target audience

For my final documentary all tho i haven't conducted a survey or a focus group in my spear time i asked several people that i know have seen documentary what they like to see and what they think work well. I got plenty of responses and some of them i thought was very reasonable and i thought were quite good. They said that documentary were quiet boring unless you did it or watch it on something that you know that people have a passion for that is why i am doing my documentary aimed and the younger generation and at people that love to game. I am going to try and make this enjoyable for the hole family so that you will be able to sit down with them and all of you will be able to learn more about gaming and what effects they have on your life when you play them to many times and when you do not no when to take a break. I think that young people have to learn all the effects that gaming have on them and what it will lead up to later on in life. i will be trying to add facts which are in video form from kids that have actually suffered the consequences of gaming this will be so that the young children that are watching the doc will have a first person knowledge of what happens when you play to many video games.

final evaluation

For my final project have have made a documentary about gaming and the effects that it has on people. For this i have done some research into gaming and the effects but to get a better understanding i conducted interviews. This was so then i could get the opinions from people that have to live with gamers and what effects they have seen on the children. I have also interviewed gamers to see if they have an opinion on what gaming has do to them and there social life this was because i think that they might be able to shed some light on why they game and how it helps them. Where when i asked people that don't game i ask them because they will be able to see what it effects it has them when they do game a lot.

Strengths

1. One of my strengths for this task is to get all the interviews that i needed and being able to get it with good angles and lighting.
2. Another will be getting all the gameplay footage that i will be showing in the documentary.
3. using the equipment correctly to get the best quality picture.
4. asking people for there opinions and what the would like to change
5. creating all the questions that i needed for the interviews and making them different

weaknesses

1. Getting people organised and ready to do all the interviews
2. I think that i could improve on my editing so that i am not spending to long looking through my clips that i have shot
3. I think that i could improve on my timing so that i don't leave every thing to the last minute and get it all done with time to spear so that i can edit and improve anything that needs improving.
4. Getting all the set up ready i think that i could have planned every thing out better so that i would no what i was filming on what day.
5. I think that i could have done better with a time plan and not do all the non important things first.

I choose to do the theme of a documentary because i think that it was the best way to get the subject across i thought that it would be good because i could look into the history of gaming and use that with the knowledge that i had got from other people this was so i will be able to set it out in the form that i think will get my opinion and other peoples opinion out for the people to watch. I think that this will work well so that gamers and parents can watch this together so they will be able to see others opinion and how they have helped there children fight the addiction of gaming. 
I got the idea for this from a documentary that i had watched when i was younger that told people about the effects of gaming and the impact that it has had on them. I had found that interesting but there hasn't been a documentary on it i a long time and there has been many new games that have been released. I think that they have had a catastrophic effect on children which causes an addiction.
I did several experiments leading up to the final project i had to try and work out where would be the best location to shoot the interviews and what the lighting would look like. I found that the best location to shoot the interviews where in the garden of my house because i found that it was the best location for lighting and that there was no glare on peoples faces from the sun. It was not in peoples eyes and it was the most quietest spot i could find.
I also experimented with the angles that i could use to make the final piece look more better and to make it stand out. In the end i only shot it from one angle this was because when i moved the angle you could see a glare on peoples faces from the sun so i kept it all as one angle which gave me the best quality.
I also experimented with the edit this was so i will be able to see what it is like to have to try and edit with interviews and have game play that i had to work with i found it very easy but there was some struggles trying to get the timing right with the people talking.

I think that some of the key areas for development would be the filming aspect of it. I think that i could have done better by scheduling when people could film interviews instead of hoping that they would have been able to do it.

When i showed the final product to all my family and peers they thought that it was good with all the edits that i have put into it and that they thought it was different to what they are use to. i also got feedback from them and they said that i could of used less gameplay to make it better and that they didn't just want to watch that. another would be that they thought it would be better if i did a voice over on the gameplay with facts about gaming.

I think that i could have added more to the written part of the work and i think that i could have planned it out some more so that it would have had a schedule to follow with out leaving it all to the last minute so then i had to rush the ending part of the film.

