BIBLIOGRAPHY

Once my video was deleted twice with all of my footage that I download it, I had only one week to re create everythihng, so I could not include all of these sources, but I learnt a lot from these always, and were part of my investigation and plan, so I think that it is important to include some of these.

- Drinking & Driving . (n.d.). WWW2 Webserver. Retrieved March 29, 2012, from http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrinkingAndDriving

This webpage is text on drinking and driving with a lot of information which I can get my facts from.

- CDC Vital Signs - Drinking and Driving: A Threat to Everyone. (n.d.). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved March 29, 2012, from http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/drinkinganddriving

This website has really good and crutial information on drinking and driving which includes may statisctics. My video needs to be informative as well, so I will base many of my statistics form here.

-Drinking and Driving Ad - YouTube . (n.d.). YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . Retrieved March 29, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYq9CBZoKQ

This is another add on not drinking and driving. I think that it is important to have a veriety of different footage to make the video more interesting.

-Don't Drink and Drive - YouTube . (n.d.). YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . Retrieved March 29, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymiF-okrdMg

This is a really sad commerical, and if I cut out the really sad bits, I can still use it. It is about a soccer player which gets drunk and drives home and crashes into a backyard and ends up killing a boy playing soccer.

- Enduring Regret - YouTube . (n.d.). YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . Retrieved March 29, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVnuVC9j52U

This is what my documentary is mostly going to focus on because it is a true story. The video includes all the aspects which I want to cover: why he was drinking, the damage he did to himself and others, the concequences and how he is dealing with them.

-http://www.hbo.com/addiction/

This is a really reliable source since it is the official Home Box Office website, which contains many free videos on teenagers and alcohol addiciton. I think that this could be very helpful for facts and footage.

QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS:

1) AFter knowing the intent of this documentary, do you feel like my documentary did focus and achieve that? why or why not? 
2) What could have I done in order to make the point of this documentary more clear.
3) Discuss what you learnt and what you found more effective
4) In general how can I improve?
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BROTHER:

1) I think that it was good, and that you really left a mark on the audience with the story you had in it.

2) I think you could have had different stories in it and different voices. Maybe you can have yourself at the beggining explaining what the point of the document was.

3) I learnt that drinking and driving can be really dangerous, and anything can happen unexpectedly when you are driving under the influence of alcohol.

4) I think it should have been more long becuase it was interesting.

FATHER:

1) Good job, the story was clear so you really understood what the point of the documentary was.

2) Maybe you could have put in intreviews with experts so that the point is also explained, eg: why do people drink and drive, it it becuase the wat to show off? or becuase they are unaware under that state of mind?

3) I knew a lot of htis before, but I learnt that such an 'innocent' man can coincidetally do this. Wrong time, wrong place.

4) Definatley should have been more long. I really liked it though.

EVALUATE

EVALUATE:

I really think that I had a good attidue towards this project at the beggining, but that definatley changed towards the end when my almost finished documentary was deleted from my computer twice. I think I did a lot more work than I was meant to because of this, but I feel like my end product is definatley not as good as what I had before I lost all of my data. I really iked this project because it let me explore different types of research, such as internet, diaries, documentaries, etc. Even if I missed some IT classes for an extra curricular class trip, I still think that I was on track and doing well. My turning point was definatley the loss of all my data, but I do realize that I should have backed it up on a hard drive. Nevertheless, I think that I still manage to accomplish what I wanted to, which was to convince an audience into not rinking and driving. I showed this documentary to my father, and he seemed surprised and sad as well from the story which i featured in my documentary, I hope that teenagers can feel the same way he did. Even if my final product was not what I planned, I think that I learnt a lot and really understood what I need to do next time (not just on documentary making) to improve my final product and the road I take to get there.

