Week 12: Documentary

Lost Friday

29/12/2011

The story of “the Lost Friday”, In which the whole country of Samoa will leap forward 24 hours in to the future, when the country puts its head to rest on Thursday 29^th of December 2011 they will wake up a full day a head on Saturday the 31^st of December 2011.

The entire nation has deciding to shift across the International Date Line so it is in line with key trading partners such as Australia and New Zealand, which are a full day ahead of Samoa.

 The decision to keep the country behind a day has been left for one hundred and nineteen years,  Samoa is currently 21 hours behind Sydney but come new years eve, it will be 3 hours ahead, and being one of the first to celebrate 2012 instead of the last.

My ideas for a documentary, in which we show what happened when an island leaps 24 hours in to the future, and speak to people who have a birthday or anniversary that simply vanished.  The documentary will take place over a 48 hour period the day before and the day after the shift in the IDL.

Week 11: Working with Children

My New family

12/12/11

It is nearly 6 years since Gay men and women can have children we follow the new family dynamic of parenthood, whether the child is biologically related to one of the parents, or if they have adopted the child from any age, does it make a difference how the child is raised, or is it all genetics? The program will check in with the two families at various over various parts of the year (Christmas, birthdays, school events)

The program will follow two children:

Name: Toby

Age: 5

Parent’s status: Civil partnership (Tim and Tom)

Brief: Toby is biologically related to one of the gay couple, but neither of the two men knows who the father really is. Toby goes to school and is a normal 5 year old boy, but what does he think of his?

The second family we will follow is

Name: Sarah

Age: 13

Parent’s status: Civil Partnership (Julie and Jane)

Brief: Sarah was adopted at age 8 by Julie and Jane, they chose adoption instead of artificial insemination because they didn’t want it only being part of on the mothers, and how does her family dynamic affect her school? 

Week 10: Ethics and Casting

ASBO to Olympics

04/12/11

Summary:

ASBO to Olympics is a show in which a group of young outcasts, who have been neglected by the schooling system and come from a rough background, are put up for one month and trained as athletes at Millfields. While they do their studies, they use the discipline that they will be getting out on the track and apply in the class room.

Casting:

The ‘Students’ will be between the ages of 15 to 18 each of the ‘students’ will be given a physical psychiatric evaluation and a councillor before the filming will start. The guardians/parents of the students will be informed of what the show is about and what the end result of the program will be; being that hopefully they will come out more well rounded and better behaved members of society, and have a chance to take part in specialist events at the Olympic stadium. Filming the events in the school will be challenging to both the crew and cast with some of these children showing very much unpredictable behaviour (giving the show a jeopardy factor), a conversation that the parents/guardians will have is that anything that is said on camera maybe used in the right context.

The ‘Teachers’ who have trained the ‘students’ will be the best athletes that Great Britain has to offer, while not putting the ‘teachers’ in danger they will be told that the students will be unpredictable and at times badly behaved, a team of security and councillors will be on hand to help the teachers. Unlike the ‘students’ they can leave the set at any point if they feel that they cannot do their task.