Group activity with year 8's

Today we had to help year 8's grow and increase there knowledge about how a documentary should be made such as the planning that goes in to it and camera angles etc. this helped me as much as it helped them because it helped further my knowledge by talking about it and it made me realise that i do know what I'm talking about. also it helped me increase my confidence when talking to people. it also helped me because it helped make me realise that all documentaries must have a purpose. it also helped them because i gave them good ideas when it comes to planning because i told them to make timeline because  by making it will help you work out the length of your documentary and it will help you work out what you are going to be doing at each stage. i also told them to make a storyboard because it will help you work out a narrative for your documentary.

Timeline of our Documentary

0.00 we will be interviewing our first student .
0.45 we will be interviewing our second student
0.90 we will be inteviewing our third student
1.35 we will be interviewing our  fourth student
1.70 we will be interviewing our fifth student
2.15 we will be interviewing our sixth student
2.60 we will be interviewing our seventh student
3.05 we will be interviewing our eighth student
3.50 we will be interviewing our expert witness Mrs tomes
5.00 the end

Locations list, shot list and crew list

Locations list
We are going record our documentary on the school site beause it consists of asking students of 16+  plus questions about what they think about some of the problems we have to endure in 16+ and how they think these issues can be resolved.

Shot list
we will use a certain number of camera angles because our documentary consists of interviewing people so we will probably only use close up and medium close up in the documentary.

Crew list
 I am the only person in our crew list so he will be recording the documentary while anthony ask questions to the students of 16+ and ask questions to our expert witness mrs tomes.

Planning about Our chosen documentary idea

Our chosen documentary idea is about some of the issues we in 16+ are having with the school we are going to concentrate on 2 key issues which are, when we come late to school and we have a free lesson we still end up having a late detention even though we have a free lesson. another issue with school we have is that we are forced to stay in school during lunch times not allowed to buy food from outside having to eat from the school cafe. We will interview students from 16+ to ask what they think about these and how they think they can be resolved

For our documentary we will interview students of 16+ about what they think about these issues and we will listen to there viewpoint about what they think and how they think these issues can be resolved. we will ask them questions about these issues to see what they think. we will ask people about what they want to be improved.

We will also interview an expert witness about why we are unable to go offsite at lunch time and why do we get a late detention even though we are free lesson 1 and 2. I think our expert witness will be Mrs tomes who is our principal, we will interview her because she caused these issues and we will ask her questions about why she caused these issues and we will ask her about why it benefits us to stay in school at lunch time and why do we get a late detention even though we are free lesson 1 and 2.

The people who we will ask our questions to are, the students in our media classroom and we will also ask our questions to general 16+ students in school. Also we will ask an expert witness who is going to be miss tomes because she's the main person who has caused these issues.

Our target audience for our documentary is going to be teenagers who are going through simular problems that we are going through with school.

The questions that we will ask students are:

How do you feel about getting a late detention even though you have a free period lesson 1?

How do you think this issue could be improved ?

How do you feel about being forced to stay onsite for lunch not being allowed to go outside to eat ?

How do you think this issue could be improved ?

The questions we will ask miss tomes are:

How do you think these problems could be resolved to make us in 16+ happy ?