SECOND DOCUMENTARY

What is the social issue being focused on in this documentary.
The social issue focused on in this documentary is rape. The slut walk was formed for the people that have been wrongly raped because of the way they were dressed.

Summaries what happens in the beginning/ middle and end
In the beginning we got introduced to the storyline and what was happening, a lot of people were speaking about what was happening but it got started with the story of Heather Jarvis.
In the middle we got introduced to other people who have been through the same thing.
In the end the people that have been raped give advice; "is not your fault, your still wonderful and we are here got you'

what type of documentary is this? Conventions used?
The documentary is a social action, using social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to get their massage across. The conventions used for this documentary are:

Ø  Protesting 

Ø  Interviews (opinions)

Ø  Witness

what is the purpose of this documentary?
The purpose of this documentary was to show how many people are going through the same thing. most people that get rape think they are alone and end up taking their lives sometimes. this documentary was made to make a stand. A stand that shows people that they are not alone and they get help.


what changes it is campaigning for?
The change the documentary campaigning for is for the girls to be able to dress however they want for them not to be taken advantage of because someone believes they are dressed like a slut. The documentary Slut walk campaigned show people that, the way people dress lead them to someone harming them. The way people dress is sometimes how they express themselves.

who is the target audience? age/ gender/ interest/ location/ language/ how is the audience encouraged to participate in creating change?

The target audience for this documentary is 15+ mainly because the issues involved in the documentary are not meant for young people and the documentary Slut walk shows the young adults dressing slutly and the massage is clearly for them.
Gender for this documentary was clearly Females as they talked and shared they opinions on what they have been through. The whole video was based on women.
The audiences are not encouraged to participate but they were encouraged to get involved and see or get help. they were also told to go on Facebook or Twitter and share the massage with other people.

task 6: Narrative and Genre

The objective of this task was to use the narrative to display the genre of the genre of film which is being used. using techniques such as camera angles and dialogue. I paired up with Isabella Francis and Cynthia Ankunda, we developed an idea to conclude our first two horror films with detailed narrative inform of a drama- thriller. the narrative involved a friend of all three main character going missing and two of their friends got killed, to wrap the story up the main characters find out who the real killer is.

Before we started filming, we had to print off props we would these included posters of Meron, the missing girl, Pictures of the fellow friends who died.

The film opened with a fast pace of the college which tied into the three main characters staring at a missing poster and talking about how much they missed their friend, the scene was a middle shot of  three main characters but it would have worked better if we got a close up of each of character while they were speaking.
The following scene was of the main characters with their friends at a table. the camera was in a fixed point where there are no close up, the table full of friends were soon having a heated conversation but because of the way the camera was positioned, it would have worked better if we got close up of each face.

The scene that followed was the murder. this scene was well planned out, the way the camera was positioned it seemed like the shot was a point of view of the killer. When the killer is nearing the victim, is clear that the murderer is someone he knows, but that remains unknown to the audience, the camera pans upwards towards the sky and a gun is heard, making it very clear to the audiences someone has been killed.

The next scene fades in with an argument between between a couple, Cynthia one of the main character and her boyfriend Hari, Cynthia was mad about the disappearance of her friend and Hari being the supportive boyfriend tries to calm her down but it didn't work. the camera angel we used include an over the shoulder shot to show the both views of the characters. a mid shot was used to show how heated their conversation was. Close after the argument with Cynthia, Hari was sitting by himself, thinking when he came into the point of view shot of the killer that he clearly knows. the camera pans up and the sound of a stab and a scream is heard, we see a black bird flyaway in the sky, which adds to the mood and meaning of the film.

The three main characters from the beginning are once again seen standing side by side, the camera goes from left and right, close up on the characters facial expressions. The scene fades after the girls start going their own way, which worked very well. The final scene was of the discovery the killers, Bella overhears Sabrina talking to her accomplice over the phone. what was very effective about this scene was the dialogue between Sabrina and Bella, to find out the killer is one of her closes friends was hard on Bella but she unmasked the killer and we find out who the antagonist of  the story is. what was ineffective about this scene however was the camera shot, it have worked better if we got close up of the argument between Bella and Sabrina (myself)

Kony analysis

                                      Social Action Media Production: Kony 2012 

Kony 2012 is a documentary made to help arrest Kony; it was a social action that caught the attention of everyone that was on a social network.

