What Went Well ..

Myself and Mustafa were told to complete a presentation relating to our linked production. Our PowerPoint presentation included plenty of pictures and text and a brief summary elaborating on each of the points whilst giving feedback to the class about our production. Whilst presenting, the overall atmosphere and the attitude of the audience was positive and this therefore made us perform more openly, trying to sell our idea to the teacher. After we had finished our presentation we received feedback from each member of the class, including the teacher, on the good points about our presentation and performance, and on contrast, the negative points about our presentation and performance. Whilst the audience kept giving feedback, we recorded down our goods and bads.

· According to the class, our presentation was understandable and had a lot of simplicity.

· In terms of performance, they liked the way we showed plenty of eye contact and also engaging them by showing a bit of humour.

· Mr Bush suggested that the style of the presentation was pretty decent.

· Effective images were used.

· Most slides had concise wording.

· Some audience theories were refined.

Even Better If ..

After growing some feedback on the positive points about our presentation, we received clear feedback on how we could have improved our pitch/or even better if. We were told that within certain slides of the presentation, there wasn’t enough information shown on certain categories and that a little more media terminology should have been used whilst trying to sell out production idea

· Within some slides, the order could have been changed around to make the order a little more understanding.

· Some extra research needed into the documentary genre.

· More information on the main conventions.

· Some audience theories should have been fully explained.

· A little more information about the voiceovers.

· Discuss institution sources and public service broadcasters.

In Conclusion ..

Getting all this feedback from our teacher and the class, we were able to understand our weakness and learn how to better improve them. Of course it was also good getting positive feedback from the teacher and the class as we were able to identify our strong points as well as our weak points.

After this, we are now more aware of what we are suppose to do, and what our next steps are suppose to be whilst planning to shoot and edit our production. We have a better insight of the kind of research we should be doing and where to possible find the best sources for the best research.

Mest 4 Research & Planning Pitch

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Week 1 –
Getting hold of camcorders and finalising out our research for the locations of your shots in out documentary.

Week 2 -
Trying to get as much relevant interview shots with teenagers that associate with street fighting.

Week 3 -
Reconstruction work of street fighting.

Week 4 -
Other views on street fighting from people of all ages trying to get their views on it.

Week 5 -
Editing our work.

Research.

During this process we will be using a lot of research for our documentary as we will need to find out how professional documentaries really look like and how they are presented. This will enable us to get a professional standard for ourselves when doing our documentary. We will be using the internet to find out top and aesthetically pleasing documentaries so we could almost replicate that for our needs.

Kimbo Slice, a black American who started of street fighting whist keeping it very local. Kimbo was involved in a huge number of street fights, where only around 10 to 15 of these fights were recorded. All street were organised and was a gambling environment where people were able to make some money betting on the winning or the losing person.

Within this short cut interview, we see Kimbo Slice talking about his exchange from street fighting into becoming a legal professional fighter, training with qualified fighting coaches and making his way on to the UFC.

One of Kimbo Slice's illegal fights filmed in the back garden where 2 black men are fighting for money. This was one of the first videos to be recorded, watching Kimbo Slice fight,

Weekly Progress.

So far myself and Mustafa have managed to identify a number of different documentaries and looked at how we will be producing out documentary as the artistic of the documentary is very important. We have also managed to discuss what issues will be raising from street fighting.