Bibliography

http://www.hockneypictures.com/home.php - David Hockney

http://www.npg.org.uk/beyond/nationalprogrammes.php - National Portrait Gallery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uENDqlbCy4 – Justin Bieber

http://uk.eonline.com/shows/kardashianshttp://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=keeping+up+with+the+kardashians&oq=keepin&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=serp.3.0.0l4.4348.8717.0.10123.6.5.0.1.1.0.142.500.4j1.5.0...0.0.NHHHLA08f8E&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ee2230d59b296982&biw=1366&bih=653 – Keeping up with Kardashians

www.youtube.com/watch?v=udnV0FMdwHE – The Vertical Collage

http://www.forgottenroots.net/ - Forgotten Roots

http://soundcloud.com/ - SoundCloud

http://videohive.net/ - VideoHive

Evaluation

By doing this confirmatory project I have learnt how to become more confident, Independent and have self awareness. In this process of work I had to develop my ideas throughout the whole 8weeks which was a good amount of time to produce good work. In my brief I was dreaming about what I want to do but I clearly did not have the final outcome vision in my head. In other terms I had too many ideas running across my mind which made my process run really slowly. Therefore I started off by doing a mindmap and looking at someone else’s mindmap to help me. Also the project which helped me was the pathway ‘Camera never lies’. It was all about Identity which relates to this project.

Firstly I tried to think about my final outcome and how I can reach that target but there was a bridge in my way which I couldn’t pass me being in the hospital which delayed me for a month for me to recover. However when I came back to the main point I thought to myself I should change my brief a bit to make people realise what it’s really about which is myself being in ‘Forgotten Roots’ and ‘how it changed me as a person’. So I then looked at documentaries of celebrities and the most enjoyable one was ‘Justin Bieber never say never’. An eye-catching documentary that makes you wants to see the documentary by it using big fonts. Forgotten Roots was the best idea to do my confirmatory on to show my lifetime experience. Doing a spider diagram was a great idea because I had so much in my mind which I needed to write on a piece of paper to make my mind feel lighter.

So the thing I changed from my brief was to show people it’s all about me in Forgotten Roots because it’ll be more engaging with the audience and they’ll get to know my experience on the show. So one day I was told to watch a moving image on YouTube to develop my ideas and to think outside the box with my experience. Watching ‘Out of sight and the vertical collage’ made sense on how to become more creative. I watched it so many times I can remember everything with watching it, to me it is a very effective piece of artwork. Both amazing clips were inspired by David Hockney. This is how I then started to climb up the ladder which led me to an artist which I thought I wouldn’t have to look at. Then I examined on David Hockney’s work and I actually admired his work and tried relating it to my work. The work which really inspired me was the work was Hockney used 9 different cameras to film the four seasons which was ‘AMAZING’. I think his work really made a difference to me and how he develops them.

I went to record some of these footages which are no longer in use and which I had wasted my time editing a bit. My main mistake was I filmed in portrait which I didn’t realise until I had put them up on the computer. Then I got really frustrated because I didn’t have much time to come up with something better at the time then I came up with interviews as the documentary is about me so I thought that be the best thing to do. So I set up the living room with Forgotten Roots posters to show I’m in a studio or somewhere to do with Forgotten Roots I then wrote my questions on a piece of paper which I need to be asked when I’m being interviewed. I had a clip of my past which I was dressed ‘ghetto’ in a street style and the other was my present which I presented myself in a formal style. As I was doing the present Interview I had difficulties answering because I found it hard to tell the truth whereas while I was doing my past Interview I found it extremely easy to lie and I had no mistakes while the camera person was filming me. I filmed the nature life in London to put in my footage it shows how beautiful some of the places are by looking at the colours. 

The software I used to do my edits was ‘Final cut pro’ because I knew that software is easier to use than any other software’s and I’m experienced it before. As I was doing the first draft of my documentary it was simple and not that effective for a media student. But I really enjoyed doing the sounds and the cuts on FCP. I loved using the levels because I think I did a great job playing about with it. So I then showed a teacher on what they think of it and they said it’s really simple and looks like a normal documentary. So that’s when I thought of looking at websites to help me upgrade me documentary and I found this website called ‘VideoHive’ which has some good templates for me to use and make my documentary more interesting. So I purchased the template online and downloaded to the computer so I straight away used that to help me but I found it difficult using after effects it was too complicated and had too many icons to look at but eventually I got the hang of using it. After effects is one software which you can produce good work but for me it’s very hard whereas I find FCP much easier.  My present was on after effects and the Past is on FCP to show the messy and bad side of me.

