Colleen; TELEVISION PRODUCTION!!

During our filming we came across many problems which was preventing us as a group to produce our final outcome. Despite us having our own individual problems we also faced serious issues that were very hard and challenging to over come.


We have a toddler presented in our short film who is used mainly throughout however there are some scenes where his presence is not required. At those particular times its hard to find a way to keep the toddler quiet, he gets irritated really easily, he is not use to baby sitters and and also there was always two out of the three group members that were there to film so both bodies had to be present for the filming to be accurate.


Our main character had a problem of when she's feeling down she would go out and look at animals. this became a real problem because not only would she look at the animals she would actually end up buying one to take home so during the filming we would have a new pet present in the house making the noise more harder to control so as soon as we find a solution to one animals noise another one appears delaying our filming time trying to get the animal to stay quiet.


Sickness was a massive issue for use, we all became sick at one point but we still aimed to fight on. The massive set back was when our main character fell ill. She became so ill we had to take her to the hospital there was no means of getting hold of her in anyway eventually we had to stop waiting around and go in search for her.

We spent a massive amount of time wasting just waiting to film something that wasn't relevant or even was a massive importance towards our production which we could have used that time wisely to get film things we had not filmed yet or to start some of the editing so we could figure out what else we could do to boost up the ratings

Chosen idea

"Single Mothers going or been through hell but having the courage to look after their family and making something of themselves despite being alone."


Finding ways to get a story

Vox pop
Internet Research
Question and answers
Asking people we know
Simply roaming the streets looking and speaking to any woman walking alone.


Me and the rest of the Group intended on doing a vox pop but things did not work out so we decided to  do the others instead:

Internet research

We looked on the internet at support groups for single mother- We came to a brick wall but continued our search going a little further by looking for support groups for mothers in general rather than just single mothers

Questions and answers 

  I went around the studio campus and the university campus asking various people of all ages and gender what they look for in a documentary?  for our particular topic whats more effective?  and would wan to hear the child's point of view as well as the mothers of just the mothers alone.

Asking people we know 

I went around asking all the mothers i knew and asked about their story this led me to walking around on the street asking all mothers i had seen on their own.

INTRODUCING DOCUMENTARY 

• Choose a worthy topic 
• Whats the purpose of the documentary?
• Research your chosen topic
• finding corespondents (people to take part in the filming- who's the main film about is it just one or multiple characters?)