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I think documentary project a very important project to have. It helped me in different ways. And I like to explain that one by one. First of all, during a documentary project idea development is such important thing to do, because this idea can be affecting the audience directly. So, at that point it’s important to have a good idea and good research to continue this project . If I explain my idea again, I needed to talk about how social media can affect to our life. Especially, teenagers and students. And for talk about that, I needed to have statics and evidences. So, I researched into websites and documentaries which are providing the details I was looking for. After collecting that data, I wrote my script. For the script I used research results (online survey) as well. Meanwhile, I did an example interview. And it was my first professional interview. But unfortunately, something unprofessional thing happened. I didn’t use a tie mic for my interview. The reason that I ...
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Production

pre- production I started pre-production 23rd of January and in that day, I did the example interview. I did that interview with my class member, Thomas. I asked question and having his opinion about social media. Also, I did ask similar questions I would ask for my original interviews. Interview was 6 mins long and I had good comments for each question from him. And this was setup I used for my set interview. I used three pointing lighting. And had to have one camera. And I had big break, next video recording I did 07 th February. I did the second interview with Justin Smith course director of media level 3. During the interview, I asked his opinions about social media and how does he think about students interact with social media as lecture etc. That interview was 12 minutes long and for that I used multi- camera technique first time. re- shoot Then after shows to sample documentary, my lecture commented on that and said, there were too many stock footages I put i...

Planning

The script   Social media and Your life  Social media is the biggest revolution, and it changed everything. It made a significant impact on various kind of industries during the last couple of years.  This impact affected to young generation so much. However, we cannot say it happened in the wrong way or the right way. However, we could say it changed all of our lifestyles. At the beginning of social media, it was such an important to have. Everyone started to connect, it was a happy place, and everybody loved it. It helped us to connect with our family and our love once. It helped us to meet new people, start new relationships and friendships. It was an excellent thing to have at that time.  Day by day, it started to get worse. Now it's not a pleasant thing to have for some of us.  Some people start to fade up about their social media. Some people shut down their social media and start to think about their privacy. In 2018 Facebook CEO Mark ...

Research

Codes and Conventions What are codes and convention?             Codes are the signs which providing a meaning a scene, as an example character’s costumes, camera angles.             Conventions are the accepted way to do something. And it could repeat use. Example, a love song in romantic films. Convention of Documentary 1.       Actuality footage - this is more like recording live situations and events with real people, not actors. 2.       Voiceovers – this used for documentaries most of the time. We couldn’t see anyone but have their voice to describe the things in the documentary. 3.       Interview - the interview is we are going to record a person talk with their permission. Basically, there’s an interviewer and an interviewee, and the interviewer is asking the question and intervi...