Thursday, 28 January 2010

Animatic

Today i produced an animatic to show a rough storyboard of how my documentry is going to be layed out and some of the things that i might cover it turned out very well.
See animatic here

The documentry will brreifly cover topics such as the good and bad points of online gaming
the 'side effects' of online gamming and an example of what can happen to someone who becomes way to immersied in a game.
I plan on also interveiwing a parent of a gammer, a gamer and possibly someone completly random from the online gaming univerise to do this i would have to find someone who doesnt mind being interviewd which could pose a challenge and i figure i would have to hold a dictorphone to the ear piece and hope it picks up the persons voice.
the documentry will focuse a bit on the good and bad social sides of having a 'second life' and i in doing this coursework i will more than likely learn alot about gaming which could be tied in with the other part of my media course - postmodernism

Monday, 18 January 2010

Where would this Documentry be shown and when

Because this is a documentry that would most likely be watched by parents i think i would suit a half hour slot on maybe ITV or BBC 1/2 maybe just before the news at five O'clock when people are having dinner.
As far as i can find there have been very little documentrys done like this however i did find a news report on an american program called 'Second Skin' which is a bleak outlook at the lives of the players of the online game world of warcraft the article can be found here - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-9889170-52.html
and i think it might be worth trying to see if i can find and watch the actual program somewhere to get an idea of the kind of angles the program takes and how it portrays the subjects of the people on the program
I also found a documentry/article about proffesional online gamming which i think may be worth checking out aswell link to article - http://www.olganon.org/?q=node/12674