Work Experience reccord for 16/10/16

October 16 - River Tees Rediscovered, Guided Walks,

Placement: Runner/Camera operator
Contact details: the organisation's main phone number is 01642 616 144
Based at: River Tees Rediscovered, Tees Barrage, Navigation Way, Stockton-On-Tees, TS18 2QW
River Tees Rediscovered is an environment and Historical conservation and awareness project for the River Tees and it's history.
The person in charge of the Guided walk is called Christine (Surname to be added)
She is also currently in charge of the whole project.
My placement offers little but necessary amount to the customers as we were tasked with creating a promotional video for the whole project.
My placement was to aid in the recording of the one of the guided walks through Thornaby Woods.
the health and safety considerations were quite substantial as we were in a woodland area as such when drafting the risk assessments the things that had to be considered were slipping on the mud, tripping over roots and stones on the pathways and water damage from potential rain. aside from editing the footage captured the shoot took the better part of 2 hrs so around 1hour and 45 minutes

Unit 6: critical approaches to creative media products - Task 1

Quantitative audience research
Quantitative audience research is commonly used in Market research in order to find out what the majority desires. Film and television production companies use this determine what kind of products their target audience's desire. For example with the recent Dark knight Batman Trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. The other companies that produced comic Super Hero movies tried to make their movies more dark, even though in the source material is rather light in content like Spiderman.


Qualitative audience research
Qualitative research is where a select group of people which share common key characteristics discuss their likes through a focus group. It allows for topics to be further explored in further depth and details.

25/11/16 - Documentary interview - Mrs Gaughn

On Friday 25th November 2016 Myself and Chloe Handley interviewed Mrs Liz Gaughn for my Documentary. Mrs Gaughn is the Learner support Manager for All Saints Academy in Ingleby Barwick  which is where I attended Secondary School. The questions included what did she do day to day, what kind of students does she interact with And what was her first impression of me.


About 2 minutes into the interview we were interview by one of the school care takers closing one of the windows
after we started the questions again we changed so it was me having a conversation with Mrs Gaughn. about what triggers my anger and then we moved over to the couches to speak about the nostalgia about being back in the building of the secondary school I had attended.


it was a very successful interview all and all

Unit 27-interview techniques

• two types of questions
• closed questions can be  answered with either a single word or a short phrase
• often known as yes or no question
• they give you facts
• easy to answer
• quick to answer
• give control to questioner
• useful in range of different situations
• opening questions
• to test people's understanding
• to set up a desired frame of mind
• seeking yes to big question
• first word of question sets up it's dynamic.
• open questions receive long answer
• contributor can give more elaborate answer
• give you feelings and opinions
• give control to contributor
• asked to reflect and think
• go deep
• develop conversations
• find out more about people, what they are like
• get people to think about themselves more
• trigger points

vf

Unit 27 - Task 1

In factual film making Accuracy is important because the point of a documentary is that it tells facts and if the fact are incorrect then the audience may misinterpret the events in another way that the documentary's creator did not intend. The job of a documentary is that it tells both sides of events in a balanced manner this ties into accuracy, bias and opinion and representation.


When making a documentary the interviewer and narrator must remain impartial and tell the documentary's story as an outsider and not let their opinion and bias towards the subject cloud what they are saying because that could make the documentary inaccurate.


when it come to documentary's, the producer must remain on topic and not veer off on a tangent. when making a documentary you must stay on the one subject that your documentary while you may add other pieces of information it must be relevant to the story of the documentary.


As stated above Opinion can either have a positive effect for the documentary or it could have a detrimental effect on the documentary. The point of a factual film such as documentary is to inform and persuade people of events. For example during the second World War England and it's allies were the ones who won and the Nazis lost the war so we vilify them (which I don't blame them for there was the slaughter of 16 million Jewish innocents) but imagine I the Allies lost the war and the Nazis won if they made the documentaries instead of us we would be the ones vilified not us.


Bias is like opinion it depends on your perspective on how events played out and what you think of the people involved or how you portray the events to the audience, for example when taking over Germany Adolf Hitler portrayed the Jewish people as villainous and twisted and Hitler blamed the Jews for the why the Germans lost the 1st world war as well as the economic crisis Germany faced in the 1920's. He manipulated the facts to suit his plans.


Representation is extremely important because it ties into both opinion and bias because your opinion and bias could lead to some one being mis-represented in the re-enactment footage of the documentary. for example say that the documentary was re-enacting investigation of a crashed airliner you or a war documentary you could portray some one as either an idiot or  as some one completely vile and despicable. Portrayal is representation.


When interviewing people, one has to be careful not be too intrusive because the subject may be to sensitive for the contributor to speak about. it is important that you know where and when to push people or ask them the questions you want answering but the contributor is unwilling to give those answers.


when making a documentary the producer has a contract with the audience to tell the facts truthfully without mis-representing people, without bias influencing the production of the documentary and with partiality

13/09/16 - The Lift

A single film maker is sitting in a lift of a London tower block observing the inhabitants and speaking with them getting to know them, what they are like and their respective histories.


The film may seem as "It's just a man in lift recording people with a camera" but it's not as Marc Isaacs gets to know the people in the lift what they do in their daily lives, such as them going to or coming from the pub. there are several people who live in the building that he appears to develop a connection with. Very good film with an out of the box premise that you would assume to be dull but isn't.


I believe that 'The Lift' is an interactive documentary because it features the camera operator builds a rapport with people living in the tower block getting to know them as people and their habits.

27/09/2016 - documentary pitch result

Yesterday I gave my pitch for a documentary however it was quickly thrown out because it was more of an advertisement for the course. so my tutor instead made the entire pitch for me, Much to my embarrassment, A documentary about me which most of the group agreed with her throwing in additional ideas.


The pitches that came before and after my own involved a documentary about how some music groups don't reach stardom, about wrestling, about the social stigma about being a teenage mother, the difference of premier football leagues against the smaller leagues, about young people's journey into politics, the people who claim to be able to commune with spirits, foster families.


There were some very good ideas pitched but the way they were pitched was that was quite loosely presented as the people making the pitch were focussing on the wrong aspects and weren't giving the correct details.