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The boy whose skin fell off

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This was another documentary which bought up major moral issues, as it opened with Jonny Kennedy, a 37 year old man, dead in his wheelchair. The documentary followed Jonny, a man suffering from a rare skin disease DEB, for the last 4 months of his life. It showed him planning his funeral, and doing the last few things he wanted to do before he died, for example fly plane and have a house warming. It also showed him fund-raise and bring awareness to the disease before he died, in order to help others by trying to find a cure. This documentary bought up controversial issues such as how people deal with the inevitability of  death, if Jonny's mum knew about the condition before he was born, would she have aborted, and the representation of spirituality and religion through Jonny's opinions and life. This documentary was much more hard hitting than 'the bridge' as you built a relationship with Jonny. You were able to get to know his personality, and as he was a likabl...

Story board

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This is the story board we have created for our music video. It shows the main scenes we are planning to cover, focusing on the story we will be trying to get across, and our focus on colour. We want the main theme of our music video to relate to colour as we think that can me a metaphor of how beautiful life is and why Sia is celebrating being alive after her heartbreak.

Audience research

Without an audience, there is no point creating a media product. The media industry spends millions ensuring they are providing the correct content to their audience by finding out what their target audience want from their media product. No matter how amazing, or creative a product What I will need to know for my production: ·          Who your audience is ·          Age/interests/views/opinions- young- really modern, current. ·          What other typed of media they consume ·          How they consume ·          Where do they get it from ·          Who they identify themselves with- what group do they come from- fan girls, ·          How much they consume ·      ...

Feedback from production pitch

The feedback we received from our class was positive as they felt our idea was strong and we had a clear plan/ pitch too express the ideal music video we want to create. They specifically liked our idea that the music video will begin in black and white, and then develop in to vibrant colour when the chorus line "I'm alive" is sung, emphasising the change in the dancers mood from depressed to one of hope and happiness.  The class also enjoyed our mood board which we had created as they felt it expressed our ideas clearly in visual detail.  The other idea we had about colour was also highly liked, as we are planning to use strong coloured lighting to connect the dancer with different locations, for examples a green lighting will be on Lauren in the studio which will then be edited to cutaway to a vibrant green forest, showing one of the dancers memories. Overall I am pleased with the feedback as it gives me and the group confidence that our music video will be succe...

Moral responsibility in film - The Bridge by Eric Steel

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This documentary brings up major moral questions about whether the events filmed, should be allowed to be watched, or even filmed. The controversial documentary was directed, and filmed by Eric Steel, an American filmmaker and producer. In my opinion I think filming people jumping, and then finding out about their lives, and reasoning for doing it, is not wrong; on the contrary I think it is a respectful way to bring awareness to issues that play out daily, using their suicide to educate and potentially help others.

Review of my AS Production

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Synopsis Mine, Lauren's, Ruari's, and Ciaran's production was about a young woman who is a werewolf but unaware she is. At first she seems like a vulnerable, weak, victim, but it become apparent further in that she is actually the attacker; a dangerous strong, independent character. In our film opening sequence our protagonist wakes up in her room and gets ready to go on a run while listening to the radio- explaining the recent attacks in the area, and the police warning which has been given to the public. Once she has left for her run, a suspicious man begins to follow her (making the audience curious and suspicious) - he begins to run, and then leaves the scene- a bit later he returns in the woods, at the same time the young woman finds a dead body. A twist occurs when instead of the creepy man being the threat, the young woman attacks the man. Throughout our media product, our protagonist does not speak, nor is there any voice-over, this means the focus is on the moveme...

Production Pitch

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