Guitar lesson

We then rushed as Edwards guitar teacher arrived. As this was filming inside we used one back light to lift the scene. I filmed edward playing and singing. We filmed a full shot of both him and the teacher then we filmed close ups of Edwards handplaying the guitar, Edwards face while he was playing. I think my favourite shot of this was the close up of Edwards hand and i think this will work well in the Edit. We also had an interview with Edwards guitar teacher about what its like to teach Edward and how he compares to his other Student, we got some good strong answers from the interview.

Garden footage

when we got back to the house we decided to film the trampoline shots for our opening scene and playing with the dog and riding bikes, we did this early as we wanted the lighting to be good quality. We got some really natural shots of Edward and Diana on the trampoline and having a bike race, i think the opening shot where you will just see the faces of Edward and Diana bouncing on the trampoline will work well and attract the audience to the documentary.

Barnsdale Lodge

As we got to Barnsdale Lodge we had already visited the location so we knew exactly what we wanted to film. We filmed shots of Edward working in the kitchen including an over the shoulder shot. Watching the footage back i think these shots work quite well and i would like to see them in the final edit. We then filmed Edward walking on the property grounds using panning to follow him walking. Other footage included Edward working in the reception and then outside the hotel. I think overall we have some good footage from Barnsdale Lodge and have more than enough to put into our edit.

Filming day..18/11/08

We set off sticking to the call sheets around 9:30 after picking up the equipment.We arrived at around 11am and went to Barnsdale Lodge straight away, where Edward does work experience twice a week to film Edward.

Where are we going to film?We shall be filming in the twins hometown of Rutland in the following places:
At Home
At Edwards place of work.
At Edwards basketball practise.
At Diana's universtity in Nottingham.

When its going to take place?We will be filming on the 18th and the 19th of November 2008.
Structure.
Beginning - Looking back at the past and photo montages of the twins childhood and outline the facts of down syndrome.
Middle - Comparing the current lifestyles.
End - Looking into the future and what it will bring for Edward and Diana.
Audio.We got in contact with two muscians from Bournemouth university who have agreed to compose and record our soundtrack.
Visual Elements.
Split screen interview.
Photomontage.
Combination of wide shots, close ups,mid shots, over the shoulder and ecperimental.

Edward and Diana

Edward and Diana are the twins that we are basing our documentary on. A si have only ever met Diana i thought that i would look through some photo's of the twins to try and keep a feel of their relationship, from the photos i can see that they have a close relationship and even though they are different they have a lot of similarities.

We decided to go ahead with our final idea on film on Tuesday 18/11/08 at The twins home town in Rutland and film Diana in University on Thursday 20/11/08. We arranged call sheets, the script and storyboards in preperation for the filming.

A story of a family with Downsyndrome

I found this documentary more interesting as more was hapenning in it and like our documentary this one is only 4 minutes. I think this one was more interesting as there was talking about feelings rather than facts and there was more Videos and photo montages.

Documentary kids with Down Syndrome

I felt as if i needed to learn more about down-syndrome to carry out the documentary successful, therefore i researched the disability on the Internet and then looked for documentaries on the same subject. The clip above is from the Documentary 'Kids with Down syndrome' I think this has helped me get a better idea of what i want our film to be as i found this Documentary quite boring as the filming of the kids is too long and all the talking is mainly facts of Down syndrome, i want more to be going off in our film.

Documentary idea

After thinking about our idea's we have finally decided to create our documentary based around aset of twins which one was born with down syndrome and the other wasnt, investigating the differences between them. After discussing all our ideas and the research we have done we started to plan the plot of the Documentary and vital information such as:

Individuals in documentary: Diana and her twin brother Edward, Parents, Individual view on
the street.

Documentary title: Two Of A Kind

Locations: The twins house in Rutland- Filming inside the twins rooms
-The college Edward goes to and University Diana
goes to
-Edwards place of Work

We wanted to start the film looking at everyday life and describing Edward as a person rather than the fact that he has down syndrome but then we were advised to start off with footage of the twins so that we don't go off course. We decided that we will start the documentary with a montage of photos of Diana and Edward from when they were young topresent with a voiceover discussing their general lifes without mentioning the fact that Eddy has a disability, we are going to try and do the documentary without mentioning this fact and letting the audience work it out for themselves. The start of our documentary will be their past.
The middle of the documentary will be the main part using a split screen of the twin having individual interviews but with the same questions and seeing the difference in answers. Becuase the interview will be split screen while one twin is answering the question we will show the other doing an everday activity. Therefore the middle part of the film will be about The present.
We will then move onto looking at the futures of Diana and Ed and looking into the differences between the lifes they are about to lead to wrap the documentary up.

I think the structure of having the beginning as the past the middle as the present and the ending as the future will work quite nicely.