Analysis

Educating Essex

• Director :- David Clews
• Date :-2011

Educating Essex explored what really happens behind the school gates. Following a group of GCSE students as it looks at all aspects of teenage life within a school environment.

The show shows how obedient and disobedient the pupils can be and how much lack of respect some student have towards their teachers.

Most of the footage is from cameras placed around the school, there is no interviewer or camera crew for these parts of the program but is the narrator which has been added in during the editing of the program.

Parts of the show were filmed like an interview with the teacher in front of the camera and the camera man asking the questions.

There is a wide range of different shot depending on where the cameras are placed. Some are on the ceiling looking down on to the pupils and staff and others are level with the

Analysis

Biggie & Tupac

• Director- Nick Broomfield
• Date- 2002

The location of the documentary was set in Brooklyn where both Biggie and Tupac lived. this shows an area of poverty and you can tell it is quite a rough place to live. You can tell by the appearance of the people interviewed that they don't take much pride in the way they look. you can tell this just by looking at the clothes they wear.
The way broomfield films the documentary is the same as lots of others of the same type. he spends most of his time behind the camera. The person who he is interviewing will have the whole shot to themselves. although in some parts of the film broomfield is included in the shots or a shot of him by himself is used as he tells the audience what is happening or answers questions.
 

Analysis of my As work

 

Brief

Which brief are you pursuing?
During the course of the year i will be creating  an extract from an original documentary TV programme. this will last approximately five minutes. i will also be creating;

•  a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary


•  a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.

Identify if this is an individual or group project?
This will be and individual project and all the work will be done by myself although, i will be using pupils and teachers around the school as my actors

Write a brief summary of your concept for the main task:
The concept for my main task is to look at how different pupils engage in school life and their opinions, also i will look at the views of a teacher and there view on teaching disengaged pupils and how they find working in a school.

List any ideas for locations (mise-en-scène):

• Heworth Grange Comp
• Out of school
• Home
• Journey to school

List any ideas for costume and props:
As my documentary is set in a school the main costume will be school uniform. Any filming outside of school times will be in normal everyday clothes.

Outline your ideas for each ancillary task:
For my first anccillary task i will create a double page spread in a populat tv magazine. i will let the readers know what the documentry is about aand what to expect.
For my second ancillary task i will produce a newspaper advert for my documentary

last years class analysis of work

(EVALUATION) Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back!

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(EVALUATION) What have you learnt about new technologies from the process of creating this product?

Throughout the process of creating ‘KBT’ music magazine I have learnt how to use a digital camera, Photoshop and how to create a blog. in the process of taking pictures I used a tripod, this helped to keep the pictures in level and in focus. I learnt more stuff about Photoshop including the mask toot for cutting out pictures perfectly. When cutting out photos I have learnt that it is easier if they are taken with a blank background. In Photoshop I also learnt how change a photos contrast, un blur and change the brightness. To cut out the images around the hair I used to making tool. This helped a lot as it cuts out all the tricky bits around the hair.

Using the blog to present my work has allowed me to keep on track with my work and progress. The Blog is available for people from all over the world to see and it has allowed my to receive constructive criticism which has led to me making changes so my end product will be the best it can.