Monday 18 June 2007

Wild - Jalna's review

Directors: Vanita Dade, Jalna Maharjan, Hardy Sohki
Cast - Monique Flora, Rhian Flora, Rishika Kumar , Dr Robin

Interesting Fact:

Jalna recorded a whole days worth of filming One of our main characters, (Monique), But when checking through the footage realised that evrytime she pressed record she actually pressed 'STOP' and Vice Versa... Meaning we had loads of waste footage.. OoOoPSYYYY Lol Hardy 4got 2 turn the Mike on when filmin the phyciatrist !!... Ummm Sooo many things went wrong 4 us cnt remember half of it! also all our editin was done in like 3 weeks.... meanin we didnt really have a life during that time!!!!

Review

Well the main question was is ADHD curable....
Our short documentary is about the lives of 2 ADHD sufferers. We decided to follow 2 characters of different ages so that viewers could see the differences and similarities the dissorder had amongst different age groups. Both The sufferes were girls, which added to our authenticity boys are usually more misbehaved than girlies.

The use of our phyciatrist educates the viewers about ADHD, as the subject is not brought up that often, and the symptoms are highlighted. Whilest filming Vox Pops, we realised that older people were the ones that were mostly aware of the dissorder, whilst younger community were nt, meaning this was a ideal subject for our younger audience to watch to educate themselves.


Our overall aim with this documentary was to make viewers more aware of ADHD and to find out whether it is curable.....

Title - Wild

Directors - Vanita, Jalna and Hardeep
Cast - Monique Flora, Riann Flora, Dr Robin and Rishika Kumar

Interesting Fact
After the interview with Dr Robin me and my two fellow directors where crossing the road and i nearly died due to a car nearly hiting in to me but heres the interesting part as Hardeep is meant to be a really good friend of mine and is meant to save me from dying however, instead stood there and shouted out "ohhh Vanita's dead" hmmm interesting!!

Review

Wild a documentary which focuses on a mental issue or in other words a mental disorder mainly affected in children. The short documentary looks in to the lives of two attention deficit hyperactive disorder suffers and how it affects their lives or does it not? The documentary Wild does not only focus on the two main protagonists however shows other views on attention deficit hyperactive disorder is it only a con? Or a money making scheme? What causes attention deficit hyperactive disorder and is it curable?

Eighteen year old Rishika Kumar presents herself as a emotional individual who has been highly affected with this disorder and eight year old Monique Flora a hyperactive and loud child who expresses her disorder differently to Rishika.
The use of many techniques brings together a hitting documentary which presents its argument or message in a unique way to its audience.


Title – Wild disorder
Directed By – Vanita Dade, Jalna Maharjan and Hardeep Sokhi
Cast – Monique Flora, Riann Flora, Rishika Kumar, and Dr robin

Interesting Fact:

Hardeep, Jalna and Vanita went to London to film Dr robin(Phyciatrist) who gave a sense of professionalism to our documentary, unfortunately we filmed him with the mike turned off as a result we had to go re-shoot Dr robin.

Hardeep and Jalna stayed up all night trying to load the footage up on to the computer however, in the end it turn out we had the wrong wire therefore we resulted in getting the wire off a fellow student whom came to the rescue.

Review:

What is attention deficit hyperactive disorder? What are the causes? Does it come naturally or is it inherited through genes? People who suffer from this how do they cope? How do they feel?

The short documentary represents the life of two real life people whom suffer from attention deficit hyperactive disorder. Wild explore the lifestyle of a day to day basis of two protagonists Monique Flora 8 and Rishika Kumar 18. Monique Flora a hyper yet emotional girl lets us into her world to see how her life is through her angle. Rishika Kumar shares her struggles and emotional thoughts making us identify with her point of view.

Wild doesn’t only show real life experience also gives an insight to what actual attention deficit hyperactive disorder is, gives general issues that have been arisen and debates which follow in our society today.

The use of montage, editing and music creates a sense of heart touching feel to many scene that occur in the documentary. The use of instrumental music created an almost impact feel of the subject where viewers can sympathies with the protagonist.
Many viewers are to identify with the protagonist and relate back to the following problems. The documentary follows the lives of two different people keeping the audiences concentration throughout the documentary.


