Wednesday 28 February 2007

Dr Robin......
soooo lovely....Dr Robin placeee...

x Hardy x
Hardy.....
Binu....

Jellyy













.......ON OUR WAY TOO MEET DR ROBIN...........
x Hardy x










Monday 26 February 2007

progress report

Afta a slow start so far we have managed to film what we need from our phyciatrist... filmed scenes with our new character, Re-filmed our Vox Pops of people from varied settings... ALSO managed to get footage for our Montage sequence!! We have thought of another possible character that would be usefull for our documenary, a younger character then the one we allready have, and are thinkin of including maybe another character in our producation... and older and younger example of ADHD sufferers... wel keep you posted!

J a l n a

Saturday 24 February 2007

Test Screening Feedback

MCCAT:
Media Language:
Conventions:
Creativity:
Attention to detail:
Technical Proficiency:


Positive Comments:

Cinematography
~ Good steady shots
~ Good shots of people being interviewed

Mise-en-scene
~ good use of different background
~ good use of natural settings

Lighting
~ Good bright/clear lighting used could see all the footage taken
~Natural lighting
Sound

~ The sound was clear as you hear everything what people were saying
~ Natural sound, Microphone was used well

Conventions/matching audience?
~ The audience can relate to the people in the vox pops

~Range of people were being interviewed

Constructive Criticism:
Cinematography
~ Need to use a tripod when doing vox pops getting steady shots
~ Lacking a variety of shots
Mise-en-scene

~ Visit more town areas

~ Use a variety of locations
Lighting
~ You can’t see the person as the light is too much in the person face.
~ Lighting could be brighter

Sound

~ could hear background noise such as noise of cars
~ Microphone needs to be away from the person as the sound is not so good

Conventions/matching audience?
~ Interview more educated people

Suggestions and ideas:
What else would you (or the target audience) like to see in this production? (scenes? sequences?)
~ A montage sequence; a range of opinions form all ethnicities, voice over and cut up footage into sections.
~ More interviews of a professional and maybe having archive footage in the documentary may be good.

Suggestions for post-production/editing (music? voiceover? cutaways? montage? cross cutting? titles? slo-mo?)
~ Include some sad/emotional songs to shows this is an emotional subject.

~ Have a female voiceover as it will challenge the stereotype and will look professional.

...[*Hardy*]....

Friday 23 February 2007

Progress report

What have we done so far...

- We had a change of character as our other character couldn’t film this week, but we managed to get our selves another character which is good news.

- We have done most filming with our new character, we have completed most of our storyboard which is interviews with a teacher, parents and Haley asking their views on ADHD.

- Me, Jelly and Binu went to see Dr robin on Monday ...unfortunately i didn’t turn the mike on...sooo we got footage of him ...buh we cant hear him....:(:(....soo i booked another appointment on Monday with him soo we can re-shoot. However, when we saw Dr robin he helped us soo much understanding ADHD better and answered our key question woohoo!

- We have got different scene with Haley such as a bedroom, playground, living room scene therefore most of our production is nearly done....soo the question is what’s left????......basically, we jus got to re- shoot Dr Robin again!!!!!!

X...*Hardy*...X

A twist!!

Well from all this filming me Hardy and jalna worked something out that theres a twist in our production, instead of having just one aim to the documentary "is this disorder inherited or a form of socailing?" we now have to "can this disorder be treated or not?" This came out when we interviewed our phycologist and did some more in delth research which i am going to post up.

Many people think ADHD is a fraud because they believe that children are naturally meant to be be a bit loud and hyper however some argue that this is a disorder because having lack of concentration is not part of a child's healthy lifestyle.

i also did some research on how ADHD is actually diagonosed, and this how it is; The following ADD / ADHD Adult Self Report Scale (ASRS) questionnaire can be used as a starting point to help you recognize the signs/symptoms of Adult ADHD but is not meant to replace consultation with a trained healthcare professional. An accurate diagnosis can only be made through a clinical evaluation. Regardless of the questionnaire results, if you have concerns about diagnosis and treatment of Adult ADHD, please discuss your concerns with your physician. (This Adult Self-Report Scale (ASRS) Screener is intended for people aged 18 years or older.) Are you living with Adult ADHD? The questions below can help you find out

Circle the number that best describes how you have felt and conducted yourself over the past 6 months. Never
0 Rarely
1 Sometimes
2 Often
3 Very Often

4 Score
1. How often do you have difficulty getting things in order when you have to do a task that requires organization?
0 1 2 3 4

2. When you have a task that requires a lot of thought, how often do you avoid or delay getting started?
0 1 2 3 4


3. How often are you distracted by activity or noise around you?

4. How often do you leave your seat in meetings or other situations in which you are expected to remain seated?
0 1 2 3 4

5. How often do you feel restless or fidgety?
0 1 2 3 4

6. How often do you have difficulty waiting your turnin situations when turn taking is required?
0 1 2 3 4

Total


A score of 11 points or higher indicates that your symptoms may be consistent with Adult ADHD. It may be beneficial for you to talk with your healthcare provider about an evaluation.

x...vanita...x

So Far!!

