Evaulation

When i started doing my project, i found it hard to come up with an idea and it took me a while to think of something that i could do that wasn't going to be too hard. My next step was to jot down all my ideas and pick the best one, the one i felt was the best for me was to do a small documentary on 3 people who have had a hard life and get to know them and talk about their experiences. After deciding this, i had to pick 3 young individuals with different problems

My first person was young drug dealer Sam Piper who just at the age of 17 had been in trouble with the police for supplying 12 year olds with weed and other sorts of drugs. My aim was to talk to him about why he does this and see if he can escape from this and get a normal life back.

My second person was teenage mum Lucy Jackson, played by Yasmin Cooper. Lucy is a young mum and gave birth to her first child at the age of 15, 3 years later, i talk to her about what impact having a child has made on her life. Also, i want to find out about the fathers role in this.

My last person is criminal Peter Calnon. Pete has been committing crimes for as long as he can remember. With stuff like petty theft behind him, his future is looking bleak and i chat to him about changing his lifestyle and becoming a much better person for it.

After i had my characters picked out i had to start developing my paperwork which was to fill out call sheets and a shooting schedule. I also had to develop my script which just consisted of my questions i asked to all 3 individuals.

Next i had to start to film each person and make sure that the answers they gave were enough for my research. Firstly, i started off with Sam Piper, the young drug dealer. We held the interview in his bedroom as this is what he wanted. Sam answered a variety questions with some strong answers which gave me enough information. After him, i interviewed Lucy Jackson on her teen pregnancy. Lucy told me about her circumstances in which so got pregnant in and how shes coped with her child. Lastly, I interviewed Peter Calnon on his criminal ways, Pete told me about why he commits his crimes and how he will change.

I found it hard at first to manage everything and fit it all in because of having other work surrounding it too. However, once i got a feel for things i started to find it much easier and managable to work with. The aim overall was to show my audience which is teens, what life can be like if you get into all these types of problems and how you can prevent this from happening to you. If i were to do this again, i think i would try to make deadlines for my work and make sure i can fit everything in and have lots of time left instead of taking too long to complete it.

Pre Production Diary

7th June - Week 1 : I started to fill out my shooting schedule for my documentary "My Struggle" which features three teenagers who have different problems and how they cope with their everyday lives

14th June - Week 2 : I now have everything ready to film. I want to start with focusing on the teenage mums story and how she has coped in life after having a child.


16th June - Week 2: I have started to film my documtary, i decided not to film the teenage mums part and started off with covering my drug addicts story. Overall, i think it went really well and i got the shots i required.

21st June - Week 3: I filmed the 2nd part of my documentary which was the teenage mums story and the filming went really well so im happy with the overall outcome of it.

23rd June - Week 3: I had to film my last part of the documentary which was the criminals part, i feel that the filming went really well overall and hope that putting all my footage together will work at well. Now, im ready to edit what i have.

30th June - Week 4: Ive started to edit my footage now. I want to cut out all the bits that dont relate to my film. I aim to finish this in the next week or so.

5th July - Week 5: Ive completed the main part of my editing now thats all thats left to do is complete paperwork and do the evaluation.

7th July - Week 6: Ive completed all my paperwork now the last bit i have to do is do my evaulation.

SWOT Analysis

Task 1 SWOT_Analysis_Worksheet[1]

Name Jen Kelly

Date 14/5/10

SWOT Analysis Worksheet

Strengths: What do you do well? I feel that i do well within written tasks because i like to be able to evaulate my work to make it better What unique resources can you draw on? Unique resources that have to offer are that i look deep into my work and see what i can improve What do others see as your strengths? They see the same that i have already commented on	Weaknesses: What could you improve? I could try to work faster and keep within my deadlines Where do you have fewer resources than others? I dont look really deep into other resoruces What are others likely to see as weaknesses? That im too slow sometimes
Opportunities: What good opportunities are open to you? I could well turn my project into something useful and imformative What trends could you take advantage of? That they are lots of documentaries like mine around and they have always been very popular for audiences How can you turn your strengths into opportunities? I could try to turn what i have into something that has never been seen before	Threats: What trends could harm you? Other programmes that have already covered what i intend to do What is your competition doing? They have been very successful in the past but i could well change that What threats do your weaknesses expose you to? Because of my slowness to grasp situations i could well end up loosing what i have

My ideas