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Durning Andrea's session, I finished working on the LDA (London dance academy) documentary. The duration of the documentary is just over 1 minute long.

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During Andrea's lesson, me, Katie and Ellie finished our mini documentary on the dance production at NWK college.

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Andreas session: Today, Katie, Ellie and I continued working on our mini documentary. So far our work is at a good standard and we all think it is a good piece. We have nearly finished editing our work, then soon we will be starting on our final documentary which we have already decided what it will be about.

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Editing The mini documentary, our idea is to do a documentary on the NWK dance show. We filmed rehearsals and interviewed Lindsey and two students, we then used the bits of the interviews wanted and used a significant amount of cutaways to show the topic and also for when cutting, we didn't want the clip to jump.

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Editing The mini documentary, our idea is to do a documentary on the NWK dance show. We filmed rehearsals and interviewed Lindsey and two students, we then used the bits of the interviews wanted and used a significant amount of cutaways to show the topic and also for when cutting, we didn't want the clip to jump.

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Inside LSD documentary

The beginning of this documentary starts with when it was discovered (50 years ago) and how it “escaped the lab and became a dangerous street drug”. However, further into this documentary we are told that LSD is then tested on people to see how the brain functions to the chemical.

The documentary then goes straight to a drug dealer who we do not see or know the name of for obvious reasons, we see “Alice’s��� methods of how she deals LSD (acid). AAlice is sending off a care package; however, although the package is full of sweets there are two drops of LSD on each of them, strong enough to take someone on a 12 hour trip. We are then given facts that millions in the US have done LSD and over 600,000 will try it each year. We then see how dangerous it is selling LSD, we are told that if Alice is caught she would have to pay 2 million dollars and spend 40 years in prison. We then find out why so many people are willing to break the law for the drug, many people claim it gives you a “deeper connection to everything” that you’re happier and it’s a collapse of time and space etc. During most of the beginning we are told the positive sides of LSD and we also see patients taking trips and what they see, one claims she’s in a “place of beauty” and that she has seen the “outer reaches of death and come back again”. Also, scientists then receive the drug to help with their problems, the results were positive as it made them more creative etc. However, we then see the negative sides of LSD, the first advert we see I’d a man with LSD who asks the children about the drug, their response was “bad trips and a chance of chromosome damage”. We then hear that LSD effects a woman getting pregnant and causes madness, after is featured some clips that help cross the fact LSD is dangerous. Later in the documentary we hear Alice’s bad trip. Although she enjoys taking psychedelic trips, she tells us of when she was at a psychedelic party and overdosed on LSD and had a trip to Hell. LSD is only ever to be used if you are safe somewhere, and if you don’t have bad thoughts as this drug effects your brain and changes the things seen. It uncovers the unconsciousness of your mind and allows someone to see more clearly, to connect more and feel things not felt before.

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Advert poster. This poster didnt turn out how we wanted as it's harder to design what we wanted on an iPod. Therefore it didn't come out expected.

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John's not mad documentary

This documentary is about a young teenager that suffers from turrets, before people knew what turrets were John was seen as a trouble maker.

In the documentary we hear stories of how he was treated in school, he was shoved in a wardrobe by his own teacher because of his behaviour.

John constantly twitches and swears through his sentences but not deliberately.

At one point in the documentary the police visit his family as we are told John showed inappropriate behaviour in the streets. His family at the point are unaware that he suffered from turrets, later in the documentary we realise John is not mad.

The most powerful scene in the documentary is John eating alone in a classroom. Mise- en- scene is use in this scene to empathise the loneliness; also, before we see this clip of him alone, played before was other students eating and socialising to create more of a sympathetic feel.

We can tell that his mother is embarrassed when shopping with him as she constantly tells him to be quiet etc. We notice the reaction of people which show the shock of a young mans attitude; however, it is uncontrollable.

Not only does John twitch and swear but he also spits. When he is at the table with his family they must cover the food as he may spit on it, although his family ignore him spitting on them as they know it is not his fault. Not only does his family ignore it, but we see a clip of him on a filed trip spitting in the teachers face, many people would find this amusing, but we see that no one laughs at him when he does this, therefore meaning they are aware of his symptoms etc. The BBC then did a follow up after a few years, John is now in his 30’s and we see that after the awareness of turrets, he is not banned from pubs because of his behaviour etc as people realise he can’t help it. We see that he has a friend who helps Him, such as driving him around etc. we also see him trying to find love; however, because of his turrets he can’t help what comes to him, which then makes him say horrible things towards women that make it harder for him to find love.