The other stuff which inspired me was the Productions I was part of I think they really showed me how it really works being in the media because they had to do the planning researching developing the ideas to produce this amazing reality show which is now successful. TV channels, Production crews, Settings etc. I have now got a good idea on how to produce my own product.

Making changes to my project at the last minute was frustrating because I spent ages understanding After Effects even after disliking it but the only thing that was not syncing was the time. The template was for 1min and my actually video was for 4mins and the after effects timings would not let me to change the timings and I had difficulties rendering. Therefore I completed my documentary in Final Cut Pro because it’s easier to render and I added the animations, which was done really quickly. So my first edit is my final outcome with extra hand drawn displays and everything just flows nicely. There reason why I added extra templates is to enhance my creativity and to show my framed present life.

Also I asked for a plinth to be made for me for my exhibition because I want to provide items which links to my reality show and culture. I want the audience to be able to use their 5senses when they see my work so I am going to put incense sticks, and Asian instrument ‘Tabla’, Bangladesh flag and use Forgotten roots poster.  My plinth in 580 high and 426 x 375 which tells me I can most probably fit everything on my plinth.

Overall time was a big issue in this whole project, if I was to be on time I would have been on track and tried producing something a bit more high standard and tried learning about after effects on my pathway study. But I can fix it by using time and learning my mistakes.

Hand-Drawn Display

This Hand drawn display I purchased it from VideoHive. I did not use this on After Effects as it was difficult for me to change the timings with my video so it sync's in. Therefore I imported this to Final Cut Pro on my first edit and used it there to show how my present life comes together and its framed. This hand drawn display enhances my creativity.

Screen Shots

After Effects the screen I have been working on for few days and trying to figure out the icons.

Final Cut Pro easier way to produce final outcomes and effectively.

Video Hive was the website I looked at to use it in my final outcome.

Creative Cow template a good website to give me ideas on how to create something unusual on After Effects.

Softwares

Final Cut Pro the best software I've used to help me out in my project and makes my life really easy. As you can see this is a screenshot of my movie on FCP which was my first edit.

Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors. The software allows users to log and transfer video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats.

Since the early 2000s (decade), Final Cut Pro has developed a large and expanding user base, mainly video hobbyists and independentfilmmakers. It had also made inroads with film and television editors who have traditionally used Avid Technology's Media Composer. According to a 2007 SCRI study, Final Cut Pro made up 49% of the US professional editing market, with Avid at 22%. A published survey in 2008 by the American Cinema Editors Guild placed their users at 21% FCP (and growing from previous surveys of this group), while all others were still on an Avid system of some kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Cut_Pro

Final Cut Pro transitions I thought of using in my work to create emphasis. 

After Effects template was hard for me it took me a while to understand the icons and how to render.
Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing (image adjustment, color correction etc.). After Effects can also be used as a basic non-linear editor and a media transcoder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_After_Effects

Past/Present Image

I was about to use this image on my start up on After Effects. But as After Effects was not working so I am not using it anymore but my exhibitions going to have A2 images on the board to show the past and present and how it relates to Forgotten Roots.

Questions for Documentary

Present:

What does Forgotten Roots mean?

Do you want to go back to your roots again?

Did it change you as a person?

Would you recommend it to anyone?

Whats your friend circle like?

What have you learnt?















 Past:

What does Forgotten Roots mean?
Do you think going back to your roots will change you as a person?
Whats your friend circle like?
If there is a reality TV show would you apply to it?
Do you want to go to your roots?

Be Artistic!

Famous Artist!!!

Some of his main work was drawn through the perspective lines which created a unique style such as the 4 season was produced in a artistic way which makes you want to see all his work. I looked at Hockneys work to give me ideas and how to be very creative. I'm not using his work to help me to draw, paint, sketch ETC. I just want to see the way he thinks and how he got his ideas. Hockney tries engaging with his audience therefore his work is different to other artist. This piece of work really got me into looking at more of his work. When we look at something its one big image but we hardly see the details of some stuff such as the grass its there but we don't really notice it. But having 9 different viewpoints clearly separates the frames and becomes one picture and you can see everything clearly which tells me having 9 viewpoints shows people see one thing in so many different view. So he put 9 cameras to show the different viewpoints of looking at one thing.

National Portrait Gallery influenced me a lot. As I was doing my pathway project we went to the NPG and I really enjoyed looking at artist that do portrait. By going there it helped me to do two projects because my pathway project portrayed Essex Girls and my Confirmatory study is all about me.
http://www.npg.org.uk/

The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes photographs andcaricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture. One of its best-known images is the Chandos portrait, the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare^[4] although there is some uncertainty about whether the painting actually is of the playwright.

