Thursday, 27 November 2014

Primary Research For Our Documentary

During the lesson we conducted our primary and secondary research in our groups. This included possible interviews, locations, mise-en-scene and archive material. 

Primary Research


Secondary Research 
Related songs:

Edith Piaf non je ne regrette rien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88

Piaf dedicated her recording of the song to the French Legion. At the time of the recording, France was engaged in a military conflict, the Algerian War (1954-1962), and the 1st REP (1st Foreign Parachute Regiment)-which backed the failed 1961 putsch against president Charles de Gaulle and the civilian leadership of Algeria-adopted the song when their resistance was broken.

5 Seconds Of Summer-Everything I didn't say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWrxsEem2I

This would be a suitable song to maybe use in relation to fit to the mise en scene if we interview someone who's regret is based on a relationship or a past lover or wishing they stayed with someone theynever or chose the one they loved instead of the one their family preffered them to be with ect.


Robbie Williams-No Regrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyb67x1C2Dg

The chorus of this song could be suitable in relation to any particular topic on regrets such as it could be in the background of an interview or it could come before an interview whilst someone is talking about any particular topic relating to general and deep regrets.

We found this image of statistics included in a speech from Kathryn Schulz about regrets. The statistics show that the top four regrets in ranking order are education being the most biggest regret then in second comes career's, in third comes romance and in forth place comes parenting. These four topics of regrets could be our main focus in our documentary therefore, finding out why these are the top four biggest regrets and we will then find people to interview who's regret comes under one of those four topics.


This is a speech from Kathryn Schulz who is talking a lot about the psychology behind regrets and regrets being categorized as long term or short term regrets. This could also be a main focus in our documentary focusing on the difference between long and short term regrets and the stages of thoughts on regrets, almost like the process of a regret from when it first happens to the change in minds set as time goes on to back this up I also have an image from the video on the characteristics of regret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-g1Vvcz5iQ
We watched a short documentary about regrets on tattoo's. This gave us pathways which we could take as we would consider having tattoo's as a potential focus in our documentary's as from this documentary we have found that they're is so many people out there who have regrets on tattoo's. Therefore we could find a lot of different people to interview who will be willing to talk about their tattoo regret.

Formal Proposal

In today's lesson we created a formal proposal. Powered by emaze

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Questionnaire audio results



In today's lesson our group asked two different people questions based on our questionnaire.

Brainstorm of Content for our "Regrets" Documentary

In today's lesson me and my group members "Sophia and Demi" made a brainstorm of possible ideas that we could take our documentary to.

Thursday, 20 November 2014

The Next Black-A film about the future of clothing.

In today's lesson I analysed a documentary explaining the Mise en scene,Type of documentary, Editing, Sound and camera work used throughout.

Questionnaire Results

In today's lesson I made a powerpoint with my group on our questionnaire results, we then analysed the results.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Evaluation Preliminary Task

In today's lesson I evaluated the groups preliminary task.
Evaluation of preliminary task from hannahkenyon

Photographic evidence of creating our preliminary task.






Nine Days and Nights of Ed Sheeran Documentary

In today's lesson I analysed the first 5 minutes of my chosen documentary. I analysed the Mise en scene, Sound, Editing and Camera Work.

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Editing an Interview

In today's lesson I looked at specific content of codes and conventions of an interview in a documentary.

Friday, 14 November 2014

Preliminary Task Plan

In today's lesson me, Sophia and Demi created a storyboard with images of our short documentary including; Mise en scene, Camera work and surroundings of shoot.

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Questionnaire

In today's lesson I made a questionnaire on "Regrets" and asked 30 people to answer truthfully.

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Documentary Filming Process "Its Good To Talk"

In today's lesson I made a power point on the filming process on the topic "It's Good To Talk".
Our group decided to change the name of the documentary to "Through The Ages" in order to make our documentary more eye catching, relating more to our theme on phones/technology.

TV Scheduling

During today's lesson I learnt about how Tv Scheduling.

Initial Brainstorm and Group Brainstorm Of Potential Documentary Ideas

In today's lesson I made a brainstorm of ideas that i could possibly use for my topic when making my own documentary. I then made a brainstorm with my group on what topics to do our documentary on.

Through The Ages Documentary

In today's lesson I made a documentary with my group on the topic "Through The Ages".





Through The Ages Documentary Analysis

Good points about my documentary:
·        There is a good variety of camera angles being used throughout.
·        This documentary contains Archive Material.
·        The audio fades starts to fade out at the end of the documentary which shows great use of editing techniques.

Bad Points about my documentary:
·        Some shots are out of focus when filming.
·        The music and the sound from the advert clashes slightly therefore, making the speech from the documentary hard to hear.
·        There are people moving around in the background during filming making it hard for the viewer to concentrate.
·        Voices are hard to hear due to the audio.
·        The Archive footage doesn't fit to screen.
·        Editing techniques are not complex.
 The music throughout the documentary doesn't go as well as it should.

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Thursday, 25 September 2014

Super Size Me Documentary



In today's lesson I analysed a documentary called Super Size Me starring Morgan Sperlock who ate Mcdonalds for 30days.

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Miss Vogue Meets Kylie Jenner

In today's lesson I analysed a documentary called "Miss Vogue Meets Kylie Jenner".

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

The Devil Made Me Do It

In lesson I watched and annotated a video featuring Maralyn Manson. This is my analysis of 'The Devil Made Me Do It'.

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Narrative Structure



In today's lesson I researched different Narrative Structure's.

Current Affairs

Current Affairs1
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In today's lesson i researched Current Affairs and Supporting and Constructing a documentary. 

Types of Documentaries

Types of documentaries powerpoint
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Today i researched a range of different documentaries and included an explanation. 

What is a documentary?


In today's lesson I researched what a documentary is and the five central elements.

Monday, 2 June 2014

The Brief

In todays lesson we outlined what we had to do for our A2 coursework.