Documentary - Actuality Workshop
Actuality Workshop
Most of us, unfortunately, missed the actuality and sequencing lecture due to a problem with our timetable, however, this didn't stop me from looking into the powerpoint on myUCA. I did this so when it came to the trip to Chatham Historic Dockyard I knew what we had to be doing and how to correctly film in actuality.
Here is what I found out about Actuality film making:
Actuality is a technique used by documentary filmmaker and is a type of filming which captures events of whatever they're filming and does little if anything to control them. What this means is that it should be real events that are in chronological order this way it can tell the story through the events of what the filmmakers are trying to show you. A good example of actuality filmmaking is in the Loius Theroux documentary - Louis Theroux: Saville. In this documentary, Louis goes through old footage of his time with Jimmy before the truth was revealed about this twisted man, he also travels to a lot of people that use to work with Jimmy and when these parts came around Louis would take them either talk to them in their houses or go for walks around their villages/towns.
The workshop:
In the workshop, we were lucky enough to go to the famous historic dockyard in Chatham and practise filming on location using actuality. Before we were given our location to focus on filming we got to have a wander around most of the dockyard so we knew where the specific locations would be. Once this was done we got in our groups and was given a specific ship or part of the dockyard to focus on. Our group was told to go to the HMS Gannet built in 1878.
Before we were allowed to grab any of the equipment we firstly need to scout the boat for any health and safety problems on the ship for a risk assessment. I decided to take some photos of the potential hazards so that when we went away we could remember what we could write down. Here are the photos:
As you can see from the first picture this little manhole cover was making what was already an uneven floor more uneven if we were to be holding a camera and not see if we could've fallen over and damaged the equipment and maybe even hurt ourselves. The second photo looks a bit dark, but it's meant to be a low door frame, we thought this would be quite bad as if we weren't paying attention we could have smashed our heads on it which wouldn't have been a good sight. The third photo shows another door frame, but this time it's the bottom of the frame which had a little step you needed to walk over it. This could be dangerous, however, we noted it down and if we were to be holding a camera we would've passed the camera through to someone who had already walked through. This way we reduced to the possibility of falling over with the camera and potentially breaking it.
Whilst we were conducting the risk assessment we thought this would also be a good time to look for potential shots that we could tell the story of the ship without any dialogue. Here is the edit James put together I, unfortunately, didn't get time to help with the edit as I was helping the 2nd years with their live show in the studios.
Here is what I found out about Actuality film making:
Actuality is a technique used by documentary filmmaker and is a type of filming which captures events of whatever they're filming and does little if anything to control them. What this means is that it should be real events that are in chronological order this way it can tell the story through the events of what the filmmakers are trying to show you. A good example of actuality filmmaking is in the Loius Theroux documentary - Louis Theroux: Saville. In this documentary, Louis goes through old footage of his time with Jimmy before the truth was revealed about this twisted man, he also travels to a lot of people that use to work with Jimmy and when these parts came around Louis would take them either talk to them in their houses or go for walks around their villages/towns.
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| Louis Theroux: Savile |
The workshop:
In the workshop, we were lucky enough to go to the famous historic dockyard in Chatham and practise filming on location using actuality. Before we were given our location to focus on filming we got to have a wander around most of the dockyard so we knew where the specific locations would be. Once this was done we got in our groups and was given a specific ship or part of the dockyard to focus on. Our group was told to go to the HMS Gannet built in 1878.
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| HMS Gannet. |
Before we were allowed to grab any of the equipment we firstly need to scout the boat for any health and safety problems on the ship for a risk assessment. I decided to take some photos of the potential hazards so that when we went away we could remember what we could write down. Here are the photos:
As you can see from the first picture this little manhole cover was making what was already an uneven floor more uneven if we were to be holding a camera and not see if we could've fallen over and damaged the equipment and maybe even hurt ourselves. The second photo looks a bit dark, but it's meant to be a low door frame, we thought this would be quite bad as if we weren't paying attention we could have smashed our heads on it which wouldn't have been a good sight. The third photo shows another door frame, but this time it's the bottom of the frame which had a little step you needed to walk over it. This could be dangerous, however, we noted it down and if we were to be holding a camera we would've passed the camera through to someone who had already walked through. This way we reduced to the possibility of falling over with the camera and potentially breaking it.
Whilst we were conducting the risk assessment we thought this would also be a good time to look for potential shots that we could tell the story of the ship without any dialogue. Here is the edit James put together I, unfortunately, didn't get time to help with the edit as I was helping the 2nd years with their live show in the studios.
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