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Supersize me documentary

The beginning of this documentary is powerful, it starts with children singing about 3 different fast food restaurants. “McDonald’s, McDonald’s, Kentucky fried chicken and a Pizza Hut” in my opinion this immediately makes me and perhaps other audience members think that these 3 fast food restaurants are for breakfast, lunch and dinner. As a viewer this makes me think that young children are being brainwashed into wanting fast food because it’s tasty; also, before they are 20 they may become obese. Anther thing that makes the beginning of this documentary powerful is the music given. During the beginning credits it shows a variety of junk foods, and a quotation from the McDonald’s founder “take care of the customers and the business will take care of itself”. We are given facts about McDonalds too, how many there are around the world, how many people are served daily and where they are opened up (airports, supermarkets, hospitals and many more places). This documentary is about a man who takes on the challenge to eat only McDonald’s for 30 days just like the other Americans. He starts off by visiting 3 doctors, each of them test him to see his health before doing this challenge, he is proven to be extremely healthy, soon into the documentary we will watch how this changes. In the documentary we see that Manhattan has more McDonalds on the small island than anywhere else in the world, we are told the average American walks 4/5 miles a day, however 60% of Americans don’t get any exercise. In the documentary we see the man finds it hard to finish the food he orders, he also asks a range of people how much they eat fast foods. What portrays the American food system even worse is he asks a French lady if she has ever had a supersize meal; however, she says “no, American small meals is French large meals”. This shows that Americans really go out of their way with food.

We know that Americans are trying to sue fast food restaurants, but when interviewing others they say “if I can walk past and ignore McDonalds, they can too. They don’t need to go in there”. America is shown as a greedy country, we are told everything is big, the houses, cars, people etc. Also, the French lady says “it’s the American way, they sue for anything”. McDonalds is shown as a money driven place, they even open playgrounds to attract young children, therefore making it harder not to buy food at the restaurant. Also McDonalds has free delivery and hosts birthday parties, makes cartoons and gives away toys which make it more tempting for people to buy their food. We see the history of a few Americans, one history was of a man who’s father owned an ice cream company, everything was I’ve cream shaped, even his swimming pool, he says how he was sick a lot as he had ice cream in the morning etc, however he continued to eat it cause it was tasty which then became a cycle. His uncle died of a heart attack at 50, when he asked his father if it was because of the ice cream, he responded with “no”. We are told various risks when people eat too much junk food and that what McDonalds is doing is wrong; however, in my opinion everything is advertised but it’s someone’s duty to be able to control it. In the documentary we see that the man who was once healthy is now extremely unhealthy and we see how he now behaves, he is always tired and his girlfriends even proves this by saying he’s tired to have sex. Also we see how unhealthy it is eating this much as he vomits the food out of his system as he can’t handle the amount. Towards the end of the documentary, many people are telling Morgan to stop, he then tells others his experience and how bad it is, as he passes McDonalds we see how much he hates the place, we then see a montage of his journey through the documentary and the changes made.

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Tim's session During Tim's session we went forward with interviewing Lindsey and two dancers for our mini documentary. We started with setting the scene with the light, then asking the questions.

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Risk assessment

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Documentary- post prediction. Originally the documentary idea was to do it based on the media productions; however, after researching a freytag we realised this idea would be harder, therefore we changed the idea to dance predictions.

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Tanya's session: Working on our perfume advert, group: Emma, Zack, Ellie and myself. Storyboard completed with camera shots and explanations of what is happening in each shot

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Andreas session, finished video edit of motion graphic interview

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Andrea's session

During Andrea's session we are currently working on editing a motion graphics interview consisting of 4 people.

In the interview the interviewees are asked to give their name, what course they are studying, weather they enjoy the course or not and where they see themselves in the future (what they want to do).

one of the 4 interviewees is a full time lecturer and explains how students enjoy the course, the variety of different animations used and what some may wish to do after the course.

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3 point lighting

Three-point lighting is a standard method used in visual media such as video, film, still photography and computer-generated imagery.By using three separate positions, the photographer can illuminate the shot's subject (such as a person) however desired, while also controlling (or eliminating entirely) the shading and shadows produced by direct lighting.

The key light, as the name suggests, shines directly upon the subject and serves as its principal illuminate; more than anything else, the strength, colour and angle of the key determines the shot's overall lighting design.

In indoor shots, the key is commonly a specialized lamp, or a camera's flash. In outdoor daytime shots, the Sun often serves as the key light. In this case, of course, the photographer/ interviewer etc cannot set the light in the exact position he or she wants, so instead arranges it to best capture the sunlight, perhaps after waiting for the sun to position itself just right.