Watched a documentry called touching the void which was really intresting it didnt have a presenter, which i liked and thought it really worked. In the afternoon we carried on improving our powerpoint, i then had a lesson with john and carried this on with my group.

29/04/10

This morning we went through our pitches, john went through the distinction critera and how we can achive this. I jotted it down and printed it off for my group to work from. In the afternoon we had genre, we went to the libary and got out books make our bibliography up. I choose horror as my genre, my films are frankienstien 1931 and Saw 2004.

27/04/10

Today is our pitch, we all came in dressed formally for it, gathered all our research relervant for our pitch and made last minute changes to the presentation. We then Practiced our pitch over and over again untill we were all comfortable we knew each others slides.
It was then our turn, i thought it went well, we answered questions with fair points

26/04/10

We all had finished of our reseach and put it all togther finally on the powerpoint, we decided who was saying what slide, the edited it to eachothers preferances. When we had sorted out what slides we were each presenting we got on with writing our scripts. When we had completed our scripts we practiced our pitch for the rest of the day.

23/04/10

We put all our information togther on the powerpoint, thier was still alot we had to researcha nd carried on that individually through out the day. We meet up before lunch and put it togther and discussed what else we needed. Next lesson we practiced out pitches, and carried on colecting reseach.

22/04/10

This morning we started to discuss again our idea and what we need to each research to make it easy to put into our presention, i had to research ofcom. I started to research ofcom rules and regulations, I printed of all the ofcom regulations and highlighted the main points that are relevant to our documentary. Adam started the powerpoint, and added in anyinformation anyone had done. Later in the afternoon we had film studies.

20/04/10

Today we spoke to Phil and he told us about the River house project, so we started to speak to people who have more details about it including John Simpson who is part of SBS and he gave us information about the River House Project, Onley Prison is Rugby and a probation officer who could help us with the law side of the project. We all looked at each other’s research and discussed what we had found. We need to start getting in touch with young offenders institutes and young offenders charities, me and Adam researched these last night so we cut the list down to the closest institutes and charities and will ring them today. We then had a chat with Tim lozimki and he gave us someone to get in touch with that deals with children that have got chucked out of a lot of schools, children that are on the verge of offending. Lisa and Chris then went to see Trisha Perry to ask about this riverside place where the children are kept.