Not all of the portraits are exceptional artistically, although there are self-portraits by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and other British artists of note. Some, such as the group portrait of the participants in the Somerset House Conference of 1604, are important historical documents in their own right. Often, the curiosity value is greater than the artistic worth of a work, as in the case of theanamorphic portrait of Edward VI by William Scrots, Patrick Branwell Brontë's painting of his sistersCharlotte, Emily and Anne, or a sculpture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in medieval costume. Portraits of living figures were allowed from 1969. In addition to its permanent galleries of historical portraits, the National Portrait Gallery exhibits a rapidly changing collection of contemporary work, stages exhibitions of portrait art by individual artists and hosts the annual BP Portrait Prize competition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London

Self Documetaries

Koffee with Karan / Connect with roots


These are the two shows which interviews artist on how they're progressing in terms of what they did to achieve the program. Koffee with Karan brings on Indian celebrities. The show airs on STAR one & STAR world from 9pm to 10pm IST and on MHz Networks television Channel 56 on 11 AM to 11:30 AM on Sundays.

The show is noted for its fresh and witty appeal, and it is very popular with the younger audiences. The show began to air in 2004 and was a huge success. The first episode aired on November 19, 2004 and the first season ended on May 27, 2005. The show had been put on hold due to Johar's commitment to his next directorial project, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006). After 4 years and various re-runs on Star World, Koffee with Karan returned on screen on November 7, 2010 for season 3.Until February 13, 15 episodes have been aired on Star World.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koffee_with_Karan
Connect with roots allows the audience to talk live with us and ask us questions about anything and everything this is allowing us and the audience to interact and engage together which makes it more special.

This Is It! Another documentary I've been watching to help me. A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London. This shows the time of his singing period and how he became successful. Everything he did left a mark on his audience by singing which tells me I can do something by leaving a mark as well by producing my documentary in a way which shows my side. 

Inspiration

Justin Bieber 'Never Say Never'
This is the documentary which has inspired me majorly because this shows his journey for music at a young age till now. The film follows the pop star Justin Bieber during 10 days counting down to what is considered his biggest performance, that of August 31, 2010 in Madison Square Garden, which sold out in 22 minutes. Bieber enjoyed singing from a young which has made him successful because that was his dream career which tells me I can complete something I enjoy which is my FMP it is to do with me and how it changed me as a person which shows my journey through Forgotten Roots. He showed young people that you can climb your stairs to what you want to do. 
As I am doing a Documentary on myself showing my past in black and white and my present which is a journey like Justin Bieber when he was young till now. By watching this documentary helped me to do mine on Final Cut Pro it boosted my confidence by being creative as he starts of by standing still in a studio and it then starts his journey from there you can clearly see Justin's side on how energetic he is behind the scenes which is similar to mine its about me, myself and I. My past is going to give the bad boring side and the present is showing the active and good side after coming back from Forgotten Roots as it has taught me a wide range of stuff which I didn't know and made me realise a lot coming back to the UK. Therefore I want to show my clear side and why I am doing this documentary.

Other Reality Shows

Keeping up with the Kardashians

Is an American reality television series. The series premiered on E! in October 2007. It has focused on the personal and professional lives of members of the Kardashian and Jenner family, headed by Kris Jenner and her husband, Bruce Jenner, with their children and close friends which includes Kardashian sisters (fashion models), Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, and Khloe Kardashian, and their younger brother Rob Kardashian, plus the Jenner sisters, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner (also models).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_with_the_Kardashians
This reality shows their lifestyle and what they get up. This relates to my reality show because it showed what we got up to in Bangladesh airing our personal behaviors on screen and how we communicate with people in the village. This show has an big impact on peoples lives in today's society e.g. girls will try to compare themselves to these celebrities and how they can change there lifestyle by dressing up or putting make up on or attitude issues etc which is bad because this causes problems within families. Whereas my show can educate people in the sense of encouraging teenagers mainly to stay in contact with there roots and how easy life is in the Europe.

 Kimberly, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian in a room gossiping as usual showing there girly side. This is showing the real side of girls in a room.
Whereas me and the five girls was gossiping about how we did in our challenges and whether we got injured.  







I'm a Celebrity GET ME OUT OF HERE is another reality show were contestants test there fears and how far they can go with their challenges. In this can we had plenty of challenges in my reality show. The only thing that is a bit different is we don't eat raw food such as kangaroo's eye etc. Going back to challenges we had to do a challenge which was called the 'War Challenge' we had to fight against the world in terms of protecting our fellow community in Bangladesh and protect the country from taking over by another country. So I think this was one of the biggest challenge it was touching at the same time. There show is filmed in a jungle which is similar to our because we filmed in the village where there's green around us all the time.

Big Brother is a group of people staying in one big house who is isolated from the outside world and continuously watched by cameras. In order to win the final cash prize, all the contestants have to do is survive periodic evictions and be the last one standing. Similar we have to compete with others to win the cash prize but in order to that our behavior and challenges should be in point. Big Brother is a successful show which has started of like a normal series then grew to make different types of series such as Celebrity Big Brother. On the other hand if my reality show is successful then it'll will grow to become something else as viewers will talk about it and it will go across countries which will then have contestants from different countries going to experience Bangladesh.  Both reality shows how people are and what issues they have with one another as both shows do personal interviews all the time to see your view on people which is naturally giving the audience an idea of how personal you can be.

Apprentice is a British reality show in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a £100,000-a-year job as an apprentice to the British business magnate Lord Sugar (previously known as "Sir Alan Sugar") in series one to six. Apprentice reminds me of one of the episode we had to do as our challenge. We went to the market in the village and had to pair up with one of the contestants. So our task was to sell food products and attract customers to buy my product and see how much profit we made at the end of the challenge.

'Can Fat Teens Hunt'

 Ten dangerously overweight teenagers embark on a perilous journey that could save their lives. This reality show relates to the reality show I've been on because this young teens went abroad to lose weight whereas I went to my motherland to learn the lifestyle of working class people. Participants from both reality show suffered at the beginning adjusting with the atmosphere people etc.

Danielle 'Can fat teens hunt' ("I wanna go home! I want my bed! I miss having a ceiling and my pink walls! I miss my light switches!") and Toslima 'Forgotten Roots ("Ami goro zaitam amr khani koi - which means I wna go home wheres my food"). Talking about food they took away 'UK Sainsbury' food away from us such as chocolates, crisp snacks overall.

This clearly proves how bratty children are and how they cannot cope in a different country. It's there way or no way. Therefore it is really good when children like them experience the life outside their comfort zone. By doing this gives them a boost in life and makes you really confident the whole concept of an reality show turns you into a difference whether its for the good or the bad and in my case and the other contestants that were in the same show as me think the same. Most of us were ignorant before we left this country and we turned out to be someone totally different in a good way.

Pradeep Bhattacherjee

Director of Forgotten Roots!

 He is best known for sceneries when he directs. Bhattacherjee took a year choosing his location wisely as he loves his locations. He does not choose a location by looking it but he digs down to see if there are history in certain places for us and the crew can learn something and not just have fun. As he was directing this whole reality show he always thinks outside the box to produce something unique and different and how the audience can engage with his show.

By looking at these images you can clearly tell how creative he is. He came up with ideas to decorate the hut with hay and use colourful paints and materials to decorate the outside and inside. 

As you can see the mud hut was originally rusty and they had to design it for the reality show to show the  beauty and art of Bangladesh. We stayed at a place called 'Lalakhal' near India which gave us the best view from where we was. All thanks to this wonderful Director giving us an opportunity to see the beauty of Bangladesh. The bottom picture has white design on the walls which is 'Alpona' very famous art used around Bangladesh and India mainly 'Rangoli' designed by powder and Alpona designed by paint this show the cultural side of Bangladesh. As a director he had to research and develop ideas the way I am doing it to help to produce my final outcome. His someone who really inspires me because I know him personally so it motivates me to follow him and use his ideas to direct or produce and outcome.

Delta Bay

is the production and distribution group who worked with us. They have produced so many programs which has been making the production really successful in the UK and Bangladesh it has been allowing them to grow in both countries. Educated people have been joining the group and gaining skills out it and it helps them and there employees to learn something new everyday. By them taking part in this reality show it has widen my knowledge to become more successful. They was mainly doing the financial side of this show which you have to do at the time of researching and developing ideas to see the budget. 

http://www.deltabay.co.uk/ 

We offer:::

• World Standard Television Productions
• International TV Format Rights (Bangladesh)
• Post Production
• Creative - Events - Productions / Bangladesh
• Research & assistance for International TV & Film Producers / Bangladesh
• First class content and research
• Specializes in large studio based shows
• National Participation
• Interactive shows
• Leadership in field of edutainment and studio based productions

PROMO

This Promo is giving the viewers a chance to see what we did in 3weeks in Bangladesh from the beginning to the end and how we had to live like the working class people in the Village.

