Filming
For my interviews and the experiment I used medium shots which are intermediate between a close up and a full shot.
Has my documentary met its original intentions, has it turned out how it was supposed to?
Yes the experiment documentary went almost to plan. The documentary its self went as planed we got the results we were wanting and the reactions needed for film. The issues we had were technical and human. Technical issues were when the camera didn't focus when filming when the interviewee was on his own. The human issue was when the interviewee laid down and went out of the cameras view for a lot of the filming.
We found out what we wanted to and we got results and film from filming the interviewees. We got footage of our three people in the stages of going through a sensory depuration experiment.
How well did we work as a crew?
As a crew we worked average. Its was a rough start as we wasn't sure what we wanted to do but after planning we got everything filmed and sorted. Filming the interviews, experiment and b roll went smoothly, quick and simple. As a crew we knew what we were doing and what different roles we had and knew what to do also when & where.
How supportive was my group?
My group was very supportive of me producing and setting up the equipment for both my filming session and the experiment.
What responsibilities were taken on during the shoots?
How was the interview conducted and was it successful?
What problems were encountered?
What could have been differently or more effectively?
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Script Writting Project
A huge part of how I got my back ground findings was from the BBC writers room webpage where they talked a lot abut script writing techniques and what it takes to make a good script.
Developing your idea.
All good ideas need drama. And what is the center of drama that drives your story.
Asks questions like is it compelling enough for your character and audience? Do you have enough story to carry out over several episodes or weeks?
Its crucial to create a coherent world.You need to know the rules of your universe, what do and donts we need to know and see? The writer needs to know all the rules and backgrounds, where as the audience only needs enough to stay hooked without being confused, which is why sometimes less can often be more.
What the emotional response laugh, cry or be scared, need to if this idea is important to you. Put you passion into it as its your story. don't write anything you don't care about just to be expedient. Challenge your audience.
Form & Format
Have really strong scripts and to know exactly what they are and know what it is that ur trying to do. Don't have weak ones that flow on that don't ever really be clear from the start. Great writers master form and manipulate it. So form is what kind and shape of story you are telling to tell. Format is where in a specific broadcast or performance schedule it might sit. Where and how is its most meaning full expression. Is it a idea that works best in radio
Character
To write great characters you need to see through the eyes of them, how they feel and whats its like to be them. If you know this, then you can know how they might instinctively act and react in any given situation. And from this comes your authentic drama and comedy. The best characters are often active, on some kind of journey if thats physical, emotional, psychological or otherwise and are always trying to do get, or reach something. From this comes dilemmas and choices and from that comes dramas and comedy's.
Beginnings
You dont need to know your ending at this moment but it helps. You do however need to know where you are heading towards and what kind of a ending you are trying to reach. Knowing where you are going helps and means you can work out the best, most engaging, captivating and most meaningful place to start.
Starting the story means getting the viewers attention immediately. This means starting the story straight away by showing characters in actions and by showing who the characters who they are and what they do. Dont go to much into back story and dont worry about prefacing the story. You dont have to introduce every character, every theme and every plot right away so dont try to do to much , find a focused way in. Make your character significant in the beginning by making them step outside their comfort zone. have them want something and pursue it. Set them a problem or dilemma or even a call to action like keeping something safe or saving the world.
Most importantly, plan the story before yo start writing. Make sure you know what the beginning, middle and end are. Plan what goes on in them. work out the order in which you want the audience to see and have. But stand back and look at your characters and ask whether they are driving it all forward.
Middles
With many scripts and stories the middle- the stretch that connects the beginning with the end can often be difficult.
the middle takes up more story than the beginning and the end combined and making this work dramatically or comedically takes thought, planing and effort. Once you have worked out where to begin and where you are trying to get to, you have to work out the most appropriately difficult way for your character to to get from one to the other. Your characters need to get lost in the muddle or otherwise the journey forward would be to easy for them. With this however the witter cant get lost. You need to be in control of the muddle. You need to manipulate characters, events, actions and consequences. You need to make things difficult for the characters whiles keeping up the momentum of the story for the audience. You need to plan the muddle carefully.
