Planning of the documentary.

For our 5 minute documentary, we are going to talk about “is technology making humans lazier”. Our documentary will include overhead narrative, and the only people included within the scenes are going to be the interviewees.

The interviewees are going to be…

While the narrator is discussing the matters of the documentary, we will include different scenes and edits of technological equipment, and people using it.

The timeline/plan of the documentary will be:

1^st minute:

The 1^st minute will include an introduction on what will be in the documentary.

2^nd minute:

The 2^nd minute will include the interviews. Each interview will last approx. 30 seconds.

3^rd minute:

The 3^rd minute will include the interviews too. The interview will not include the questions; the interviewee will be made to answer the question, including the topic.

4^th minute:

4^th minute will include the counter-argument. The counter argument will be about how technology helps humans.

5^th minute:

The last minute will conclude the purpose of the documentary.

practise for presentation

1st. introduction - Shalini Yogamoorthy
2nd. overview - Samsia Akhter
3rd. audience - Shalini Yogamoorthy
4th. Documentary mode - Samsia Akhter
5th. Questions - Shalini Yogamoorthy
6th. Thank you and any questions - Samsia Akhter

Edited version of presentation

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Planning of presenting our documentary

On prezi, i have created a presentation on what our documentary will be about. Samsia Akhter and Shalini Yogamoorthy will be presenting it by sectioning, explaing and equaling out the frames in this order:

1. Introduction: Samsia Akhter
2. Overview of the documentary: Shalini Yogamoorthy
3. Documentary type/mode: Samsia Akhter
4. The Audience: Shalini Yogamoorthy
5. Inspiration and pictures: Samsia Akhter
6. Counter arguements: Shalini Yogamoorthy
7. Questions: Samsia Akhter
8. Thank you and any questions?: Shalini Yogamoorthy

Prezi for introduction and explanation of our documentary

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The interviewees and asking for their permission

for our documentary of "how technology is making humans more lazy" we re going to interview a maximum of four people. their interview must be a maximum of 1 minute long. for the first minute, the narrator will be introducing the topic.  these people will be:

• Hodan Mohamed(Sociology, Business and ICT A-Level student from Barr's Hill and President Kennedy School) - Permission granted
• Samya Akhter (Psychology student from Coventry University) - Permission granted
• Samuel Abera (Maths, Physics and Engineering A-Level student from Barrs Hill school) - Permission granted

Questions I am going to ask my interviewees

1. what is your perspective of the technological era now?
2. how does technology affect your daily life?
4. out of 10, how much do you think technology is improving the lifestyle of humans?
3. do you think this statement "technology is making humans more lazy" is true? why?
4. is technology making your life easier?
5. what are your thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of technology?

ethical considerations/permissions

to ensure that we are able to record and create our documentary to the full original plan and potential, we must get permission from the following organisations to use their facilities;

• Sainsbury's
• Primark
• West Orchard shopping centre
• local companies/buildings

we must also get permission from members of the public if they are allowed to be inside our documentary, and we must get consent from the interviewees. if they agree, i must also ask if they want their identity to be hidden and they physical features to be pixelized, due to privacy and confidentiality issues.

when interviewing and inputting opinions into the documentary, i must make sure that i follow the guidelines for libel and defamation rules on ensureing that the information is not twisted to give a negative impact upon an individual.

research process for my documentary

to ensure that i collect and present the correct and relevent information on the opinion of my documentary on "is technology making humans lazier?", i will

• research different gadgets which have tasks, uses and apps on making life easier,
• i will interview a small sample of people to get their view and opinion on the statement
• i will look at existing documentarys and talks which are based on the same ideology
• i will look at the counter arguement and get views on it for a biased documentary

My documentary will be a open discussion based documentary, which will give all sides of the statement on is technology making humans lazier.

aspects which will affect my documentary

Documentary aspects part 2

What's the purpose?

the purpose of my documentary will be to raise awareness of how technology is making humans more lazy and how we are slowly evolving to become dependant upon machinery in the 21st century. We are also losing our ability to fend for ourselves thanks to the technological era that we live in.

but the purpose of this documentary will also show the counter argument of how technology is making lives for less able people more easier, and helping to extend human lifespan, save lives, create new cures and machinery to save lives and achieve goals and explore concepts that no human is able to do without the help of technology.

my documentary wll be based on more opinionated views and it will contain a couple of facts and statistics which will be used to help back up some opinions. my documetary will also contain different stories and overviews of people, who have had an impact on technology.

Who's the audience?

the audience for my documentary will be for both male and females, but will target the age range of 16 to 45. This is because this is the main target range of technology users, and this is the focus group which understands the defferent concepts of technology, as they grew up and matured with technology around them.

the documentary will also focus on the older generation, and their perspectives on how technology has changed society and how it has helped them. but due to the technical talk and aspects included within the documentary, it will be a struggle for them to understand.

Analysis and genre aspects of my documentary

Documentary aspects

Construction of my documentary:

The construction of my documentary will be done using a HD camcorder, tripod, voice recorder, microphone, dolly/tracker and different equipment that relates to the topic (xbox kinect, washing machines, etc).

the genre of my factual programming is that it will be a discussion documentrary based on the views of technology. also, the mode of our documentary will be of a expository mode, which means that it will follow the codes and conventions of:

they contain a "voice of God" narrator or commentator

• images are used to illustrate and back-up the voice over
• the visual motion picture has editing to help the story continue and back up the narrations
• contains a variety of footage, interviews, stills and archival material for evidence and support

This means that the video will need a narrator and will include different scenes/cuts/clips of the surrounding topics and equipment. The documentary will also include some clips of the interviewees and will be cut into the different sections.

the full interview will be recorded visually and auditarily so it can be used in different contexts within the documentary.

the documentary will containt various different angles and shots (high angle, close up, over the shoulder, etc) and the camera will be panned, zoomed and tilted on different scenes to focus or expand on different scenes/surroundings.

A story to tell; Summarization

My summarization on a documentary.

In today's lesson, we had a class discussion on different modes and types of documentaries. We watched a couple of examples* and we concluded that the purpose of documentaries are to express peoples views on different aspects, (both for and against counter arguments), it is a method of opinion and it is a technique of persuasion on different topics.

Some documentaries can be inspirational, others can be informative. Some are biographical, but it can be autobiographical too. Some documentaries are based on reliable, hard and blatent facts, while others can be a source of opinions gathered from a sizable ratio of mankind. But no matter the purpose and topic of the documentary, it is always about somebody's story, and expressing themselves and outlooks on life.

We also looked into a documentary maker called "...", who did a long feature documentary on different people in differents states in America^. He achieved this by going on a Aerican road trip and interviewed random people that he bumped into. The purpose of this documetary was to show the variety of people and personalities that are in America and how they ALL have a story to tell... This raised discussion and thoughts within class, and we was told to record and share our stories in life.

I think it is a undebatable fact that everybody has a story to tell and that is what determines everybodies view on how they see the world and life.

*http://www.4docs.org.uk/films/show/5/King+of+Laughter
http://www.4docs.org.uk/competition/view/349/Please+%26+Thanks+%28+Best+Version+%29

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