Well so far we have done some filming of our character, interviews with our character, interveiw with the parent and interview with the teacher. We also done some other filming...we are also doing an expert interview again as the sound did not come out on the other one and thats re scheduled for monday so hopefully that will be the end of the filming!!

x...Vanita...x

Monday 19 February 2007

Filming Mission... 19th Feb

Well today, Jelly Hardy and Binu woke up Extra early... and went to Harley street to meet our Phyciatrist Dr Robin E Lawrence, for a session on our Topic ADHD, He answered our questions and gave us a brief History Of ADHD, what the Symptons were, and how it was Diagnosed, also the Main concerns and our main question.... 'Is it a form of socialisation' . We can safely say that we are thouroughly pleased with this footage, as Dr Robin answered our questions in Great detail, and would add the special touch we needed in our documentary, a sense of Proffesionalism.

Thankyou for your time DR Robin!!... Much appreciated!

We also put our heads down and wrote and planned our storyboards 2day... and wrote down a brief outline of our sketches... for example whats scenes to film with our Character, the mis en scenes and the type of shots to use...
which where Pan's of our character when we first introduce her, Zoom in of settiges, etc.

Here are scenes we will include

*Intro (with music)
*Questions ADHD? Vox pops
*Definition of Vox pops

Here are some of the scenes we are going to film with character:

*The character playing playstation, (Pan from foot to face slowly to introduce us to character)
*hOMELIFE
*PLAYGROUND SCENES
bALCONY sCENES
*Interview with characters Mother

And then we would include...

*Proffesional Interview with Dr Robin
*Plus other scenes....


OH YEH... DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES... OUR MAIN CHARACTER HAS CHANGED FOR OUR PRODUCTION, AND WE HAVE FOUND A NEW CHARACTER!

x JALNA x

Tuesday 13 February 2007

So Far....

Well... so far, Jalna and Hardy WENT to central London to film some vox pops... and they we went to an councli estate to film some more... the Idealogy behind this was to get a varied response... i.e to show audiences how people from Different backgrounds thought and the knowledge they shared about our topic ADHD....

(we also filmed some vox pops in school... however we decided to scrap this idea as we thought it wouldnt be authentic enough).....

ALSO.... we reviewed our comments from our fellow media classmates and will be taking some of those ideas in and using them....

Vanita came back... Wooo... Hardy and Jelly and Binu back on trackk yeyahh x

Oh Yh... we arranged a meeting with Beckles for an interview about Hayley... arranged to film a classroom scene with Ms Elcock.... Well keep u posted from there!!

Xx Jalna xX

Progress so far...

well today me Hardy and Jalna met up with Ms Elcock and agreed on a time and date to when we are going to film a classroom scene with Hayley, so we have managed to set a date and time to that...we also spoke to Mr Beckels who Mentals Hayley to be interveiwed and he agreed so we have that time an date sorted aswell....thats all so far!!

x...Vanita...x

Blog comments

1. What do you think of our blog?

What do you particularly like about it? What's especially impressive?

What could be improved? What's missing or could be added?

2. Based on what you've read on the blog (and maybe seen in test screenings in class) what suggestions do you have regarding what we could do to make our Practical Production really successful?

What other things could we include in the production?

How should we go about filming any remaining scenes or editing the footage during post-production (+ suggestions for music, etc.)?

Im back...

Well im back from hospital and into school now...well i dont think iv missed to much but anyway we still need to do some more filming so now i can take part in that and Hardy has managed to fix a session with a psychologist about ADHD...thats on monday 19th february... thats all so far!!

x...Vanita...x

Sunday 11 February 2007

So FaR...

What progress we have done so far....

- I made an appointment with Dr Robin on 19th feb, whilst talking to him on the phone, he knows a lot about ADHD as he deals with many patients who contain this disorder, and knows a lot of background info.

