13th May 2010

On tuesday i thought i had captured all the vox pops but it seems they wernt saved which must have been my fault but when i got in Josh re-captured them and started moving them along the timeline to put a rough order to our documentary. This is hard because we really need more footage and a storyboard. I also got a new folder and started arranging my production folder for FMP.

11th May 2010

Today i worked closely with josh to start putting some of the footage together on the editing suite and then at about 11:00am i went into Stratford Town Centre and positioned myself on the road with subway on it because of the flock of people who move through there. I went with Cara and Lisa and we managed to record some quality vox pops on poeples views and stereotypical thoughts on youth offenders. I was on the camera while Cara went to try and get people to go in front of the camera and Lisa apperated sound. We got qiute a few people but unfortunatly we were catching most people on their lunch breaks so they didnt have time, this tells us in future though that is a better time to do the vox pops maybe earlier or around 1 we were told by the people of stratford.

10th May 2010

Today i got in and started capturing the previous footage that we had got. The footage contained the interview with Anne Mulliner, i watched this through and the footage came out really well although the volume of sound was a little low because she had qiute a qiuet voice but this can be edited to sound louder and equal to everyone else. The rest of the tape contained the footage from Upskill, this is what Adam, Josh and Emily went to get. Some of the footage contained some sensitive information from one of the guy's working there who had been addicted to heroine and he explained how upskill had changed him. We also got an interview with a guy called Trev who was one of the teachers/lecturer's he had some good opinion's and how he thought young offenders are treated but unfortunatly he did ramble on and repeat himself. The first interview was with Micheal Dunn and this turned out extremely bad. The crew were in the reflecion of the window, sound was awfull and the boom mic kept popping in the right hand corner of the shot like a little rat so this interview will need to be done again. We are in need of cutaways i feel and i am thinking of doing a reenactment of a crime possibly for the opening titles and a cut away of Trev teaching the young offenders would be brilliant thats if we go back in time.

In Sharons lesson we started on our freelance portfolio work, this reqiured me to critically anyalyse the state of the film industry because that is the area that i want to move into and then analyse the job role that i want to move into. In my case it would be editing so i need to evaluate what resources i will need to have and the attitude and skills i will also need to be able to handle a job like this.

7th May 2010

Adam, Josh and Emily drove down to Derby today to do an interview, we would have all gone but only 3-4 people were allowed and its extremely hard for me, cara and lisa to get up to sratford for 7:30 living so far away. At 12:30 i phoned josh to find out how it went and apparently it went really well and got some really sensetive responses. At 1:30 i split up from Lisa and Cara to practice editing since i am the main editor for our documentary.

In the website design lesson i got closer to finishing my webpage for music based programming, i also placed my hyper links on the left hand of my page, i have further fully understood CSS rules and how to apply them to my webpage. By next lesson the webpage will be finished and ill be working on my own website.

6th May 2010

Today was the scheduled day to interview Anne Muliner, we spent the morning rehearsing questions we were going to ask her and thought about how we were going to ask them so that we could get good replies giving us the information we need which will prove important and relative to the documentary. At 11 o'clock we set up and with phil's help we managed to make a good job of setting it up, with the camera angle and placement and we got to use a neck mic which belonged to phil. Sound came out really well and the white balance was good along. Unfortunatly because we had film studies we wont be able to look through the rushes untill monday.

3rd May 2010

This was our second attempt at our pitch but for our group it was more of a top up where we covered areas that we didnt in our pitch before. We managed to get all our points across to the lecturers/board and we able to answer all of the questions fired at us, we understood what we were talking about and were all on the same page.
Afterwards the group met up to talk about the interview we were going to do with Anne Muliner who works at Carrillion, we talked about what eqiupment we needed to get out and set the time of the interview at 11:30.

30th April 2010

Today we worked in Colin's lesson and carried on working on the website we were desgning. We learnt how to drop down menu's and apply them to our own pages, in my case i could use the drop down menu on my left hand side navigation bar and include hyperlinks in the drop down menu. I also to closer tofinishing the content of my page such as pictures and text information.

In John's lesson me and my group carried on with work towards our pitch we made the slides that we were missing to hit the higher grades, these were slides about things such as research methods and results and what the results have lef us two decision wise. We have also included slides about primary and secondary research and qualitative and quantitative research and a textual analysis on our documentary.