Charity research

TEENAGE CANCER TRUST.

We were inspired by some of the videos we saw on the Teenage Cancer Trust website. These were created by people who have been effected by cancer over the years.


Teenage Cancer Trust's target audience mainly applies towards teenagers. Its a large charity which set up events throughout the year to raise money for the charity, this money then goes on to be put into finding research about a cure for cancer. Although the trust is based around teenagers I also feel that this  can relate to any age

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Evaluative commentary

Our first ideas were just to film James working out in the gym and speaking about his illness and how it effected his life and career, however we found that the idea wasn't strong enough and wouldn't interest our audience enough. We then found out that James was taking party in a charity workout event for 'Save the Children' foundation, this gave myself and Ryan the idea to film a pre talk with James before him taking out in the workout and then an after talk. We also included shots of James and other people taking part in the workout, this made our documentary seem more interesting and entertaining.
We used two cameras to film our documentary to make it more interesting for our viewers so that we could change from one angle to another, we also added in short clips of James working out to our documentary to make it more entertaining as well as just listening to James answer our questions which we had prepared for him and talking about his life. We also thought it would be a good idea to add an interview into our documentary, we interviewed Camilla from 'Save the Children' this would give our audience a more detailed description of what the charity is about and what the money James has raised for them is going towards. We also added titles to this part of our documentary explaining how much money they need to be able to buy certain things. To conclude my final production overall i am very pleased with our documentary. A long the way i have learnt how to fully use final cut and add short clips as well as titles throughout my documentary. I also so how to add in a voice over over the top of some of my previously filmed footage. I also learnt a lot about the charity itself and how James has helped.

Legal and Ethical Issues

Slander: When a person has made a statement that is untrue and could/has harm/ed another persons reputation.

Libel: Where a person has published a work that is false causing harm to another person or their reputation.


Slanderous examples:





Living with Michael Jackson'  presented by Martin Bashir, it is unethical because Michael Jackson had agreed to an eight-month long interviewing process with Martin Bashir, hoping to educate his fans about many mistaken assumptions his life. When Michael Jackson saw the finished product of "Living With Michael Jackson" on the air, he realized that Martin Bashir had betrayed his trust in order to produce a obscene thriller that just made more puzzling questions for Michael Jackson instead of him answering his questions for the public. The real dispute hung around a young 13-year old boy who Bashir interviewed without his mothers acknowledgement and within this interview Bashir asked irrelevant questions that made Michael Jackson look perverted, for example: Bashir asked, if Gavin Arvizo (13-year old boy) had ever slept in Michael Jackson's bedroom. 


Another example of a documentry that has been accused of being slanderous is "fahrenheit 911". Michael moore created another controversial documentary. this documentary was accused on many occasions of being slanderous by a variety of people that described that what he was saying and displayed on the documentary made george bush look like he was part of the 911, he went to evade iraq because he wanted to win power to all the oil that country has. in the documentary he portrays george bush to be a liar and a fake person. he basically criticizes everythng that george has ever said and basically calls him a liar. so in a way Michael moore has portrayed to the public a different view on george bush and Michael caused allot of controversy just because of this documentary, allot of people 
started to look at george bush in a different way.




Ethics are a very important and serious thing when it comes to documenting, ethnics is an arrangement of morals within different cultures, and within a documentary they have to respect these different cultures and morals, or the documentary would be classed as unethically correct.

Ethical examples:


For example, the Jimmy Saville case of him being an alleged Pedophile, this is unethical because the makers of the documentary didn't take into consideration that his family and his victims would be dramatically affected by it, because Jimmy Saville is dead now and all the attention and focus goes onto his family and victims. This is unethical, the producers of the documentary done it all for an affect and didn't look forward foreseeing the potential damage it could cause thats why its is unethical. 

Another documentary that is potentially unethical is "Cry wolf". This documentary explores and investigates the controversial decision that the Alberta's government have ignored. they have ignored the threat that the rapid industrial expansion is the alberta tar sands region has caused on its surrounds environment and communities. instead of resolving the problem the government insisted on killing thousands of innocent wolves, they did this so that in the public eye they appear to be doing something to save the dwindling woodland population and wildlife. the interviews with the "experts" in the documentary  prove the myth of Canada's "ethnical oil" is further exposed as oil industry greenwashing. to me this documentary is very unethical as they are under-minding the public telling them lies and trying to prove they are "apparently" doing something to protect the surround environment, where as they are actually doing nothing at all just killing the innocent wildlife that is still living there, it is argued that they have done this to hide the fact that this oil industry is causing a number of problems with local communities and the harm it is doing to the wildlife that lives around this industry.

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mise en scene

Mise-en-scene
The mise-en-scene in our interview consisted of being in a small box room located in the Virgin active gym which included a red sofa in which James sat, for the interview the use of the red sofa related back to symbolise the Virgin logo. Surrounding the room was cupboards and a small fridge as this was one of the small staff rooms at the gym, in the background there is a small kitchen area including, a cheap looking bin and a microwave on top of a small worktop.
Behind James on the wall were painted hand prints of all the staff who have currently or still worked at Virgin Active gym. I don't feel that the paintwork looked as professional, however we didn't really have much choice as our original location which we chose was being used for personal training class.

As the location and the surroundings of James throughout our interview were very informal, i felt that this made our interview with James very relaxed and a very informal interview rather than if we were in an office room filming this is because James is sat on a sofa which would be very comfortable for him and would help him to relax a lot more, also because we are filming in James's environment it also gave him an opportunity to completely be himself rather than putting on a bit of an act in front of the camera . I felt that it was more of a casual conversation rather than a formal interview with James.

The lighting we used was very minimalistic and was just used from the celling lights already in the room. This was very useful as we did not have to add any extra lighting to our interview.

Presentation feedback

Myself Ryan and Megan presented our presentation to the rest of our classmates. 

The majority of our feedback which we received was really good apart from some feedback which wasn't nesssocery bad but just gave us some help towards planning our interview. I believe that our presentation went  very well, we all took a section from the presentation to speak about, we all spoke in a loud clear manner and used hand gestures to explain as well. Our idea for our interview is realistic and very easy achievable. From our feedback we was told that our purpose was clear and understandable and explained in much detail, this to me showed that our presentation was very successful. Our feedback also told us that we had a good selection of questions to ask James, in which people were looking forward to hearing his response to such as 'How have you coped being blind'? and  'Do you have any life goals'? I feel that our idea is very unique and we could produce a great interview with our chosen idea. Our only downfall on our presentation feedback was that we did not include the location of our interview so people we unsure of where we would be filming this, apart from that overall our feedback was very positive and we could tell people were interested for our chosen topic.