Thursday 5th. Documentary filming. During the last couple of weeks Laura and I had decided upon a subject for the documentary and had managed to set up a series of meetings and interviews with our subjects. I was very happy with our choice, using the comedians, Jim Cross and Dan Gaine and their production of ‘Mother and Dad’ gave us alot of room to get our creative juices flowing! The subject matter was very interesting and we could adapt a really good angle with the use of shots in and around the Little Theatre and layer their amusing banter over the top. I think both Laura and I had the same sort of vision when it came to how the final piece would look so we took it upon ourselves to sort of direct the whole piece. As a group we filmed over 3 days and nights whilst the performance of Mother and Dad was taking place and gathered absolutely tonnes of footage which meant that we were spoilt for choice when it came to editing. Whilst editing I personally wanted to get a real feel for what it felt like to be a performer and I think we really managed to capture the essence of nervousness and tension that an actor feels before going onstage. I also believe that our documentary leaves the viewer with a sense of wanting to know more...as the boys used our work for a promotional piece for their website I think they thought the same!

Tuesday 3rd. Newsday. Having been assigned the role of presenter again I felt very prepared for our newsday this time around and a little less nervous. We all arrived first thing to gather appropriate headlines for the day and were able to make a selection of oovs for our opening sequence. I was very impressed with Jenny and Allana’s graphics skills and thought that our opening and ending credits were very suited to the nature of our show. I think that this week our style was much more appropriate for that of a serious news show and was happy with the running order of our stories. Was slightly disappointed when I glanced into the studio whilst another group was doing their youth news show and saw how creative they had been. I feel that we were a little conservative with ours and it was far too serious!