By, Hardeep Sokhi

Thursday 10 May 2007

Jellys progress report

Basicly... WEVE FINISHEDDD!!! yayy lol the media producation took over n we didnt have time for NETHING buh hopefully people will like it... well done chikitass!!!

Saturday 5 May 2007

Vanita...Evaluation

Practical production evaluation
Vanita Dade
956


For my practical production, I worked in a group with two others to produce a documentary called ‘Wild’. The documentary is based on a disorder called Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The documentary is to education audiences on the disorder. The documentary also investigates on two characters one aged 11 and the other 18 about their disorder and how it affects their day to day life. As a group we thought it was important to have the title of the documentary title linked to the disorder and the word ‘wild’ perfectly describes those who suffer from ADHD. However this also created an enigma as the word ‘wild’ could relate to many other subjects.

As a group we decided that we would share all the responsibilities equally, with this each group member ideas were used. Hardeep was mainly in charge of the camera and any other equipment that was booked out. Whilst filming I was hospitalised so I missed out on loads of filming, however then later was back and did participate in some of the filming. It could also be seen clearly that Jalna and Hardeep did loads more editing as I was abroad for my treatment however did as much as I could. However the editing time was a stressful part of creating the documentary as we did not follow our story board so we had a few problems for the narrative and story line.

The opening of the documentary starts off with a reverse shot of a background full of paint, the image then goes in a reverse shot and the paint becomes clear as hands of paint come and the title ‘wild’ appears. We used a childish instrumental and also the colours of the pain are bright more child like. This is so that audiences can relate to the whole starting of sequence to children as ADHD is more common in children.

There are a range of images throughout the documentary to convey and pass on our message to the audiences and most images have a voice over to them relating back to the main topic and subject ADHD. We carefully selected some vox pops to define what ADHD means. We used each word from a different vox pop and let each shot cut in straight after one another. After the definition we had some vox pops explaining what ADHD actually means.

We used parallel sound in the documentary as we felt that the music can also send out a message to the audiences. We used a song by Sugar Babes called ‘Ugly’; this song enables the audience to see how the characters of the documentary feel with the disorder. The mise en scene was carefully decided on for example when the voice over explains about how we caught up with one of our protagonist ‘Monique’ after school, she was dressed in school uniform. Also when the voice over of ‘Monique’ explains her behaviour amongst others, we show it in a garden with her playing around with other characters.

We gave the documentary our fullest attention as every minor mistake was corrected many times and every detail was looked in to. We also re shot many times, as we failed to get the right effect the first few times. We decided to challenge stereotypes, instead of having a naught boy as the protagonist we decided to have a naughty Asian girl. We also had a female voice over; this also challenges the stereotype of having a typical male voice over. Having a female voice over does not only challenge stereotypes but as the topic or main subject of the documentary is to do with a touching and unfortunate disorder, having a female voice over creates a sense of sympathy to the protagonist. After studying ‘Bowling for Columbine’ in module two, we witnessed that the realism of the documentary lies in the editing and producing shaky shots by using a hand held camera. We were also inspired from other documentaries such as ‘Body Shock’, we did not show our interviewer and only used a voice over, similarly to the documentary we looked at. We also interviewed the protagonist’s sister, this gave our documentary a sense of realism and gave the subject a powerful appeal, as the sister of the protagonist is targeting and attacking the sufferer of ADHD.
We used on screen text to keep the audience focused on to the screen, we also had sound which was parallel to what was being written on the screen however we used both to reinforce what was being said. We used a clear and standard font so it shows the strict and seriousness of the subject.

A strength is that we used young Asian females as our protagonist and other characters. This is unconventional and has gone against a patriarchal society. We challenge the stereotype of good young Asian females into naughty and disruptive.

