For the double page spread interview with have decided to interview Jones a camps international member of staff, who works with the community and gap year students to help with animal conservation.
On the first page of the double page spread with have decided to have a big picture with jones and some gap year students, then under the photo we will have a brief introduction of what Jones roll in the company (Camps international) and a general profile of him.
-Member of staff at camps international.
-Specialises in animal conservation work.
- Works three months a year at camps international, has another job.
-Family lives in Tsavo also.
-Earns 1000 kenya shillings a months, worth £16 pounds.
-Favourite animal is an elephant.
-Cousin was killed by an elephant, this changed Jones views on elephants dramatically.
-Has a very good relationship with gappers.
For the interview we will use pictures of us and Jones and other gap year student, animal conservation work and the projects we do to help.
After this on the next page we will start the interview, we have done a brief draft of questions that we have decided to ask Jones theses are
- Do you enjoy your job, working with animals?
-What is it like working with a group of gap year students?
-How is the conservation work coming alone since we left?
-What is your favourite animal and why?
-Can you tell us one experience that has changed your view on animal conservation work?
-Have you learnt anything new while working with Camps international?
-How long have you been working here?
-Have you got any other jobs?
-What kind of things do you do to help with animal conservation?
-What qualities and skills have you gained?
-Why did you changed your views of elephants when your cousin died?
-What projects to you do and encourage others to do to help animal conservation?
We are also considering doing a small section of the article on a gap year student, the questions we could ask are
- How was your experience out in kenya?
-How has it changed yours on animal conservation?
-What type of work did you do for animal conservation?
-Are there any skills and qualities you have gained from this experience?
- Would you go back if you had the chance?
-What was the highlight of the trip?
At the bottom of the page we would include a link of the Camps international website, so the reader could find out more information if they wish.
http://www.campsinternational.com
Monday, 26 October 2009
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Planning
Thursday 25th June
As we cannot make a story board because we do not know what we are allowed to film in and around kenya, i have made a selection of shots that we would like to film while out there.
Planning Media Shots;
Thursday 25th June
As we cannot make a story board because we do not know what we are allowed to film in and around kenya, i have made a selection of shots that we would like to film while out there.
Planning Media Shots;
- A variety of shots of the students at the elephant sanctuary with the elephants.
- On Safari: animals, with the camera jolting to create an effect of the car moving.
- Girls walking off the plane with their rucksacks with the Kenyan airport behind. (We could even cheat and film a plane coming into land that isn’t ours yet say it was ours)
- Interviews of the gap year students (Kenya cam) to show their feelings and attitudes towards the trip and the way of life out in Kenya.
- Building the schools and teaching the children, portrays a feeling of a community coming together and shows how strangers can get along and help each other.
- Selina’s birthday celebration to show how they celebrate special occasions such as birthdays. Mrs Yeomans has said there will be some kind of celebration, Selina is excited and nervous about this but thinks it will be a great experience.
- Shots of the children and the tribes: make them come up into the camera so they look intrigued and the audience can relate to the emotions they have.
- Top of the mountain at sunrise, pan across the mountain to show the sunrise and the atmosphere that is up there.
- Walking along the beach, white sand and bright blue sea, show the beach life with the stalls along it and the Kenyans selling their goods and getting along with their normal lives.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
More Research
Saturday 20th June
I have been doing more research on specific topics of the documentary for example the animal conservation that we will be involved in in Kenya.
http://www.campsinternational.com/gap/mwaluganje-project.php
This paragraph about the elephants show that there is much conflict between the humans and elephants;
If it were not for humans, elephants would rate among the most successful species on earth. Thirty years ago, the elephant population stood at a healthy 3 million. Today less than 250,000 individuals remain, with numbers expected to decline further due to human pressures.
The loss of habitat and the ivory trade have been the two biggest factors contributing to the decline in elephant populations. During the 1980's over half of Africa 's elephants had been killed, and the population was reduced by 700,000. This is due to the human and elephant conflict within Kenya.
Tuesday 23rd June
I have watched a few different clips of how the documentaries are filmed and the different camera shots, angles and movements are used within them. I analysed a selection off youtube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kenya&search_type=&aq=f and found that the main camera angles and shots and midshots or longshots and the movements are either pans or zoom in and out when focusing on the people and animals. I also analysed a clip from one of David Attenboroughs documentaries to see how he presents himself on the documentary and to listen to the voiceover on it; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0icoUFdxhQM I found that David Attenborough gets completely involved in the footage.
Saturday 20th June
I have been doing more research on specific topics of the documentary for example the animal conservation that we will be involved in in Kenya.
http://www.campsinternational.com/gap/mwaluganje-project.php
This paragraph about the elephants show that there is much conflict between the humans and elephants;
If it were not for humans, elephants would rate among the most successful species on earth. Thirty years ago, the elephant population stood at a healthy 3 million. Today less than 250,000 individuals remain, with numbers expected to decline further due to human pressures.
