The document outlines the steps one would take on the path to becoming a documentary filmmaker or product advertiser, including developing an idea, researching the topic, creating a proposal and final product, obtaining feedback, and evaluating the process. It also lists relevant skills and courses that could be taken, such as using Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and attending a foundational documentary filmmaking course to learn how to develop an idea, film footage, edit, and shape a story. The path may include creating logos, researching the right products to advertise, or making a documentary.

3. What is expected in the path way
• Proposal
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• What are your initial ideas?
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• What are your strengths?
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• What are your weaknesses? (Choose two)
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• Explain what you are going to do to improve them.
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• Research (Historical context, Individuals, Interviews, Questionnaires)
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• Process Work (Day to day Diary, Feedback from various people, showing the whole process of what you are doing)
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• Final Product (Show reel, Trailer of a Film, Pre Production Pack)
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• Evaluation
• (Answering the questions from your proposal, did this help me towards my career, how did the whole project go)
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• Bibliography (Really important, Books, Videos, Blogs and etc)

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5. • Photoshop
• Final cut pro
• Dreamweaver
• Camera technique

6. Many paths
The paths ahead

7. Saturday film school

8. How To Make Great Documentary
• This foundation course in documentary film-making
will give you the skills required to:
• Develop a distinctive documentary idea
• Test its effectiveness as an engaging film
• Decide the appropriate way to film it
• Find the right people to appear
• Choose the best things to film
• Shoot and edit your film in the most effective way
• Pick the right music or sound
• Shape your finished film into a story that works
dramatically and emotionally.

9. 5 week course
• 27th February……….

11. Two hour course
• Tour of Apple Logic Pro 9
• Ultrabeat drum machine
• The principles of sequencing
• Building a beat in your genre
• Adding textures using Apple Loops
• Putting music to your beat
• MIDI note editing
• Arranging your masterpiece
• Mixdown and burn to CD

12. Watch this space…..
• Booked Saturday 2nd ………

13. Wing concept ………for logo

14. Logo Design

15. Researching the right product

17. Advanced mineral water pot

18. Still

19. Video

20. On this path I have two options before me
• 1) an advert for my own product
• 2) Documentary maker
• With time & dedication