Practice

This was a short practise documentary we created to test ourselves and see how well we did. Looking now I can see some of the things that I need to improve such as the positioning of the camera. We also tried to create a shaky hand held effect but held it too still so this wasn't effective. However I am Glad we did this as now I can see what needed improvment and can do this for my final peice.

Documentary Research and Analysis

I was looking at documentaries made by well known producers and was researching them on Google. I was looking on Google and came across Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore's own website. This is great as now I can study a lot of the documentaries that they have made and get ours as close to professional as possible. It also gives me a chance to see a large range of camera effects and lighting etc. to use in my documentary. I can also maybe look at some things used that brake the usual codes and conventions of a documentary and see how they work.

Sam

Documentary Beginning

As I said in a previous post I mentioned about the beginning of our documentary showing flashing images of paparazzi. Whilst we where out at the Premiere in London we managed to get some good shots of celebrities and paparazzi taking photos of celebrities so we narrowed them down and selected some. I have not got the photo's with me at the moment as Sophie has them on her camera and is not with me at this time. I shall post them up on a later post. I am glad we managed to get photos ourselves as it shows our capability rather than just copying and pasting pictures from the Internet.

Sam

Starting to edit

We are now beginning to edit the first part of our short documentary. We have some ideas on what to do but still not sure. One idea is to to have pictures of paparazzi with flashes and short cut shots. The kind of pictures we would use would be similar to the ones below;

I got these images off of Google Images and we would like to, if possible, take our own photo's of similair pictures. If this proves to be to difficult we may use a small amount of photos found on the internet but use as few as possible.

Sam

Paparazzi Documentary Analysis

Before the interview with Darryn Lyons we needed to practise our interview techniques so we made a short clip and then analysed it. We practised, edited together footage and then presented our ideas to the class.

London Premiere Filming

Later today Sophie and I are going up to London Leicester Square to try and get some footage of the new premiere of "A Christmas Tale" starring Jim Carey. It is being held in Leicester Square at The Empire cinema. This should be a good experience and we should be able to get some good footage to go into our documentary. We are also planning on doing a few more premieres for the final project.

Sam

Interview with Darryn Lyons

Also during the half term we had organised an interview with Darryn Lyons. We asked some questions that we had prepared before, I will post these up in a later blog. During the interview we had one camera set up staying still with him to the left. And then whilst I was asking questions Sophie was filming some weird angles and extreme close ups of Darryn. She also filmed some panning shots of his desk and office etc. This will help us greatly in the making of our documentary as the questions he answered and the way that he answered them where very professional.

Sam

Trip to london

During half term Sophie and I went to London and filmed some footage of paparazzi etc. We decided to go to the Dorchester and see what we could film and whilst we where there we saw a few photographers with camera's. We asked if we could interview them but would not let us film so we just asked a few questions. As we where walking away we saw Pamela Anderson walking from the back entrance round to the front. We didn't manage to film all of this but then we hung around for a while and saw her entering into her car with all the paparazzi trying to get a photograph of her. We are going to use this in our documentary and it is really useful as it is not archive footage it is our own footage.

Sam