Nick Broomfield - The quad, Derby

Just got back from a talk with Nick Broomfield in Derby.

It was interesting and inspiring, infact it inspired me to make my own documentary over the summer!

I loved how Nick created his films, his style of documentaries focused on people fascinated me, particularly how in one of the documentarys his film was actually used as evidence in a court case!

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR A DOCUMENTARY IM GOING TO CREATE OVER SUMMER!

Portfolio DVD... a speculation!

My DVD authoring expertise goes as far as using Nero Startsmart and burning a video disk, so this project should be interesting for me!

I have found a tutorial on Video Co-pilot I could use, meaning I need to get to grips with Adobe Encore having never used it before! (http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/dvd_authoring/)

In regards to the actual content of the DVD, I was thinking of having seperate buttons that lead to small snippets of my work this year, accompanied by a commentary of myself explaining the piece. This idea came about after a conversation with one of my lecturers saying that the assessors normally only watch DVDs submitted to them for about 2 minutes, so it will need to be short but very sweet to make a big impact!

RESEARCH PROJECT SOURCES

I have managed to source 20 bed and breakfasts in the UK which have their own websites. The interesting thing about these companies is that they all have pictures and descriptions on their website but none of them have video, which will allow the audience a greater look into the accomodation which they could potentially be booking.

More than half of the UKs internet users book their holidays online(Nielsen/NetRatings ), so there is a potential business plan in creaitng videos for the companies!