Documentary: Koyaanisqatsi

Today at lunch I watched this picture documentary to help me do my own production, these are the notes I made from watching it:

* Starts in slow motion- classic music/slow.
* No presenter/ no talking.
* Just images.
* Music starts to speed up together with the images (almost as if the music is following the image's speed).

Documentary: Because We're Worth It - The Taxpayers' Rich List

Today at lunch I watched a documentary from BBC called Panorama, "The world's longest running investigative TV show" to get some ideas for my own production.
These are the notes I made:

* It starts with a voice over + moving images + highlights on something that someone said to introduce the episode.
* Moving images to show location (relevant images)
* Panning shot on the presenter
* Creative editing to show statistics
* Narrator (voice over) explains what is happening
* When introducing someone new on the program they put their name + logo +status of the person:
* Interviews in different places: car, office and road
* First presenter is different to the one who does the documentary
* The presenter is not shown, neither is the question recorded, they just show the response
* The name of the program was designed with the logo which I thought was very creative:

* The main presenter gives the website so that if you want to watch the previous episodes you can find it there:
* At the end the have "next on panorama..." with highlights of the next episode
* Credits + Name of documentary + website + Editor's logo (BBC):

Inspirational Documentaries...

These videos I used for my presentation, but as it doesn't show on the slide I've uploaded them here.

Idea for documentary introduction...

This was the first video that I used for my presentation, but as it doesn't show on the slide I've uploaded it here.

A2 individual presentation

I made this presentation to show my ideas and to plan ahead of what I would like to do for my main idea. I also looked at different documentaries so that I could have an idea for what I wanted to do, and it also inspired me because it showed that my idea was more original as the other documentaries because they only focus on their way of life and I would be focusing on a specific element: injury.
On my presentation I wanted to be as organized as I could by writing less and having more images and videos. That way people would understand more and not get bored.

Last year 13's work...

I was asked to do this in class so that I could have an idea of what I will be doing. I had to look at what went well (WWW) and even better if (EBF) points.

So far...

So far i've researched on my 3 documentary ideas for production and made my own logo for now:

My three ideas are: * Skateboarders and their way of life:


* Brazilians in London, focusing on the church community:


* Graffiti in London:

A2 Media Blog

As grade: B
AS score: 158
AS marks to next grade: +2=A

G321- Foundation Portfolio: 74/100= B
G322- Key Media Concepts (tv drama)= 84/100= A

I'm happy with my grade, but it would be even better if I had an A for this course,but I will improve this year so that I can get an A grade as my final result. I will improve by: * Spending more time in the media room.
* Organizing myself more (by blogging and writing down the schedules).
* Putting more effort into my work.
* Working more as a group.

Last year 13 coursework...
I think that the year 13 last year did a really good job, i really liked the documentaries and their ideas. A good one was about women in comic books, they used lots of different angle shots and they included good interviews on the subject which I think it worked well. Even better if they controlled the background,because sometimes it doesn't allow the viewer to listen to what the "presenter" is saying.

However the most effective documentary was the facebook one:
because it's a subject that involves lots of people nowadays, and it's something to be concerned about.The explored the subject by having an example (which was a girl who they interviewed).

My ideas for year 13 coursework is to do a documentary:
*About skaters (Sk8rs) culture and their way of life.
*Brazilian culture in London (focusing on the church culture).