Production Log 10

I felt that the documentary gave me the opportunity to develop my own independent skills as I managed to do my own documentary by myself. It also gave me an opportunity to go and speak to the expert who knew about the topic that i wanted to talk to them about. I got my own opportunity to see what undertaking the pressure of making the perfect documentary as I was doing it alone from the start.

During this final week of my documentary all I did is export my video to YouTube another thing is that i did is to check that the video at a good quality. Throughout the project I felt the only challenging part was to listen to advice of what my assessor to improve my documentary as i did not understand some of it would make sense in the documentary until the end.

There are was a lot of things i enjoyed whilst making the documentary (except pre production) I enjoyed the fact that i did not had to rely on any partner as this documentary was based on me. I believe my documentary convey the fact that being in a care is not all that bad. there are two part of the documentary that touch my heart which was the montage of the photo which illustrated my growth in care and also the last segment where i said my conclusion.

Arman Final Video

Production Log 9

During this week I showed the draft of my work to my assessor who was accompanied by his assistant and he gave me feedback about my work. I had made the decision to reshoot my interview with Claudia Morales as previously the lighting was insufficient and there was the background noise of a fish tank.

After viewing the documentary He advised me that I was excessive with my footage and to edit it and to pay attention to the advise he had given me. He was disappointed as he assumed that there would have been more progress. I took notes on what he advised to do. 

After the meeting I felt refreshed and committed to the task. Starting with the voice recorder i spoke in more detail  about the my situation and daily life in care being as honest as possible. I had to film more Vox pops footage which went according to plan  After that I voice recorded about my perception to the questions I asked the Vox Pops which is illustrated throughout my documentary. An example of what I asked what is the Care home like?

I showed my final draft to my assessor and he was pleased to see the progression that the documentary was coming together and near to it end. I finished the final editing to the documentary and am satisfied that went well.

Production Log 8

During this week I started to make the adjustments that I was advised to do so I could achieve better grade with regards to my documentary about the Care System. I started the improvement with the voiceover.Originally there wee some issues with the recording. I decided to re-record being cautious that I made sure that every time I finished speaking into the voice record i hung up for three seconds so therefore it would make it easier for me to edit the audio.

During the week when I was free I had to shoot some new footage for my documentary, this was for the intro for each segment of the documentary. Another task that I undertook was editing the voiceover. Whilst editing the audio  I noticed a problems that needed attention, throughout the audio there was background noise therefore I had to restart the voice record. 

In the media lesson I had to decide on new music that would be appropriate for the documentary. Towards the end of the week I looked back to see whether I had followed the advised structure for the documentary. I had to rearranged the order of the documentary as some were not in the right place.

Next week I will do a rough cut to the audio and I will continue editing my documentary.

Production Log 7

I have finished filming all the bits which I had to do and I made sure that the children were happy to what they said in the voice over there was no script about what they said about their opinion of the care home expect the question.

I showed the draft of my work to my assessor who was accompanied by his assistant and he gave me feedback about my work

• Make sure you record what you say on the voice recorder and give it three seconds so you can edit the sound. 
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• First thing was when i did the montage editing of the tour of the hour he said that he want me to talk about the situation about the care, more context about the care home and make sure it give some information led so the audience can understand situation.
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• At the beginning of the each segment he wants me to give intro and he want the change of location at the beginning as the location doe not relate to the care system. I said outside the care home which would be the best one.
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• He also suggested a new structure that i could follow within my documentary.

This is how it will go.

I will do an intro each segment, once I have done my intro it will go to me asking a question to the Vox pop relating to the segment of the documentary I am doing and I will be showing the viewers about my perception to the question. An example would be what is the Care home like?

Also this weekend i will be sending information to my assessor in regards to when i will be filming and the progress of it.

Next week I will be continuing filming and editing once I have visit a university.

Production Log 6

This week I asked to my careers to write a letter on my behalf  to social worker. thje reason why i had to do this is because I had to ask their permission on letting the children participate in my documentary.

I re did the shots of the segment of my daily life. This week nothing went wrong I continued doing the filming and editing. Whilst I was editing i encounter product in adding sound effect to make the sound effect sound realistic.

In this week I had done the voice over of the speaking about what the room are in the residential care home but in more. however i did not have much time to do it as i was very busy. i did the interview with my career speaking about their interest as a career After that it was all fine.

Also I started to edit the footage I did at home already in class which was the cooking and also the search to each sound effect that would work for my documentary again because they were copyright and i had to get not the copyright.

