Fyre Festival

Fyre Festival documentary film in Netflix channel is very serious disastrous luxury music festival. Billy McFarland with his rapper partner Ja Rule created a festival with lots of lies. In the beginning scene all ten thousand young people were excited to go in the Fyre Festival with all their flights booked and selfie videos. The lies and social media perfect image was broken when they arrived to a disaster scene. All the young people turned very crazy and they are panicking, complaining and fuming unfortunately they want refund their money back. Billy McFarland was an entrepreneur but he's fraud then he didn't know what he do his money does bankrupt to minus five million dollars his net worth. To be honest I thought it was a bit boring because in the interview filming talking about money issues and they having hard time in the Fyre Festival but I'm not interested about the money insurance. 

Super Size Me

Super Size Me documentary was filmed by Roadside Attractions studio. The director and main focus was Morgan Spurlock who created a documentary about a fast food social experiment featuring McDonald's. He directed himself going to McDonald's every meal for one month and if he was asked to supersize he said yes. It was really funny but also quite serious because it showed how unhealthy fast food is and that many Americans eat lots of this bad food. 

Mindmaps and Moodboards

I made my two documentary ideas to use with Mindmaps and Moodboards in Powerpoint.

Initial Ideas

High Score

I have loved video games since I was 6 years old! My first electronic video game was a Gameboy which I played all the time, mostly Pokemon game. I got a PS2 for my 8th birthday which I loved because it was 2 player and I could play games with my sister and family.  

I watched the Netflix documentary High Scores one afternoon last year because it looked really interesting and someone in my family had recommended it to me. I thought it was a fantastic documentary with all the classic video games with history and storytelling from the game designers that made these original video games.

I decided that this would be my first Mindmap and Moodboard documentary idea in my website blog to use as inspiration. I had used a software to PowerPoint and I put in many images here of video games in Moodboard. I then used Google Drive and I created my ideas into a Mindmap.

I  made interview questions about video game series (High Scores) and created these video games questions which I found helped my ideas. 

High Scores is very amazing Netflix tv documentary series. It looks at the differences of the addictive popular classic video games over the last 40 years and I think it's historical accurate.  It's an extraordinary collection of video games, inventions and all the game creators in video gaming industries and talks about how they make video game animations and also the earlier original video gaming with characters and how this has changed the industry over 40 years.  

I really liked the video games soundtrack and it makes me more excited to watch more High Score documentaries. For all the audiences watching, they must be feeling excited and inspiration as they remember their interests from childhood playing video games. It is so nostalgic!

How can deaf people play video gaming with better access without sound?

These classic old video games and consoles is not really accessible apart from vibrations and closed captions (subtitles) for many years now. My criticism is it feels very boring to play, as have to read lots of information, and seems they haven't developed technologies. It's really sad.

High Score - Episode 1: Looks at arcades with video games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros etc. There were the original simple games like Ping Pong and then the classic old arcade games, but they have transformed so much as the new technologies have grown. 

Episode 2 High Scores -The Comeback Kid: It's about the children and teens that participate in video gaming competitions. It explains why the video gaming competitions are expensive due to the amount of people interested video gaming, the video gaming industries need money to increase their business and technologies. Now, there are so many people interested in video gaming competitions. All the children and teens who have won gaming competitions get awards, and the audiences encourage and cheer their kids on, which helps the kids to be confident to win. The first former champion kid was Jeff Hansen. He was a talented video gamer in Tetris championship in 1990, that was 31 years ago! At age 10, he won a competition in Nintendo cooperation.

All the classic video game characters had square body animations with square legs, eyes etc, and square graphics background. These were called Pixels. Pixels is a first design of game with characters, graphics and illustrations made for game machines created for the arcades. The new technologies developed the pixels to become 3D which really changed the gaming industries.

Howard Scott Warshaw was the games designer of E.T the Extra-Terrestrial video game.    I was really surprised to learn the E.T game did not become popular and disappointing as the game didn't sell well. People lost interest in the game and couldn't be bothered to play it which is a shame. 

Episode 3 High Scores: Is about the first complex board game using RPG (Role Playing Games). Its called Dungeons and Dragons! I had never seen this popular board game before I watched the video game documentaries series. It looks really amazing to play now I have seen it. The way they have made the character figures and cards are really interesting.

