Aurelija's TV production blog

Overall, I personally liked this unit the best as all of the work was split between the three of us so it wasn't as stressful as the previous units and I got to do what I liked the best which operating the camera. I really liked working with my group because we get along well and could do the work efficiently. For the part that I would change would be making sure my alarm was on, so I wouldn't have slept over on the first day of the shoot and would have brought a spare battery which would have helped in a sense that we could have filmed without worrying about running out of battery and maybe could have filmed more as our time with Kayleigh was limited (she had places to be). Also, I would have made sure that the GoPro was fully charged in the morning (I charged it a day before the shoot but it must have turned on in the case) so we would have more than one video to work with. Other thing that I'd change would be to nit have acted like a child when I found the zoom butto...

Lauren had a production book made so all of our papers would be organized and always on hand if we needed something

While doing our transcripts we did a mistake by timecoding them on a regular video player instead of Premiere, which made it a bit more difficult to edit. In the end we went back to the interviews and put the correct timecodes on the paper transcripts. KAYLEIGH HURST TRANSCRIPT MEDIUM SHOT 00:09 I’m Kayleigh, I’m 21, and this is Dartford skatepark. 00:18 I suppose when I first got into skateboarding, my uncle got a skateboard out of the loft that was a lot older than I am, and it was-- it was in pieces, but it sort of went from one thing to another, got a new board and then started here. 00:35 I wouldn’t say skate boarding’s like a hobby I’d say it’s more of a lifestyle. It just takes over your life. You end up seeing skate parks and skate spots everywhere you go. It just runs your life. 00:51 I do, I do like to travel and hit as many parks as possible. I went to Barcelona, recently, and I’m off to Athens in a couple of weeks time, so I am starting to go furth...

In the early stages I wasn't highly involved in script writing, but I would suggest ideas which might be helpful and what sequences could be overlaid on the interviews in the final stages. Also, how it could be structured. The first script was definitely a draft as we didn't exactly know much of what answers we could get and who, aside from Kayleigh, will be in our film, so the script was written trying to predict the final outcome. The second draft was similar to the first in the sense of trying to predict the shoot and what access we'd be able to get (we weren't successful in getting the permission to film her at work) Third draft had included roller derby (we thought we'd get a longboarder from Brighton at first, but she didn't reply to us on time) but still tried to predict the outcome. Also it was written as if for two separate documentaries.  In the fourth draft the skateboarding and roller derby were mixed into one, but still was done b...

Louis Theroux He's best known for getting involved in the action on which he's doing the documentary (eg. he wanted to join the Scientology while doing the documentary about them). He tends to get very close with people in order to gain their trust and get what he needs from them for his film.  On his show When Louis Met Max Clifford, who was a contraversial publicist and a sex offender, Max tried to set Louis up, but was cought in a lie while his mic was on. From that episode it was clear to see that Max had a lot of secrets and that he wasn't a very honest person. I like warching Louis Theroux documentaries because of how well it shows the personalities of people and he's not scared to admit when he was wrong or naive (docs with Jimmy Savile). His documentaries are usualy ddone by using mostly actality sequences and done only on handheld camera, it has commentary in which he explains his feelings about a subject or a person that he's basing his document...

The documentary is done by American filmaker  Jennifer Siebel Newsom  to show how the media missrepresents women, how it's mainly targeted towards men and how this affects young girls. Although the statistics used are mostly American, big part of the facts apply to most countries.  I chose this documentary in particular because we're doing our own documentary about women in sports and I found this to be relevant to the subject. The representation in the media helps to form the society's mainset and the studies show that there's definitely coralation between what we see on TV and what we do/ how we treat others in real life. Thus due to the lack of women in sports representation in the media we have the statistics that show that by age 14, girls are dropping out of sports at two times the rate of boys. I personally love the quote used to describe the documentary "You can't be what you can't see" so eventhough there's lots of talented and stron...

Notes form the lecture: VOX POPS (Voice of the People) - aren't representative, shows broad brush views. Often low production values, poorly shot and don't add to the story because characters/interviewees aren't carefully chosen – therefore often irrelevant or vague. 3 TYPES OF DOCS:  -Hard exposure – Investigative;  -Informational – putting the audience in the picture;  -Emotional – engaging with and revealing the subject’s emotions. The perfect interviewee will add personal expertise and expirience to your film and the viewer will be able to engage emotionally. WE INREVIEW  -Experts (E.g scientists, doctors, lawyers) – use their professional expertise and opinion;  -‘Ordinary people (Interested parties)  – relevant to subject;  -Officials (e.g. Politicians, company executives etc.)– Appointed representatives. While choosing an interviewee consider what they have and what they'll add to your film (Are they relevant to your film? Do tehy have cha...

I wasn't there for the pitch, but I helped in early stages of shaping the idea from obbsession with self image to women in sports, because it's something that hasn't been done a lot. Where obbsession with image has been explored by many others. (The Pitch is from Jess) Pitch: Today’s society is obsessed with image. With the cameras on smart phones, the Internet and social media, everybody has the power to create their own images. However, since these images are so easily accessible, they can create stereotypes when the same type of people are constantly seen doing the same type of activity.  For example, what do you think of when someone says ‘skateboarder’? You probably think of something like this,  since this is the typical image of a skateboarder which is most commonly circulated within society. However, women taking part in traditionally ‘masculine’ sports is becoming increasingly more common, especially in the wake of recent ...