A2 Media presentation

MEDIA PRODUCTION A2

A short 5 minute Documentary

On university life

by Molisa Muyembe

INTRODUCTION

For my media project I Molisa Muyembe will be

working solo. I am going to conduct a documentary

on uni life, this will also act as a step to step guide

helping others to prepare and cope with campus life,

lectures, budgeting, and living in halls. Please enjoy

this short presentation I have put together which will

inform you of my plans for a short 5 minute

documentary.

WHAT IS A DOCUMENTARY

Documentary films constitute a broad category of non fictional motion

pictures intended to document an aspect of reality. For the purposes

of instruction or maintaining a historical record. Aspects I will be

including are;Educational

Informative

Narrative

Entertaining

Real life

Structured

For and Against argument

SUMMARY

My vision is to take an ordinary country girl who has never lived a day

away from the comfort of her big city home and place her in a box room

located at halls in the big city of London to study law. I plan to show how

she copes with everyday life budgeting, relationships and living alone the

pressure may well just be the emotional journey that sends this princess

home to mummy and daddy, or the very kick she needs to be independent.

LOCATION : KINGSTON UNIVERCITY, London

CANDIDATE NAME: TENAY EDWARDS

AGE AND QUALIFICATION: 18, STUDYING LAW

INSPRATION

I have researched American style of documentation. I have found 2 styles one which I am fond of and

one which I am not too keen on.

One being reality TV style of documentation where the characters narrate their own emotions and

views on a subject issue as their everyday life is being filmed. This is a point of view style of filming

which I have decided to go down the path of, as I find it more interesting to show expressions of the

character

And the other being what I call the lab rat experiment were there is one narrator and he/she will

document what is happening and use voice over to explained a theory they have. This is a sort of

surreal feeling which does not allow the audience to engage with characters.

I have been inspired by the following reality documentations

SUPER SIZE ME -American- Morgan Spurlock documents the dangers of fast food over 30

days

THE FAMILY -British- narrated by Chanel 4, families on goings are documented

over the summer. Purpose to entertain, audience certification family friendly.

MY PLAN

The following shall be documented

Life in halls

Food shopping and other necessities

Relationships/friendships

Coping with work and lectures

Being without family

Having to make you're own rules based

on morals that you have been brought up

with

I will start with basic shots of her country home in comparison with the shots of her uni accommodation then I will introduce my character with a montage of clips of her routine through the week while I narrate over this introducing my documentary and its purpose I will also have shots of her discussing her own thoughts.

SCHEDULE

Monday- shots of the country house and family, family goodbyes as

Tenay leaves off for uni

Tuesday- arrival at uni footage round campus as she meet new people

Wednesday- settling in footage of food shopping and making room

homely

Thursday – Lectures, hanging with friends and first fresher's rave.

Friday- morning after and footage of Tenays summary on uni life

Saturday- visit back home, mums summary of having daughter away

Sunday- Editing

Weeks plan for filming

T H I N G S I W I L L N E E D E Q U I P M E N T W I S E A N D F U N D S

I will need a camera to document the everyday goings of my

subject person

A tripod for steady camera shots i.e, tracking

A travel card so I am able to travel to Kingston university in

order to document.

TARGET AUDIENCEAND INSTITUTIONS

Suitable

classifications

Students

families

Considered

institutions

Channel 4

E4

BBC three

My target audience will be based on the content of my footage as my subject is an over 18 some content may be deemed as unsuitable for a younger audience under 12, but my goal is to receive a wider target audience so I might be able to edit out some of the content so I can lower the classification also I'm thinking of showing my documentary at 9 on channel 4 the reason for this is as my documentary is about education and will be entertaining It suitable for Chanel 4s code and conventions of showing mature documentaries at that time.

I W O U L D L I K E T O P O I N T O U T T H AT T H I S P R E S E N T AT I O N I S A P R O D U C T O F M E D I A

C O N V E N T I O N A S I U S E D S M A R T P H O N E T O P R O D U C E T H I S S L I D E S H O W

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