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The documentary Community FC, follows the manager of a football team as it educates us on what his role is, and how Covid-19 has affected his role as a manager. The film starts with an interview with Ellis (the football team manager). This is a great place to start as it allows us to instantlyContinue reading “Critical Analysis”

Seeing as our documentary idea has now formed around the idea of how a football team is able to cope with the hurdles that accompany Covid-19, it is only fitting that our postproduction processes themselves have taken a hard hit on that front. However, we have thankfully managed to pull together as a group andContinue reading “Post-Production”

When making a documentary, it seems that the best way to get the most raw and down to earth interpretation of the “real” people and situations you are filming them in, is to firstly make sure that you have done plenty of research on the topic you will be filming. This appears to be aContinue reading “Relating work to “Real” Life and People”

For the first stage of my personal pre-production process, I had to take on the task of coming up with an idea by going somewhere in Bournemouth and observing the people and the area around me. This is how I ended up coming up with my original idea to do a documentary about the skaters.Continue reading “How I could do better next time”

Analysis in relation to narrative and POV This documentary follows correspondent A.C. Thompson as he shows us the awful violence that took place at the largest gathering of white supremacists in a generation. This is a POV styled documentary so for a lot of the scenes in the film I found it very hard hittingContinue reading “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville”

Authority (‘I was involved so I can tell you’) When I was 19 years old my family and I found ourselves in what could have been a life threatening event. The year was 2019, and we were drawing to the end of our skiing holiday in Switzerland. It was an overcast day, but as itContinue reading “Significant Event in my Life (Jerry Rothwell interview model)”

In order to analyse the best way to demonstrate someone’s attachment to an object that they care about deeply, I decided to use the example of a guitarist for if I were making a documentary about a musician. I wanted to take two photos, one that would represent footage that could be used as B-rollContinue reading “Attachment to Objects”

The ocean drives global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind. Our rainwater, drinking water, weather, climate, coastlines, much of our food, and even the oxygen in the air we breathe, are all ultimately provided and regulated by the sea. Careful management of this essential global resource is a key feature of a sustainable future. However,Continue reading “Social Impact”

Museums are like a documentary that you can walk yourself through in your own time. Seeing as there are a lack of museums in our current climate, I decided to go on a virtual tour of Natural History Museum in Washington D.C. Doing this helped me massively in understanding how facts can be displayed forContinue reading “Museums & Documentary”