The issues being focused on in the documentary is the misuse of power and the injustice of all. Kony has the power to kidnap countless African children, brainwash them and force them to fight for him. Turning the girls into sex slaves and killing those that don’t obey.

Kony has been was been wanted by the international criminal court since 2005.  

In the beginning of the documentary the director Jason Russell introduces his family mainly his son.

Using images Russell introduces the live of his son. His son now grown and able to talk introduces us to Jacob, the boy that forced Jason Russell to want to make a video.

In the middle of the video, it was all about making connections and making themselves heard but most important fighting back the likes of Kony.

At the end of the video, Russell told the audience what they could do to help rid the world of Kony (call of action).

The type of documentary is social action, using Facebook to get the point across. The conventions used are no different then normal documentary.

Ø  Interview

Ø  Factual information

Ø  Actual footage

Ø  Images/photographers

Ø  Archive footage

Ø  Eye witness/ account

The purpose of the documentary was to raise awareness of Joseph Kony.

Since Kony was so hard to catch, Russell had an idea to make him famous instant so that he has no place to hid, in order to get him out of hiding, everyone had to know what he looked like.

The purpose was also to raise awareness of Kony 2012 campaign.

The target audience for this documentary would be Global, but since it was released on Facebook and everyone from the age of 11+ has Facebook, the age group would be 11+.

The gender for this documentary is males and females, it didn’t matter what gender you were, the point was to make Kony famous and stop him and for that both gender had to be involved. 

The type of people that would watch this documentary is the people who have interest in social network and since now everyone has more then one social network, I think the interest of this documentary is for everyone.

The way the audience were encouraged to participate in creating change is by the end of the documentary Russell showed the audience what had to be done and what they need to do if they wanted to help.

Ø  Action Kit

Ø  Donate to the campaign

Ø  Share the documentary

Ø  Participate in the blackout

Task 1: Initial Research

My three ideas are: 
Fast food/ size
Annual income: more people facing poverty
Bus fares

Research!
fast food/size  

With obesity on the rise in the UK it is estimated that half the UK population will be obese by 2050. The National Obesity Forum said Britain was in danger of exceeding the prediction contained in a report back in 2007.

A new report blames junk food and claims fast food restaurants are to blame for tempting us to eat their food whether or not we are actually hungry. Fast food restaurants have been giving the public the wrong impression about what portion sizes should be considered right and what’s unhealthy. The obesity epidemic is a very serious problem and is something that shouldn't be taken lightly.

Annual income 

Hidden public service cuts will drain Britain's poorest families of 30 per cent of their annual income by 2017, as the coalition's tough spending targets begin to bite, new TUC research reveals.

It said reductions in benefits and family tax credits, combined with continuing cuts to welfare, will 'cause considerable financial harm for millions of families'.

The dire predictions come as chancellor George Osborne prepares to deliver his autumn statement on December 5, in which he is expected to detail a further £10bn of welfare savings over the next five years.

'Unless George Osborne changes course,' the TUC warned. 'These cuts will be dwarfed by massive reductions in public services

Bus Fares 

The cost of bus, tram and Tube journeys has increased as new fares come into effect in London.Fares have gone up in line with inflation, Transport for London (TfL) said. Single bus and tram fares on Oyster smart cards have gone up by 5p to £1.45. Peak and off-peak single fares on the Tube, DLR and Overground Zone 1 and off-peak single Zone 1-2 have risen by 10p, while cash fares increased by 20p.

what actions would your documentary encourage?

Fast food: The kind of actions that my documentary would encourage is that fast food is around everywhere but you should think about yourself, eating fast food is unhealthy and you should be taking care of yourself, my documentary would raise the awaress that fast food everyday is bad. 
Bus Fares: it would 

Summaries initial ideas.

