Weekly Progress Report (Week Beginning 2nd April 07)

• This week I was continuing to edit my project
• Good Friday was REALLY a Good Friday for me! I managed to find a website which will be helping me in terms of music and sound www.audiolicense.net. The site a section just for wildlife sounds including sounds for Activity, Drama/Dramatic, Insect, Chase, Flight, Slow motion and Documentary, with a choice of 427 songs to look through of the whole genre. I managed to find at least 3 to 4 songs I could use

1. Drifting (composed by Paul Mottram)

2. Sly Spy (composed by Igor Dvorkin and Ducan Pittock)

3. Winds (composed by Chris Blackwell)

4. Enigma (Paul Mottram)

I did not have enough varitey in my shots so I spent and whole afternoon and evening in the park filming and I was extremely lucky I did as I have captured even greater footage that I before (I would put it down to the beginning of Spring though), but I have lots more footage of the Robin and more shots of the park scenery, also more Starlings and Carrion Crow's. But it was worth it and I feel that this one afternoon and evening could have just strenghthed my work as before I personally feel it was a bit weak, especially in angles and variety of scenery.

• Next week ( week 2 of the Easter Holidays), I intended to continue editing my documentary.

Weekly Progress

• Over the weekend, I have finally made a start on my editing.
• While I have been editing, I have found it very hard in that how I could make something out of all my footage, I knew I could, but how was the question. At the sametime I also realised that I still needed even more footage e.g. The Robin, I needed more. However I have managed to find a solution just by planning and organising the structure of my documentary. All I did is think of all the links that I could make and I came up with this:

1. Theme tune- 'Park Life, Wildlife at your backdoors'

2. Introduction to parks (using footage of the scenery)

- what is a park?

- what are parks made up of?

- About the programme series

3. Dawn time (begining of day- Dawn Chorus- Dawn footage)

4. Robins (because they are ususally the first birds to start the dawn chorus)

5. Blackbird (because I have good footage of blackbirds at dawn)

6. Carrion Crow -(link: because both have black plumage)

7. Magpie- (because it is a member of the Crow family)

8. The Tit family, Great and Blue- (because they link with the families idea, e.g. from Crow family to Tit family -link= family), then a shot quick shot of scenery to introduce next mini theme

9. Small flocks of Pigeons- (because to start the mini-theme of flocks, small flock)

10. Common Gulls- (because they are in large flocks)

11. Starlings- (largest flocks, specatacle in numbers, most abundant in whole of park)

12. Green Woodpecker- (because I am lucky to see a Green Woodpecker, good end to the birds section)

13. Grey Squirrel- (because its time to show that the park does not just play host to birds., mammals are their too)

14. Red Fox- (because its the other mammal, nighttime (began at dawn))

15. Summary of Rectory Park - (montage of birds/animals in the show+ shots of flowers, insects and sparkling water to demonstrate the idea that Winter is ending and Spring is coming)

• After create a strong plan, I have found it much easier to create my doc and I now have a strong idea of how to go around editing my documentary
• This coming week I intend to continue editing and also I MUST develop a script as one thing I have found hard to judge how long a scene is against a script. (So far, as I play my footage, I just minic what i may say to see if it may fit in). But by having a script ready, it will make like even easier.

Weekly Progress (week beginning 5th Feb 07)

• This week I have made a start with the editing process.
• On Friday, I stayed after school until 5.30pm, capturing my footage in school as I do not have a firewire port at home.
• This coming week I intended to finish capturing all 2 1/2 tapes by Wednesday/Thursday, so I can start editing at home.