Production Log 6

This week was a good week due to the fact that i had all my footage and interviews ready the only thing i need to do is put it all together and edit it, so this week i have spent my whole time trying to put it all together and make it look good, this will need a-lot of work put into it and i may need a extra week to make it all look good, and get any extra recording i need, at the end of this week i have managed to make my work look really good in my opinion as i have made all the useless footage into something useful such as cutaways and such which came into play very well and made it look more visually pleasing, the reason why this worked well is because if i just had someone talking and just there face with nothing else it would bore my audience and this is not something i want, i want them to find my documentary interesting and by doing this i used cutaways, overall this week as been a hard week in working as i had to put a lot of effort into my work but the outcome was good, i have had to work really hard because we are far behind schedule as a class and this has made our lessons rushed, this means we didn't have the amount of time we should of on editing which is why we didnt have much time to record, so overall this project has been very stressful work wise but has helped me become more independent on the subject as i had to go out of my own way contacting people and getting to locations which aren't local, this was a good experience in learning.

Production Log 5

In total i only got 5 reply's which only one said that i could go and see them but they were to far so i had to apoligise to them and move on, because of the short amount of reply's and opportunity given to me i have had to change what i will be recording, but due to the fact i can get to my location easy i have been out this week recording at pipers farm recording the horses, as these are real abused and neglected horses you can still see the scars from the which the previous owners gave to the horses, this is good for my documentary as it is 'real' but bad for the horses as they have been harmed, also a good thing about this week is that my mums friends that she works with have offered to give me interviews which was helpful and basically saved my documentary, i have been going up to the stables everyday to get as much recording done as possible due to the fact that i am behind schedule and i need to catch up, so to catch up i am recording everyday and recording everything even parts which may be useless as i could fit them into my documentary as there is no such thing as over recording, i managed to get 3 interviews this week thanks to the people who work at pipers farm, they all own horses and work with horses so i managed to get a lot of information about the horses which is exactly what i needed. Overall this week has been good but i am still behind schedule, in order to be back on schedule i will need to edit well next week and make sure i have all the recording i need to get everything done.

Production Log 4

This week i have only heard back from only a small amount of people again which is the same problem as i had last week as they are saying they are short on staff and cannot see me unless its past my deadline, from the reply's i am getting i will have to change my documentary to just be about horses as that the only thing that i will be able to do as i can get to the location quick and i can go to the stables and interview the people my mum works with, this would be easier for me but i am not sure it would be good for my documentary due to the fact it would only be about horses when i could do it about other animals, i feel like my audience will find it boring to watch a documentary about horses when even i don't know much about horses where as i know a-lot about dogs but i won't be able to talk about dogs unless i get a professional to help me and make my documentary look 10x better due to the fact i actually have some facts and statistics thrown in there. So i am still waiting for reply from professionals for this week but if i don't get a reply soon than i will have to change my documentary so that i can start recording.

Production Log 3

This week i have been e-mailing multiple places which do dog/cat re-homing centers, vets and anywhere that does anything to do with animals, i have sent out over 20 e-mails and only received 1 which is all the way at the bottom of England near Royal Tun-bridge Wells, that is too long to get to and would be costly for me to get there, therefore this week i have been in a lot of trouble as i am not getting the responses i like as they are saying they are too busy for me to come in or they are short on staff, i have constantly tried to e-mail them back trying to get a later date which would be more suitable for them, but even than they came back to the reply with a date which was past my deadline for my documentary leaving me to find more places to find and e-mail just so that my documentary will look good, if i do not get any interviews for my documentary than my documentary will be bad which is not what i want, this week has been the hardest week so far as contacting people is not as easy as it seems, as dates times all come into play and than trying to work around them is another thing so overall this week has been very bad for me and my documentary.

Production Log 2

This week i have been trying to plan how i will record for my documentary, in order to do this i used a planning sheet where i would write a sequence in which i would record and follow, the hard part about this is that i couldn't fit in any interviews on the sheet as i had not got any links to any professionals that are planned for me to see, so in order to get these interviews i would need to email them and make an appointment which would suit them, the struggle is trying to find places which are close and getting them to reply back, this will be done next week as this week i will be planning what i want in my documentary and what i will be talking about, i need to plan if i just want my documentary to be about horses or to be about other animals, this week i have struggled to decide which i would prefer as if i want my documentary to be about other animals apart from horses than i would need to defiantly get interviews from professionals which i would have to try and contact and that is a 50/50 chance of them getting back to me and if they don't get back to me than i would be in a lot of trouble as i need to have interviews from them.

Production Log 1

This week i was planning on what i want my documentary to be about, in order to find out which i would like it to be about i would need to find out what i was passionate about, this was hard as i couldn't pin down what i like to talk about and what i would like to talk about, so in the end i decided to go with animal cruelty, i thought this would be a good subject to talk about due to me being an animal owner and the fact that i love animals and i hate seeing pets or animals being mistreated. After deciding what i want my documentary to be about i than asked my mum if i could record stuff at her work, the reason behind this is because my mum works with horses and than i could make my documentary about abused and neglected horses, this would be easy to do because my mum goes there everyday so it is not a hard location to get to and due to the horses being real abused neglected horses it would help me out a lot. The only problem i suffered was that apart from my mum i had no other contacts with professionals which work with animals, so next week i will be planning to email people that work in re-homing centers or vets or anything that works with animals in order to get an interview for my documentary to make it look more professional.