- We have finished our vox pox, asking the question ' what is ADHD', we have asked a variety of people showing a good understanding of the subject.

- We were suppose to film Hayley in a classroom scene last week, but looks like we didn't achieve to get there, therefore we have to complete the classroom scene with ms Cole this week, as she is happy to star in our production.

- As a group we wanted to get a professional voice over, i e-mailed BBC 1, Channel 4 and five... i received a mail back from five saying that we are able to get a professional voice over......BUT.....we got to pay £250....so the idea of getting a professional voice has vanished. Therefore we will test out all three of our voice and who ever voice seems the most professional will be doing the voice over.


- This week we need to start shooting our main story line which is Hayley ... on monday we will begin with doing a playground and classroom scene.

Xx...*Hardy*...xX

Friday 2 February 2007

WhAt wE dId 2DaY....

Well.... seeing as one of our crew members BiNu has fallen ill...(recovering)... it was up to jelly and hardy to carry on... 2day we went out to film... colecting some footage for our vox-pops... asking the people of london 'what ADHD was'.... it was pretty hard getting people to agree to starring in our production... n jelly n hardy had trouble setting up the camera lol... (big heart attack) when we thought we lost all our footage)... but overall today was a success and we will now focus an collecting even more footage for our vox-pops... meeting up with the phyciatrist and also start filming with Hayley... the (*) of the show!! Well will keep you updated!

Xx Jalna xX

Thursday 1 February 2007

Planning this week....

1. Voice pop or pox ... - visit a shopping centre asking people what is ADHD
2. Arrange a meeting with Mr Beckles
3. Film Hailey in a classroon - arrange when with Ms Cole (Firday)
4. Start filiming cuts of our story board e.g. shooting in the playground sene two

....

Xx...*Hardy*...xX

Psychologist

Wel, we final found a physiatrists after me and jelly called a number of
psychologist , DR. Robin whom is willing to meet up with us on the following Monday to tells us his views on ADHD we are looking forward to meeting him....

Dr Robin E lawerance
96 Harley street
London
WIH 1AD

Xx...*Hardy*...xX

Preparation of practical production - Wild disorder

Scene one

1. Intro – showing on BBC 1 (people dancing) research openings for programmes form ideas
2. Voice pox asking people ‘What is ADHD?’ – we want to create an authenticity by making people not know what this disorder is as it is not very common
3. Types of shots included in scene one
- Close up
- Long shots
- Fast edits
-
Cuts
- Shots used such as fade, pan ect.

The last person shown on the voice pox is a psychiatric who will tell us the definition of ADHD.

Scene two

* We will introduce our main character who is a 13 year old girl called Hailey which suffers from ADHD
* Hailey will be shot in the school playground – there will be a voice over introducing her whilst the camera is focusing on other children in the playground. When the voice over has finished introducing Hailey we will zoom the camera into Hailey and final show who she is.
* A song will be playing whilst the character is being introduced.


Scene three


Ø This will be a shot of a classroom when Hailey is shown to be much disrupted and very talkative.

Ø Do not pay close attention to details;
Ø Don’t stay focused on play or school work;
Ø Don’t follow through on instructions or finish school work or chores;
Ø Can’t seem to organize tasks and activities;
Ø Get distracted easily; and Lose things such as toys, school work, and books

We will show some of these things in our scene three as they will show Hailey to have this disorder well.



Scene 4

- Run over car scene – we have looked at other adverts such as ‘pay attention when crossing roads’
- We will show how Hailey is careless and doesn’t seem to bother about the things around her as she runs into the road, but she doesn’t die as the car stop close by her.
- This scene will have many long shots of young teenagers

Scene 5


* In our documentary we want to film a professional to make the documentary have a realism effect.
* Therefore we are interviewing Mr Beckles Hailey councils as he will tell us the ins and outs of ADHD
* As interviews do tend to get boring whilst Mr Beckles is talking we will focus the camera on Hailey to make the documentary more interesting
* We will have a sound bridge going on to the next scene


Scene 6

- To end the documentary we will answer our key question which is ‘is this disorder inherited or is it a form of socialisation?’
- We will debate at the end
- We will show medical evidence what doctors say that there is no cure or some says that this is not even a disorder
- Final at the end of the production we will provide help lines were suffers can talk to someone



Settings

- Classroom
- Playground
- School
- Shopping centres
- Home
- Bedroom


Back scenes


Kitchen scene
Bedroom scene

Xx...*Hardy*...xX