General Feedback From the Audience

Out of the whole class the majority of people said that our documentary was inspiring and one person commented that "it was a excellent documentary that had a good plot to it. also the interview of the little girl was accurate and looked good in the video"most people in the class thought that our  documentary was good because it had shown some good information about anorexia, and how it can effect many people in different ways. they thought that our documentary was interesting to watch and they said that gained nothing at all from watching our documentary.

Questionnaire

Evaluation

1. How well did you work in a group? Give specific examples.
I think that we worked well in our group but i think some member's could have helped out a little bit more for our documentary to be a success, but we managed to pull through and got our documentary completed. i think we could have worked a little bit hard together as a group.

2. What difficulties did you overcome in the production of the video and how did you overcome them?

There was many difficulties we had with the production of our documentary. the props we used in our documentary sometimes didn't work or had defaults, for example our camera would run out of battery and that would mean that we would have to wait another day to start filming our documentary

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

from the feedback we got from our audience we learned that there were many improvements we could have made to our documentary . we also learned that we could have edited our documentary a little bit more so that there was room for more. we managed to upload our documentary on YouTube.

Our Documentary

Codes&Conventions Documentary

 This is a prezi  showing codes and conventions of a documentary

http://prezi.com/rkikqagkuaod/documentaries-conventions/

Factual Programming

Assignment 1 – Issues in Factual Programming

You must produce a media production textbook chapter on the issues facing producers of factual programming and the impact this has on their work:
You must:

• research the issues facing the producers of factual programming
• accuracy; 

Accuracy is when you research properly as care must be taken over the release of certain contents containing information which may be revealed in the future to be inaccurate, such as medical information or advice, which, if followed, may put people's health at risk.  Where appropriate, the use of context and content information (including, for example, archive branding and labeling) should be considered.

• balance; 

Balance:  is finding the equality of information in certain subjects such as political content in the mass media.
Also balance can be biased in describing a perceived issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence actually supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may even actually suppress information

• impartiality; 

Impartiality is having more of a neutral standing on subjects and not being biased to one side or the other this applies to all output and services such as - television, radio, online.

• objectivity; 

Objectivity is getting your main point across and being open minded about the point being made about the subject at hand
It refers to the prevailing ideology of news gathering and reporting that emphasizes eyewitness accounts of events, corroboration of facts with multiple sources and balance of viewpoints.

• subjectivity; 

Subjectivity is when you are keeping your personal views/feelings out of the issues as this can lead to more of an one sided view on the matter at hand and become more biased.

• opinion; 

Opinion:  Is giving  your view on the subjective belief, or interpretation of facts. An opinion may be supported by an argument, although people may oppose certain Opinions from the same set of facts.

• bias; 

Bias is when an argument is completely one sided and ignores the evidence shown by the other party. Practical limitations to media neutrality include the inability of all available stories and facts; to report everything selectivity is inevitable. Certain influences on censorship in the media cause many biased views

• representation; 

Representation: Is stereotyping a person/group such as
People, places, objects, events, cultural identities
in a certain way this can be characteristics into certain groups:

• access

• privacy; 

Privacy - Need permission for someone to be in a programmer. You have to respect their privacy when they say they don't want to be seen in the programme but they want to talk about it during the programme as they feel what the programme is all about, is a crucial part of their life.

privacy must be obtained when


Contract with viewer - Stick to the contract written. You have to deliver what is in the contract as that is your deal with the viewers with what exactly they are going to be seeing in the programme.

Mood board!

What's happening today :)

 We are going to put all the footage we have together and start editing we are also going to do some filming in our own time. we are going to 


we are also going to take a camera out for an hour and film some footage of cars passing by for effect.

Mise En Scene

Mise En Scene Includes:

• Clothing
• Props
• Make-up
• Effects
• Room setting 
• Back Drops

The Mise en scene for this documentary won't be set, for example all the clothes and props will already be there because I would be filming natural settings. The make-up will be done on the people who will be in the video . The effects of the video will basically be people walking when we are editing we are going to fast forward the clip and show it in our documentary. The room settings will be making sure that the area is suitable for filming. 
Back drops will be used if necessary and if we need it in our video. All make up will be natural because it will be suitable for our documentary. 
The room lighting will also be important because we want the lighting to be just right so it's suitable for our documentary.

The Mise en scene for this documentary wont be set in any specific way, we are going are doing this because  its a documentary on anorexia and the props will all  ready be there, so we don't need a lot of props. 

Plenary

 27.02.12

 Period 3 -

Today we were put out of our comfort zone & placed into a class of year 8 students who were currently studying English & as part of their work they were told to make a documentary on something that they felt strongly about, were there to help them plan out how they were going to do make this documentary in the time set  by their teacher which was 1 week, so it was difficult at first trying to understand what point they were trying to get across to their target audience. 

Period 1-2

Made up some questions and then we decided to go ask people in our media class what their opinion's where on annorexia.

 

Pre-production (Planing documentary)

                                            Plan

We had some ideas on what are documentary should be about and we came up with a  couple of ideas 

• Anorexia 
• The media shows people size 4-6 , influencing kids, adults and mainly women to become a size six is the best size to be.

