Documentary

Production Log 6

During the time from the last production log till this production log a lot of significant events had taken place. From the sunday to this thursday a lot of work had been done. On the monday I came back to school during my free periods, the reason for this was to film some more school shots, the school shots which we filmed were some more vox pops with students, and we also filmed two more interviews. One of the interviews was with Ms Oguntayo who is a parent, the reason we interviewed her was because it was important to have someone who has children and their view on if their children should use social media or not. This interview was done relatively shortly as she gave quick but correct answers. The second interview was done with a student who is named Aarun, this was a person who is a social media addict, it was important to have an addict on the documentary as the audience could see how much social media has effected him. We asked questions such as how much time he spends on social media daily and the answer we received was startling as he said he spends 10 hours on social media daily, we also asked more questions such as what he would do if social media was taken away from him and as he's an addict he said that he wouldn't be able to live without it. We filmed many cutaways also during this interview as we showed him using social media on a computer and his phone.
I also had a phone interview, this phone interview was with a social media expert who is named Kevin Poulter, we recorded this phone interview from a recorder so that I could put it in the documentary. As I was completing the production I was also coming into lessons to edit the filming which I had completed. I didn't really face any problems during this last week of the production log as all of the work was finished on time.

Production Log 5

During the time from the last production log till this present date, significant events have yet again been made. The events were made from the thursday to this sunday. In the last production I had noted down that I had done some filming which were the park scenes. From that day I have done some more filming. The shots which I did were doing some more park shots and school shots. Some of the shots took quite long to fulfil as one of the shots in the park wasn't done correctly the first few times because there was a lot of wind in the background which effected hearing the presenter talk. I also had to re-film a shot of the presenter talking about a statistic because the camera was a little bit bent because it was on the grass which caused it to be slanted. As I re-filmed these shots correctly I then had to go to school and film some school shots. The shots which I had to film at school were an interview and vox pops. The interview that was dine was with Mr Rumble who is a psychology teacher at Chadwell Heath. The reason we interviewed him was to see his opinion on how he thinks social media effects teenagers, we asked him a series of questions which was help get more answers, for example we asked what age range he believes uses social media the most and also how he thinks social media effects teenagers psychologically and we asked more questions too. The answers and reasons which we received from him were very good and helped validate the reasons. The vox pops which we did were with school students as w wanted to see if their parents allowed them to use social media or not and if they didn't allow them then what reasons they had. I also started editing the footage which I had filmed in the past week, there was a lot of footage to edit so we got on with that during lessons and I was out filming when lessons weren't on. I ended up editing about 50% of the production. The problems which we had were getting to arrange a meeting with Mr Rumble as he was too busy on most of the days which were planning on filming him. By the next production log I am aiming on finishing the whole of the filming.

Production Log 4

During the time from the last production log till this present date, significant events have taken place. I had started fulfilling my filming for my social media documentary. This was from Sunday to the present thursday. As all of my pre production paperwork was completed I started on the filming for the documentary as everything was planned out. On the Monday I started my filming, I started off with filming in the park as they were the first scenes which were supposed to be shot in the documentary. These shots were consisting of scenery shots and shots of the presenter talking. The first shot was of the presenter talking to the camera explaining who he was and what this specific documentary was going to be based on. The next few shots were based on facts, in these three shots the presenter provided some facts on social media and how it effects teenagers and provided statistics. We got these shots done as the last time when we were going to film the procedure got delayed due to rain. The next few shots which we completed were scenery shots of the park including the basketball court, playing area and skating area. The next day we came back to the park to film another shot which was of the presenter explaining why he was at the park as it was for an experiment. We didn't necessarily face any big problems during this time. By the next production log I aim on getting about 40% of the production completed.