Unit 27 My video game documentary

This is my documentary on video games 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYe7Jgq5yNs&t=4s

Unit 27 - Production schedule

My dead line to finish my production schedule is in about five weeks.  

Week 1

I have successfully planned on how much time I should spend on making my documentary. I believe that I have done enough research for my documentary and I believe that I’ve almost finished my scrip. My script and the entire thing that I plan to talk about in my game documentary are all pretty much organised. The last thing that is left is ending my conclusion with an objective ending to make the audience come up with the own conclusion on video games.

As I'll be using expository in my documentary my face won't be in it shown in the documentary and the audience will only be able to hear my voice through out.  I'll only be use only be using two location through out my documentary and the rest will I'll be using archive footage for my documentary to explain my points while I am talking about the subject of games in my documentary.

Week 2

Overall I have to spend time trying to interview people in the public. I have already planned at that on Saturday from 2pm to 4pm I’ll be going to Namco funscape arcade as this would be a perfect place to interview people that play games and get their opinion on games. 

The other location will take place at my own house where I'll also be interviewing people close to me friends, parents etc.  Most likely I'll be doing a whole interview in day at my own house on Friday from 12pm to 7pm as I have already asked and have gotten permission that I am allowed to interview people I want. 

Unit 27 Risk Assessment

As my game documentary will be purely expository will be I’ll only be using more using my voice so my voice won't be shown. I also plan to only use about two locations. The two locations taking that will be in the documentary will be taking place in my own house and a public location called Namco Funscape.  The is a really low risk for things to go wrong in the documentary and very unlikely that anyone will get hurt during the making of the documentary either. I will most likely be taking a bus to go to Namco funscape as it is a bit a far.  There may be some risk while heading towards Namco funscape. There might be a car crush while I'm in the busy which may hurt passengers and me. 

Unit 27 - Docudrama sub genre of factual TV

Docudrama - Documentary drama are generally based of real life facts that have happened.  These documentary doesn't have much commentary from the narrators stand point as it avoids that so the audience can be engaged as much as possible in the docudrama. The appeal would be people having arguments and fights which audiences like because they are really nosey as people find it appealing to see other peoples personal problems on the big TV screen.

Biopics - Biopics are movies which are based off of real life events that have actually happened example of a movie would be open water which has people in shores of Australian on a boat that has sank. The appeal here would be a story simply being based off of real life events. people find amazing for something's that happened in the past ridiculous and terrifying to some. These biopics are also done realistically and possible following the real life event making it all the more appealing and engaging.

Docusoap - Are usually celebrity be recorded to their day o day life. It may seem boring to most people but to people that are a fans to such celebrity they might find out more about the celebrity that they are so passionate about.


Reality TV - Reality TV usually show the lives of celebrities and what they go through day to day bases.  The makes the audience aware and also relate themselves to a celebrity on reality TV. Example of reality TV would be meet the Kardashians


Infotainment - Infotainment is a mix between being informative while also being entertaining to the audience. Humans have a habit of being really curious which is why we also seek for knowledge as humans we also get really bored easily and a way for us to entertain ous selves would be from humours any sort.  By putting these two together you get infotainment which is the best of both worlds.

Wild life - planet earth usually with just a narrator voicing everything that is happening in the on screen planet earth is a perfect exam as it tell a story through what is happening on screen which is real footage of nature taking place in real life.

Educational 
Education shows are for the sole purpose of feeling people with interesting facts that appeal to people like to learn things.

Make over
Make over are TV shows which has something changing.  This amazes the audience and see how talented the TV makers are a t at doing make overs. Examples would be the TV snog, marry,  avoid. It makes people consider changing them selves for the better from watching a show like song, marry , avoid.

Review show
Review shows are critics that review a product. The appeal of this is that people get an opinions of the critics. This makes the audience think and consider that the person has said about a product. For example if a critic was to review a movie and say over it was bad and gave their reasons to why. The audience will mostly likely come to their own cons

Special intrest

Magazine

Chat shows

Unit 27 - My focus group and evaluation

Evaluation 

I the points that my group had made about making my documentaries how I should try to interview both genders instead just interviewing. Even though my documentary is about games and mostly targeted at audience I think its a fair point to at least try to get women’s opinion in my documentary I could interview some that play game and some that don't and what they think of video games as a whole.

Unit 27 - New package evaluation

My group was pretty big and consisted of about 5 people.   At first I didn't have a group to work with, as I wasn't assigned to be in one. As I was not there on the day when everyone had a group.  So I missed out on one day of lesson. Once I was filled in with the details that we had to make a parody of the news.  My team came up with the idea have being a parody of the BBC news as almost everyone in Britain know about it. We watched a few clips with the BBC news as none of my group member watch the BBC news on a daily bases.

My team kept on arguing amongst each other on who should do what. Almost no body wanted act in the BBC parody. As we were running out of time I volunteered, as I didn't mind being recorded and some and some of our group members seemed to be very camera shy.  As it was a parody my team kind of did slack a bit and we when we kept on getting dialogues wrong some my team member deiced that they didn't want to act no more. I didn't feel like the line was so hard to remember as it was just a small script that had with me. Even though it took me a while to remember the script word by word I think I did pretty well for my self. 

