Music

Here are some samples of some of the music we have been thinking about using for our documentary. As our documentary deals with conspiracy theories such as Julian Assange's sexual assault charges being created in order to silence him, we have chosen a dark and intense theme for our documentary. We felt that this would help to create drama and suspense for our audience.

Examples of this can be found by following the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iid7uu6MNt8


'FarhanK501' will be our main source of music as, throughout all of his youtube pieces, he uses a dark theme of music that we feel will engage our viewer.

News Reports

We wanted to make our documentary engaging for the audience and decided that news montages would be a good way to do this. The Wikileaks website has recently had a lot of involvement in many news stories so this footage has not been hard to find. Furthermore, we have added some reports from American news channels that imply that Julian Assange should be put to death. This will show our audience the major effect of the Wikileaks news story and the serious implications that it has had for some governments in a dramatic and engaging way.

This news montage can be found below:

London Interviews

Here are some of the interviews with passers by in London:

Kenneth Clarke

As part of our documentary we wanted to interview a well known politician to make our documentary more engaging and interesting for the audience. We have managed to get an interview with Kenneth Clarke, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice during one of his political surgeries. We have agreed to use the interview as part of our A Level coursework only and therefore are unable to upload it to youtube.



Kenneth Clarke has been in politics for just over 40 years and has held the following roles during his time:

MP for Rushcliffe, 1970 -
PPS to the Solicitor-General, January 1971 - April 1972
Assistant Government Whip, April 1972 - February 1974
Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, January 1974 - February 1974
Opposition Social Security Front Bench Spokesman, June 1974 - November 1976
Opposition Industry Spokesman, November 1976 - May 1979
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport, May 1979 - March 1982
Minister for Health, March 1982 - September 1985
Entered Cabinet as Paymaster General and Minister for Employment, September 1985 - June 1987
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for Trade & Industry, June 1987 - July 1988
Secretary of State for Health, July 1988 - November 1990
Secretary of State for Education and Science, November 1990 - April 1992
Home Secretary, April 1992 - May 1993
Chancellor of the Exchequer, May 1993 - May 1997
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, January 2009 - May 2010
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, May 2010

We thought that Kenneth Clarke was a good choice for the politician we would use in our documentary as he has had a lot of experience within the government and currently specialises in the justice system. This would allow us to ask questions about Julian Assange's sexual assault charges as well as the availability of the internet in prisons.

London

George, Calum and myself went to London to film the opening shots and fill shots of our documentary. We filmed outside Parliament and on South bank with the Houses of Parliament in the background. We felt that this linked well to the theme of governments that is predominant in our documentary.



I was in front of the camera and asked passers by questions about the Wikileaks news story. These questions included:

What do you know about the Wikileaks news story?
What do you know about the sexual assault charges that Julian Assange faces?
Do you agree with these charges or do you think governments may be making these up to keep Julian silenced?
Do you think the Wikileaks news story shows that the government has lost control?
What effect do you think these leaks have had?

Calum and George filmed these questions being asked. George filmed the main interview whilst Calum used another camera to film some fill shots such as long shots and close ups of hands.



After the interviews, we filmed the opening of our documentary. The script for this part of the documentary can be found below:

With over 1 billion people exposed to the internet world wide and a massive 79% of all websites being created by the public, it is no wonder that governments' control over the world wide web has been questioned.
Take a look at one of the most prominent stories in the news today; with over 600 000 followers on twitter, 250 000 leaked cables and 40 million unique hits a month, it is no wonder that Wikileaks has shaken the foundations of governments' world wide. But have these recent breaches finally caused governments to loose control over the internet and its users?

Whilst filming this section of the documentary, Alistair Darling walked past us. As our documentary was about governments, we took the opportunity to try to ask him some questions. Unfortunately, Darling was not willing to give us an interview and we were unable to film the encounter.

Wikileaks Documentary

This week, a Wikileaks documentary was shown on BBC's Panorama. I watched this documentary in order to see some of the techniques that had been used for a documentary using the same topic as ours.

The link to this documentary can be seen below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yl1ng/Panorama_WikiLeaks_The_Secret_Story/

Storyboard for our documentary

Here is the storyboard for our documentary: