Cheyenne Joseph // UCA Television blog

Nike Sweatshop: Behind the swoosh This is a documentary that was posted on youtube by a group called "teamsweat" in 2011. It is investigatory and expository as it aims to shed light on a popular brand who uses unethical ways of making their garments. With the use of archive footage and some actuality of sweat shops Shots starts of with a montage of developed places in america, the busy streets, the night life and carries a voice over with it. There is a character introducing himself and talking about what he does in his life (relating to footwear) - the beginning is similar to bowling for Colombine in the snse that there is a montage and a voice over except this one is not as hard hitting and direct in its approach. They have chosen to produce the problem at a later stage in the documentary whereas in Bowling for columbine, Moore was very direct in his approach.  This gets me thinking about how we could approach or documentary. Will we start with a mont...

One born every minute  This programme is a documentary TV series Actuality based, fly on the wall style. The camera sits there and waits for something to happen instead of following and prompting. Follows characters through their pregnancies and shows the trials of tribulations of their lives. Clean cut in its approach, doesn't use any fancy montages to enhance someones life like in bowling for columbine.  They use the nurse as a narrator, using what was said in the interview.  Watching a few of these series makes me think about how you can show someones lives. Taking the fly on the wall approach can be good but then you'd have so much footage to sift through if you sit and wait for something to happen.  The editing style is clean cut and and not dramatic, you don't have a presenter walking around and interviewing people or being investigatory. It allows people to sit and watch and soak up the facts in their own way instead of forcing it up...

Josh had been getting in contact with the Windmill Allotment gardeners and so following what they did looked promising. I believe his plans of meeting them are going forward so its a good idea to get more information for questions to ask them.  Here is my research for my section on the documentary. The wildlife of the allotments and the benefits that it brings to the plants and its nearby wildlife.  " Britain's countryside is losing species at a frightening rate. Habitats have declined too - the area of flower-rich meadows has dropped by 98% since 1950 as they have been ploughed or heavily fertilised to increase food production ."  On the national allotments society website I found some interesting little info that I think would be good to mention. Here they speak of bees and how allotments can raise the bee count. I think this is a good fact to add and we would be able to show this as the Windmill Allotments have their own bee hut.  " Be...

Today in our sequencing workshop we filmed sequences that will be used to hide the edits from the video that was created in our previous interview workshop edit. We made sure to follow along the shot list that was created in order to get all the relevant shots needed for the interview. For this task, I was the subject again and I was briefed then given instructions on what I would need to be doing.  Shot List  What I learnt From this was the important for the subject to be briefed before hand. Things will go a lot smoother once everyone knows what to do and when you know what you want to film, so then organisation also comes into play here as you need to plan out what it is you're going to film beforehand.  After filming, we sat down and edited it together. Our main aim was to hide the edits and to  make a seamless sequence with images to follow the narration and subjects speech. I personally felt that we did a good job. The feedback that...

In our first interview workshop, the day was split up into two different sessions. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. In the morning session, a group was chosen at random to demonstrate the different roles that would need to be present in an actual interview and in the second half of the day we then had to go off into our own groups to practice what was shown in the first half.  Morning Session - For the morning session I volunteered to be the cameraman as I wanted to have a practice as it was the first time using the Sony's since our last project. I thoroughly enjoyed being a camera man because I find it fun creating shots.  - It was definitely a challenge because the demand to be quick to adjust the shots on time was high. I knew  I could do it but I felt the pressure a lot especially since it was in front of the whole class.  - My shots were good but I kept accidentally hitting it with my sleeve so now I kno...