Week 39: Filming Started: Factual Programme and Social Action & Community Programme

Yesterday (6th June) we started filming our programmes, we have booked the camera out for 3 days from 6th June to 8th June. We managed to film most of our Social Action programme yesterday and the elements which this included were:

• Student Vox Pops: Their opinion on the rise in University Fees
• Expert Vox Pop
• Parents Opinions on the Rise in University Fees
• Introductions to the programme and the Vox Pops
• Images of Students holding signs with their opinion on this subject

As a group we have filmed and participated within the filming of this programme, this is the 30 second social action and community programme for this assignment. Therefore in terms of how many people we asked to participate in terms of students was 5, this was because we figured we could gain enough footage for the Vox Pops with 5 students.

Factual Programme
We also began to film our factual programme showing the affect gadgets and technology has on students. Whilst filming students for the Vox Pops on our social action programme, we also asked the same students to participate in our factual programme. The reason why we asked the same students was because for both programmes the audience is the same and both programme subjects affect all students. The elements which we have filmed for this 1 1/2 minute programme include:

• Student Vox Pops
• Expert Opinion
• Diary Entries from the experiment
• Footage of students using gadgets

From this we now need to concentrate on other element, which is photos of new and old gadgets, this includes the old mobile phone and the newest mobile, such as the iPhone.
We have also filmed links for the different parts within the programme, we believed this would benefit the programme, by having ourselves talking to the camera. We will still have some voice overs within the programme, when still images are being shown and for the summary on the social action programme.
I believe as a group we have worked well within the production stage of filming and tomorrow we will complete our filming and download our footage to the computer and convert the footage ready to import into Premiere Pro CS3.