28th April 2010

We had John's lesson first thing today, this lesson we talked abou what we needed to include in our pitches the time next time round when we re-pitch again on tuesday, we went through the distinction criteria for the pitch and discussed the content we need to include in our pitch such as research methods and results and problems we may come across and how we would solve them.

27th April 2010

Today was our Pitch, for my group this took place at about midday. This gave us an extre few hours to make sure we had everything we needed and also gave us time to rehearse what we had to say, this was a great help and it was a shame we hadnt rehearsed earlier because without it we would have done pretty badly because we all had toruble wording things thoroughly beforehand. I also attempted to get in touch with the conservative party but they didnt seem very willing to help out when i asked if there was any chance we could have an interview but the liberal democrats on the other hand were more helpfull and reasonable, we agreed on doing an interview after the elections but this would only be usefull if they are elected. We completed the pitch and we seemed to do extremely well, we were told merit's across the board. Things we need to work on though were codes and conventions of our documentary and the problems that we may come across and how we would solve them. Another subject we needed to work on was research methids and techniques and then the results that we got usuing these methods.

26th April 2010

Today was really the last day we had to really finish and become fully prepared for our pitches. My group got together and put everything we had together over the weekened and included it in our slide show and research folder. Today was purely spent of getting ourselves prepared for the Pitch tommorow.

23rd April 2010

I had Colin's lesson today first thing and we carried on working on our web pages I made great headway today and managed to fully understand how to apply DIV tags and CSS rules effectively to be able to place my items such a pictures and text in a way that looks even and fits in well with everything else. By next lesson i should be very close to finishing the webpage for the radio show.

In John's lesson the group's got together and made good progress on the FMP Pitch, i created the slides such as that it was an interactive mode exapling why it was this mode because of the way we interacted with the interviewee and who they reponded back, i also created a slide which explained how i would advertise our documentary if it were to shown on public television.

22nd April 2010

In John's lessons today we started looking at the beginning of a few documentaries and recogniseing the different types such as observational and interactive etc, through this we need to work out what type of documentary ours will be and and make sure we use the right conventions of that type of structure, adam has managed to get his dad involved in our documentary and has got us a interview with a young offender and some of the higher ups in the company carilion who can give us information in interviews about what they provide the youth's who take these courses.

10th April 2010

Today we had a lesson with Phil, and my group moved into the radio room so that we could work away from distractions, we immidiatly started researching contacts so we could eventually get some matierial from interviews and cutaways using fottage we could get from the different work places. We got in contact with John Simpson who knew some information about the riverhouse project, a place for youth's who had got kicked out of all secondary school's could go to start programmes to help them in their education, through this we went on to talk to people like tricia berry and Tim Lozinski but we wernt able to get much information. We also spent time looking up different local YOI's to use so we could talk to young offenders and maybe the people in charge of keeping an eye on them. Also the presentation has been started on.

19th April, 2010

Logbook, Today we have worked towards our FMP, it has changed slightly and we are now aiming to find out what is done for offenders to help them move back into society, i have started researching what each parties policy's are towards young offenders and what is being done or not done to help the in the future or to stop these problems occuring in the first place, we have all started work towrds the treatment and plan to bring everyone's research together for tuesday the 20th.

Log Book, 16th April 2010

The groups have now been sorted out for FMP/Documentary. I have been grouped with Adam Smith, Josh Davies, Lisa Greenaway and Emily Churchill. We discussed ideas and came up with things like the opening of the Royal Shakespere Academy theatre and the funding for university's and college mainly, other things we thougt of were the problems of teenage drinking and and another more possible idea was looking at teenage offenders which would be more feasable being as the college deal with some of this already and there is a jail not far from here and a police station in stratford. on friday afternoon with grahams help we decided on looking at the problems of teenage offenders and what help is being given to bring them back into society safely. In lessons with phil we have talked about our pitch and what we need to bring into the pitch such as treatment, a multi media presentation, documents and the research to show were ready and prepared to do our documentary. We considered jails that we could get to so that we are able to talk to inmates who are up for talking about their situations, the possibilities are bidford and a prison in wolverhampton. Ideas that will add content towards are documentary is SBS the young offenders rehabilitation career's, a person who we can possibly talk to called Darren who Lisa knows who is an ex-offender and could be interviewed and we could research into what happens after they are released from jail.