2018 Media Coursework

Scene 1 : Slow cuts between close ups of all 4 interviewees. Setting: outside, different locations. Audio clip A played - 15 seconds. Scene 2: Quick cut, displaying close up interviewee 1. 'Watch This Space' appears over the close up. Bass sound effect used around each individual word. Scene 3: *narrator prompts questions, 'Let's begin by talking about stereotypes', interviewee's response incorporates the question 'stereotypes?' - thus the narrative becomes rhetorical. Answers encompassed by fairly quick cut - minimum of 10, cut speed is increased along with non diegetic monotone sound which builds with pace of cut. Scene 4: Non-diegetic sound cuts out. Black screen. Narrator 'Stop.' Scene 5:  Interviewee's sitting down in front of white screen. Narrator *diegetically*, 'Now tell me about yourself' *interviewees prompted by narrator's questions: 1) Do you think you're an introvert or extrovert? 2)Do think you're loud? ...

Pitch Document Title 'Watch This Space' Logline 'Have you ever not felt welcome in a space? On the bus? At a party? In your office? This programmes explores the social constructs which dictate the lives of women of colour and keep them out of big and small spaces. Genre Lifestyle Documentary Unique Selling Point My unique selling point is the characters themselves, I am limiting my characters to about 4-5 girls in order to ensure their unique narratives are communicated. The diversity at the core of the programme is the main attraction, specifically as it's not something often replicated in Channel 5 documentaries - something the commissioning editor is looking for. Convergence The similarities I want to show over my cross-media production are the emphasis on the individual, specifically the importance of communicating one's narrative. I am interested in basing my magazine off the popular magazine 'Grazia' because the magazine is int...

WOMEN OF COLOUR.  I am really interested in producing a piece which explores stereotypes and breaking these as a woman of colour in 21st century Britain. In order to further this interest and gather as many poosible takes on this idea, over summer I took part in a day at University College London which explored what its like to be a black woman in buisness in the city of London.  I spoke with an organisation called Women in the City Afro-Carribean Network (WCAN) who gave me some brilliant statistics I can use in my documentary and a particularly brilliant audio anecdote from the founder of this company, giving her own perspective on how she became succesful and broke down stereotypes from the begining of her career. Recently, I have begun reading 'Ain't I a Woman', a book by media theorist bell hooks, in which she examines the effect of racism and sexism on black women and specifically the feminist movements for universal suffrage throughout woman-kind.  In her book b...

'13' - Netflix documentary. An American documentary exploring the injustice, racially, of the 13th Amendment of the American Constitution, which freed the African slaves, however allowed for slavery as a punishment of crime. The Film begins with a visually blank, audio clip of President Barack Obama - this is an interesting technique I will consider using to highlight specific facts. An audio clip paired with the appearance of facts on-screen is an interesting idea that I might use to explore the depth of a problem and place emphasis on it. The film includes voices and opinions from both sides of the racial arguement, some notable activists and politicians, including Angela Davis , Bryan Stevenson , Van Jones , Newt Gingrich , Cory Booker , Henry Louis Gates Jr , and others. By including different voices the director has allowed for a complete discussion on the topic but also she can break down the opposing arguement through later production of the narrative.  Furthermo...