Next week i will continue editing and film.

Production Log 5

On Saturday morning I woke up very early to commence filming. I encountered lots of problem whist filming on my own. The carers at the care home encourage me to ask for help. I asked them to help me film in the documentary. Two of my carer me with the camera. One camera shows a high angle of of me cooking and the other camera doing two thing one. At the beginning it show me chopping food to pieces. Next it shows a close up of the food being cooked in the frying pan and also the rice. I fully filmed me cooking the food fully. What this does is that it allowed me to fully see what I was doing in the full process of the cooking.

Also In the weekend I partly shot a segment of my daily life. I encountered another problem on that day and that was the amount of interruption I had. I had to put a sign in front of everyone door to say that I will be filming.

However it did not work too well when I started to do the voice over speaking about what the room are in the residential care home. I overcome this issue when speaking to the staff about taking the children on a early activities which was rock climbing. After that it was all fine.

Also I started to edit the footage I did at home already in class which was the cooking and also the search to each sound effect that would work for my documentary. This documentary will be participatory mode.

Next week I will be continuing editing and filming

Production Log 4

During this week I continued planning and  following my schedule, I I decided on the questions for the interview/Vox pop section of my documentary. I produced a hard copy of them to assist the interviewees for vox pops and the experts. This week I requested permission via the social worker for the possibly of involving fellow residents/adolescents in the filming with for my documentary.

Consent by the way of the letter on my behalf was issued and I advised my social worker about my documentary. I had a meeting with Chau Lee at my house where we discussed and about issue I am encountering and so far he said he will write a letter to Barking and Dageham Council on my behalf requesting his permission to participate in this documentary.

Whilst my social worker was working on that I continued to do my planning of my documentary I had done another planning work which was called Reeces and location and now I  have finished the planning work for my documentary

Next entry you will know that I have started the filming of my documentary and how it is going. I will enjoy this.

Production Schedule January and Feburary

Call Sheets

Risk Assessment

Production Log 3

Last week I said that before I make my next entry log I would have done the risk assessment and also the call sheets. However I did more i did the email work where I had to illustrate that I am contacting the specialist to fit in a time to do the documentary and show what I said to him or her. What did in the call sheet is that i had to type out the location of where I will be filming and when I will be filming in the specific location and who will be helping me film in the location. In the risk assessment I was told to make 1 risk assessment for each location I intended to film. I will need to type out for each risk assessment, explain the risk that I may face in the location and how I will prevent facing the situation.

I managed to do all of that work. I came across facing a problem within my work which was the risk assessment I could not come up with some ideas on what risk face in the location. I overcame this problem by asking one of the member of staff in the residential for help as they are always doing risk assessment for the adolescent that lives within the care home.

Next time you will find out that more information on what i have done got left to do within the planning work and also what i have done before the next entry log. Stay tuned.

Production log 2

As I continued doing the planning for the documentary. I came across seeing the two paperwork which I wanted to do before the next entry they were the budget work and crew list work. What I need to do to in the budget paperwork is to show how I will spent £5000 in my documentary and how it will be allocated. In the crew list paperwork I was told to write down the names on who will help me do the documentary.

During the lesson on friday I was told that i had to make some on the narrative arc and I was told the deadline on when all the planning had to be done which was next Friday. I made the changes and continue my planning for my documentary. I have not yet uploaded any of my work for planning on the blog yet but I will once I have finished doing the planning.

I managed to achieve finishing off the budget and the crew list paperwork before this entry. They were not that hard to completed. However I did face a quite a lot of problem when doing the budget as I told that i needed to illustrated how i would spent £5000 pounds all together however I went over the budget quite a lot times. In the end i manged to show how I will would spent £5000 for my documentary.

By the next time I do make entry log for my work I should done the call sheets and the risk assessment. What I need to do in the call sheet is to type out the location of where i will be filming and when I will be filming in the specific location and who will be helping me film in the location. In the risk assessment  I will need to make 1 risk assessment for each location I intend to film. I will need to type out for each risk assessment, explain the risk that I may face in the location and how I will prevent facing the situation.

Production Log 1

During this week I started  my planning for the documentary. During the lesson that was provided I was told to make an arc on what was going to happen within my documentary. My documentary is about me on how I can handle the pressure in being part of the care system.

We started on the narrative arc on Wednesday during the lesson. So instead of making a shooting script for the documentary it was decided that we would make a narrative arc based on the sections that will happen within the documentary.