Using interviews and footage, i will show how people are gaining so much more weight now then they use too. 

Croydon is full of fast food restaurant, selling fatten food that doesn't help people but people still end up buying because they are so busy making money that they don't have time to cook anymore.  Because we are in a sort of a recession every sing price of everything is going up, nothing is cheap anymore which means working on more hours in order to make more money to pay for the housing, water, gas, electric, car insurance etc. No one has time to spend home cooking anymore so everyone just walks into a fast food restaurant and buy food and when you have free time and you’re hanging out with your friends, you end up eating in fast food restaurants.

The fast food restaurants are not hard to find. There are more in Croydon then I can count.

McDonalds, KCF, burger king etc are not more than 10 minutes away from each other.

Where are the places that sell food that sandwiches and salads? And how come the fast foods are cheaper than the healthy food? Why not make it cheaper?

How comes bus fares have increased in cost? Doesn’t that just make peoples live even harder? 

Kony 2012: My Views

My opinion on the Kony 2012 is that it is too simple. The documentary is focusing on some serious subject but the way the director goes about it, seems a little simple. we heard about all of the serious issues that Kony was causing but we never actually seen it, the documentary is very informative but it is missing the scenes that would cause heartache. The scenes that would make us want to cry and makes us want to help from the goodness of our hearts. 

From the simple documentary we have seen, so many people have already got on involved but imagine if we could have seen more of the what Kony does, it would force many more people involved. 

What made the documentary even more simpler is the use of the directors child, he made the documentary sweet in way because most of the time i was 'awww-ing' at how cute he is. 

But at the same time the documentary was about helping children and protecting them but at the same time he told his son, exactly what Kony does and why he needs to be stop. i think telling the son, Kony was a bad man would have been enough. 

Research on Kony

The Kony 2012 started as a experiment. Would an online video make a war criminal famous?  If he was famous, would the whole world join together to do something and put stop to it or would he still remain at large?. 

The experiment end up being one of the fastest growing viral video of all time. 3.7 million people gave their support to help arrest Joseph Kony. 

Kony runs the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Africa and is responsible for massacres, mass rapes, and creating a legion of child soldiers. He has evaded capture for nearly three decades.

The Kony 2012 experiment sparked more international activity focused on stopping the LRA than ever before.....But Kony is still out there. 

Invisible children exists to bring a permanent end to LRA. As citizens we have done everything we can to see Joseph Kony captured. The responsibility of actually apprehending him belongs with the highest levels of government. We will continue to remind our leaders of the urgency and their promises while focusing on protecting families from LRA attacks and encouraging LRA soldiers to surrender.

Many of the fighters in Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army are unwilling combatants and have little desire to continue fighting. They are hundreds of kilometers from home and are far removed from the original goals of the LRA. Invisible Children works with local leaders and partner organizations to send “come home” messages directly to LRA groups, encouraging them to surrender and telling them how to do so safely.

David Allen Workshop: Comparing Music

For this task we had to find a videoclip that that doesn't contain music , then add music to the sequence....for this task we also had to use Garageband and since we have used Garageband before in our previous lesson we were to have no trouble.

The music that i was going to create wasn't going to be complicated since i have no music experience whats so ever. 

I started using Garageband to start off with and the music i made was a simple piano, i played some simple keynotes for my music then i used the video i chose which was Beastly and i added both the movie and the music i added in Garageband into premiere to start the editing, the edit was simple since i was watching the video while i was making the the music which made it fairly simple. 

I went on Youtube to find a song that would suit the video that i already had , it was quite hard but i finally settled on a song made by vanessa Hudgens called say 'ok'. 

adding music to the video was a bit hard considering  i wasn't sure about the song but as i added the song to the video, i thou it sounded great. 

Comparing Music 

The music i found effective to use was the simple piano one that i made on Garageband, the reason i liked that one was because it was simple, in the video, the two young protagonist involved were talking which is why the simple piano worked.