The loss of habitat and the ivory trade have been the two biggest factors contributing to the decline in elephant populations. During the 1980's over half of Africa 's elephants had been killed, and the population was reduced by 700,000. This is due to the human and elephant conflict within Kenya.
Tuesday 23rd June
I have watched a few different clips of how the documentaries are filmed and the different camera shots, angles and movements are used within them. I analysed a selection off youtube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kenya&search_type=&aq=f and found that the main camera angles and shots and midshots or longshots and the movements are either pans or zoom in and out when focusing on the people and animals. I also analysed a clip from one of David Attenboroughs documentaries to see how he presents himself on the documentary and to listen to the voiceover on it; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0icoUFdxhQM I found that David Attenborough gets completely involved in the footage.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
My blog hasn't been working, I had produced a blog;
http://www.oliviajablonskia2.blogspot.com/ however i cannot access it anymore therefore I have had to keep a record book and then transfer the information onto my blog. This may take a while so Im sorry for the lateness of my coursework information.
Thursday 11th june;
For my media A2 coursework I am to choose from a choice of 13 briefs.
For each of the briefs there is a main task and then 3 bullet points from which I am to choose two to produce for the end product.
Brief 1 is a music video
Brief 3 is a web pop-up
Brief 7 is a snippet of a documentary tv programme
All of these briefs appeal to me. However Brief 1 is similar to what I did in AS as for that I had to produce a music magazine, therefore I would prefer to work on something different. Brief 3 also sound interesting however the web pop-up may be difficult as I am not used to working with the different programmes that will be used to produce it. Also the school may not have the technology to do it. I would love to be able to produce something different and able to further my media experiences with different programmes and technologies however to be able to make the end product my best ability I think sticking to what I am comfortable with would be best. Brief 7 therefore is the one I have chosen as it is producing a documentary for a TV programme. I would enable me to further my media abilities as I haven't ever worked with moving image, yet I would feel comfortable with the filming as I have done editing before.
Included in brief 7 is; An extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following options; a radio trailer for the documentary, a double page spread from a listings magazine focused on documentaries, a newspaper advertisement for a documentary.
The two subsidiary tasks I have chosen to do alongside the main task is a double page spread from a listings magazine focused on documentary and a newspaper advertisement for a documentary. This is as these are the two i am most comfortable with.
Proposal to the class
Wednesday 17th june;
The media coursework that i am working on is
an extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following 3 options;
A radio trailer for the documentary
A double page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary
A newspaper advertisement for the documentary
In lessons I had to do a proposal for what I was intending to do for my media coursework. My classmate Selina and I have decided to work together as we were going to Kenya for a month with an organisation through school. This is to do community work, mountain climbing and working on different projects. The link here shows the sort of activities we would be doing there;
http://www.campsinternational.com/team/itin-kenya-mountain.php
We thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to incorporate our media coursework into. It would give us an advantage as no-one would have the same as us as we liked the idea of it being completely different to what everyone else would produce.
For the proposal to rest of the group Selina wasn't here so I had to present our ideas to the group on my own, this was fine as we had discussed it and I knew what to say. I explained to the group that as we were off to Kenya, we decided to use it to the best of our ability and produce our documentary on that. The actual documentary would be on some gap year students travelling to Kenya and we would follow them and show the work they would do with the community and the animal conservation programmes. The main focus of the documentary would be to focus on how the gap year students would cope with the different culture and lifestyle of Kenya and how the animal conservation programmes work. Also we would focus alot on the wildlife conservation that happens out in kenya and how the different wildlife effects the communnities around them. We would try and see how sustainable the way that the people and animals live together is, or how it needs to be improved.
The feedback from the class and Mrs Fearnley was that the main ideas were really good but I would be pushed for time as we were off to Kenya on the 4th of July. Also we would need some main focus points to concentrate on as the month in Kenya is so filled with activities and projects that it would be impossible to film everything. This really helped as I then could feedback to Selina what was said and we could start working as soon as possible.
Research
Friday 19th June;
Today I have done lots of research about Kenya and what type of work and projects we will be doing in Kenya, this was done by going on the Camps international website and using wikipedia.
There are four main sections of the expedition, these are;
Wildlife which includes the safari
Ocean which includes going to the beach
Mountain which is climbing the mountain and mountain tasks
Community which includes working with the community and doing project work with them
This means that we can make the documentary split into these sections and the snippets of the documentary would be of these four main sections.
http://www.campsinternational.com/team/itin-kenya-mountain.php
Alot of the work we will be doing will be with animals and the animal conservation, I researched on what this involved and as I was looking I came across some horrible photos. These were mainly of the snares that the poachers use and camps international try to reduce the snares and help the animals as the snare rip them to pieces and can cause death to the animals.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&safe=active&um=1&ei=l0fDSty-Noe-mQPY9sSsBg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAQQBSgA&q=elephant+snares&spell=1&start=0
Also the other research which has been done is that of the culture of Kenya which will give me a wider idea and broaden my horizon of the culture and way of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Kenya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya
http://www.oliviajablonskia2.blogspot.com/ however i cannot access it anymore therefore I have had to keep a record book and then transfer the information onto my blog. This may take a while so Im sorry for the lateness of my coursework information.
Thursday 11th june;
For my media A2 coursework I am to choose from a choice of 13 briefs.
For each of the briefs there is a main task and then 3 bullet points from which I am to choose two to produce for the end product.
Brief 1 is a music video
Brief 3 is a web pop-up
Brief 7 is a snippet of a documentary tv programme
All of these briefs appeal to me. However Brief 1 is similar to what I did in AS as for that I had to produce a music magazine, therefore I would prefer to work on something different. Brief 3 also sound interesting however the web pop-up may be difficult as I am not used to working with the different programmes that will be used to produce it. Also the school may not have the technology to do it. I would love to be able to produce something different and able to further my media experiences with different programmes and technologies however to be able to make the end product my best ability I think sticking to what I am comfortable with would be best. Brief 7 therefore is the one I have chosen as it is producing a documentary for a TV programme. I would enable me to further my media abilities as I haven't ever worked with moving image, yet I would feel comfortable with the filming as I have done editing before.
Included in brief 7 is; An extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following options; a radio trailer for the documentary, a double page spread from a listings magazine focused on documentaries, a newspaper advertisement for a documentary.
The two subsidiary tasks I have chosen to do alongside the main task is a double page spread from a listings magazine focused on documentary and a newspaper advertisement for a documentary. This is as these are the two i am most comfortable with.
Proposal to the class
Wednesday 17th june;
The media coursework that i am working on is
an extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following 3 options;
A radio trailer for the documentary
A double page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary
A newspaper advertisement for the documentary
In lessons I had to do a proposal for what I was intending to do for my media coursework. My classmate Selina and I have decided to work together as we were going to Kenya for a month with an organisation through school. This is to do community work, mountain climbing and working on different projects. The link here shows the sort of activities we would be doing there;
http://www.campsinternational.com/team/itin-kenya-mountain.php
We thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to incorporate our media coursework into. It would give us an advantage as no-one would have the same as us as we liked the idea of it being completely different to what everyone else would produce.
For the proposal to rest of the group Selina wasn't here so I had to present our ideas to the group on my own, this was fine as we had discussed it and I knew what to say. I explained to the group that as we were off to Kenya, we decided to use it to the best of our ability and produce our documentary on that. The actual documentary would be on some gap year students travelling to Kenya and we would follow them and show the work they would do with the community and the animal conservation programmes. The main focus of the documentary would be to focus on how the gap year students would cope with the different culture and lifestyle of Kenya and how the animal conservation programmes work. Also we would focus alot on the wildlife conservation that happens out in kenya and how the different wildlife effects the communnities around them. We would try and see how sustainable the way that the people and animals live together is, or how it needs to be improved.
The feedback from the class and Mrs Fearnley was that the main ideas were really good but I would be pushed for time as we were off to Kenya on the 4th of July. Also we would need some main focus points to concentrate on as the month in Kenya is so filled with activities and projects that it would be impossible to film everything. This really helped as I then could feedback to Selina what was said and we could start working as soon as possible.
Research
Friday 19th June;
Today I have done lots of research about Kenya and what type of work and projects we will be doing in Kenya, this was done by going on the Camps international website and using wikipedia.
There are four main sections of the expedition, these are;
Wildlife which includes the safari
Ocean which includes going to the beach
Mountain which is climbing the mountain and mountain tasks
Community which includes working with the community and doing project work with them
This means that we can make the documentary split into these sections and the snippets of the documentary would be of these four main sections.
http://www.campsinternational.com/team/itin-kenya-mountain.php
Alot of the work we will be doing will be with animals and the animal conservation, I researched on what this involved and as I was looking I came across some horrible photos. These were mainly of the snares that the poachers use and camps international try to reduce the snares and help the animals as the snare rip them to pieces and can cause death to the animals.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&safe=active&um=1&ei=l0fDSty-Noe-mQPY9sSsBg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAQQBSgA&q=elephant+snares&spell=1&start=0
Also the other research which has been done is that of the culture of Kenya which will give me a wider idea and broaden my horizon of the culture and way of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Kenya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya
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