Remember to surprise the audience. What do they need to see? What can you leave out? What might make them see the story, characters and events better in a new light? Also remember to engage the viewers. Are the character developing and changing interestingly? Dont let the story become boring and flat line. Remember the peaks, dead ends and the moments of clarity, the butterfly effect of actions and consequences. Otherwise the story will sag and so will your audience.
Endings
Great endings fit and bad endings jar. Great endings bring the story where as bad endings go of target or fizzle out and just stop without any real sense of conclusion/ satisfaction. To leave/ have an impact on the viewers must have a great ending. When doing a ending you need to ask if it follows from where you started with the story and the journey thats taken place. The feeling of inevitability should be felt as if they are what should follow on from everything that has gone before. Keep in mind tho that they mustn't be predictable, their needs to be
Scenes
To show significant moments and events a different scenes are needed so that the story can move on forward. Scenes are different combinations of times, places and different settings. No matter what the size or cause scenes needs things to happen or else they not scenes and end up being expositions. What expositions have different than scenes is that nothing happens with in them, by this I mean if stuff is just explained and or related they cant become nothing more than a exposition. For interesting scenes the story has to be kept moving forward at a steady pace in order to viewers happy and interested, if scenes get slow and boring people will get disinterested. A mixture of conflicts and tensions, dilemmas with decisions, actions and reactions are used to help drive back story's for characters.
Dialogue
Dialogue is what characters express and say. Like people dialogue isn't always natural, by this I mean speech doesn't always come out perfectly or in perfect grammar, so when your writing dialogue for characters it doesn't always have to be correctly said. If an actor is actor
Rewriting
So after an idea has been developed with a solid story, characters created, character voices and brought it to life. Its now that you must stand back if you've got to close and go over it again and be hard on your self and change anything that needs to be changed after a re read has been done. When your reading it back to yourself after you have read it alone for some time to get some space re read it as someone else with no connections with it. Honestly ask your self if it works and if there are any issues figure out where the problems are, does the story say what needs to be said. Through out the time of reading it make notes and comments of anything that doesn't seem right or might not make sense.
After reading all this and finding out all the information I feel confident that I can create a solid script. Reading about all the techniques they will help me a lot especially when I am re reading it through and I now know what I can do to help if I get stuck or if something doesn't seem to fit or feels out of place. I can also feel like I can create better characters and plot lines to en rich a more interesting story.
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Developing your idea.
All good ideas need drama. And what is the center of drama that drives your story.
Asks questions like is it compelling enough for your character and audience? Do you have enough story to carry out over several episodes or weeks?
Its crucial to create a coherent world.You need to know the rules of your universe, what do and donts we need to know and see? The writer needs to know all the rules and backgrounds, where as the audience only needs enough to stay hooked without being confused, which is why sometimes less can often be more.
What the emotional response laugh, cry or be scared, need to if this idea is important to you. Put you passion into it as its your story. don't write anything you don't care about just to be expedient. Challenge your audience.
Form & Format
Have really strong scripts and to know exactly what they are and know what it is that ur trying to do. Don't have weak ones that flow on that don't ever really be clear from the start. Great writers master form and manipulate it. So form is what kind and shape of story you are telling to tell. Format is where in a specific broadcast or performance schedule it might sit. Where and how is its most meaning full expression. Is it a idea that works best in radio
Character
To write great characters you need to see through the eyes of them, how they feel and whats its like to be them. If you know this, then you can know how they might instinctively act and react in any given situation. And from this comes your authentic drama and comedy. The best characters are often active, on some kind of journey if thats physical, emotional, psychological or otherwise and are always trying to do get, or reach something. From this comes dilemmas and choices and from that comes dramas and comedy's.
