Change of plan

We have decided to change the topic of our documentary. Throughout the past few weeks, the groups ideas have been clashing and we haven't been happy with the initial idea of our global warming topic. As expressed previously, we thought the topic was a little too generic and not a strong enough idea for us to produce an interesting documentary on. So we started to brainstorm a collection of ideas again. We had an idea of expoliting a norm, and making a funny but also addressing an issue sort of theme in the documentary. We discussed the possibility of a documentary on 'Phobias', listing people we knew who had phobias and possibly taking time out to see them. We wrote out a rough plan of what the documentary could entail:



However, after further conversation, we scrapped this idea as we didn't have enough content for it. Zoe wanted to push forward her idea of Education and looking at the University prices inflating. Whereas Myself and Calum disliked the idea and maybe a split in the group was looming. After a couple of hours discussing, we decided to stick as a group as a split was not necessary and we had come up with an idea we all were pretty excited about.

We wanted to produce a documentary on something which was current in the news, a big story, and one which could address a wide range of audiences. The topic we chose was the Governments lack of control on the internet, and the mainstream story that is the leaking of government classified documents, WikiLeaks.

We researched the story which was ringing around the news that Julian Assange had leaked thousands of government documents of United States Embassy cables. Nothing like this had been done before and it was a very much dominant news story which threatened a big part of our society. The leaking of cables allowed anyone in the world to view this confidential files which belonged to one of the most powerful nations in the world. This has led onto several other stories, of further hackers causing chaos around the internet, effecting banking websites. Julian Assange is now also fighting the case against his sexual crimes in Sweden, where he is fighting a case against extradition to Sweden. Currently safe in England he opposes the chance of getting charged in Sweden and potential seen moving to United States from Sweden where he would face heavier charges. The story was in no doubt an interesting one, and could support our view that the government's crisis on the control over the internet.

In evaluaion, our plan was to produce a documentary about the governments control over the internet, using the Wikileaks story as our example of what threat the internet poses. Our plan was:

- Start our storyboard
- Timeline
- Plan locations
- Compose scripts
- Interview members of public
- Gather archive footage of news stories
- Politicians view, getting an interview with MP

Here is our Vlog which evaluates the situation of the change of plan and our own views: