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