Evaluation
For our FMP we looked at the Reverb, which had been done previously and have planned to improve, as the previous one was not very good. For the pre production of our documentary we had the schedule for our group and the Reverb group as this would with the filming of Reverb.
My job role in the Reverb documentary was production assistant , my job role within my group was to write down notes as important things would be mentioned to the group ,for example unit changes, in case one unit was filming at the civic hall ,while the other would be filming at the college.
Also I would help the technical assistant Matthew Olorenshaw and the camera operator Richard Alder, as I would get some good film shots; this would include the shots of the venue. I had to check that Rich followed the shot list as we needed as variety of cutaways for our documentary, as we had a lot of interview footage and had to make sure that the documentary had a narrative structure and made sure the documentary would follow the narrative structure as we were showing the pre production of Reverb . The narrative structure of our documentary was telling a story of how Reverb would be made. The style of our documentary was ‘fly on the wall’ as we are going behind the scenes of Reverb, as we were showing it how it would be made and the final product showed in our documentary would showed the aftermath of the Reverb event at the Civic Hall.
http://stratcast.studio22wm.co.uk/index.html
http://www.stratcast.studio22wm.co.uk/reverb/index.html
These links to Stratcast show information on Reverb, as this was what our documentary was about and was showing the making of the Reverb, as we were seeing how the documentary was being made.
Research techniques for the media industries
I had used research techniques very well as I was researching the cost of media equipment to do for the hypothetical budget, I used for the presentation and used secondary research. I used secondary research as it can provide a lot of information. It is important to know what the audience and the market as our documentary, as the audience for our documentary would be students aged between 16 and 25,as the Reverb show would be broadcasted on Stratcast. It is important to be aware of copyright ,when using found material as if you used copyright music in the documentary, you would be sued for copyright infringement and would have to use you own sources, this could include your own music, from the local bands.
Production Management project
I had looked at the previous documentary of Reverb, which was not good as there were a lot of problems, which included the camera operator filming in a bad position as he was in the way. The planning of the production was very successful as I would know the place of the meeting and write down the meeting minutes as I was the production assistant and there were a few problems as there were arguments between people over how they would film a shot and how they rig for the interviews.
My job role for the documentary was the production assistant and I would write up what was going to be said in the meetings .Meeting minutes would be important as they would help the group as they provide the information needed as they would tell the group what things were being discussed.
My job role within the team was simple as I had to make sure everything went to plan and listen to what was being said at meetings, as important information was being mentioned My performance within the production was outstanding as I helped the director and the producer, I would follow orders, this included doing research for my presentation, which was looking at the hypothetical budget. I learnt from job role that I have done for a couple of months is that a lot of hard work would be involved, as this had included the storyboards and what establishing shots would be needed.
Preproduction was very important for our documentary, as it was important to keep things up to date and show the planning involved, this could include risk assessments and group schedules and initial plan, these would be very important as they would feature what the group needed to do for the day and the initial plan is the layout of the documentary as this would be very important and would show what would be featured in the documentary.
I had found being a production assistant, quite stressful because I had many jobs to do at the same time, and colleagues who all wanted their requests dealt with first. I tried to handle the pressure by being organised and always bringing a pen and notepad to meetings as it is very important to know what is being said in the meetings. I was constantly checking my emails as it was important to check when we would have a group meeting. All the time I was looking to improve my performance by, for example, trying to keep all members of the team fully informed of any problems or new developments which had occurred. I did this by communicating with people in a variety of different ways, including texts, emails and social networking, as well as talking people face to face. Communicating is very important as you
Factual Production Techniques
The contractual issues that are relating to the factual production for television, can include the exploitation rights and the production finance, this could include the cost of using crew and media equipment, such as a Sony HD camera. Other contractual issues can include the exploitation of anyone aged under 18 years old and would need to sign a release form. You can’t put any advertising as this would be sublimal advertising. The regulatory issues for factual programmes are the regulations of Ofcom, this can include privacy issues and advertising issues.
The codes and conventions of professional documentaries can include the use of voiceover as this can explain things shown; an example of this is Planet Earth, which is narrated by David Atternbough. Another convention of a television documentary is the use of music as it can be used to show emotions in the documentary.