The first popular RPG in video games was called Final Fantasy. This game was developed in Japan as all the gaming characters are Japanese anime animations. I've never played this RPG video game before so maybe I should get buy it to try the game. The Final Fantasy chapter uses medieval numbers in the collection video games. From the start of the collection, new numbers or years were added to show the history of the game. It started in the 1980's and they developed 16 games in total.  I think it's interesting the way the documentary explained the life of the Japanese games designer who painted and created all the traditional anime characters and backgrounds in his portfolio. It's really extraordinary what he did! 

High Score - Nintendo and Sega. The two main rivalries between platforms. This was interesting to watch!  They had been in a battle between their video gaming industries, competing to get more people to buy their video games to see who had created the best platform.  Actually, these two video gaming industries are still building up their epic businesses! Their two main protagonist characters. Mario from Nintendo, and Sonic from Sega. The rivalry helped the two massive companies to increase their sales. The rivalry was huge in the gaming world!  Many years later the companies became friends to work together and in 2008 they created a sports game called Mario and Sonic the Olympics Games in Beijing.

EA (Electronic Arts) is an American video gaming platform. It is about a Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and commentator called John Madden. He is very famous person who loves American football. When he speaks, he has an over-confident and powerful voice, and he encourages other football players to develop their confidence to play and win. The first EA video sport gaming is called Madden NFL (National Football League) around in USA. 

Video gaming is my passion and would love to set my goals be an deaf gamer in video gaming, creating accessibility for other deaf gamers from YouTube like me. Maybe I'll upload my own YouTube videos to subscribe and my ideas I will share under my gamer name in future. Why some people would assume that deaf people can't play video games because they can't hear so can't be a gamer? All people play video games equally and it' not about hearing gamers or deaf gamers which is limiting. Just be an gamer! Deaf people aren't disabled like blind or autistic people. They can be proud and be independent to have their own career!

The Beatles

My second topic idea was around music and this was based on my favourite band the Beatles. I began listening to their music when I was 14, I used headphones to feel the vibrations and my cochlear was able to bring across some of the music. 

I liked the classic rock and roll era, their interesting lives and the deaths of two of the member of the band. I thought that maybe I could look into the sound of the Beatles and how deaf people can enjoy music today. 

I made  Mindmaps and Moodboards of my second documentary idea as well in my website blog then I used the same software in Powerpoint and I put in many images here of the Beatles gigs in Moodboard. Lastly I used Google Drive for Mindmaps.

Adobe After Effects

I chose to use the Alpha Matte title because I learned how to cut out off footage with another video playing in the background using Adobe After Effects. I enjoyed making this test footage editing the green video with a warm video in the cut out section. 

I really enjoyed learning this Scaling effect with Adobe After Effects. I chose to save this Wasabi Google image as it is my favourite restaurant and it was fun to make crazy edits. This is so real and with a compassion effect, and  I learned many differences of how to create animated effects. 

Censorship Reflective

Identify particular types of censorship. Are they good at what they do? How do they work? 

This is video footage of Hell's Kitchen Nightmares which has an an error with a person who has been blurred and cannot see his face clearly. This is called a Fixing Continuity Mistake as the director used old footage of a person who had already left the show due to an argument, but is seen again in the old footage. The director used the old footage to save filming again, but used fixing continuity mistake to blur out the persons face, because it would confuse the audience if the man was on the video again. 

Reflect on the Main Task. What options did you choose for the particular points of the scenario (Uncensored/Censored).

I decided to censor because if the audiences recognise this programme contents and area, they could be angry and see the street signs and decide to confront the person, so I thought it would be better to censor.  Number one I chose not to censor, when they start filming with the camera pan to show Bob the Builder's house and where he lives here as it doesn't show his house location or address.  

Do you believe you'll need to include censorship within your FMP? 

I think I will use  censorship in my interview video and to be aware not to show anyone's private house address, street signs, car plates and avoid filming any people or strangers in the road, without their consent to film as this could be an issue if uploading to YouTube. I may also edit out or censor any swearing in my interviews as could cause offense to people of younger age.