research 2

There are 37% of 16-18 year old students in CWC College and 63%  19+. My idea is already an existing competition on BBC however, I want to base it only on college students. On ''The Great British Bake Off''' programme most contestants and judges, presenters were 19+, therefore I believe the 19+ year old students would be more likely to be involved in this activity than the younger people in the college.

'' How the Great British Bake Off changed Britain

In just three years, a homely BBC television talent show has transformed a nation’s view of baking. How has the alchemy of flour, butter, eggs and sugar turned to gold?''

 Three years and 23 days ago, something happened that changed Britain forever. At 8pm on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday, two and a half million of us tuned into the first ever episode of The Great British Bake Off, a new “talent” show on BBC Two. Amateur contestants, armed with butter, eggs and flour, stood with their wooden spoons above their mixing bowls and waited for that now famous Klaxon call: “Ready, set, bake!”

Since that evening, life hasn’t been the same. Although Britain has always been a nation of bakers, we have become a nation obsessed. We bake morning, noon and night. We bake for dinner parties, clubs and office competitions. We spend a fortune on edible glitter and piping bags, our evenings poring over the Lakeland catalogue and the rest of our time daydreaming about cupcakes. We read baking books in bed. We watch baking on television, with shows such as Lorraine Pascale’s Baking Made Easy and Eric Lanlard’s Baking Mad stoking the national fixation started by Bake Off judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood (a Telegraph columnist whose recipes you’ll find in his booklet, Delicious Pies & Puds, free in today’s and tomorrow’s papers).

Today, the British baking industry is worth £3.4 billion. We even have a week dedicated to the pastime: Monday marks the start of National Baking Week, a charity initiative designed to get even more Britons making their own buns. So, as we count down to the series four finale on October 22, it’s time to take stock of the ways in which Bake Off  has transformed our lives. ''

constraints

• finding a location to bake.
• finding 2 participants.
• not being able to take equipment home.
• availability of crew and participants.
• pay for ingredients and cooking equipment for the actual recording day.

how to deal with constraints

• create a scheduling calender, so we can both fit in the availability of both participants and crew.
• having to already have some ingredients ready for the bake off, we check what ingredients are missing and make a list of all the ingredients to buy.
• Having my own camera and tripod at home, I am able to record at any location.

research 1

With many young people in the UK, most have admitted to consuming alcohol at an early age. Secondary research have found that the people who have their first drink at the age of 14 or younger are six times more likely to develop alcohol problems than those who don’t try alcohol until the legal drinking age.

Here are some of the factors affecting the risk of developing a drinking problem:

• Race and ethnicity. Some racial groups, such as American Indians and Native Alaskans for example, are more at risk than others of developing alcohol addiction.
  
  
• Genetics. A teen with an alcoholic sibling or parent is four times more likely to develop a problem with alcohol than someone without such a family history.
  
  
• The presence of mental health disorders. Alcohol problems often go hand in hand with mental health problems such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia.
  
  
• Personality traits. Teenagers who believe alcohol makes it easier to socialize, for example, tend to drink more than those who don’t believe that alcohol loosens their social inhibitions.
  
  
• Influence of family and peers. Teens are at greater risk for developing alcohol-related problems when alcohol is readily available at home or among their peer group, and if drunkenness is acceptable.
  
  

·         Gender. Men are more likely to drink heavily than women, but women become addicted at lower levels and shorter duration of use.

Through my primary research I’ve found that  59% of males at CWC College is more likely to drink at a younger age than females, Therefore I think my idea should be aimed mainly for males.

• Underage and binge drinking is risky and can lead to car accidents, violent behaviour, alcohol poisoning, and other health problems.
• Drinking at a young age greatly increases the risk of developing alcohol problems later in life.
• Talking to kids early and openly about the risks of drinking can help reduce their chances of becoming problem drinkers.

constraints

• finding a child to star in the advert.
• availability of the child.
• limited equipment.
• not being able to take equipment outside.
•  parents refusing their child to star in the advert.
• location

how to deal with constraints

•  I would make a permission slip to parents/guardians to ask if their child can star in the advert.
• ask a teen instead if no parent allows their child to act in the advert.
• having my own camera and tripod at home, which will allow me to record anywhere.
• to make a shooting schedule (calender) that would fit in with the actor and the producer/director.
• to plan the best location of where to shoot. (research)

America's medicated kids essay

Louis Theroux documentary ''America's medicated kids'' is a controversial issue that follows one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Louis investigates the effects of putting children in medication who have obsessive compulsive disorders and the impact that medicating a child has in a family.

The footage's that are displayed in the documentary allows the audience to identify what its going to be about. The camera shots and framing has an effective hand-held technique that follows Theroux through interviews, tours and even a shot of the psychiatric centre shows that the genre of the documentary is going to be about health, wellness and medication. This shows that the documentary is more likely to be an observational documentary because the camera, microphone and film crew seem not to be disturbing the scene or even to be noticed by the participants.
Throughout the entire documentary, the camera constantly shows an establishing shot and close up shots to show where the interview is going to take place and a close up to show the seriousness of the conversation (e.g when Louis was talking to Hugh's mother). Everyone that was featured in the documentary wore ordinary clothes including Louis, himself to make him seem more approachable and relaxed towards children.
 
Within the documentary, most of the sound that the audience hears are diegetic sound where everything they hear is coming from the footages they see in the camera frame. Long clips usually show the important part of the documentary with no music in the background making the audience listen to what their saying and what is happening, however, there are some voice overs and background music playing when an interview is not taken place. During interviews, the use of the editing technique are often used to show Louis Theroux reactions to what the interviewee is saying making the audience to form their own opinion of the situation themselves.

To compare Louis Theroux documentary to a scientific documentary, Louis work is more related to society and social groups within a community whereas a scientific documentary has a much broader topic to debate about, for example, human, body and mind, space and the outer world etc. A scientific documentary is more like a correspondence documentary where they would use a lot of CGI graphics to demonstrate a fact, historical events and have a lot of interviews with professors, they use narration and voice overs as well as captions to create a factual documentary.
Louis delivers his work through interviews, hand-held camera techniques and being ''one'' of the group to have an insight of what goes on in a social group, he uses no captions and forces the audience to focus on what is happening in the footage therefore making them feel more involved. It seemed like Louis's intentions was to explore and to show the audience something important or otherwise overlooked; devoted to a cause or to people, trying to make a difference.
Compared to scientific documentaries, directors and producers main intentions to make people believe in something whether it be a person, an event, places of significance or a natural phenomenon, they all want you to believe in the facts and as audiences we are expected to be told the truth, no lies or distortion.

Context of viewing or distribution
Its easier to recognize a documentary's genre though its content of viewing (channels). Louis Theroux's documentaries are usually aired on the BBC TWO where most of the other documentaries like ''The Natural World'' and ''Life on Earth'' are always aired on the same channel.
A scientific/philosophical documentary are more likely to be aired on the discovery channel where they are more serious about events and conspiracies revealing about the complex world that we live in.

TASK 3 : MOODBOARD

I will base my photographic images on teen vogue magazine because its simple and very easy to achieve. What I like about teen vogue pictures is that all of them all have a simple yet effective technique of presenting teen fashion in one way. (The full body shot). The lighting techniques that are used in these photo's are very bright and ''happy'' which sets the happy mood for the audience to see also the fact that all the models are smiling in every photo makes it more appealing and interesting to look at. 

Majority of the models used in theses photo's look 17+ year old  females, wearing fashionable clothing indicating that the target audience are for teen girls with a mixed of ethnicity however, most will be middle class because of the expensive accessories and clothing that they are wearing.

The key framing techniques in these photo's are the background settings.  the camera frames the model in the middle and the roads are the guide to framing the full body shot image. it creates attention to the readers to look at what the models are wearing instead of looking at their faces.

UNIT 27 : BBC Editorial Guidelines

BBC Guidelines

Serving the public interests
Seek to report stories of significance to the audience and to be prepared in establishing the truth and be well-informed when explaining it. Exposing the complex world that we live, its the experts job to search and ask questions of those who hold public office and others who are accountable and provide a comprehensive form for public debate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25708092

• In this article, it represents a countries political state and the peoples fight for the Anti-government protests.
• people are protesting 'restart Thailand' , 'shutdown Thailand'
• Ms Yingluck calls an election on 2nd February 
• 'Peoples revolution'

This is an example of the BBC Guidelines - serving the publics interest - It informs the world about that is going in another country and how politics can affect the public. This is exposing the complex world that we live in also its to inform the Thai community (In other countries) about what is happening back at home.


Truth and Accuracy
Establishing the truth of what is happening and are committed in finding out what is happening. Their output, as appropriate to the subject and nature will be based on evidence, thoroughly tested and presented in clear, precise language. Strive to be open and honest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25710744

• this is an example of madeleine McCann's letter sent to the portuguese in regards to madeleines disappearance. 
• The daily Mirror said the letter gave permission to arrest burglars believed to have been working in the resort on the day madeleine went missing.
• 17 days before madeleine disappeared, the police claimed that there was one attempted burglary in the block where madeleines family was staying at.

Reporting about Madeleines disappearance, we can only find evidence and witness of what has happened to her. This example is another evidence found recently about Madeleines disappearance giving the police the authority to arrest burglars who was present during that night Madeleine went missing. I chose this as an example of the BBC guidelines because it tells the public about what is happening to McCann's case and what the police are doing to resolve it, raising awareness about the world we live in.

Ofcom Guidelines

Equality and Diversity
Bringing together and strengthening the commitments explaining diversity and equality; explaining how diversity and equality is essential to the way that we operate in this world.

''Treat all colleagues with dignity and respect in an inclusive and fair working environment, promoting equality of opportunity for all''

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-410150/Schoolgirl-arrested-refusing-study-non-English-pupils.html

• A teenage school girl was arrested for being racist after refusing to sit next to a group of asian students because some of them did not speak english.

• '' The incident happened in the same local education authority where a ten-year-old boy was prosecuted earlier this year for calling a schoolfriend racist names in the playground, a move branded by a judge "political correctness gone mad."

This is example of equality and diversity being broken by a young teenage girl at school refusing to sit down with asian pupils her age because ''She can't understand them'', the journalist who reported this incident was clearly against the young girl's action and tries to display an event that is breaking the rules of human rights. (This is also an example of serving the publics interest).  

Crime
To ensure that the material likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder is not included in television or radio services.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20022794

• David Cameron trying to make prisons more punishable for offenders.
• ''hoodie history''
• discussing about making ''prisons work better''
• the reporter seemed to be supportive of the decision and puts the prime minister in a positive light by getting other opinions from other people e.g Mr Grayling from the BBC Radio 4 news.

This is an example of the BBC of David Cameron resolving the issue around crime in England. The reporter and the news itself is not encouraging crime in the nation but delivering the important message from someone in authority.

Vox Pox Questions (Script)

Business Dev + STEM Questions

During the week of filming for the inserts, me and my producer prepared some questions to ask the students for the our vox pox interview for the inserts. Here are the questions that we used in the interview:

1. What are you studying?

2. What made you want to study the subject? (How would this course help you?)

3. What do you enjoy most about the course?

4. What 3 words would you describe the subject?

5. How is studying (Subject) useful?

6. What do you want to do in the future?

7. Any family members doing or have done the same subject as you before?

evaluation

Our class was given the task of creating inserts and vox pox (interviews) for the student award ceremony to represent the college and its faculties.

The Inserts

Pre-Production
Before we went off to shoot some footages for the inserts for the live show. we were split into 3 groups and each group was given a school of department to record and interview. We discussed and assigned everyone's role for the inserts while we took notes of the four faculties (school of department) and ask what the client wants and needs in our footages.
Once we planned our shots, ideas and production schedule, our producers began making contacts to the head of the faculties asking permission if we can film during their class. (my group took advantage of the colleges open day to arrange filming sessions with them).

Production
From the 11/11/13 - 22/11/13, we have been attending to different classes to film for our inserts. Some of the main difficulties we have faced during that week are the students who doesn't want to be filmed or participate in the interview (vox pox) which held my group back however, we managed to interview a few students from a different class but from the same faculty to help us with the interview. Another difficulty we have faced is when we have to re-arrange another session with the School of Motor Vehicle due to the difficulties with the previous class earlier that day.

Post-Production
After we finished all the recording, the producer and the editor gathers all the footages together and edit its them from the 25/11/13 - 29/11/13. Once we finalized our piece, we presented it to our clients and they give us feedback on what they like and what they would like to change within the footages. Our client asked for the sound to be more clearer and some footages needed to be longer than the other. On our last week, before the live show, our producers arranged another filming session with their faculties in order to get the perfect inserts for our clients.

- what main points did you like about the overall role and experience?
I liked going to different classes and interviewing the students (as it was my role as a writer/interviewer)  asking them questions about their course.

 

The Live Show

Pre-Production

On the day of the event, I was given the role as a PA (Production Assistant). My job was to past the information of the running order to the director, telling him/her what comes next and making sure the show runs smoothly.

I spent most of my time in the gallery with the vision mixer, director and the lighting team.

Before the show, I was given a draft of the order with all the inserts, presentations and speeches during the show. My first task was to re-write the running order in a simpler form so it will be easier for the crew and the director to read.  After re-writing the order, I quickly went to the library with the director and printed out 14 copies and gave it out to everyone in the team, Studio floor and gallery.

Due to some technical difficulties during the rehearsals, the Directors headset was not working and I had to pass information to the camera team by going down to the studio floor until the headset was finally fixed.

Production

During the show, I made sure I was in time with the principal when he makes a speech and listening to him so, I know when to tell the director to prepare for the insert or presentation, I also counted down how long the insert should be so I can tell the lighting team when to point the spot light to the principal or the audience. 

Post-Production

After the show, everyone in the gallery went downstairs to the studio to congratulate all our team members for all their hard work and a praise from the principal’s then our form tutor gathered us around and gave us a de-brief of what we are going to do next. We were told to clean up our stations (studio crew clears up the studio floors and the people in the gallery clears up the gallery.)

Later, we went downstairs to reward ourselves to some refreshments and food.

- what main points did you like about the overall role and experience?
What I liked about the live show was that everyone worked together consistently and listening to each other. This has taught me the importance of communication and teamwork within the media industry as well as teaching me what roles are in the show. I also liked the active and positive energy around the show and the backstage team because everyone had an important task to complete which motivates me to work even harder for the team. As a PA (Production Assistant), I learnt how to read the running order and understand the show and how to keep it organzied.

- what were your strengths and weaknesses?
my strengths were my organization skills and communication skills. I used it as an advantage to discuss with the director asking her questions and suggesting ideas. Before the live show, I was very reserved and quiet within my team but when I was given the role as a PA, I learnt how to be more vocal within the gallery and grown confidence in keeping up-to-date with what is going on in the studio floors and timing of the show.

Overall Evaluation

Overall, I enjoyed the whole process of the rehearsal and the live show. I liked the positive team energy around me and the professional work that I get to witness among my team members. Despite that we experienced some difficulties during the rehearsal, we managed to resolve the problem and carried on together as a team and as a class.