This was our first session of the year studying the module 'Commissioning and employment in the media'. We started out by filling out a skills assessment sheet, so our tutor could see where our skills lie. I feel that my skills lie in editing/post production. Last year the assessments I enjoyed the most were the 'Montage Edit' and the 'Music Edit' both of which enabled me to just 100% focus on editing…and unsurprisingly those were the assessments I did the best in. This year I would love to be able to develop those skills further so my editing can take on a whole new level of professionalism. It would also be good to be able to develop my skills in other areas such as pre production and production so I have a more broad field of skills.
We then launched straight into talking about the first assessment: Behind the scenes documentary. We watched a behind the scenes documentary of the film called 'Hunger'. The documentary made me really want to watch the film, which I guess was the whole purpose!
The film was inspiring and touching, but also quite sad and disturbing. I would definitely recommend it, but it's not for the light hearted. From watching the documentary we noted down what we thought the purposes of making a BTS were, I came up with:
- To promote the film
-To promote the subject
- To increase interest and understanding in the film
- To attract new audiences
We were then asked to go away and think about what we would like to create a BTS documentary on. Ideas were popping into my head (travelling to london to do a behind the scenes in the publishing sector of a women's magazine e.g Vogue, Elle etc, or even getting in on a film that may have been locally filmed) not necessarily very practical ones, but at least it was a start. I came away from the session feeling quite excited about the rest of the year.
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