Hospital Filming

Today I had a phone call from the hospital agreeing to allow us film someone speaking about MS. I have arranged Monday 26th April after the clinic ends and the filming will start at 15.30.

ms metting map

hospital letter

This is a copy of the main body of text which I sent to the hospital along with a covering letter from the college.


Dear ......,

I am writing on behalf of myself and two other students at Sussex Downs College. We are currently producing a documentary about MS and would like to speak to a member of your staff about it.

We are making the documentary as part of our Media Production course and need to make it as to near professional standards as possible. We decided on the subject as............

We have decided on representing the affects of MS on someone’s lifestyle and have arranged to go to the local MS group to speak to the members and staff.

We would also like someone from the medical profession to speak to us about what MS is and the affects of MS. This would be done as a short interview and it would not take very long. We thought it would take no longer than ten minutes with the person.

I fully understand if this is not possible and we would not film anywhere else accept with the person speaking. The final film will only be shown on college grounds and you could preview an edit if needed and of course you would receive copies.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and look forward to hearing from you. My contact details are.........
Yours Sincerely

Questions for the Chairman of the ms group

What is the Ms Group?
How did the group start?
Who is it funded by?

What is you Role?
How do you Help people?
How much time and effort do you put in?
What do you get from it?

question for vox pops

We decided to ask two vox pop questions to the suffers of ms at the ms group.

The questions are.

How has MS Affected you life style?

How has the MS group helped you?

We also thought about the shot for this and we thought a good shot might be a slow pan of the ms group with the sound of the responses being played.

lesson update

Today we discussed what interviews we wanted to get for the documentary which are Bernard (ms group chairman), a suffer and a career.

We also decided that it would be good to get someone from the medial profession to speak about MS and the affects. So we went over to the hospital to speak to someone and get some contact details to whom to send a letter to.

Documentary Release Form

Documentary Release Form

Media production, Sussex Downs College, Eastbourne

Name and address of Contributor:

Date:

The Society (working title)

I agree to the inclusion of my contribution in this documentary, the nature of which has been explained to me. I understand that my contribution will be edited and there is no guarantee that my contribution will appear in the final film. I agree that my contribution may be used to publicise the documentary. I understand that the film will only be shown in college grounds.

My contribution has, to the best of my knowledge, been truthful and honest. I have not deliberately sought to conceal any relevant facts from the makers of this film.

Signed ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­