Our cinematography was done to our best appeal, as we have used a range of different shots. For example we did a fade out of the second character ‘Rishika’ in a reverse shot being physically abusive to show her ‘wild’ side. The documentary ‘Wild’ will be shown on BBC1 as BBC1 is a public service broadcaster, also the main reason for this documentary is to educate audiences so therefore it is most convenient for the documentary to be shown on BBC1. The main audience for the documentary is 13 + of any gender. The documentary is focused on young teenagers to educate them as early as possible so this documentary is mainly targeted at a young audience

In conclusion, ‘Wild’ delivers its main purpose to the audience which is to educate them about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Friday 4 May 2007

Final Progress report...Hardy...

I'm soo happy that this is finished....we havee been through so much o wel... its all over noww..Im gald to sayy that its all finished and were happy with what we have produced. Mr bush saw our production and thought it was good soo wicked:D:D:D ....Well donee to all of us!!!

Wednesday 2 May 2007

Final progress report!!

Heyyy oh my dazze poor hardy has ran back and forth all the way home many times just to get the production on the cd and it just never happens and finally shes done it she left it at home godh! but its all done noww... mainly thanx to hardy and jalna... i wont be mean and take credit for something i havnt done but ne ways gud job!!!

x...Vanita...x

Final progress report!!

Heyyy oh my dazze poor hardy has ran back and forth all the way home many times just to get the production on the cd and it just never happens and finally shes done it she left it at home godh! but its all done noww... mainly thanx to hardy and jalna... i wont be mean and take credit for something i havnt done but ne ways gud job!!!

x...Vanita...x

Sunday 29 April 2007

WELLLLLLL, me n jellyy haveee been editinggg throughout the hoildays and in our free time... we finished edting buttttttt our voice over becamee a problem asss ms Talyor wasn't good enough sooo jelllyyy hadd 2 do the voice over as this was our last option. I feel that me and jalna have put so much into this production, as this production has prcatically taken over livessss. But i can finally sayy that its alll doneee...Well done jelly we final done it :D woohooo
x Hardy x

Tuesday 24 April 2007

*J*E*L*L*Y* Xx

Well basically, Yestaday we editied some more, and our production realy started to come together. We 'finallised' our production by adding sound tracks which were suitable, overal using quite a variety of them through out our whole production.
Me n Hardy then edited scenes... we looked up facts which were alredy up on our blog and added them in our producation...
I think now all that needs to be done is Show BuShhhh What weve done so far.... get advice..... and add our finishing touches!

Xx Jalna xX

Monday 23 April 2007

THE PRODUCTION

Well, me n jellyy havee doneee soo much work while binu was in india omggg have we hadd a rollercoster of a ride.... all the editing done at skool was WASTE... as it got deleted... WHICH was a disaster... we had to edit at home......
Throughout the easter holidays... and it seemed as time went by.... we was getting more and more BAD luck... first of all our work wouldnt capture... and we had to film all over agen... soo sooo much more... but finaly as weve come to an end it turns out that the production is looking good... and weve got soo much to write in our evaluation!!
Thats it....... Basicallyy.... weve FINALLLYYYY finisheddd....... and were pleaseeed with the final product!!

Xx Jelly n Hardy xX

Wednesday 18 April 2007

Progress report...Vanita

....Well i havent done much with the production seeing as i was away getting my treatment done...but still got the evalutaion to do so yeh need to watch the production again an write my evalutaion so thats all left to be done....

x...Vanita...x

Thursday 12 April 2007

OMG sooOooOooOoOOOoooooOOo much has happened in these holidays its unbelieveableeee......
I will keep you posted

Sunday 25 March 2007

jellys progress report

Yay i got my net back finaly so i can make all the progress reports i want lol... so far we have just been editing all the footage we can... but whilst doing so realised that we needed way mroe scenes with Monique so we will be looking to book out the camera agen and film those... weve pretty much done the opening scenes and newspaper montages... all i can say for now!!

