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Planning Documentary ( 5 mins Doc)

Ideas - blog Start by thinking about all the possible people/places/topics you could make a documentary about It could be something, somewhere  or someone you are interested in or a topic you want to find out more about Think about people and places you can easily access to film You have done research and practice tasks using various modes and techniques, what would you like to do for your own film? Will you include interviews, voice over, observational style filming, photographs, text, music? Ideas The people I had in mind was a music producer called Femi also goes by ( Bushi ) I want to combined the three types of documentary types together like the previous documentary I did . https://youtu.be/6_pTi6HlL1o  which was a mixture of observational , expository and persecutory . Femi goes to Leyton sixth form college , so therefore I will be interviewing him and following him around , it would be like a story based documentary . The places I was consi...

Silent Short film / Evaluation

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This our edited version of our silent short film it was directed by Jacob , edited by me and filmed by Rozina. The story is about a young girl who is being cyber bullying , the bullying is taken from the screen to the next level , she's being bullied for being black . Its discrimination and racism . For example one of the things that are said "you ugly fat bitch b***h". another thing that is shown is a poster with her picture on it which says " Angel go back to Africa " which is where she's from Africa , and the person behind this all is who you least expect it to be , and the reason for him doing it , is because she ignored him a while ago so he wanted to do something to get her attention .  I added a spilt screen to empathise the past and the present she receives the messages and he sending them , the reason I made it this way was because it looked professional and quite intriguing to the eye , the I create a zoom fade onto the actual video...

Photoshop / Edited photos

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I put this photograph in photoshop and I toned down the redness in his face and also toned down the the brightness on the white shirt so it wouldn't contrast with the white background.

Evaluation (Documentary)

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NOW Blog post 1.      Evaluation of documentary work so far.. ·       Evaluate the 3 types/styles of documentary: expository, observational and participatory ·       In terms of the practical work what went well, what could have gone better and why? (so the group documentaries and the interview) ·      What techniques and styles of filmmaking will you use for your individual documentary project? 2      I nitial ideas for your own 5 minute documentary Make a list of possible topics, people, places, stories… What could you do? How and why? Voice record this evaluation . Observational Documentary In terms of practical work when I was doing the observational documentary I found it quite hard because I had to direct , edit , film and produce it all by myself because my group wasn't helping me. What went really well was the editing because editin...

Documentary : Interview

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Expository :Case study

Expository documentaries speak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voiceover or titles, proposing a strong argument and point of view. These films are rhetorical, and try to persuade the viewer . Expository documentary are documentaries are documentaries that expose a person or a topic . It is a classic form of documentary , one of the four main types . Expository documentaries are well known for having a commentator , either talking over the pictures or videos explaining the story .

Planning Interview

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A general introduction to the interview , My youtube friend Tayo . Interview questions I’m the interviewer ( shot reverse shot ) so i will showing myself asking the questions. 1. Who inspires you and why do they inspire you ? 2. What career path would you do  ? 3. What has been the most challenging thing that has happened to you ? 4 . What's your favourite genre of music ? 5. Do you prefer rap now or rap back then ? 6. Why did you decide to do youtube ? 7. Who do you do youtube with ? 8. Who do you look up to in the youtube world and why ? 9 . What is your name and how old were you when you started youtube? 10 . What is the goal you want to reach by the end of 2018 ? I am going to be asking my youtube friend tayo 10 questions generally to do with youtube and her everyday life , I am going to be showing not only her being interviewed i'm going to be showing visuals such as youtube clips and possibly clips from her everyday life ....

Observational Documentary

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Filmed directed and edited by me .

Photography shoot (High key EDITORAL)

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