Harry Cripp

Participant  So it began in the autumn when I was 9. I was playing, as we did in those days, in the woods. All was well, the sky was grey but that was nothing unusual and we did not think anything of it. There was a wooden claiming frame, a sort of fort, where we played every lunchbreak and today would be no different.  It then began to rain, we understood; that's what happened sometimes when the sky was grey, there was nothing we could do so we kept on playing, taking cover underneath the fort. However, before we had time to concoct games that we could play in the rain, a huge bell, like the bell of an old town crier, rang loud and slow. We knew what this meant.  We ran for our lives, darting between the trees, following all the other children running as fast as they can through the forest to the place we all knew we needed to be. Because we ran, it was not long before we arrived at the entrance to the woodland, and when we arrived we organised into neat orderly lines, n...

The documentary I have chosen to look at for this task is 'Louis Theroux, Law and Disorder in Johannesburg'. The social impact of this documentary is clear, it is a film made to educate about crime and its relation to poverty, specifically within Johannesburg.  The UN Sustainable Development Goal which underpins this documentary most prevalently is 'No Poverty.' It is a documentary which, on the surface, is about the crime and criminal elements which exist in the South African city of Johannesburg, but it makes very clear that the reason that all of these terrible things exist and thrive within the city of Johannesburg is as a result of the immense poverty which simultaneously exists in and around the city.  In terms of strategies that the documentary makes use of in order to portray the relationship between crime and poverty, the variety of people who are interviewed is remarkable. Almost every perspective is taken into account and given a significant amount of time to...

Q: "So, can you tell me what item you have chosen to talk about today?" A: "I've chosen my ring which was brought for me as a gift by my boyfriend. It's made of gold, or at least that's what he told me, and it has the sign of Sagittarius, which is my star sign." Q: "What can you tell me about the time you received this gift? Do you remember the occasion?" A: "Yeah, for sure. It was Christmas and I was opening my stocking, because I still do stockings with just my close family, and I thought I was done opening everything so I tossed my seemingly empty stocking to the side when my mum asked if there was anything still in the stocking. I said I didn't think there was, but I went over to check and inside was a small white box. I asked her who it was from and she said it was from my boyfriend, and I opened it and inside was a small gold ring with the centaur engraved onto the face. I became very emotional, it was the nicest gift I had ever ...

For this task, I visited The Science Museum in London. In this museum, they had a lot of information in their exhibits regarding the human body and human physiology in general. I felt this most closely related to the topic of my documentary. As the documentary that I plan to produce is centred around the subject's body and the extent to which he is willing to push the constraints of his body with regards to exercise and increasing his muscle mass significantly. It was interesting, therefore, to learn more about the human body, muscle composition within the human body and a bit about the limits of human endurance. I hope to further explore the limits of human exertion and endurance through the research involved with creating my documentary. I felt that the way The Science Museum dealt with its representations of human anatomy and physiology, by using real samples of human remains. This, I felt, was fairly disturbing. Therefore, it has made me acutely aware of the importance of sensi...