases an assumption, or at least angers students as they are treating them as if they are criminals and will steal something just because they aren't classed as 'adults' yet.
Cutaway of students walking in and out of college - We used this as obviously we are talking about young people, and our college is a place that inhabits many students. It is just a general impartial cutaway that leaves the audience to make their own decisions. The shot was relevant to our documentary when talking about youths of today and how they are portrayed in society.
Cutaway of News board/Newspaper cuttings - We used these as cutaways as we thought they were very relevant - news article about youths, and also negative. Especially when it came to John Murphy speaking about whether he thinks that journalists give an objective recollection of events.
Location + Mise-en-scene Notes - Adele Kyriacou
Location is a vital part of filming and interviewing speakers as the mise-en-scene has to be constructed and manipulated to our advantage for emphasis whilst filming. First interview with Andrew Rosindell was infact filmed in Westminster at Parliament and the room he chose for us was quite regal and looks certainly fit for a member of parliament, which is exaclty the image we wanted to evoke. John Murphy however, due to timing and his schedule, had to be filmed at his own home but overcame this situation by just really paying attention to the mise-en-scene we had at hand. For example, he is a journolist so we placed a laptop, notebook and pen in front of him.
I was quite disappointed with the mise-en-scene in Sgt Dave Norton's interview as they are very hard to get hold of, when we finally got hold of him and had a piece of his time, it was the one day we had encountered him without his uniform on, he had a fleece on. Which granted, did have the metropolitan police badge on, but it still isn't typical of a police officer. Plus, the room we did do it in didn't include any props that connote to his role, but unfortunately as mentioned, we did have some bother in obtaining an interview with him on numorous occasions so we had to just take it and get on with it. Material lacking props is better than no material! Whereas with the two teenagers we interviewed Rhys Ward and Billy Cartawick and the charity fundraiser, Natalie Lawrence, it was easier to construct the mise-en-scene in the frame. With Rhys and Billy, they are often stereotyped as troublesome teens, often because of the way they dress. We wanted to encapsulate this by their clothing. So we told them to wear what they usually wear when they encounter the problems they face on a day-to-day business, such as new-era hats and tracksuits. The location also evoked the image we wanted to create by filming on the streets. Same goes for the interview with Natalie, she is a fashion student that also attends our college, so we used a fashion room ro interview her in. Concerning everything else in the frame we weren't able to control as such, as there was nothing we really wanted to enforce as part of the theme, so we told her to just wear her normal clothes, etc.
One interview I am disappointed with is the one with youth worker Lorri Garnell, which came as quite a suprise anyway. We were going around the college with the dictaphone getting recordings for our radio trailer, and when we came across Lori and she gave such an insightful opinion on the youth of today, with also things we realised some of our speakers hadn't covered - the influences which causes teenagers to get such a negative press. So we immediately asked her if we would be interested in allowing us to interview her, she permitted and we ran to get equipment and then ran back. Because of this tight time allowance and as it was very spur-of-the-moment, we weren't any decent rooms vacant and we had to use the kitchen. We felt that what she had to say though was so good we had to interview her, but at a price it seemed!
I was quite disappointed with the mise-en-scene in Sgt Dave Norton's interview as they are very hard to get hold of, when we finally got hold of him and had a piece of his time, it was the one day we had encountered him without his uniform on, he had a fleece on. Which granted, did have the metropolitan police badge on, but it still isn't typical of a police officer. Plus, the room we did do it in didn't include any props that connote to his role, but unfortunately as mentioned, we did have some bother in obtaining an interview with him on numorous occasions so we had to just take it and get on with it. Material lacking props is better than no material! Whereas with the two teenagers we interviewed Rhys Ward and Billy Cartawick and the charity fundraiser, Natalie Lawrence, it was easier to construct the mise-en-scene in the frame. With Rhys and Billy, they are often stereotyped as troublesome teens, often because of the way they dress. We wanted to encapsulate this by their clothing. So we told them to wear what they usually wear when they encounter the problems they face on a day-to-day business, such as new-era hats and tracksuits. The location also evoked the image we wanted to create by filming on the streets. Same goes for the interview with Natalie, she is a fashion student that also attends our college, so we used a fashion room ro interview her in. Concerning everything else in the frame we weren't able to control as such, as there was nothing we really wanted to enforce as part of the theme, so we told her to just wear her normal clothes, etc.
One interview I am disappointed with is the one with youth worker Lorri Garnell, which came as quite a suprise anyway. We were going around the college with the dictaphone getting recordings for our radio trailer, and when we came across Lori and she gave such an insightful opinion on the youth of today, with also things we realised some of our speakers hadn't covered - the influences which causes teenagers to get such a negative press. So we immediately asked her if we would be interested in allowing us to interview her, she permitted and we ran to get equipment and then ran back. Because of this tight time allowance and as it was very spur-of-the-moment, we weren't any decent rooms vacant and we had to use the kitchen. We felt that what she had to say though was so good we had to interview her, but at a price it seemed!
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