What we had done well as a new package parody was make look very unprofessional. As I was the news reporter I was speaking informally to the audience along with wearing clothes, which wouldn’t suit a news reporter, as people wouldn’t take the news reporter seriously in real life TV. I also walked off the stage while being recorded this would have looked very unprofessional  if it was done in the actual news report as you never actually see a news reporter ever leave the stage when ever they are being filmed.

New package Parody evaluation

The process for my team and I to do the news parody was pretty simply. My team and I don't watch the news much but we got inspiration from watching the most popular new channel in the UK BBC news. We used a green in order to get the background of the BBC news studio. My team and also edited the so that we could get the intro of the BBC news to make seem as if it was the real BBC news channel.

My team kept arguing among each on who would be the camera man or women and the editing as no body to act in our video and seemed camera shy.

Docudrama sub - genres of factual TV

Docudrama - Documentary drama are generally based of real life facts that have happened.  These documentary doesn't have much commentary from the narrators stand point as it avoids that so the audience can be engaged as much as possible in the docudrama. The appeal would be people having arguments and fights which audiences like because they are really nosey as people find it appealing to see other peoples personal problems on the big TV screen.

Biopics - Biopics are movies which are based off of real life events that have actually happened example of a movie would be open water which has people in shores of Australian on a boat that has sank. The appeal here would be a story simply being based off of real life events. people find amazing for something's that happened in the past ridiculous and terrifying to some. These biopics are also done realistically and possible following the real life event making it all the more appealing and engaging.

Docusoap - Are usually celebrity be recorded to their day o day life. It may seem boring to most people but to people that are a fans to such celebrity they might find out more about the celebrity that they are so passionate about.


Reality TV - Reality TV usually show the lives of celebrities and what they go through day to day bases.  The makes the audience aware and also relate themselves to a celebrity on reality TV. Example of reality TV would be meet the Kardashians


Infotainment - Infotainment is a mix between being informative while also being entertaining to the audience. Humans have a habit of being really curious which is why we also seek for knowledge as humans we also get really bored easily and a way for us to entertain ous selves would be from humours any sort.  By putting these two together you get infotainment which is the best of both worlds.

Wild life - planet earth usually with just a narrator voicing everything that is happening in the on screen planet earth is a perfect exam as it tell a story through what is happening on screen which is real footage of nature taking place in real life.

Educational 
Education shows are for the sole purpose of feeling people with interesting facts that appeal to people like to learn things.

Make over
Make over are TV shows which has something changing.  This amazes the audience and see how talented the TV makers are a t at doing make overs. Examples would be the TV snog, marry,  avoid. It makes people consider changing them selves for the better from watching a show like song, marry , avoid.

Review show
Review shows are critics that review a product. The appeal of this is that people get an opinions of the critics. This makes the audience think and consider that the person has said about a product. For example if a critic was to review a movie and say over it was bad and gave their reasons to why. The audience will mostly likely come to their own cons

Special intrest

Magazine

Chat shows

weekly production log 5

The fifth and very last week of my making my documentary I had finished it and add music in the background which fit the theme of my documentary as an little up beat music in the background from a game for my documentary. I also titled all my interviewers so that people would who these people are. 

Narrative arc & location

My documentary will be full expository. I'll mostly be using archive footage through at my documentary while I explain my points and give examples.

My documentary will be about games so I'll and discussing multiply topics game related.

I'll first have an intro discussing why  do we play video games and what satisfaction do get from playing video games.  This would be a rhetorical question as I want my audience to conisder as there is more to just having fun when playing video games. 

Second point I'll be making is do games make games violent? I will be interviewing at least 5 in my documentary I want to be objective as possible in my interviewing as I want my audience to think for them selves and I don't want my games  documentary to be balanced as possiable make people violent bias.

I'll be interview some people in an arcade as it seems appropriate for my documentary of gaming I'll be interviewing people that  video play games   bases to get their opinion on the subject.

Next I'll be talking about the history of gaming next and how far videos games have come as an  industry compared to movie. I'll talk about how games have more content therefore is only natural for it to be better than a movie. I'll also will be getting peoples opinion so I'll interview even more people.

At the end I'll be reproducing all the topics I've talked about and do a final conclusion. 

Contribution emails

Email for my documentary
to gaming company digital extreme




Gaming company ID sofeware I was trying to contact them for an inter view on their thoughts of how far they have come as a game company.



I tried to contact games company capcom



adventure soft contacted

weekly production log 4

The fourth week finished my script and was just focusing on recording my lines for my documentary while also using archive foot in my documentary by going on youtube to find video over my voice playing in the background. I need my achieve to also relate to what i was talking about so i downloaded a lot of different video being played along with images that showed some examples of what i was talking about. There was also the times where i needed to present what i had done so far while it wasn't bad it my documentary still not finished yet. 

