Initial Documentary Idea

You need to come up with an idea for your documentary. This must be done individually, even if you working in a group, you must produce your own idea.

• Your documentary can be about anything (within reason) but you must try to think of an idea that you are really interested in. 
• Your ideas must be achievable so no point in making one about someone that you will not be able to interview of find anything out about. 
• It must be around 5 minutes long so do not try to combat a giant question, think small, but think about accuracy and creativity.
• There should be some kind of narrative, documentaries are all about telling stories - everyone has a story to tell, so think about the story that you want to tell

 

Documentary Analysis

Documentary Analysis 

Watch the following documentaries and write about them.
You should consider these topics:

• Mode of documentary
• Narrative
• Construction (how it is made)
• What's the purpose
• Who's the audience

http://www.4docs.org.uk/films/show/5/King+of+Laughter
http://www.4docs.org.uk/competition/view/349/Please+%26+Thanks+%28+Best+Version+%29

BTEC A - Blogs list

Unit 29 - Documentaries

Sam Comerford
Marian Hussain
Joshua Johnstone
Farzana Ahmed
Haris Umair
Tanya Hayman
Shuab Ahmed
Mohammed Bham
Kashif Naseer
Haris Zulfiqar
Munashe Mukandi
Zak Salad
Ayesha Shaikh
Mizbah
Samsia
Shalini

Year 12 Homework

There are 5 types of documentary. Pick one and create something that explains what it is

Cover work

I will be off for the next 2 weeks, so here's what you should be getting on with:

• Firstly make sure your music video is finished to the very best standard. 
• Make sure it looks like a professional music video following the codes and conventions of others that you have researched.
• Make sure all research and planning is complete
• Do more research and planning
• Start evaluation:

1. How well did you work in a group? Give specific examples.
2. What difficulties did you overcome in the production of the video and how did you overcome them?
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
4. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
5.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Please make sure that someone goes to reception to get a paper register and returns it to reception 

If you finish all that, you need to make sure that objectives 1 and 2 from this blog are complete!

I will be checking your blogs throughout the day, so make sure you do some work. If you need to speak to me tweet me anytime.