Sonia's Television Blog

Writing a script is what I am not a fan of, I feel like I will struggle with writing. I am not a great writing, but with good feedback and different versions I'm sure to get it right. I am still not 100% of what kind of structure I want to go with since I have never written a documentary script myself, I've always been with groups who would help me through the process - since I am multi-skilling on this project it isn't going to be too easy. This is my current structure and rough layout of what I am planning to go with, it isn't great at all - I feel as this structure is not correct for a documentary. I will also need to add a lot more material and detail in.

1. COMMUNITY LOCATION / TRAVEL Confirmed - Benchen Karma Kamtsang Centre, Grabnik 4 96-313 Jaktorow, Poland - 58 min travel from the airport to the community center. - To be picked up by Izabella Polkowaska in a car, community centre employee. - Confirmed stay in the C building at the community for the full stay 2. FLIGHTS To be confirmed - From London Stansted to Warsaw Modlin 11 th of February at 08:55am until the 14 th of February at 21:40pm. - £12.43 each way - £24.86 per person for flights. - 20kg check in bag extra £15.00 per flight for Camera Equipment, total for £30.00 for return flights 3. CAR RENTAL To be confirmed - This might be needed or might not. - Pick up from the Modlin Airport, 11/02/2019-14/02/2019 - Price for the 4 days’ hire is £31.72 total

I started to plan my marketing and branding for 'Life in Kamtsang' I wanted to follow in the footsteps of the 'Solar Films' logo. It is simple and keeps a sort of mystery to it, making you wonder what this is abaout? I added the 'Prime Video' logo since I have decided that my platform will be 'Amazon Prime Video' there are a lot of personal / autobiographica l doccumentaries located on that platform such as 'Catfish' and 'Notorious'. I made this poster on Photoshop just like the 'Solar Films' logo. I first began with getting brush templates to create the paint as well as the circles. I also added a border as well as shadowing for the text to make it stand out. I was thinking of creating a poster with 'Buddha' on it but that could be too sensative to the public and viewers. I was also thinking of creating a poster that would have a release date but I decided to leave that out, I might end up adding a date to other marketi...

I have concluded a production name / branding and mission statment for my pre-production package. Name - Solar Films Mission Statment - To give insights on unpopular topics. The aim of my documentary is to dive deep into how the Buddhist Benchen Karma Kamtsang community had an impact on my personal life as well as being located in such a traditional conservative country. I think the logo is very interesting and give me a video of 'old film' due to its dark grey colours. I created this on photoshop - it is simple but that is exactly what I was going for, at the begining of my project I was thinking of creating an animation with this logo. I firsty created 3 layers to begin the logo, I used different brush templates and played around with the text to keep it visible - I also used 'Drop Shadow' to make the writing look more visible. To make this logo even better and developed I will be hopefully using illustrator to improve it further, as well as using After Ef...

1. IZABELLA POLKOWSKA - Works at Benchen Karma Kamstang. - Fathers ex-partner. - Originally from Warszawa. - Practices teachings and seminars. - Has been living at Benchen Karma Kamtsang for 13 years. - A lot of experience of the development. 2. LAMA RINCHEN  - Owner of Benchen Karma Kamstang Grabnik. - Has been at the community since the beginning. - In charge of teachings and seminars. - He is a fully qualified 'Lama' a spiritual master. - Has worked on the property development. - Personal history with Lama Rinchen. 3. GRAZYNA GINTOWT-DZIEWALTOWSKA - Has lived at the community for over 7 years. - Very important individual due to completing course to become a Lama. - Lived in the drupkand for 3 years to complete Lama course. - Has built her own home at the community grounds with her partner. 4. MAJA SOBIESKA - Crew - CONFIRMED - Film/TV Graduate from the university of Surrey. - 23 ye...

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Life in Kamstang Pitch Powerpoint I decided to open up my pitch presentation with an introduction to the community center that I grew up in. I wanted to give everyone an idea of exactly what it is and how it came about, escpecially since everyone thought that I was a Buddhist myself; which is actually incorrect. My main idea for the doccumentary was to actually explore the reasons into why 'Benchen Karma Kamtsang' exists in the capital of Poland, a very conservative country. I then came to a realisation after some feedback that this wouldn't be as instresting as diving deep into how it influenced my own life and touch up on how the community is in the capital of Poland - but mainly focus on my story and my split family religion. I have to start digging deep for some old footage and photos of when I had been at the community and what I did exactly. The interesting fact about this whole doccumentary is that my father is a Buddhist and the rest of my family is strongly...

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