Individual Work

The supporting piece that i contributed to the project was the article.
The article contains photos of both kate and me, still of the doumentary and behind the scenes photos showing the audience what equipment we used, both cameras and computers.
The article contains feedback from both kate and myself describing the planning, preparation, construction and further work on the documentary starting with how we started with a completely different idea to the topic we have noe decided on and how we came to choose the new topic because we found that we had a better idea and grasp for the balanced topic.
Initially we began to make plans for both sides of the arguement and making a list of all the possible people to get information from who would support our documentary.

Supporting Pieces - Final Decisions

We have finally decided on our 3 supporting pieces:

• The first being a newspaper advertisement which consists of a black background and a side shot image of a young child, who is lit by minimal lighting, and by the side of image is the statement: "Next week I'll hit my brother, just like they do on telly" highlighting the innocence a child portrays cartoon characters and how the actions behind his behaviour are influenced by TV. The advert will be Kate's individual work.
• The second will be of a magazine article which describes our journey in making the documentary and our influences towards choosing the topic that we investigated. The article will consist of 4 photos, two of us working and the other two of just us. The article will be photo-shopped into The Guardian's Weekend magazine. This will be my individual work.
• The third will be a poster, advertising the documentary. The poster will ask the audience, mainly targeting parents, whether they really know what their children are watching and whether it is safe for the children to watch. This will be our joined group work.

Archive Footage

The material that we would like to include in the documentary are:

• "The Chicken Fight" from Family Guy to show the negative effects of TV and the violent behaviour that encourages young children to behave similar.
• A section of "Lisa vs. Homer & the 8th Commandment" from The Simpsons to demonstrate the more positive effect TV can have and the moral values that the TV programmes can offer.

These clips both analyse the topical argument of TV effects of children so that the audience can make up their own minds - the intended wish we wanted for the documentary.

Secondary Editing

After we had preliminarily edited our documentary we found that the full film totalled to 5:49 minutes, very much over the time limit that we had been initially set.
We began to cut out material that was not necessary or irrelevant to the film so that we could keep and develop material that was useful and relevant.
We still need to add the archive footage of clips from TV programmes. We have decided to look at clips that promote violence and other clips that promote morals and good behaviour, balancing out our argument topic.
We are also hoping to add clips with statistics on them so that the previous/next clip can be supported, either in a good way or a bad way. For example, we are using a clip in which a grandmother is describing her views on how much TV young children should watch, our next clip is then the statistics of how much children really watch so that a contrasting reality can be shown to the audience.
We have currently cut down our footage to 4:42 minutes which has substantially helped us in managing our time for the final product, by allowing us to find space for new material and cut down any further material that we can deem irrelevant.
Hopefully we are aiming to make the finished product around 4:30 minutes so that the documentary is not too long but also does not lack the crucial information that we want to provide to the audience.