Weekly Update 10 (Rainna Saunders)

This week we focused on our newspaper advertisements and editing the documentary.

Results for Questionnaire ( Rainna Saunders)

Call Sheet (Rainna Saunders)

Weekly Update 9 (Rainna Saunders)

After gathering together all the footage and necessesary components for the documentary we continued to edit the film in order to portray a balanced arguement, we also continued to do any work that needed to be finished on the blog.

Actor Release Form (Gareth Hawkes)

Interviewee Profiles (Temenuzhka Petrakova)

Interviewee Profiles

Weekly update 8 (Rainna Saunders)

This week were suppose to film an interview with Sarah Wellum, however she was unavailable but we were able to interview Colin Seabrook as he is also an apprenticeship employer. We had to film the interview three times before it was correctly framed. We also were able to capture many cutaways of pupils on  motor and electrical apprenticeshipees in action.

Also on Wednesday 10th November, we attended the Demolition protest. We planned to meet at 9am but actually left at 10am, when we arrived at UCL University we realised that we forgot the tape , so we had to take the bus to Tottenham Court Road to buy a tape. After searching for a shop to buy a tape, we were running out and time and when we finally found a tape, we decided that is would be wiser to make our way to Embankment where the protest where the protest was starting rather than going back to UCL.

On arrival the we saw thousands of students and the spirits was high. We then took many photos and filmed from a high angles. We were able to capture the most crucial aspects of the protest including the incident at Millbank.

Also this week we interviewed Courtney George who is a post graduate student and we were unable to interview the education officer due to mis-communication for hiring out the camera.

Theories on the Documentary Genre (Temenuzhka Petrakova)

Theories on the Documentary Genre

Rece Pictures (Rainna Saunders)

Weekly Update 7 (Rainna Saunders)

This week we've organised an interview with an education officer on Thursday 11th November  and an interview with Courtney George who is a post-graduate for Wednesday 10th November, we also rescheduled another interview with Sarah Wellum for Tuesday 9th November. We also plan to go and film at the Demolition Protest 10.11.10., where it will enable us to capture excellent cutaways.
Also this week we have done alot of work on the blog including the storyboard, further research into the subject matter and research on theorists.

Location Pictures (Rainna Saunders)

Further research into subject matter - Demolition Protest 20.11.10 (Rainna Saunders)

On Wednesday 10th November 2010, thousands of students, lecturers and communities, marched the streets of London in response to Lord Brown's review of the university funding and student finance.

The NUS and UCU (University and college union) planned a mass demonstration protest in Central London.The event protest against the government is called 'Fund our Future', as unions say this will threaten the future of colleges and universities.

This mass demostration illustrates and relates to our documentary topic as it questions the government decisions. As students and as the tution fees are planned to rise to £9,000+ per academic year, it is going to become harder and from some impossible to engage in higher education, students want to go university but are not going to be able to afford it.

The question is now, is university worth it or is alternative routes such as apprenticeships the way forward?

Our visit at Parliament (Rainna Saunders)

As our documentary is partly about university, we decided to visit parliament alongside Andrew Rosindel who is the MP for Romford, as this is where the central laws and legislations are made.

On arrival we met a police officer who guarded the Houses of Parliament alongside many others, and discovered  the grand entrances to the central hall.

As the tour began with Andrew Rosindell, he was able to illustrate to us many historical statues, plates and rooms. We were also able to visit the House Of Commons and House Of Lords where the laws are delegated.

Lastly in this room, we were presented with certificates by Andrew Rosindell for visiting.

This visit enabled us to get into a deeper and more personal insight into the central lawmaking, as this is where the laws for university are made, it was a very useful and educational visit, where we were able to get exclusive pictures and cutaways.

    



Rough Layout (Thibaut Nyemba)

• Non Diegetic music plays 
• Cutaways of universities  
• Montage of interviewees  
• Voice over Introducing the documentary subject 
• First interview starts to talk about the subject matter 
• Cutaway of Houses Of Parliament
• Newspaper articles of Student debt
• Second interviewee 
• More cutaways of universities
• Third interviewee
• Information on apprenticeships
• Apprenticeship cutaways
• Fourth Interviewee
• Statistics
• Fifth and final Interviewee

Weekly Update 6 ( Rainna Saunders)

This week was half term. We all continued to work on our pre-production work and we filmed an interview with Chirag Patel, who is the second year Brunel University student and Starbuck Coleman at Westminister.

Our Documentary Name (Rainna Saunders)

 The name of our documentary name is called ' The Education Treadmill', I chose this title because it demonstrates our topic. Its does this by illustrating the journey to university, some people are able to stay on road to university but the others that are not able,  fall into other routes such as apprenticeships. I used the illusion of a treadmill as a metaphor to relate to the educational journey.

Analysis of Another Documentary About University (Temenuzhka Petrakova)