Crime Rate in South Africa

The graph shows that the rate of robbery went up after the reversal of apartheid.
http://www.boxofficefootball.com/is-the-crime-rate-in-south-africa-putting-off-fans/

With a multitude of tourists heading to South Africa for the World Cup, a question hangs on many lips: how dangerous is the country?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8668615.stm

filming update

Filming of Skyla fundraising outside Tesco went well on the 12th Nov, with the exception of a member of staff being rude thinking I wasn't allowed to be there, however this was quickly resolved, and I manged to get some nice shots of Rita and the girls all together fundraising, aswel as some close ups of Skyla.. The 15th Nov we were filming our interview with Renee, our expert, in Kingscross at SOAS university, this went very well, although I am concerned about the edit, as Renee talks very fast and this could make it difficult went cutting to different sync.. So far this project has been very demanding, but it is going well, we have a reconstruction left to film, which we will be looking at doing this week. I hope the edit wont be too difficult.

Production

Just shot some beautiful-looking sequences of Rita cooking in the kitchen, Skyla doing her homework plus an interview with her about how she feels about leaving South Africa and coming to the UK, she was natural in front of the camera. We also got some shots of Rita holding the baby, Peyton, and making her giggle. Then we went outside and took some shots through the window watching them all eat dinner, some slightly out of focus in all different frame sizes. We then took various shots of Rita feeding Peyton.

Tomorrow morning we plan on shooting them again, getting ready for school, ie. packing lunchboxes, putting on coats and shoes, walking out of the front door and leaving the frame. Then we will be off the London to shoot the interview with Renee.

update

Last night's shoot went well, with the exception of some sound issues because of the children, which meant occasionally re taking.. All of us worked together well, with Hennie on sound and Lauren on camera, and myself asking questions and keeping time logs. This Sat I am filming the oldest daughter fundraising for cancer, as part of one of our cuttaway sequences. I am looking forward to this.  Renee our expert is going to confirm on Monday 14th Nov whether or not she can do the interview on the 15th Nov.. She is still happy to the interview we just need her to confirm the date, so that we can inform the university she works at which day we will be arriving, as they have given us permission to film on the condition we let them know what day we are coming. So far everything seems to be coming together..

Hazzard Assessment

I have completed the hazard assessment for each of the locations we want to film at. There was not alot of risk involved which I could think of apart from people triping over wires and I have put this under control by making sure someone is cable bashing at all times.

I have also been through the script and made the few little changes that Helen asked for to make it more presentable and understandable.

Shooting Schedule

Today we looked through our script and came up with a very in depth shooting schedule so we know exactly what we are shooting, where and when. We printed all of the schedules out and then we gave Rita a call to confirm dates. We have confirmed with her to shoot the evening sequences, the home GVs and her and Ari's interview on Wednesday 9th November at 6:30pm onwards. On Saturday 12th we will shoot Skyla doing fundraising outside Tesco and on Tuesday 15th we will be shooting Rita and the children's early morning school day routine.

Helen had a look at what we had come up with and she liked what we had done, she also gave us feed back on our script and there are a few little things we need to change but nothing to major. We have been given the go ahead to film when we need to as Helen is pleased with our script and preparation.

Tonight I will edit the little bits in the script we need to and I will also make sure I complete a risk assessment for Rita and Ari's house so that we are already to film on Wednesday.

Questions for Renee

The script is coming together, I've put in some commentary, what questions we may ask Renee and what we expect the answers to be, and Rita and Ari's story. Tomorrow, we're going to see Rita to get her side of the story so we can fill in the gaps in the script. The research into visuals that Hennie came up with have been added to the script and I've also thought about some more visuals we're going to see, but they need more development.

We then need to get our filming dates together for the interviews and sequences and possibly recce the location for Renee beforehand to see what we can use as a background; perhaps a projected image behind her. 

Here are some of the questions Jane and I went through in the week, putting them into the script and using Hennie's research, in keeping with what answers we expect to fit in with the story:

• What was apartheid?
• How did the apartheid affect South Africa? Economy? People?
• When was apartheid abolished?
• What is it like for South African's now? Economy?
• Was there an increase in crime? How has this affected South Africans?
• How has the rate of immigration to the UK changed? And what is the cause of this?