Within the past couple of weeks as a group we have been essentially dwelling on our ideas and now have looked at ways to put them in action in terms of filming certain scenes. From our advertising campaign of looking for an actor we received a response from someone who seemed very interested in playing the role, but lives slightly far away which means we may have problems on actual filming days where are having to travel to locations. So we thought we’d use on of Jess’s friends who is also interested and willing to play the part called Jon, we decided to meet up with him one of the days next week to go through storylines and what his role entails.

We received back the questionnaires we distributed and myself and mala sat closely together and counted up the results in order for everyone in the group to analyse individually and to discuss in our treatments.
There had been slight disagreement on the plot of our storyline and scripting, it is important to have a well-structured script before going further as we can work from it in all ways. Jess has been storyboarding some shots based on the ideas we have produced as a group and we have been doing individual planning of a potential ending.

I personally have been doing some research on essentially how to shoot a documentary to get myself familiar in terms of conventions they share, tips of camera angles and interview expertise. I found out about; 

• lighting and how it should be refrained from reflecting in the eyes
•  how the interviewees’ must never look into the camera
• equipment, what we will need

We have also been preparing for our pitch which will be taking place next week, Wednesday. We created a rough sort of plan of what we will be talking about. Jessica wrote on the board whilst myself, mala and phill generated ideas what we should talk about in the presentation.