Uploading Documentary To YouTube

We uploaded our documentary onto YouTube so we could share and receive feedback on our video, what we did well and what we could improve.

Here's a link to the website:

Evaluation

This is my evaluation which i uploaded to www.slideshark.com to enable viewing.

http://www.slideshark.com/Landing.aspx?pi=zGRzdH9e9z5TxCz0

Group Ancillary Task

For the ancillary task, we had to create a poster of our documentary. We wanted to make the poster very simple but effective and engaging for audiences to notice the advertisement. We used a very effective method of writing the titles diagonal along the books pages to better the poster's intricate design.

We used the Channel 4 logo in the top right to instantly make audiences recognise the channel. We also found using the text in the apple was very appropriate and looked very stylish.  

Word Cloud

I used wordle.net to create a word cloud of my blog. The word cloud expresses the most common used words and helped me gather ideas on my ancillary task. I had to decide a topic to write about and this helped me see the areas most commonly targeted in my blog.

TV Listing Presentation

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TV Listing Presentation

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Editing Process

Using the programme iMovie, this is a screenshot of the editing process. After we had filmed at Reed's and finished at Heathisde, we could then move onto editing the footage and select the clips we wanted in the final documentary. So far the process is going very well, we have all the footage we want on the programme and we have a final few things to include. After analysing the footage on iMovie we may even need to film a short clip which would help the final parts of our documentary to flow very nicely. 

Still to do: Film any last bits of footage, re-evaluate the finished footage and aim to finish editing ASAP.

Target Audience

The video displayed shows my interview with Danielle and Lydia who watched parts of the group's documentary and expressed their views on the appropriate target audience. They agreed with the target audience mainly containing teachers, parents and children who are under private or public schooling because of the helpful insight given when displaying contrasts between schools. 

It was decided teachers would be interested in the documentary due to standards of teaching being covered in the documentary. Parents would be a target audience because they will face the decision whether to send their child to private or public schooling and would find the documentary a helpful insight into making that decision. Finally pupils would be interested due to facilities being discussed and differences between schools. 

Archive Footage

After searching video website such as www.youtube.com , we found relevant archive footage to include in our documentary. Ideally we wanted to find two videos highlighting the results from two different schools, Private and Public schools. The reason for this would be that it would be very relevant to our filming comparing the two schools and this would give the audience a real life example and a further insight into the comparisons between the two. The two videos below are examples of the archive footage we could use, taken from St John Baptist school in Woking and Harlow College.

Woking A-Level Results:







Harlow College A Level Results:

Mise-En-Scene

Uniform:


Costumes appear in our documentary frequently and have a very clear image portrayed to viewers. Private school and state schools differ in uniform, especially at sixth form, public schools aren't required to wear uniform. However private school sixth form's require uniform and this topic appears in our documentary interviews when the question 'Do you think uniform has an effect on your learning?' is asked. Uniform is to be carefully considered for how much involvement there will be in our documentary and how severe the differences are between standards of learning and wearing/not wearing uniform.

Filming At Reeds

Reeds Filming on Prezi

Filming at Reeds

Our day filming at Reeds School

Due to our change of plan, Meg, Nick and I took the day to film at Reeds School. This was a very successful and valuable day of filming as we filmed everything we needed in order to make our documentary as successful as it possibly could be.

We got to Reeds for 10am where we were introduced to Mr Michael who had kindly arranged the day for us. We met one of the sports coaches called Mr Haining who was more than helpful. It was great talking to him as he provided an insight to both experiences at a state school and a private school. He gave us a tour around the sports department and showed us the sporting facilities which was one of the significant differences between the two.

We were also allowed to sit in on a history lesson which was great as we got a real life example of teaching instead of interviews and the ways in which the children responded and got involved in lessons. All the children were very well behaved and took part in the lesson activities. They had a friendly and practical approach to teaching.

We sat in on a gym session as well as two students playing tennis. This was great as it in our documentary their is a clear contrast in the facilities.