We were told that the deadline to complete the narrative was on Thursday 8pm. I manage to complete this section on my own without partner, though will be making this documentary on my own. The challenge I face this week was when i started to do the narrative i found it hard to put lighthearted section within it as the documentary started to look very gloomy and pretty boring. I overcame this problem by asking my friend when calling him on what lighthearted section I could put in the documentary. I got some ideas from my friend and I included some of the ideas he said I could put in the documentary.

My targets before my next entry is to do the budget paperwork and also the crew list. What I need to do to in the budget paperwork is to show how I will spent £5000 in my documentary and how it will be allocated. In the crew list paperwork I will show who will be helping me throughout the filming of my documentary.

Interview/ vox pop Questions

Faris Rahman and Jeevan Jahal interview with Arman Ali

vox pops

Can you name any of  the Care situations that children can find themselves in? 

Respite care, residential care, foster care. etc

Do you know how many children enter into care each year?
(approximately 70,0000 ....see reaction of the interviewee)

What do you consider to be the main issues that children face in care?
detachment, isolation etc

What is your opinion on children in care? Do you think they are at a disadvantage?


Why do you think that children enter care? Could you give me 2 or three reason?

Social worker interviewed with Arman Ali

Do you face pressure on the daily basis working with children in care? 

If so what are they?

What is the most challenging aspect of your job?

How long have you worked as a social worker and have you seen any changes during this time?

Now Chau I would like to address the' elephant in the room' have you felt you have ever made the wrong decision?

Claudia Prescott Moralles interview with Arman Ali

Why did you decide a career in social care?

Do you find your role within the Residential Care Home interesting?

How do you inspire the resident in care to make the best of their situation?

What is the most challenging part of your job? Do you find older resident more resistant to the rules?

What is the frustrating part of your job?

Malichi Walcott and Dan

First thing first what placement did you like being at more, foster placement or Residential care home?

why?

Individual question after the question from above 

Malichi I know that you have been in respite could I ask you, your perception in entering respite?

Dan how do you feel when people leave the care home?

Dan and Malachi can participate in this question onward

Do you think that you are at the disadvantage from children who are not under care because there is strict rules put place for you?

Do you feel that your Social worker often make the wrong decision  for you in life?

Tell your best day of your life in care in general? Remember this can be either when you were in a foster placement or resident care home or respite?

What do you miss in your life since entering the care system?

reeces and location

Holibrook house

My bedroom

This is one of the locations where I will be filming a piece to camera in the Holibrook house. The location I chose was my bedroom the reason is because I want to personalise this documentary about the care system. I will also use this room to film on the tour of the house to show that it is accommodating, clean and a safe environment so therefore it would appeal to the audience. 

I will be using the artificial lighting in the room. I will be filming the tour of the house during the morning. However the piece to camera will be at night the reason is because I want the audience to be able to see me in sugu and it is also because nobody will interrupt me during filming as the adolescents will be asleep.

Kitchen

I will be using the kitchen as the location whilst filming which is set in place at Holibrook House. The reason why I will use this location is firstly for the lighthearted section  where i will be a a chef cooking Biriyani , the other reason is for the tour of the house as I want to show the looks of the home.

I will be using in the kitchen chopping board, knife, frying pan and also the ingredients to make my dish. This filming will be done during the morning at the weekend as the adolescent tend to sleep in on the weekend

Office

I will be using the office as part of my documentary. This filming will be done at the location of a home called Holibrook House. The reason why I will be using this location within the house is because this is where most staff do their paper works. Another reason why I will be using this location is because I have 3 sections of filming to do in this location. These are piece to camera, interviewing with staff and also tour of the house

I will be using this location during the weekdays in the morning as there not many people around the home during the time.

Conservatory meeting room

I will be using the conservatory meeting room as part of my documentary as I will be using this location for 3 sections of my filming. in these sections I will be interviewing adolescents, touring the house and also interviewing the social worker. The room is often quite cold and I will be placing a heater in the room so it does not effect me whilst I am filming. 

I will be using the artificial lighting in the room as you will be able to see me chat to the social worker.

Chadwell Heath Academy

Green screen room

I will be using the Green screen room. The filming will be done at the location of Chadwell Heath Academy. The reason why I will be using this location of the filming is because I have a section that I will be filming in which is the piece to camera incorporating statistics and facts.

I will be using the artificial lighting within this location as the audience will be able to see me clearly and talking directly at them. I will be using this location for filming during school time table.

Final Contact List

Budget cost

Crew list

email

Narrative Arc

contact list