Monday 29 February 2016

Interview Day

So on Thursday we conducted our interviews at Bournemouth and Poole College.
We arrived a little nervous with our camera equipment and walked into a session with roughly 15 people sitting down looking at power points on the LGBT community, we listened for a while to their educational and supportive session.

We chose a room that was quiet, un-intrusive and private to do our interviews, as naturally they are of a sensitive nature. It was also after college hours so there was not that many people about the building.

We first interviewed Alfie from Space programme, the interview lasted about 15 minutes, and we clapped before each recording to make the syncing of our content easier. We placed our subjects sat down, looking directly into the camera, as sort of like a confessional. We asked our interviewees if they would like all 5 of us in the room whilst they were giving their answers, a few people decided that the fewer of us the better. We hope this made them feel as comfortable as possible.

What we were surprised by was how KEEN, ENTHUSIASTIC AND UNAFRAID the young people were to be interviewed. As honestly, we were worried that nobody would want to come forward and tell us their story - let alone be filmed. But in the end, we were overwhelmed by how many people wanted to be filmed. We actually had to cut the stream of people off!

Unfortunately, we had a problem with one of our team members who 'mis-pronouned' one of the participants. (Called a non-binary person, a 'she' by accident) It was a very tricky and new situation for the majority of us and slips of the tongue were exceedingly hard to avoid.

We also had a problem with the Tascam and it took us a while to get used to the new format of recording equipment, but we mastered it in just enough time. Another thing that wasn't idea was the camera running out of battery half way through one of our very emotive interviews with Jay, the volunteer at the Space programme - but luckily we had pre-empted this and put another spare battery on charge in the corner.

Overall it was an incredible experience, and I think we would all admit that it was an emotional experience, and it widen our views on the topic of being transgender. It was an enlightening journey and something we will never forget; which we hope to reflect in our interactive documentary. In addition, most of us didn't realise there was a term called Non-Binary! Which is where a person doesn't identify with any gender whatsoever.

Space, also wanted us to show them the finished product and were very keen to help us get parental consent for all our participants.

Transgender Flag



Tuesday 16 February 2016

'Being Trans'

'Being Trans' - Here we go!

This. Is. It!


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New Idea! Transgender?!

A couple of hours ago we had to scrap our idea, but nobody panic! - We have another...

We will be taking a journey in to the world of young transgender people. We realised that this idea would be easier as we already have access to contacts within the area.

We are all really excited to start this, and I personally can't wait to interview and meet some young transgender people. We will be using a question style system, and our interface will be clickable options of people answering a set of questions.

We have begun contacting people who are potential interviewees, and planing the look of our interface. We are also beginging to develop our social media presence, but we can only do this once we have come up with a name.

Stay tuned for more!

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Roles & Goals

Liam - Content Producer
Will - Content Producer
Luke - Editor
Indie - Social Media
Adam - Web Editor

'Getting Home Safely': Getting Started

Hi! Today is workshop two of our project!

Uh-Oh, there's a spanner in the works. Our idea that we settled upon last week has proven almost impossible after a discussion today that showed that the software we are using wouldn't support some of our main ideas. For instance, our 3 critical, health, social, and money 'bars' would not be possible in Klynt, as we would have to edit them into EVERY SINGLE frame - this would take a very long time and that is one thing we do not have!

We decided that it our idea would be Getting home: Getting Safe idea would be feasible is we had unlimited time but in our situation - it's probably not going to work. Don't panic just yet!

SCRAPPED THAT.

Now, we have to come up with another idea...

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Tuesday 9 February 2016

First Workshop

Blog number 1! All very new and exciting!


It's Tuesday 9th February and today is our first day on our interactive documentaries. We've mostly been deciding on which roles best suit each person, and brainstorming story ideas. Although we have been told we needn't decide today - apparently it must be a meaty subject!

We toyed with the idea of doing a 'First Year University Survival Guide', but after speaking with Matt we concluded it wouldn't be challenging enough. Our second brainstorm was on 'Consent', we watched the 'Consent with Tea' video to spur our imaginations but after much deliberation agreed that the topic was a little too serious too tackle in our time frame.

After the two hour workshop we settled on the provisional idea of 'Getting home safely from a night out', eg, spending money, drinking habits and social behaviour. We want it to be an interactive game, that is user driven by the choices they make, so there will be a variety of multiple outcomes. We have created a theme where the user is playing for the goal of getting home with the most money and most health, which will be displayed on a virtual reality bar. There will also be a 'social' bar, that goes up and down according to the behaviour of the player.

We are set to meet again on 16th Feb for another two hour workshop, where we hope to expand our ideas and get the ball rolling with our project.

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