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Self assessment questionnaire 16 December 2015

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Self assessment questionnaire 16 December 2015

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What was the name of your group production? Harlow college documentary

What were your roles throughout the production? Interviewer and Director

How well did the team work together on the shoot? Did everyone contribute within their defined role? The team did what was required of them, Mark was the editor and interviewed several people successfully. Myself the director did what was required to the fullest extent. I also did the majority of interviewing for the documentary.

When you reviewed your footage what aspects of the filming do you think could be improved? One aspect we could improve upon was the film audio/microphone.

If you had the opportunity to repeat the filming exercise again what would you do differently? Interviewed more people for length and better equipment would help us create a more refined, finished piece of video journalism.

How professionally did you conduct yourselves? We set out rolls within our group such as who was cameraman, director, interviewer etc. And we decided this based on our skills at the tasks on offer.

What was the quality of the sound like? Give examples where the sound worked well and not so well? The introduction went well regarding the audio, however the interviews on the sound aspect was difficult to hear due to lack of professional equipment (simple iPad). It was difficult to hear the people on camera talking.

Discuss the limitations of using a single camera on a shoot? You only have one camera, so one angle. Because of this you can't change the camera if the footage captured on the one camera is of low quality.

What did you learn from the exercise of making a video production and how will this inform and help you in future production work? You learn what you are good at, you learn where your strengths and were your weaknesses are, but above all its a good learning experience. And its interesting to do the different aspects of media/journalism.

How well did you record and communicate ideas? What methods did you use to do this? I I documented what happened on padlet, me and Mark also discussed ideas, opinions ext. For example we both tried all rolls to show who performed best and where there needs to be work.

How effective and successful were the methods and skills you used to generate and develop ideas? Quite successful regarding the documentary. Our methods of filming proved to be effective at achieving our end results.

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Just been interviewed myself by Greg. Apparently he thought it was some heavy answers on my part

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We've just finished our interviews with 2 people from our media course, with myself acting as interviewer and presenter. We tried with Mark but he wasn't as photogenic as myself. We interviewed Corey - support staff and college employee and Paul - A fellow student to our Media course. We're going to do there interviews in total.

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Right now Mark, with his technical talent is starting to edit our footage and slot into place like a jigsaw.

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After lunch me and Mark started filming our documentary video, about a day in the life of a student at Harlow college. We went around filming places myself and Mark visit here at Harlow college daily. Places such as the entrance, lunch hall and various different routes and footpaths and filmed an example of us walking along

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Uploaded by Mark McElwain on 2015-12-02.

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Mind map for our documentary.

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Harlow college documentary planning

Showcase different ares

Interviewing people (student and teachers)

"How many years have you been at Harlow College"

"What they like about Harlow College"

"What is interesting about Harlow College"

"What are there opinions about Harlow College"

"Would you recommend this College to a person"

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here are the pictures from our second run with the camera, looking for framing techniques.

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Continuing with our photography, today myself and the group explored the use of using the diameters of the pictures to act as a frame, with in the picture.

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Ross Kemp - Return to the frontline Afghanistan. Ross Kemp is a documentary reporter, that specialises in informative documentary pieces usually about danger, crime and war. His style of filming is shot in third person. This would interest people with military interests and current world news affairs.

First and third person narrative.

Fly on the wall camera work both handheld, with a trusted cameraman with him as he does his work.

As you can see in this picture he is working with the British army in Afghanistan. Moving with them, talking with them as they carry out their operations. Cameras rolling even in open conflict whilst under fire.

When the cameras are filming the interactions are between Ross Kemp, the soldiers and other personel. The camera uses mid to close up shots of their faces and long shots to capture the scenery and the body language.

When talking to criminal elements Ross Kemp uses a more formal confident approach, best suited to have a conversation with these kind of people. They feed off of fear and Ross Kemp shows to them that he is not afraid. They respect him for this and so have a much more successful interview, making them more likely to open up about what they do.

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Louis Theroux - Narcotics, vice and criminality genre. louis Theroux is a reporter and documentary producer. His style of filming when he is on camera is passive and subtle compared to other documentary film makers like Ross Kemp. He interviews people involved with what he is interested in finding out. The situations he films is mainly around narcotics and vice. Mature audiences due to the topics he reports on. Louis Theroux presumingly tries to be unbiased towards the people he interviews on his television show. Most of the people he interviews are involved in criminal activities so danger is present on his journeys. But not to the extent of being physically threatened with firearms or other weapons. The people he interviews are understandably nervous about speaking about their activities of a criminal nature.

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Me and Mark was going around the college grounds taking photos.

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First person narrative in his documentary.

He remains objective and subjective in all of his documentaries.

Ross Kemp - Films documentaries on the extreme danger in the world, anything from conflicts and warzones to criminality and gang culture. There is always an intense threat of danger from the places Ross goes to and you can really respect him as a reporter from the bravery he shows by meeting with some of the most dangerous people in the world.

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Jill Furmanovsky - 1953 Zimbabwe. Is a British rock photographer, Jill emigrated to London in 1965 with her family. She has photographed many rock artists throughout her career such as Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink floyd, Eric Clapton, The Ramones, The sex pistols, The Pretenders, The Plea, The Clash, Bob Marley, The Police and Blondie.

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Pennie Smith is an English photographer. Known to have photographed several prominent rock musicians. She specialises in black and white photography.

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Music photographers -

Bob Gruen - Born 1945, is an American author and photographer known for his rock n' roll photographs. Below is an image of John Lennon wearing a New York city themed T-shirt.

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Irving Penn - Born 16th June 1917 - October 7 2009 Was an American photographer known for his Fashion photography, portraits and still files. Penns career included work at vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the public of the art of photography.

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Patrick Demarchelier - Born August 21, 1943. Is a French fashion designer

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Fashion photographers -

Edward Steichen - March 27, 1879 - March 25, 1973. Was a Luxembourgish American photographer painter, and art gallery and museum curator

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Sebastiao Salgado - Born February 8, 1944. Is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

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Documentary photographers -

Lewis Hine - September 26 1874, November 3 1940. Was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used photography as a means for social reform. His photographs are responsible for changing laws governing child labour in the United states.

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Roger Fenton - Born 28, March 1819 - 8, August 1869. Was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers.

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Tim Page - Born 25 May 1944, Tunbridge wells, Kent. Is an English photographer who made his name during the Vietnam war.

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War photographers -

Matthew Brady - Born May 18, 1822 - January 15, 1896. Was one of the first American photographers, best known for his research of the civil war.