Week Commencing 10/05/10

10/05/10:-
Today I carried on with my pre-production work, making sure the risk assesments and health and safety forms were all filled in for each location. I also started writing up questions for the interview we were holding. I also assisted finding contact details for codemasters and gamestation. We then progressed to working on our freelance portfolios I looked into working as a lighting technician in the media industry. I also attempted to film some vox pops with alex, finding out what people thought about our documentary.

11/05/10:-
Today as a group we went into stratford and filmed some vox pops. By using beth as our lead interviewer, we had her approach people because as a group of lads it is rather intimadating. We spoke to people who believed didnt conform to the typical stereotype thats associated with gamers. We looked at these people because we thought it would help widen our audience appeal. We then looked at cinematography and framing of interviews and shots.

12/05/10:-
Today me, alex, ben and mat went to alex's house and recorded footage for our documentary. We filmed the introduction; we added mise-en-scene in the background to make him look like a gamer, we adjusted the lighting use home lamps and positioned him similiarly to Charlie Brooker. For this I was directing and operating sound. We then recorded game footage using a dvd recorder plugged directly into the console and the tv. We also recorded reactions to the games, for when he is comparing the two consoles and their exclusive games. Also we recorded mats introduction to the xbox.

13/05/10:-
Today I sat with alex whilst he captured the footage from his house, however due to the fact we had used his dvd recorder, it would not work with the colleges DVD recorder therefore we had to wait until alex could bring his own dvd recorder. We also looked at the introduction and other scenes from alex's house and realised that we had some issues with the shots:- for example I dropped the boom pole into shot and sometimes stood in shot.

14/05/10:-
Today we spent the begining of the day scheduling the rest of our assignment time. We then spent the afternoon making sure all pre-production was covered. We also discussed what we could do because we were still waiting for contact from Codemasters; which is a big part of our documentary because they were meant to be giving us their opinion from the point of a games developer.