Production log

Today I learnt that there are 3 different groups of codes. The 3 different groups are: technical codes, audio & visual codes and symbolic codes. The technical group contains things like camera angles and frames. The camera angles can be things like low and high angle shots. The high angle shot makes the character seem like they have power and they are intimidating. Low angle shots make the viewers feel more powerful, as the character will be shown as small and inferior.

The audio and visual codes can be things like language and asound

Documentary content

Possible questions for the exposition of the documentary:

• Are we turning our children into murderers?

• Who is more affected by violent games?

• Are we becoming more and more dependent on technology?

• Has the world lost its ability to communicate?

• Children are now using game characters as role models

• Are games becoming too realistic?

• Do children have the wrong information about violence?

• Why do children like violence in games?

• Do children use violent games to let out their emotions?

• Do adults like violent games?

The actual documentary will be about technology and gaming, and the ways that they can affect the community whether it be children or adults. The way that this idea was decided was by using all of the individual ideas from the group and then choosing the two categories that seemed appropriate combined.

http://www.keyframe5.com/pros-and-cons-of-technology/

This is the website at which we attained this information. This information has been found on a blog that has a many more blogs on the pros and cons of different topics. This means that the information might be biased as it is done by a person and not by an actual company.

Technology pros and cons

Technology Pros Here is a list of the pros of technology

Technology Cons Here is a list of the cons of technology

Technology help improve our standard of living with inventions such as the automobile, fridge, TV, computers, the internet and so on. Technology helps industries and individuals to automate complex process or to do dangerous tasks. For example, robots in the production line can operate all day doing mundane jobs that human workers used to do. Technology increase efficiency and productivity. This mean higher profit because technology can do more tasks faster than human. The invention of the computers helps us communicate, share information, invent, design, store huge amount of data, organize and manage tasks. Transferring million of pounds can be done in a few clicks and take seconds to securely transfer money from one person to another person anywhere around the world. As well as making online purchase, checking your balance and paying your bills without leaving the comfort of your home. Computers and technology  have brought new industries such as the software industry, hardware industry, the internet industry, the search engine industry with Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and resulted in many high tech jobs. The internet is now an important part in how we communicate and share information. The internet positively changes the advertising industry, the entertainment industry and many other industries. Creating digitalize information allows large amount of information to be store in a small compact storage (CD, DVD, USB, hard drive, ect.). In addition, digitalizing information such as data, music, images and videos can be store for a very long time. Digitalize information also contains the quality of the information if it need to be duplicated multiple times, unlike the previous types of technology like tape recorder lower the quality of information when duplicate. Satellite communication is also an important part of technology. Without it, there would be no cellular phones, GPS, steatite radio or satellite TV to broadcast anywhere around the world. Cellular phones revolutionized the communication industry. Regular telephone was also a technology we still use today and it too revolutionised the way we communicate. With mobile phones, we are able to call anyone in the world outside our home, offices or walking down the street. Digitalize information reduce waste from printed materials like magazines and newspaper. There are so many ways technology has an positive impact on our lives but it is impossible to list them all. If you think I miss something important, feel free to add it in the comment area below this page.

Computers are addictive, people spent hours and days playing video games or online casino. Technology requires regular maintenance to keep it functioning correctly. Need to upgrade your skills to operate new technology or have to retrain your employees. The cost of technology and the maintenance cost is something to be considered. Technology can break down; you may loss all of your data if you don’t have a backup. There are hackers, virus and other cyber-terrorists that can steal sensitive information or disrupt the flow of information. Technology replaces people in many jobs because technology is more cost effective and more efficient than humans. For example, robots in the automotive industries replace human workers. There is no or little privacy. Information on your computer can be look into at your workplace if your employer chose to do so. Your information can be trace or stolen if your network is not secure.

As it is clear from the table above, the number of pros of technology compared to the number cons is a very large margin. this could show that the good things that technology can provide outweigh the things that technology take away.

Pre production

Mood board

The first minute of our documentary will consist of many shots of people using technology and there will also be a voice-over saying the different sides of gaming and technology, talking about how it makes it more exciting, but at the same time making the world lazy. there will also be parts to an interview that will be shown fully in the rest of the documentary. This  start of the documentary is known as the exposition. This will be the hook of the documentary and will get the audience interested and want to find out more on the topic of the documentary.

Individual ideas for documentary

In this post I will be discussing the idea that i had put forward in the group.

For our documentary production we all started by thinking of our own, individual, ideas to use as the topic of the documentary.

The idea that I thought of was the influence that games have on the younger generation.

My big questions would be:

·      What are the positives and negatives of video gaming

·      Do the negatives of gaming out weigh the positives of gaming?

·      Are video games de-socializing our younger generations?

The reason that I wanted to choose this as the main topic of the documentary is because it would be easier to find content on the topic itself and it also relates to us, as gaming, in some cases, heavily influences the people of our age group.

The idea of games/movie influence is that we would concentrate on the ways that these things influence people and the way that it could make some people act.

There would also be some parts on how the people themselves think of the game/movies and possibly compare them to the opinions of the adults, which could be parents, schoolteachers or even older friends.

To decide on the topic that we would use for the documentary we showed each other our ideas and then all had a vote on which topic that we want to use.

The pros and cons of the choice that I made is that the information can be found easily because we can ask people that we know if they play games too much and what they think about playing games.

The content would also be easier to make as we could have interviews with anyone as we can ask younger people whether or not they like video games.  Teenagers would also be interviewed as they can relate to the topic as it effects there age group in a large way.