Week 4

With Mark on Monday, we continued to work on our interview pieces and I finally found a subject to interview so I was arranging the research and pre-production documents that I would need whilst also contacting my subject and asking them if they would be up for the interview. I feel that these two lessons really furthered my assignment as I was finally able to proceed onto the second and third parts of the task. I also continued doing this work in the industry skills session with Mark on Wednesday. I like that mark is now letting us get on with our work a bit more as I felt before I was falling behind because I didn't quite know what something in the assignment meant but now i can just ask if there are any problems.

In the second lesson on Wednesday, we got to go to Nottingham castle and practice our depth of field photography on the different historical figures around it. My favourite thing to photograph was the cursed ship in the oldest pub in England. Everyone seemed to think that they couldn't get a decent photo of the ship because it was cursed, but really all they needed to do was to turn up their ISO on the cameras so that more light could be let in. In the last lesson of the day with Rob, we continued to work on the internet acronyms worksheet which I still found very confusing.

On Thursday with Sarah, we started thinking about what our production groups were going to create for our human interest assignment. In the end, we decided that we would focus on Mental health in adolescents and more specifically how female contraception pills can affect that. We chose this subject as we found that every member of the group related to the subject. In this lesson, we were let free to do our own thing and just research I thought this was a good route to go down as it let our creative juices flow.

Finally, we ended the week with Phil who began to explain the assignment that we would be doing for him and we began looking at how media represents different groups of people and the ways they do that. This was a helpful lesson as it made me actively think about what I was saying and whether I would be putting the correct message across for the intentions that I had in the first place. It also gave me more skills for the articles that I would be writing in the future.

This week I have found that I haven't taken as many notes as I would usually, so next week I will be actively setting out to write more notes down. I feel this helps me the remember things more clearly.