Research&planning, Filiming and Editing.

Today- we filmed the presenters part of the documentary, which is essentially the beginning. We shot the scene where I am in the Librabry talking about the history of language how it evolved and words that we use now.

Editing: Alongside everything else we then uploaded what we have filmed so far including things for our evaluation.

31/1/11- On this day Tobore and I sat and filmed the ethographic part of our documentary, where I had to type up stats and statistics.

These are my 1st Drafts of my color coded research and planning system that my teacher made to help us plan our documentary.

What the colors mean:

Red- Introduction to the whole series

Green- Introduction to episode

Blue- Subtopic

Yellow- A Break

Orange- Summary of episode

Pink- Recap of previous topic

The feedback I got from this planning: The feedback I got was that in my first plan it was very disorganized as there were arrows everywhere and it was not clear as to what each section was including.

This is my second draft of our Idea for research and planning.

In my second draft to make things clearer what I did was I added a Key. This was to make it easier to differentiate between what each section was going to entail.

For the other episode plans this is the structure I intend to continue with, as the feedback I got from this was that it was much better and easier to read and understand.

Research and planning. (NEW IDEA)

This week our task was to do some research and planning based on our new idea. So what we did was we broke down our ideas into sections and these were:

• TVand film - Victoria


• Radio- Tobore


• Internet- Mariana


• Mobile Phones- Jamilla

Once the research to this is done when we come together what we will do is put our ideas together so that we can plan how to put our documentary together.

Within these sections what we did was we each chose a topic to focus on and then we reasearched the PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE of each topic.

From this research it will also help us to know ruffly what our script would be like.

Our NEW IDEA- How is language influenced through technology

A Vlog about our new idea

Short term Plan for January 2011

This is a short term plan that we did which shows what we will be filming. after the Christmas Holidays

4th Draft of script

For the new year we have a lot of re filming and catching up to do.! So The first thing I have started with is the script.

THE INFLUENCE OF SLANG IN SOCIETY (PROVISIONAL TITLE) SHOOTING SCRIPT 8/11/10


1 EXT. CONVENT OF JESUS AND MARY. DAY. 1


JAMILLA

Hello and welcome to JMTV documentaries, my name is Jamilla Joseph and today’s documentary will focus on the national use of SLANG.

Jamilla’s walking down the steps of the garden as she introduces the programme.

Today’s episode will focus on the use of informal language used in the classrooms. Slang has always been used in the English language but most people see slang as abbreviations. E.g. Computerà PC. Now slang has evolved into a whole new era and it’s now popularly used amongst teenagers.

In this series we will be looking at culture slang in age groups, slang and the influence of technology, censorship and slang in the future. In this episode our main focus is slang in education. (VOICEOVER)

In English there are prescriptivist and descriptivist approaches to language change a prescriptivist person believes that English language should stay the same and that it should not change. Whereas a descriptivist person would embrace language change, so theoretically speaking they would embrace the evolution of slang.

When talking slang there are many theorists and people that have conducted research about the use of slang amongst teenagers. Linguist Sue Fox conducted a study in London looking at the type of language used in ethnic minorities. She called this the multi-ethnic youth dialect (MEYD) From this she found that many of the words that youths were using came from Jamaican and Indian cultures. This influence of this was due to the wide spread of ethnic groups that have settled in London.

So could this e the reason for some of the words we use today. We’ll we will take a look into the other influences of words but for now let’s take a look at the influences it has in schools.

What I learnt from 1st Draft audience feedback

Vlog- Audience feedback from our 1st draft

Feedback from our 1st draft.!



Here is a vlog about out first draft of our documentary.