Gaming documentary Script

Introduction

Video games. Why do we play video games? Clearly there must be a reason as to why we continue to play them. Simply put it is fun. But why is it fun? Why does it appeal to millions upon millions of people? We as people play video games to find some source of entertainment. Financial analyst

Show that global revenues accumulated by the game industry until 2017 will reach $107 billion dollars.

In this video I'll be talking about the history of gaming and development of gaming along with positives and negatives.

Some people have a competitive nature and have the adrenaline rush of going up against others and winning in a game. I'd would like to say that this when people are in the heat of the moment and by winning in games it causes some people to have some sort of satisfaction of winning. Some neuropsychologists think that playing video games gives people endorphin. Endorphin is a hormone which released from brain making people happy. This hormone can lead people to experience something more than once as makes them feel happy which can become addictive to something such as video games.

Some of us like to play video games for the amount of creativity a game has and it brings out the creative part of us. Creativity is known to make people feel positive and even increase the amount creativity we have in real life.

Some of us like to explore what games have to offer feeling as if they are in a totally different world playing as someone who they not. These are most likely are genres which contain adventure and action.

Examples

Mine craft

No mans sky

GTA

World of war craft

The Witcher wild hunt

Wii fit

Mirror edge

mortal kombat

Reasoning

We all build up stress once in a while and a way to relieve that stress is by leaving reality behind to playing video games. This is an opportunity to complete lose one self in another reality. This is a form of escapism. This may not be the reason why everyone plays video games. But it can certainly be used as an explanation for a selected few amongst the gaming community. Simply put the ability to lose one self.

By playing video games we can control things around us any way we want. We as players get an amount of self-confidence from playing games and by playing them some of us feel as if we are part of something great and we have a role to play. While in society we as people may feel that society controls our lives and so some people feel as if they don't have enough control so they may play video to compensate.

While in real life we are just simple people living out our daily lives. While in society we as people may feel that society controls our lives to a degree and society have exceptions from everyone.

But with games you can change all that you can do whatever you want without any one telling you other otherwise. This is one of the reasons why we keep playing video games. With games I can interact with friends, family and strangers.

There is the Nintendo Wii, which is seen as a console for those who are looking to be more fit while also keep having fun at the same time. There are all sorts a game, which has just, has deep provoking messages as the movies do.

History and Development of gaming 


Video games have been around for at least 58 years but you couldn't always play video games at home when ever you wanted. Before you could really only play video games at arcades, which was and still for the public.

The first ever console to be made was called Atari and the first ever game to be made was called ping Pong which felt like you were playing a 2D version resubliming tennis. People were mind blow when since it was the first time you could interact with something on screen as it had never been done before which was in 1958.

Movies made millions amount of money more than games. However slowly games started to become more popular than movies. You can interact with people online and there is often a story to tell in videos games. While with movies there’s only one story. Games now a day has much more content than a movie, which is why it gains more money. To think it just began with a game called Ping Pong on a screen small black and white screen.


Before you could only play with someone if you were in the exact same room with two video game controls. By there being online people built community and made friends. Games brought people closer together when playing. Online gaming was a great way for people with a distance relationship to interact with each other rather than just call a distant friend or email them.

Games and consoles also have gotten more expensive over time and less games come out as a big amount of effort is put into making a game taking it over 2 years for games currently being made for consoles such as PS4 and Xbox one. This would be because the high demand of people wanting to play new game that feel fresh.

Violence in Video Games


Games have been accused of making people violent. News reports have blamed games for people murdering and being hostile to others. What I say to this is that the person acting out all these violent behaviours are either mentally ill or don't know how to tell reality from fiction. I wouldn't blame games for a person’s action as at the end of the day it's a person’s own will and no one else's and the same goes for anything related to the media industry.

Games for the most part were natural and for everyone to play. Until video games like doom came out which contained violence which was not suitable for younger people under the age of 18. Since then games like mortal combat, GTA and hitman have made a great impact on the game industry for the amount of violence these games contain.

To me personally this only made games have more variety to them and with more variety more people get interested in videos game. Game do not only have one genre it has multiply just like any movie or even product you see on store some people may hate it some may love it.

Interview 


Parents

Friends

Psychologists

Do you believe that video games make a person violent?


How do you feel about the video game industry?


Do you believe there’s not enough creativity in video games?


Why do you play video games?


How do you feel about people being represented in video games? Women, black people etc.


Do you believe that games made you more creative?

Music

Mirror's Edge 2 OST (Phaze/ Dubstep Remix)

Locations

Arcades

Comic con

Home

Game offices

Conclusion

Overall, games has become an increasingly influential popular part of the media industry more than the movie industry I believe, which isn’t so different as games provide more content and also said to be more entraining for people ranging from people from 7 to 30. All games have a great potential and keeps getting better over time. Games appeal to almost everyone and they have the same genre as movies, which make it just as appealing as movies.

Depending on the amount of creativity creators have making games can be limitless and can go beyond anyone expectations and it all depends on the amount of creativity a game has.

Video games can also have a big impact on people and leave a message behind which can be a life lesson to people. I can understand where people come from when they say video games are bad for you and make people violent but like everything it has it's negatives and it's positives thank you for listening.