Week Commencing 12/4/10

12/04/10:-
Today we discussed the structure of documentaries - the reasoning behind us doing this was to try and find an understanding behind how and why documentaries are structured the way they are. We looked at how this could be applied to our groups idea of looking at the video game industry.

13/04/10: -
During one of our lessons we analysed "truth about food." We looked at the structure of this particular documentary and then checked how it matched with the typical documentary codes and conventions. We also discussed how all documentaries have a question which needs answering and how that is the main focus of the show. This got us as a group considering how this applied to our documentary.

14/04/10:-
Today I started researching into the video game industry; how much it is worth, the history of video games consoles and the top ranking games consoles. I also researched the recent news and jobs in the video game industry. I thought this would be useful to help put forward why this documentary is important.

15/04/10:-
Today Beth Sharp has joined our group; we started debating whether our original idea would work - due to the fact it is such a broad subject to cover in such a short amount of time. We have decided to mainly focus on how video games consoles have developed over the years. We procedded to break down the first task of the assignment brief - so we knew exactly what would be needed for our documentary.

16/04/10:-
As a group we were talking about how our documentary could be developed into something more relevant to the times. We looked at the different consoles there have been and the categories they could be broken down into to help back up our idea. We then went through our idea and broke down what needed to be done to get our documentary produced.