Beginnings
You dont need to know your ending at this moment but it helps. You do however need to know where you are heading towards and what kind of a ending you are trying to reach. Knowing where you are going helps and means you can work out the best, most engaging, captivating and most meaningful place to start.
Starting the story means getting the viewers attention immediately. This means starting the story straight away by showing characters in actions and by showing who the characters who they are and what they do. Dont go to much into back story and dont worry about prefacing the story. You dont have to introduce every character, every theme and every plot right away so dont try to do to much , find a focused way in. Make your character significant in the beginning by making them step outside their comfort zone. have them want something and pursue it. Set them a problem or dilemma or even a call to action like keeping something safe or saving the world.
Most importantly, plan the story before yo start writing. Make sure you know what the beginning, middle and end are. Plan what goes on in them. work out the order in which you want the audience to see and have. But stand back and look at your characters and ask whether they are driving it all forward.
Middles
With many scripts and stories the middle- the stretch that connects the beginning with the end can often be difficult.
the middle takes up more story than the beginning and the end combined and making this work dramatically or comedically takes thought, planing and effort. Once you have worked out where to begin and where you are trying to get to, you have to work out the most appropriately difficult way for your character to to get from one to the other. Your characters need to get lost in the muddle or otherwise the journey forward would be to easy for them. With this however the witter cant get lost. You need to be in control of the muddle. You need to manipulate characters, events, actions and consequences. You need to make things difficult for the characters whiles keeping up the momentum of the story for the audience. You need to plan the muddle carefully.
Remember to surprise the audience. What do they need to see? What can you leave out? What might make them see the story, characters and events better in a new light? Also remember to engage the viewers. Are the character developing and changing interestingly? Dont let the story become boring and flat line. Remember the peaks, dead ends and the moments of clarity, the butterfly effect of actions and consequences. Otherwise the story will sag and so will your audience.
Endings
Great endings fit and bad endings jar. Great endings bring the story where as bad endings go of target or fizzle out and just stop without any real sense of conclusion/ satisfaction. To leave/ have an impact on the viewers must have a great ending. When doing a ending you need to ask if it follows from where you started with the story and the journey thats taken place. The feeling of inevitability should be felt as if they are what should follow on from everything that has gone before. Keep in mind tho that they mustn't be predictable, their needs to be
Scenes
To show significant moments and events a different scenes are needed so that the story can move on forward. Scenes are different combinations of times, places and different settings. No matter what the size or cause scenes needs things to happen or else they not scenes and end up being expositions. What expositions have different than scenes is that nothing happens with in them, by this I mean if stuff is just explained and or related they cant become nothing more than a exposition. For interesting scenes the story has to be kept moving forward at a steady pace in order to viewers happy and interested, if scenes get slow and boring people will get disinterested. A mixture of conflicts and tensions, dilemmas with decisions, actions and reactions are used to help drive back story's for characters.
Dialogue
Dialogue is what characters express and say. Like people dialogue isn't always natural, by this I mean speech doesn't always come out perfectly or in perfect grammar, so when your writing dialogue for characters it doesn't always have to be correctly said. If an actor is actor
Rewriting
So after an idea has been developed with a solid story, characters created, character voices and brought it to life. Its now that you must stand back if you've got to close and go over it again and be hard on your self and change anything that needs to be changed after a re read has been done. When your reading it back to yourself after you have read it alone for some time to get some space re read it as someone else with no connections with it. Honestly ask your self if it works and if there are any issues figure out where the problems are, does the story say what needs to be said. Through out the time of reading it make notes and comments of anything that doesn't seem right or might not make sense.
Conclusion
After reading all this and finding out all the information I feel confident that I can create a solid script. Reading about all the techniques they will help me a lot especially when I am re reading it through and I now know what I can do to help if I get stuck or if something doesn't seem to fit or feels out of place. I can also feel like I can create better characters and plot lines to en rich a more interesting story.