CREATE

CREATE:

Like I said in my INVESTIGATION post, the reason why I chose to do a documentary revolved around teenagers and drinking abuse, is because I personally feel that the school does not do much about it. Every year each middle year class has a 6 week course on alcohol and drug abuse, and I dont think it is very informative, or convincing to students, especially the ones that do abuse alcohol or/ and drugs. I created a detailed mind map which helped my narrow down my topic to drinking and driving in general. I also had a rich bibliography. It was a shame that we were not allowed to film in school, but I dont think that my creations was effected by that greatley. I had a lot of archival footage, which was then deleted twice from my computer. I think that my documentary was really good untill a couple of weeks ago when my computer deleted all of my data... this happend twice, so I was very behind. I didnt not want to take chances on my documentary and my grade, so I re-did my documentary on another computer. I think that this really effected my creation of this documentary, becuase I had very little time to re-do it. I definatley learnt from this that I should use backup such as a hard drive.

PLAN

PLAN:

 

Task:                Bibliography Due                                                          Date due:    23 Jan 2012           

Process:

My bibliography is full of good and valuble reaserch. It is helping me narrow down exactly what I want to focus on since Teenage Alcohol Abuse is a wide toppic.

Step Three

Task:                Design Complete                                  Date due:    Jan 27 2012

Process:

My design is done, and I think that the length is good as well. I include various types of videos with different people so that my video can be interseting. I think that the ammount of introduction, body, and coclusion is appropriate and doable.

Step Four

Task:                Planning Complete                                Date due: January 31 2012

Process:

I changed some of my planning becuase I decided to focus only on drinking and driving, but luckily I already had footage on that from my previous wide toppic.
 

Step Five

Task:                Filming Complete                                              Date due:   March 3 2012

Process: We were not allowed to film in school, so I used footage from the internet which was just as good, or even better in this case because I dont really have a chance to visit a person arrested for a DUI for example.

Step Six

Task:    Evaluations due                                                Date due:    March 23 2012           

Process: My evaluation is going good, a lot of it got deleted from my computer just lik e my documentary (which i then re-started).

Step Seven

Task:    ALL DONE                        Date due:    March 30 2012

INVESTIGATE

INVESTIGATE:

The task was to create a documentary which would inform, persuade or entertain an audience. I chose inform and persuade becuase I dont think that watching videos about drinking an driving is very entertaining. The reason why I chose to do a documentary revolved around teenagers and drinking abuse, is because I personally feel that the school does not do much about it. Every year each middle year class has a 6 week course on alcohol and drug abuse, and I dont think it is very informative, or convincing to students, especially the ones that do abuse alcohol or/ and drugs. That is the problem to me. Before I actually deided to do this, I did some background reaserach, I asked my classmates if they thought if the six week course was effective or not... the majority said not completley. Once I finalized that I wanted to do a documentary on teenagers and drinking I used various media as my recourses: videos and internet. I did a mindmap which helped me to find my rescourses effectivley which covered every subtopic in my documentary, for example a subtopic was long term mental effects; I looked up information specifically about this topic, and in the end only used 1 small piece of information, but never the less valuble and informative. My specification was that students were convinced by my documentary that stoping abuse of alcohol can save lifes, and that I ha to keep on track with my time line.

TIMELINE

Tuseday 14 February: Today I started to gather my video sources from the internet. I found great videos on teenage alcohol abuse (http://www.hbo.com/addiction/ , http://www.mediainternational.com/substance_abuse.htm). Some of them are long, but I planed on how I could cut out the pieces that were not neccessary.

Wednesday 15 February: Today I continued with my video gathering.

Monday 20 February: Today I printed out information (facts) and highlited the information I wanted to include.

Friday 24 February: On the 22nd Mr.Holmes told us that the school did not allow filming at school, so a part of my project was completley un-doable.

28 February: Once I reorganized my video structure, I started to compose my video. I decided to focus it on Drinking and Driving in general. I found a video about a man who was brought to jail for a DUI which killed to people during the drive. I mainly wanted to focus on that.

3 March: Today I put in text and information, and edited the video in order for it to fit with the written information.

5th March: I did the same thing as March 3

9th March: Today all of my work had been deleted... So i restarted my project again

20 March: Today my video again got deleted.

21 March: I was getting closer to the dead line, so I started to rush. This time I did not want to take any chances so I worked on another computer.