Introduction to my A-level media blog

Hello, I have now finished my AS-level media coursework and have moved on to the A-level coursework syllabus now. Over the summer I have been forecasting and brainstorming ideas and plans for this year's coursework; out of all the options I have for this year's coursework, I have decided to choose the documentary. I feel that with the documentary I can pose an issue or topic which is personal to me and can express awareness of this subject.

I want to create a documentary around the area of mental health or inequality, however, mental health is in my favor at the moment. In summary, I will be consistently posting blogs on this page showing my progress, showing how I develop throughout the course.

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Codes and conventions of documentary

Preliminary task: editing using Premiere Pro

Although I have already decided that for my preliminary task, I will be editing using Davinci Resolve due to it being more accessible, while I'm at school, I decided to edit the preliminary task with Premiere Pro as well just to compare the results. I used Premiere Pro last year to edit my tasks but in my opinion, I found it far harder to use than Davinci Resolve, however now I am getting more comfortable with this software and would like to start using it more by practicing on it.

Vertov

Dziga Vertov was a pioneering Soviet documentary film and newsreel filmmaker as well as a cinema theorist. He was born in Russia, with the name David Abelevich Kaufman but he often went by the name Denis Kaufman. He was born on 2 January 1896 and died on 12 February 1954. His filming techniques and theories influenced the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking collective active from 1968 to 1972, as well as the cinéma vérité style of documentary filmmaking. His most famous film was Man with a Movie Camera (1929). This film portrays a day in a Russian city, however, it was filmed in several cities over 4 years. Vertov was heavily influenced by Eisenstein's use of montage and his aesthetic was driven by his political beliefs as a communist. Vertov believed that film truth should be captured, which is fragments of the actuality that, when organized together, have a deeper truth that cannot be seen by normal people. Vertov's Kino-Pravda focused on everyday experiences, eschewing ...

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