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Secondary Research
For some of my secondary research I Looked into sensory deportation. Things I found where different
things like videos, articles and basic information on what sensory deportation
is and what its done for, also what the effects of taking part are like if its
good or can be bad.
One of the biggest parts of
my secondary research was watching different videos of people taking part in the
experiment and what they felt during and after. Different people from the
public and even celebrity’s take part in this as they find it can be help full
and relaxing. The most common way of taking part in this is to use a sensory
deportation pod, what either is a small enclosed dark box or can be filled with
water which has you float there. Reading into this I found out the whole point of this is to not have any stimulus like touch, sight, smell, and sound and that no lighting is allowed and no interactions as well. While watching different videos on the topic I watched a BBC documentary on this where they had a man and a woman take part but in different rooms. The results where different like the man found it to be calming but at the same time very boring but the woman was getting very agitated and very un settled. She started having issues when she claimed that she had been given wet bed sheets and couldn't be calmed down. It was said that she started feeling like this because she was either suffering from effects or she needed human interaction.Research Evaluation
Primary Research.
For some of my primary research I talked and asked my interviewee questions about him, his life and if he knew what sensory depuration is and why he was interested in it. I also went around my class and asked my fellow course students a questionnaire about sensory depuration and got their responses in the form of a tally chart. I asked different questions like "Do you know what sensory depuration is?", "Would you take part in it?", "Do you think its a good idea?" and "How long can you last?". When I was asking my interviewee questions before he started I collected some screen shots of our conversation. 
For some of my primary research I talked and asked my interviewee questions about him, his life and if he knew what sensory depuration is and why he was interested in it. I also went around my class and asked my fellow course students a questionnaire about sensory depuration and got their responses in the form of a tally chart. I asked different questions like "Do you know what sensory depuration is?", "Would you take part in it?", "Do you think its a good idea?" and "How long can you last?". When I was asking my interviewee questions before he started I collected some screen shots of our conversation. 
Secondary Research.
Doing secondary research required more effort because it was mainly looking into other peoples work like articles, and videos of their experiments and tests. I looked into different types and styles of ways to do this and one of which I looked into was a. Isolation Tank which is basically a closed off tank with water in it allowing you to just float there. Another way of doing this is by using isolation pods, these don't have any water in them they are usually a dark empty pod which sometimes can have cousions in them but are usually empty blocking off the outside world. After reading what different types of ways there are to do this, we started to think of how we could do this without having to pay out for one. At first we wanted to use a card board box but then wanted to use a disability toilet as it had a light switch, but ended up using a spare room but blocked of all light.
Web Links To Videos & Articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation
http://www.vogue.com/13294276/sensory-deprivation-tanks-float-spa/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHnbKjQGhHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mMVipm_IQ0
Web Links To Videos & Articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation
http://www.vogue.com/13294276/sensory-deprivation-tanks-float-spa/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHnbKjQGhHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mMVipm_IQ0
Treatment
My treatment is on the film A Haunted house.
This film is a comedy & horror parody of Paranormal activity.
What makes this film great is the fact that it is a really well written scripted that has different scenes running smoothly into each other which makes for a good film so theres no misunderstanding as to whats happening and so you can watch it and know that it makes sense. Being that this type of sub genre of a film is classed as found footage it is filmed really well and angled great. Theres scenes that would usually have the cameras view disrubted or blocked so you wouldn't be able to see whats happening in most found footage films but what A Haunted House does well is keep you informed as a viewer
In August 2012 Malcolm & Kisha a young couple move in together. On arrival of moving in, strange activitys start to happen like when kisha noticed that her keys were on the floor which she then tells malcolm that they might have a ghost. Trying to prove her wrong he then invites over camera men Dan the security guard and his baby brother Bobby.
This is a all round great film as its well shot, well directed, brillitantly edited and acted out with a all round great cast that gets along well with each other with great chemistry.
