In a recent workshop, we were given to opportunity to work on our interviewing skills to ensure we were ready for the real thing whilst shooting out documentaries.
INTERVIEW WORKSHOP
At the start of the workshop Helen asked a group to set up an interview for everyone else to look at and think about. During this process I was asked to be the interviewer. Whilst everything was being set up, it...
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Documentary: Allotment Research
I wanted to find out a little more about the history of allotments in the UK, so I did some intense googling and this is what I found.
THE HISTORY OF ALLOTMENTS IN THE UK
During my research I found some interesting statistics on the number of allotments in the UK over the last 140 years.
1873- 224,208...
Documentary: What I've Learnt So Far
Now that all my lectures for this unit are over, I wanted to write about everything I had learnt so far to help me remember it all.
WHAT I'VE LEARNT SO FAR
Research And Setting Up For Your Film:
Test the viability of your stories.
Gather enough information to develop a rough script, schedule...
Documentary: Tutorial Feedback (18/03/16)
As part of the pre-production for the documentary unit, my group recently had a tutorial with Helen to help develop our work and show her how we are doing.
TUTORIAL FEEDBACK
Prior to the tutorial I did a little more research on the history of allotments and prepared some screen graphic tests (which can be found here). As a group we started working on an outline. In this outline we answered some...
Documentary- Screen Graphic Tests
As part of my pre-production for the documentary unit, I decided to put together some screen graphics to show others the vision I had for the documentary.
SCREEN GRAPHIC TESTS
These screen graphic tests give you an idea of the theme and possibly the narrative. They are only tests and so may not...
Documentary: Pitch (14/03/16)
As part of the pre-production for the documentary unit, my group had to pitch our idea to Simon and Helen.
THE PITCH
At the time of the pitch our idea was: Supermarkets VS Farmers Markets VS Allotments
To prepare for this pitch we created a shared presentation on Google Drive and assigned certain...
Thursday, 10 March 2016
Documentary: Pitch meeting
Recently we had a pitch meeting with Helen, to discuss our ideas.
In the meeting we went around the group and shared our ideas.
IDEA 1
Cheyenne suggested we could do a story about some local farmers markets or an aspect of farming.
IDEA 2
Saskia suggested we could do a story about the reintroduction...
Documentary: Research Into Ideas
In preparation for a pitch meeting, I decided to do some more research into my initial idea, the chimpanzee project at Wingham Wildlife Park. After an intense googling session, this is what I found.
Additional Research
The chimps are being donated by the Yerkes National Primate Research Center...
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Documentary: Initial ideas
After reviewing the brief for this unit, I began looking for an idea.
Wingham Wildlife Park
When thinking about what I could make a documentary about, I remembered a story about a local wildlife park. Last summer I attended a charity event at Wingham Wildlife Park. The event was held to raise money...
Documentary: Introduction
This week we started our next unit: Documentary.
The Brief:
Produce a 10 minute documentary based on the theme 'Doorstep Wildlife'.
To be transmitted at 8pm on the 'Eden' Channel.
Answer the question 'why?'.
Keep it relevant to the brand and the audience.
During pre-production on this unit we...