xxjalnaxx

Jelly's Progress Report

Attainment ... About 3.... i understand most stuff just need to start revising...
Effort ... I feel as though i have made more of an effort with my work this term so 2
Punctuality ... This has improvedd dramaticly i think so 2
Submission and quality of homework ... Well there has been an occasion or 2 where i 4get to bring it in but on the whole i try handing work in on deadlines....3?
Ability to work independently ... 2.. no problem with this
Quality of writing ... i think 2.. could be improved thou... less rushed
Organisation of Media folder ... 2 ... i recently organised all my media sheets quite proud lol
Oral contributions in class... contribute at times where im not in my own dream world lol
Quality of coursework... 2.. so far its going good could make a few mina improvements thou

jalna xx
Attainment ... well about a 4 because i have not been much as i have been at the hospital and not been feeling to well

Effort ... desoite being in hospital and being away i think i have put in loads of effort in my work so 2

Punctuality ... i try to arrive on time and most of the times i do so 2

Submission and quality of homework ... most of the time in on time and done to my best ability so a 2

Ability to work independently ... i canwork on my own...2

Quality of writing ... about a 3

Organisation of Media folder ... well organised 1 for definates!!

Oral contributions in class... always contributing 2

Quality of coursework... so far doing really godd so a 2

x...Vanita..x...(",)...x

Progress Report...Vanita

Hey...(",)...well all this week we have been editing so like not much has changed from last week...we are going to finish with the voice over soon... that sit reallyy bubb byyesss xxx

x...Vanita...x

Monday 19 March 2007

Self Evaluation

Attainment - 2

Effort - 2 - I have put a lot effort into media part of the coursework and in general with classwork and homework.

Punctuality - 2 I always come to lessons on time, however i have missed lesson but always catched up on the work

Submission and quality of homework - 2 I spend a lot of time on my homework and always hand it on time.

Ability to work independently 2 - I think i work well on my own as i don't get distracted by other and concentrate better.

Quality of writing - 2 I think the quality of my writing is up to a good standard as i do put a lot of effort into my essays.

Organisation of Media folder - 1 My media folder is organised as i always file my work in order

Oral contributions in class 3 - I don't always contribute in class this is one of my tragets which i hope to achieve.

Quality of coursework - 2 I put a lot of effort into wild disorder we all do, i think that our coursework is up to a good standard

x HARDY x

Progress report

wel...so far

Our production is looking good sooo far im liking it .......well we have been editing after school and in the moring....so far we have done our opeining sequence and introduced our character but we stil got lots too do soo girliess we gota keep the good work up. We found some sountracks which go well with the production, however we need to find some rocky tunes or tunes that go well woith the production. We made a few changes a our mentor gave us advice on not having our physcologist at the beggining of our production so now we will show him later on.

X HARDY X

Saturday 17 March 2007

Progress Report...Vanita's

Hellooooooooooo lol this week we have done some more editing and we only have 2 weeks to go!! so we need to make a move and pull our socks up because we do have loads to do... Dats alll we have done this week...actually we found some more soundtracks for the documentary and we just need to pick the ones we really like and thats about it i thinkkk....well i cant remember any more so il leave it at that!! bubb byeeesss

x...Vanita...x

Progress Report...Hardy's

We had a few chnages to the production which have fitted in well, we filmed our title of the documentary and its comeout out really good with the hand paintings and stuff, looks effective, well most of the paint went on my clothes then the paper lol!! We have done some editing this week and have loads more to do yet soo dats next to be done!

xXx Hardy xXx

Sunday 11 March 2007

Vanita's Progress Report...(",)


Me and Hardy hand painting!!

Well wev captured our footage and have started editing and it is so long!! it takes forever, but...its quite fun... we also done some hand painting which was soo fun!! for our opening title and it came out really good...amazing!! We have been working so hard on this production waking up extra early and staying behind till half 5!! Our prodution is coming along now and it seems to look good so far!!

x...Vanita...x

Friday 9 March 2007

Jalnas Progress Report

Well, Over the past week our team has been working hard in the editing suite capturing and editing on the computer, We have captuted pretty much what we need and have finished editing a few sceenes such as the vox pops. We have also filmed a few more scenes that needed to be fimed which became clearer as we added scenes onto the tme line.
We went to interview another teacher who knew about ADHD on thursday, and captured come scenes for our montage and also captured some Archive footage...
Well keep you posted !!

Jelly xx

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