The Presenter

The presenter in my documentary is very detached from the program, he only appears occasionally and is usually only heard narrating over footage, when he does appear it is only for a while. This aura of detachedness also frees up space on the screen for other things to occur or be shown such as the footage from a video game.
The footage is almost used to immerse the viewers into the game while having a discussion about games and how bad they are for people because they get immersed. This could be the documentary trying to show the views who may already be certain they dislike games, that they are just a bit of harmless fun or it could be trying to show the uncertain people a sort of 'look this is promoting gun violence' or it could just be a focal point for the gamers who may be watching, it is something that would be reveled further into the documentary, i was also planning to have some of the documentary presenter by a character from a game by manipulating some of the features of the game to make a character look as though they were talking to a camera - the inspiration for this has came from an Internet form of entertainment known as machinima a link to this style of entertainment can be found here

Radio Promo

I shall be recording my radio promo when i can get a dictaphone
i have a brief idea for a script which goes a little somthing like this

*intro noise*
Online gamming has been critised alot by the media...
but is it really as bad as the media make out
this brand new documentry on bbc2 at 6.00pm explores the pros and con's of online gamming and whether it really is that bad!
The documentry captures every side of the story from the parents veiw and the option of an onine gamer.
*sound clip from the documentray*

Editing Software

I have been using MAGIX Movie editor to edit all moving images for my cousework, i find it a very easy program to use and supports a large variety of file types. there is an incredibly large limit to the amount of footage you can have in one project and you can have over 32 layers of sound which makes it very easy to move around and manipulate sound files such as recordings for narrations and background noise from the video.

I have used a variety of movie editors including MAGIX windows movie maker Imovie and (insert name) and i have found magix the easiest. It is well labeld so i know what each tab does Once footage is in place, the editing tools are fairly standard. There are a couple of different ways to view the editing timeline and you can call on the library of effects and transitions to help you beef up your footage. Getting Footage into the program is very simple, just drag and drop the footage into the program and it will appear in the editing bar. same goes for sound. Exporting files is just as easy - File > Export as...
there are a variety of file types to choose from AVI MPEG being the most well known. there is one draw back i have found from using it though is that the files can be very big.

Before i put any sound that isn't from the original footage i quickly cut and edit it as much as possible in a free program called Audacity, it again like magix is very easy and straight forward to use and unlike magix the files when exported are a much smaller size

Preperation for Filming

over the half term i drew up some plans to commence filming over the weekend after half term however i have filmed enough for the first minuet of the documentary it is a short scene filmed at night of a frustrated gamer which i am going to narrate over explaining what i will be covering. it has been done so the gamer exhibits an example of the behaviour i have just talked about, for example when i mention gamer rage he will get angry.