Social Action - Initial Investigation

For this project, we will be creating 2 final outcomes. Along with the factual programme a seperate social action film needs to be made.

The first investigation involved us identiying famous social action documentaries, analysing impact and purpose before starting to think about our own production. Learning about these films gave us an idea of what needed to be achieved so the next step was identifying oursevles what needed to be done. I looked at a handful of issues and needs for social action film making, analysing important issues that needed to be understood.

The next step is writing up a proposal to take into the production stage.

Factual Programmes - Investigation

Our new project will focus on creating a factual programme. The first step, as always, is to begin research and investigation into the programme type, looking for styles, codes and conventions.

Our first investigation looked at just this. Given a list of buzzwords and a few lessons on the history of the documentary, focusing on the theory of it, the investigation involved defining the list of terms, listing examples and then trying to consider where and when each technique or convention can be used.

This helped me become more knowledgable on the different codes, conventions and techniques but also taught me to be critical of factual progamming and develop some of my own ideas and theorys on how to present or go about creating a documentary.