This is a all round great film as its well shot, well directed, brillitantly edited and acted out with a all round great cast that gets along well with each other with great chemistry.
Script Writing Research
Background Material
A good way that I got some background material on the topic body image I started reading a few books from the library about body image involving things like shape and size, skin, and ways to improve your body image. They also included people's views and opinions bases on their own experiences and issues. Another easy way of looking into this was looking at different websites as they gave more insight and more up to date information that might not have been available in books.Websites are also easier for teenagers to use and have access to so it made sense to research this as having bad body image can be most common in teenagers
Primary research.
A good way that I got some background material on the topic body image I started reading a few books from the library about body image involving things like shape and size, skin, and ways to improve your body image. They also included people's views and opinions bases on their own experiences and issues. Another easy way of looking into this was looking at different websites as they gave more insight and more up to date information that might not have been available in books.Websites are also easier for teenagers to use and have access to so it made sense to research this as having bad body image can be most common in teenagers
Primary research.
Interviews and pop question are a great way to ask random people of the public how they feel and what they feel about their body image and what they think about others.
More of my primary research was making a survey and having people complete it like people on my course. Some of my questions were things like do you worry about your fat, do you judge others and what do you worry about most. Besides from asking people to do my survey I also went around and asked people a questionnaire relating to their life and opinions. I found out that most people suffered from having bad body image and a lot of people said that they didn't judge others.
Secondary
Looking into other people's research and papers and reading what the results were. Also watching documentary's about it and looking into videos involving body image. One example for this is reading the on line article "Teens Health" which is aimed at teenagers talking about the issues that could be happening during that line. Wikipedia also did a post on this saying things like, body image is a persons perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body. Going to the library was also a great way to get secondary research as it allowed me to look and read into different topics from books and papers. Going to the library was how I came across several body image books, which gave me insight and extra knowledge on the subject. I also watched some videos on line and on YouTube with the same topic as mine which helped further my ideas more.
(Links to body image videos, things like what is the perfect body image)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mc_YWn-fZ8
From doing research about my topic ive found that it shows and proves that no matter who you are every body has has or does suffer from body image at point in their lives and I find this useful and reliable. The reason I think its so reliable is because its information from real people who have suffered with this issue. The things that I think I will use most this is how people feel about themselves and how they think they should look. I think that in the right way using this information and research in any script should work very well. Seen as how this isn't a topic that can really be biased unless im portraying my own opinions but when I am adding it to the script I will be sure to not make it one sided in any way and not offend people.
More of my primary research was making a survey and having people complete it like people on my course. Some of my questions were things like do you worry about your fat, do you judge others and what do you worry about most. Besides from asking people to do my survey I also went around and asked people a questionnaire relating to their life and opinions. I found out that most people suffered from having bad body image and a lot of people said that they didn't judge others.
Secondary
Looking into other people's research and papers and reading what the results were. Also watching documentary's about it and looking into videos involving body image. One example for this is reading the on line article "Teens Health" which is aimed at teenagers talking about the issues that could be happening during that line. Wikipedia also did a post on this saying things like, body image is a persons perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body. Going to the library was also a great way to get secondary research as it allowed me to look and read into different topics from books and papers. Going to the library was how I came across several body image books, which gave me insight and extra knowledge on the subject. I also watched some videos on line and on YouTube with the same topic as mine which helped further my ideas more.
(Links to body image videos, things like what is the perfect body image)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mc_YWn-fZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3HU7e1XrYA
AnalysisFrom doing research about my topic ive found that it shows and proves that no matter who you are every body has has or does suffer from body image at point in their lives and I find this useful and reliable. The reason I think its so reliable is because its information from real people who have suffered with this issue. The things that I think I will use most this is how people feel about themselves and how they think they should look. I think that in the right way using this information and research in any script should work very well. Seen as how this isn't a topic that can really be biased unless im portraying my own opinions but when I am adding it to the script I will be sure to not make it one sided in any way and not offend people.
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