For my FMP i set out to make a documentary that included all the things you will wish to see in it i was going to do interviews with family and friends and i was going to have gameplay with a narrative over the top with facts about gaming. I managed to get most of the things on there that i wanted but i think that i could have done a lot more if i had started it when i was given it instead of leaving it all to the last minute. I think that if i started it early i could of added the narrative with all the facts that i have planned that i would do and i think that i could have done a better job with the editing if i had more time. I also had to change the time of my documentary and had to cut out some of the interviews because i didn't have enough time to go through all of the footage that i had. during the editing stage i found that people my get bored when they are watching the gameplay part so i put some music over the top so that it will take there mind of what they are watching.

When I started this project i was a bit nervous i didn't no what i was going to do and how i was going to do it but when i started the planning for it i got more confident because i new that i was doing it on something that i think i am good at and what i like to do. i new when i got started it will be good because i was good with a camera and i know where i can get a good shot to make it all stand out from other peoples work. I think that this task went a lot better than i anticipated and i think that i came out with a good piece of work. When i got the feedback from people that have watched it i found that they liked it but they think that it still might be a bit to long and that i have to much gameplay because it overpowers the interviews and that there are to many gameplay scenes. they liked how i added the music to try and add more detail to the film and try and make the gameplay look better. I think that if i had to do the task again i will try and make it more bearable so that people will actually want to watch it and i will try and add the narrative over the top of the gameplay. i think that i will start the task when it is first given to me instead of working on unnecessary things first. i think that i will try and conduct a better survey to try and see what people like to see and what they don't like to see this is so then i will get things that people will like and not what i think that they will want to see.

FMP RESEARCH

Primary research
For the primary research I have been looking at documentaries that have been created by other people on the topic that I will be doing. I have found out some good information and some inspiration that I think I will be able to work into my piece of work. I have found that there are many different ways game designers get people hooked on there games/product they try to create more sequels for the games they have released so that people will start to get addicted to them. When I was looking into what makes people get addicted to video games I found that it can make people more violent and make them more vulnerable to violence. If you often playing video games for long periods of time without taking regular breaks you will start to get server illnesses. I think that this will give me all of the information and the ideas that I need to make the best doc ever which will get people interested.

research blog

primary research

for my primary research i was looking at many documentaries that have been made over the years of first person shooters and trying to get some inspiration so that i will be able to use it in my final project. i have been looking at them to see how they have laid it out and how they have got people interested in them

Strategy Instagram

For this task i will list out what i will be doing in the order that i wish to complete the tasks i think that this order will be best suitable for me because then i will be able to cross everything that i would have done.

prepare account
for this task i will first start of by creating a Instagram account this will be so i will have a place to upload my images that i will be creating and where i will be able to see how many people have looked at my account. I will also be able to see what pictures people love the most.

figure out where to go?
after creating the account i would have to find different locations that i would be able to go and take the pictures. I will be doing this so i will be able to find a good spot to have the best quality picture and different to other people.

take pictures
I will then be going to take the pictures this will take a while so then i will be able to get the best natural lighting to make them look even better than what i wanted. I will have to take my time so i will be able to find the best location possible.

edit them
Once i have all of my picture i will be taking the back to college so then i will be able to edit them to make them the best quality that i can get this would not take me long.

upload them
When they are all edited and i think that they are at the best standard i think i can get them i will then upload them to Instagram this is where people will be able to see all the pictures and the quality that they are and so they will be able to send feedback and tell me where i will be able to improve.

measuring engagement

For this task i was asked to keep an eye on my account that i have created so then i will be able to see how much attention it was bringing. I found that i got a lot more followers when i started to add # (hashtags) to them this brought a wider audience to my profile and the pictures that i have taken. I was getting several likes on each image that i uploaded i was getting between 1 and 10 likes on each image over the week that is more than i thought i would get.

three ideas for the FMP

For this I had thought of three ideas that I had made a mind map for and think of all the things that I would do for this task. I have chosen to look into cars, football and FPS (First Person Shooter games) for this I looked into all the things that I could look up for each task and what will be good as part of my FMP. I thought that I would do this on something that I love to do which will be FPS games and the history behind it.