Week Commencing 19/4/10

19/4/10:-
Our first task of the day was narrowing down everything that would be required for our pitch. We pitched ideas backwards and forwards to pinpoint the exact focus of the documentary and what would be needed research wise to back up our ideas. We then produced a schedule for the rest of the week, this was to keep on top of our research and ideas. We then started discussing whether our idea had a clear question that we could answer in our documentary.

20/04/10:-
Today has been a big day for the development of our idea; we furthered our discussion on the documentary idea breaking down each of our ideas into pro's and con's and feasibility. Retro vs modern was too big a time period to cover, the development of the video games industry over the years is to broad. We then thought about how we should look at how the video game industry has developed through conflict; e.g sega vs nintendo, playstation vs xbox etc. However we realised to look at all the conflicts in 10 minutes would be quite hard, so we decided to settle on the PS3 vs Xbox 360 conflict; 1. because it is relevant to modern times, 2. we personally have an interest and 3. because it was something with a clear question that we could attempt to answer. I also carried on researching the video games industry, contigency plans and the method with which we can record the game footage.

21/04/10:-
Today we looked at the narrative structure of our documentary and our ideas which needed to be put forward into our documentary. We then looked at how and when we would bring each idea up throughout the documentary. We looked at how we could back up our idea; vox pops - of peoples opinions on the arguments, past conflict; sega vs nintendo. The idea of pixelated 16 bit avatars was mentioned.

22/04/10:-
During our lessons today we looked at different types of documentary and how to analyse them. One of the documentaries we looked at was called "etre et avoir" when we looked at this documentary we focused on the aesthetic style of the opening sequence. We looked at the reasoning behind why the director/producer choose to do this. We also compared this with the opening to "an inconvenient truth" again we looked look at the style of documentary and the effect of having a well known character; Al Gore throughout the documentary. After this we analysed "super size me" I noticed throughout this they put forward opinions in a style which made you think they were giving you facts.

23/04/10:-
Today I focused on my areas for the pitch; I found out a couple of different ways of recording game footage: using a dvd recorder or a capture card. I also found more background information on the PS3 and Xbox 360 for example the Xbox 360 was released a year before the Ps3 giving it a headstart on roping in costumers.