• little do people know that with their new size comes a increase in health problems 

Aim- The whole reason why we want to do a documentary on anorexia is to help raise awareness on this on going issue that is affecting many people in the world of today. to also tell the audience that anorexia has increased in the past 10 years.

anorexia does effect an individual but can also effects there friends and family, anorexia can lead to a lot of depression and other various situations that they are faced with.

T.V.- fashion: everyone is influenced one way or another by either what they hear/see or experience, so this affects there whole intake on what they think about anorexia and looking slim is the best possible to look beautiful.

Magazines are also a big impact on why anorexia is increasing, they show pictures of  super slim women posing for the front cover and if they are not on the front cover the pictures are sometimes in the middle of the magazine so either way you come across the pictures,and give articles on looking good. 

The Internet - this is a major part of why anorexia is increasing. adverts on the internet for example Facebook on the side of the web page, they advertise things like "how to become a size 6 in just 6 weeks", this makes people want to know more and because more and more people are weight conscious they click on the advertisement and start to learn new ways of losing weight, don't get me wrong losing weight is not a problem but the amount people lose that is the problem. YouTube also advertises most of its stuff on the videos people watch, it does exactly the same thing Facebook does but in a different way; through video.

Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight. Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating.

Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their dieting habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls.

Our Final Plan:

Anorexia ------> Basic Facts -----------> Personal ---------> Facts from a professional

Concrete circus

-Effects

-What kind of documentary

-Codes and conventions of documentaries

-Interviews

 Shots-

There are lots of small short clips are used for effect.- this kind of shot is used to grab the audiences attention when watching the documentary.

The shots that are used are medium close up and then it goes back to normal- medium close up shots are used to show the protagonist in a certain way.

They use long shots on the cyclists and other people that may be in the shot- long shots are used to typically show the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings, in this case the cyclist on his bike doing a stunt, or a protagonist jumping off a building.

They also use titles before certain clips to show whats about to happen in the short clips that are about to be shown. 

They also use 1 second shots for effect.

when they show a new protagonist they introduce them to the audience by showing different parts of the person for e.g. their shoes, clothes and also body parts like their eyes.

-Effect 

Homework- What is a documentary?

                                                     What makes a documentary?

1. Poetic documentaries, which first appeared in the 1920’s, were a sort of reaction against both the content and the rapidly crystallizing grammar of the early fiction film. The poetic mode moved away from continuity editing and instead organized images of the material world by means of associations and patterns, both in terms of time and space. Well-rounded characters—'life-like people'—were absent; instead, people appeared in these films as entities, just like any other, that are found in the material world. The films were fragmentary, impressionistic, lyrical. Their disruption of the coherence of time and space—a coherence favored by the fiction films of the day—can also be seen as an element of the modernist counter-model of cinematic narrative. The ‘real world’—Nichols calls it the “historical world”—was broken up into fragments and aesthetically reconstituted using film form.




2. Expository documentaries speak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voice over or titles, proposing a strong argument and point of view. These films are rhetorical, and try to persuade the viewer. (They may use a rich and sonorous male voice.) The (voice-of-God) commentary often sounds ‘objective’ and omniscient. Images are often not paramount; they exist to advance the argument. The rhetoric insistently presses upon us to read the images in a certain fashion. Historical documentaries in this mode deliver an unproblematic and ‘objective’ account and interpretation of past events.

3. Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked in this sub-genre often saw the poetic mode as too abstract and the expository mode as too didactic. The first observational docs date back to the 1960’s; the technological developments which made them possible include mobile light weight cameras and portable sound recording equipment for synchronized sound. Often, this mode of film eschewed voice-over commentary, post-synchronized dialogue and music, or re-enactments. The films aimed for immediacy, intimacy, and revelation of individual human character in ordinary life situations. 


4. Participatory documentaries believe that it is impossible for the act of film making to not influence or alter the events being filmed. What these films do is emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation. Not only is the filmmaker part of the film, we also get a sense of how situations in the film are affected or altered by her presence. Nichols: “The filmmaker steps out from behind the cloak of voice-over commentary, steps away from poetic meditation, steps down from a fly-on-the-wall perch, and becomes a social actor (almost) like any other. (Almost like any other because the filmmaker retains the camera, and with it, a certain degree of potential power and control over events.)” The encounter between filmmaker and subject becomes a critical element of the film. Rouch and Morin named the approach cinéma vérité, translating Dziga Vertov’s kinopravda into French; the “truth” refers to the truth of the encounter rather than some absolute truth.


5. Reflexive documentaries don’t see themselves as a transparent window on the world; instead they draw attention to their own constructiveness, and the fact that they are representations. How does the world get represented by documentary films? This question is central to this sub-genre of films. They prompt us to “question the authenticity of documentary in general.” It is the most self-conscious of all the modes, and is highly skeptical of ‘realism.’

Documenaties
 Click and this shows my prezi which i created, it shows what documentaries are about and moreee :)