Speaking to the sports coach whom had attended both private and state schools was very interesting, his view was that he feels you get what you pay for when you come to a private school, the sporting facilities and matches that take place in every sport at the weekends, the top athletes get one on one sessions with coaches which was a real benefit. However if students are determined to succeed they can do just as well at a public school if they are motivated to do so.

At Reeds, we also got a chance to have some one on one interviews with the students of the sixth form, they seemed to love where they were and what they were doing. Another difference between a state and private school was the way in which in free periods the students at a private school are made to study where as public schools have the choice to study or go out in their free periods.

The day was ideal and we completed a bulk of filming which could now be edited and placed into our documentary. We also were kindly given GCSE and A Level results on a page and a copy of one of their Newsletters to observe and include if needed.

Still to do: Over half term our group needs to edit our final outcome together to produce the best possible result for our documentary.

Planning Double Page Spread

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YouTube Debate

On www.youtube.com i found a very interesting video on political leaders in the US discussing the differences between Public and Private schools. The clip contain leaders such as Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton giving their views on the both and which school their children are currently educated through. This video could be used as some of our archive footage, if not provides us with a useful understanding of the comparisons and which ultimately is the better choice for education.

YouTube Debate: Public or Private Schools?:

Analysis Of Documentary Process

In class we looked upon our documentary and evaluated what was the successful and what needed improving when looking at making the final documentary.  

One Shot

Camera Angles: During the interview filming we used the camera angle 'two shot' as this clearly showed to the audience the interviewer and the interviewee, which also showed reactions. This is an appropriate shot to use in the filming of our main task,equally effective would be a one shot but with a voice-over with the questions so the focus is on the interviewee. 

PreviewTwo Shot 

We also worked an the opening/introduction to our documentary. We decided we would use sped up video of the route of the car journey heading into both the private school and public school. After filming the footage we decided it was an effective way of showing a clear difference between the two. The camera angle used was a panning shot used through the windscreen of a car. 


Here are the two screenshot from Google Maps of the route we took and the entrances to the public school (Heathside School) and the private school (St Georges College)

St Georges College 

Heathside School

Close ups throughout our documentary also worked really well as they emphasized key parts of the film we wanted to set focus on.

We researched some interviewing and questioning techniques, this worked to our advantage as we got a good idea of what would work well in our interviews included in our documentary

Our documentary takes the forms of observational and participatory. Our group members get involved with the documentary allowing the audience to really understand and get involved with the documentary themselves. However we may change to having voice-overs instead of a documentary maker present in filming.

We chose to do a magazine double page spread, this task is done individually. We also are doing an advertising campaign as a group based around our documentary.

Our documentary targets a varied audience. The documentary may be especially relevant to parents with children of the age of choosing public or private schools as it compares and reviews the differences.

We've made our documentary different and interesting by including many different aspects. We have included several interviews throughout which works well to keep the audience interested, it also breaks the documentary up so there is a variety of film. We have also including statistics in our documentary as the statistics support our arguement in the documentary.

We've worked well together as a group, our group is organised and we are up to speed with the process of our documentary. It would be good if we could get together more outside of school and do some work as a group as we need to stick to deadlines.

We are going to include archive footage in our documentary such as pictures and newspaper articles. This will be effective in the outcome of our final piece.

Public school v private school

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Previous Documentaries

Whilst searching though youtube.com i found some videos which could help the group gain an insight on how previous documentaries on this subject have been constructed and put together. This could give us ideas on what specific things could work well for our own documentary, and the ways in which the documentary maker gives the comparison of the two over to the audience.

There are two videos i have found, one which compares public and private schools but in the USA and one video of a private school who made a documentary. The first video is very interesting in comparisons and this could help and gauge a clear understanding on which school's are better for a child's education, growth ect.

The second video is slightly different, however a very professional made documentary which explains what private school means and presents to a pupil. Teachers talk about how the school operates and what they focus on throughout education.



Private School Vs Public School:





Hereford Cathedral School Documentary:

Storyboard

To help myself and the group, i constructed a storyboard of the planning of our documentary. It displays a brief outline of what we need to include in our documentary. This helped when we went filming because we had the contents of what to include and this will also help when editing because we can sort our documentary into order using the storyboard.