TV Channel

ATN BANGLA
SKY 827

ATN Bangla is the biggest Bengali-speaking TV channel in the world, and the UK service is an ideal channel to promote your brand or service to the UK Bangladeshi community. ATN Bangla UK viewers are better informed about their cultural tradition and expansion in the UK. is the only Bangladeshi channel in the world to have received an Emmy Award for its contents, and ATN Bangla UK is also noted for its distinguished news coverage and showing of popular Dollywood feature films.s a 24-hour Bengali-language TV channel providing high quality entertainment for the whole family.

ATN Bangla UK is the most progressive Bengali language TV channel in the UK. The diversity of its programmes is unparalleled, covering 16 different genres of programming. provides national and international news, leading other Bangladeshi broadcasters in the UK and other parts of the world. ATN News is comprehensive, with unbiased coverage of local and global events 

http://www.atnbanglauk.tv/index-more.php

Press Conference

This was the first Press Conference held in London about the first ever Bangladeshi reality show with the 7 contestants from the UK. By doing this conference gave us and the Channel recognition. This has given us the chance to promote ourselves in different ways.

Changes Made: TWO SCREENS

'The Vertical Collage'
This person created a whole image and built in into 3 section in 9 different shots. He set up cameras high, medium and low to get his shot. He filmed separately to get one scene accurately so it flows together. He was inspired by David Hockney and the aim was to be projected vertically. Watching this gave me random ideas on my project by doing so many different things. The person who came up with this concept thought outside the box to attract his audience, So in this case I thought I want to do something which is going to be interesting and then thought of doing my film set into two screens showing my past and present. As in this footage it was filmed in black and white which gives a different effect and changes as in emotions to the footage. My footage will show two sides in different colors. Black and white shows the blunt and no feelings side and if you have something in color in gives you a happy feeling and it looks more engaging.

This was definitely inspired my David Hockney. This little clip shows everything being out of place but then you see everything is coming back together. Talking about Black and white again just draws you in to the footage. In this clip you can hear the birds singing, doors knocking etc. As they make noise it zooms in and cuts everything out and focuses on one thing which the audience get attracted to. David Hockney presents all his work very wisely. Looking at his work made me think that I can create my footage to an extent where my audience will talk about my work. I will try using a a bit of Hockney's style into my footage because by looking at his work and the two clips I put up tells me that you can produce a unique piece of art which is different to other peoples work. The colors used in Hockey's work makes each and every part stand out as he used bright colors. He uses different materials to his work and puts everything together as one image.

My Brief

I intend to do a documentary/trailer/short film about the reality show I was apart of which is called 'Forgotten Roots'. This reality show gave young people including me from the Europe to visit their roots and their motherland not just to view poverty at a glance but also to live poverty through their lives. By experiencing this reality show I am overwhelmed and privileged to own a mini trailer about my motherland and portray their lifestyle. I am now capable of talking about this reality show without researching on Bangladesh. When I stayed in Bangladesh for three weeks, I was given different task each day to feel how working class suffers everyday. I am very happy that they gave me this opportunity because it has change me as a person, which is now given a lot of ideas on how to do this confirmatory project, I am going to be wise where to choose my location, as I need footage of nature and good dry weather to relate to Bangladesh.

Brief

Reality Shows have become a common feature of modern media and are produced to the dozen.

Before you can say what? Another reality show? read on..

‘Forgotten Roots’ the new challenge based reality show takes 5 boys and 5 girls from their normal existence and throws them in the deep end of rural Bangladeshi life, where they’ll encounter things they’ve never seen!  The main purpose of this TV show is to introduce the young non-resident Bangladeshi youths with the Culture, Heritage, History and embark them on a journey to find their ‘Roots’.
Meet the first 10 contestants from the UK, USA and Spain and follow their journey, their emotions and struggle in finding their roots.  Watch the show on ATN Bangla and ATN Bangla UK and vote for your favourite contestants via SMS.

For next season - Could that person be you? To take a heart-rending and life changing challenge and live the life of an ordinary human being and be able to convey the reality of every emotion and every struggle? Forgotten Roots, will carefully select 10 committed youth to take on this challenge. To travel to Bangladesh and face the challenge to capture every moment and portray the reality to the world in a way that has never been done before.
Forgotten Roots will be a ground breaking window to the world as has never been seen before and you could be the torch-bearer to a better world of understanding. Watch the space for audition dates, venues and online application process in July 2012
Let's together prove that we too are 'Katir che o kati Bangali'" and walk away with a handsome 10,000 in prize money.

http://forgottenroots.net/drupal1/