Creative Media Production and

Technology
WWII through the eyes of the kids

Final Deadline: Friday 10th June 20222

Competition

The competition has been running for 2 years, it seeks to showcase

daring, unique and entertaining independent films, in a week long
festival. They want to support filmmakers working outside of the
established industry. 

Submission Rules:

 Has to be in English or with English subtitles

 Agree to them to use parts of the film for promotional use
 Entry fees are non-refundable
 The film must be completed after January 2020
 Feature films must run over 40 minutes
 Short films must be less than 40 minutes
 If selected, your exhibition copy is required by 30th July
2022
 It is the participant's responsibility to ensure the rights of
their films are cleared for the the festival

Late Deadline – June 30, 2022

For £30
 Idea

There are many documentaries out there about the war, but they are all mainly about the soldiers, the
stories of them fighting, or a big event that happened like Dunkirk. Or is about stories that should be
told about heroes that saved Jews or something similar. I want to do a production about the kids
during the war, what was like for kids at the time, rations, growing up among the rubble, in the air
raid shelters/underground, school. I will interview people that are in their 80s and 90s that remember
the war, I know lots of people that lived through the war, I will get people that might remember the
end of the war too because it will be a range like kids being born during the war. I will go a little bit
further from the end of the war to maybe, about how the rations continued afterwards as many people
think that it just ended straight after the war ended which is not the case. I will interview people in
their homes, in the living room, dining rooms, kitchens as they were kids so would be growing up in
the house so would be a perfect place to interview them. For B-roll I will find archive footage, photos
from the people I am interviewing, and filming museums with air raid shelters and houses at the time
which I can film. This will be good for going back in time without finding archive footage. I will add
sounds over the top like bombing and an air raid siren to make it more interesting for the audience to
watch, for music I will find music that is appropriate for the war era that is also copyright free. The
start of the production might start by Churchill saying Britain declare war on Germany over the radio
then have air raid sirens going over with planes going over with bombing sound, with that fading to
one of the interviews and then cutting to each one that was already born at that time. While the
production goes on new faces will pop up when they first remember something, so it makes it more
interesting as you have a new face sometimes popping up. Throughout the documentary many
Graphics will popup showing where they lived on a map if they evacuated during the war where
bombs went off, the maps will be shows as if they were of their time as well in black and white no
colour to them with the map looking like it was hand drawn.
Date Plan of Action Evaluation
Production
April Schedule
11th April (Monday) Working

12th April (Tuesday) Research Weekly Blog

13th April (Wednesday) Working

14th April (Thursday) Research Weekly Blog

15th April (Friday) Working

16th April (Saturday) Working

17th April (Sunday) Research Weekly Blog

18th April (Monday) Working

19th April (Tuesday) Away

20th April (Wednesday) Away

21st April (Thursday) Away

22nd April (Friday) Research Research Evaluation/Weekly

Blog
23rd April (Saturday) Working

24th April (Sunday) Research Research Evaluation

25th April (Monday) Ideas Planning Evaluation

26th April (Tuesday) Ideas Planning Evaluation

27th April (Wednesday) Ideas Planning Evaluation

28th April (Thursday) Who to interview Planning Evaluation

29th April (Friday) Confirmation Planning Evaluation/Weekly

Blog
30th April (Saturday) Working
May
1st May (Sunday) Script Planning Evaluation

2nd May (Monday) Script Planning Evaluation

3rd May (Tuesday) Interviewee Profiles Planning Evaluation

4th May (Wednesday) Interviewee Profiles Planning Evaluation

5th May (Thursday) Interviewee Profiles Planning Evaluation

6th May (Friday) Location Recce Planning Evaluation/Weekly

Blog
7th May (Saturday) Working

8th May (Sunday) Location Recce Planning Evaluation

9th May (Monday) Finish Planning Planning Evaluation

10th May (Tuesday) Finish Planning Planning Evaluation

11th May (Wednesday) Finish Planning Planning Evaluation

12th May (Thursday) Filming (A-roll) Production Evaluation

13th May (Friday) Filming (A-roll)/(B-roll) Production

Evaluation/Weekly Blog
14th May (Saturday) Working

15th May (Sunday) Filming (A-roll) Production Evaluation

16th May (Monday) Filming (A-roll)/(B-roll) Production Evaluation

17th May (Tuesday) Filming (B-roll) Production Evaluation

18th May (Wednesday) Look at B-roll Production

Evaluation/Weekly Blog
19th May (Thursday) Scotland Trip

20th May (Friday) Scotland Trip

21st May (Saturday) Scotland Trip

22nd May (Sunday) Scotland Trip

23rd May (Monday) Re shoot B-roll Production Evaluation

24th May (Tuesday) Filming (B-roll) Production Evaluation

25th May (Wednesday) Filming (B-roll) Production Evaluation

26th May (Thursday) Re shoots Production Evaluation
27th May (Friday) Start editing Weekly Blog

28th May (Saturday) Editing Weekly Blog

29th May (Sunday) Editing Weekly Blog

30th May (Monday) Drive

31st May (Tuesday) Filming (B-roll) Production Evaluation

June
1st June (Wednesday) Re-shoots (B-roll) Weekly Blog

2nd June (Thursday) Day Off

3rd June (Friday) Day Off

4th June (Saturday) Working

5th June (Sunday) Editing Weekly Blog

6th June (Monday) Editing Weekly Blog

7th June (Tuesday) Find B-roll/Editing Weekly Blog

8th June (Wednesday) Finish Editing Weekly Blog

9th June (Thursday) Finish Weekly Blog

editing/Upload/Evaluation
10th June (Friday) Evaluation/finish Weekly Blog
everything/publish
Rules set out by College

 
 You will work on the re-submissions after each section and NOT at the end. As soon
as a section is completed, there will be no going back to it.
 
 For you to gain the highest grade possible you will be required to work outside your

12 lessons and be in on Thursdays.

 Resubmissions for each section may be done on Thursdays

 Group work is permitted but only in groups no larger than 2 (with extra rules for
groups)

 you are marked on your professionalism so late submissionswill go against

your grade

 You will sign ‘hand in’ forms so we can track who has kept to each deadline

 You will be required to sign a letter of authenticity (to state all work is your own)

 There can be no extensions

Target Audience
The target audience are 14+ because around that age they start getting into the war and are
around that time they start learning more about the war in secondary school. I don’t believe
there is a set age when the audience ends because war is such a big part, because all age ranges
upwards are obsessed with it because all the major countries were in the war, and even people
who went through the war have books about the war and love films about it. Soldiers even like
films about their experiences as it is a time to remember. So doesn’t have an age limit as all
ages up like a nice story about the war as even though it wasn’t that long ago it feels ages ago
and haven’t seen anything quite like it so like to know what it was like.

Legal and Ethical issues

The documentary draws attention to war, but through the eyes of kids so drawing on social lives
of them, school, rations, playing.
Meeting deadlines will be kept by doing work at home to keep on top of everything, meaning
that deadlines are met and that I will not be needed to be hassled by teachers to do the work as
it will be done so will only be told how to improve meaning less to work.
For my production I will make sure I don’t copy any work that has already been done, I will find
copyright free music I can use, copyright graphics that I might have to use, and found B-roll I will
find will be copyright free by finding ones that say or by asking a museum to get/film a copy of
some of their films they have on the children of the war. This means I can not be copyrighted on
anything I have put into the production so I will be copy right free