Issues of factual programming

Accuracy

When making a factual program you should always do your research properly because all of your statements in a factual program must be 100% true and if your statements or facts are wrong you could be putting someone’s life at risk for example when talking about medical conditions.

Balance

When making a factual program you should always have equal information when talking about politics or mass media because you have to talk about sides in these two examples so it must consist of equal amount of information from both sides. You should have balance of opinions because you could interview 2 people who are on the same side of the issue making your factual program biased you should have equal amount of opinions from each side.

Impartiality

When making a factual program you should not take a side you must have a neutral standing on things and do not be biased to one side. Present an equal amount of information or statements from both sides. Also it is vital that you do not take a side.

Objectivity

When making a factual program you should get your main point across and you should be open minded about the point that is being made about the subject that is being discussed. You should not be one sided to the subject that is being discussed you should take both viewpoints and be open minded about the subject.

Subjectivity

When making a factual program you should keep your personal views and feelings out of the issues because by doing so it can lead to a one sided view on the subject that is being discussed making your factual film biased.

Opinion:

When making a factual film you should give a balanced view so you should interview people or find statements that have a different viewpoint and opinion. You should not only interview the people who agree with each other you should interview or find statements that have different viewpoints.

Bias

This is when an argument is completely one sided and ignores everything that is shown by the other side so when you make a factual film you should include both sides of the argument and make sure you cover and have enough information from both sides making your factual program fair.

Representation 

You should represent your factual program in a certain way , for example you should not stereotype people or group people by an ethnic group. You must be very careful when making your factual program because you do not want to represent things in a certain way making your intended audience upset.

Access

You need to have people’s permission because that way you have authorised access and also by having this you will not get sued because you have a right to be there and have the authority to be there.

Privacy Contract with the viewer

You must have permission to film a viewer otherwise without having permission you will be sued because that person will see themselves in TV and feel violated and they will sue you because you have not got there consent to film them.

Production Schedule

Storyboard

today's lesson plan

Today me and anthony are going to interview more people and we are going to make our introduction for our documentary. if we have time at the end we will start some editing.

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.