"BBQ-ing Britain"

Synopsis “BBQ'ing Britain” is the title of a cooking program as part of a university degree piece. It will be, for now, one episode a part of a fictional show. Due to the time restraints of the project brief, we can only make one episode. Each episode will be longer than 15 minutes, the purpose of which is to show that BBQ-ing can be easy and quick, but still produce amazing results. The show will follow a chef travelling around...

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Discovery progress

All ORIGINAL pieces of text, images, sketches, film clips or other media, automatically belongs to the copyright holder; Tom-Daniel Laugerud (unless otherwise stated) _____ I have finally started shooting for the Discovery infomercial  A few days ago I was at Age Exchange, which is a local charity cafè where they host weekly get-togethers for senior citizens. Here they can chat, play bingo, have a cuppa and more. I put together some RUSHES from the shoot. Keep in mind none of the shots have been colourcorrected and the external...

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CV done - Download now

All ORIGINAL pieces of text, images, sketches, film clips or other media, automatically belongs to the copyright holder; Tom-Daniel Laugerud (unless otherwise stated) ___ You can download my finished CV here (compressed version, suitable for viewing on screen and basic print). Like I said in the previous post, I wanted to tidy up the CV, make it more exciting and compress it down to one pa...

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CV

All ORIGINAL pieces of text, images, sketches, film clips or other media, automatically belongs to the copyright holder; Tom-Daniel Laugerud (unless otherwise stated) --- I've decided to design my CV. Yes, that's right; design my CV. Normally people have the standard black & white thing, with Curriculum Vitae in bold or italic on the top. If you're lucky you might even see a bold, italic and underlined headline. Everyone has got...

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Dissertation done

Dissertation is now done and dusted! "Topic outlineThis dissertation will examine how a film can be classed as a documentary and what it is perceived to be. The first chapter will aim to define the documentary genre. The second chapter will look at how this can be applies to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. The third chapter will look at how the film is received and will end in a discussion, connecting all three chapters. Bill Nichols’s Introduction to Documentary and Representing Reality will be essential to this dissertation.The interest...

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Discovery charity infomercial newsletter

Because I broke my leg, I had to cancel the shoot for both my films and I can't schedule new specific dates since I can't start before I've got the green light from my physiotherapist. Still, I have done some planning. I have sent out a newsletter to all the volunteers for my Discovery film. Newsletter: About My name is Tom-Daniel Laugerud and I’m a film student at Swansea Metropolitan. Some of you might know me from the Discovery projects “Circus eruption” and “Kids away”. As part of my degree, I have to produce two films, one external and...

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More dissertation

Leg update: Leg improving, but still on bed-rest. As mentioned before, my main focus in February has been on my dissertation (bachelor paper). Currently I'm in the process researching for my dissertation, Fahrenheit 9/11 - True documentary or just manipulation. Basically I'm analyzing Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and trying to categorize it according to Bill Nichols documentary theory. Sorry about the short pos...

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