Creative Media Practice Level 3 Year 2

 What is an equipment/resource list? Why is it important to have an equipment/resource list? It is important to have an equipment list as it ensures you can make sure you can cover all bases as to what electronic equipment you have - as well as what you need to obtain prior to shooting. It avoids the problem of potentially having missing equipment during the production phase - which would be problematic as it would delay shooting dates. Given that I am shooting in accordance to a shooting schedule, this would delay shooting dates thus limiting improvements I can make during post production. 

Introduction: In conjunction with our given brief, I have decided to format my 'Regional Identity' project as a documentary.  Documentaries have typical conventions that should be adhered to make a documentary appealing to a target audience. As to further inform my initial ideas, I am researching the codes and conventions of documentary filmmaking. By definition, a documentary is a film or radio programme which provides the audience with a report through delivering information. Documentaries have the connotation of being educational and are used by audience members to further inform themselves on a given topic. Although the filmmakers might strive to offer the truth, documentaries are a mediated version of reality because they are shaped by the perspectives and choices of the people behind the production. Perhaps the best definition comes from John Grierson, a pioneer of the form, who said a documentary was “the creative treatment of actuality” . Since documentary film is a ver