Week 3 Update

Research:

This week I have pretty much dedicated myself to research. I want my videos to be full of well sourced information. I found an amazing resource in a site called the The First World War Centenary. It is a site run by the Imperial War Museum in Great Britain, to commemorate WWI. The site has podcasts with staged readings of first hand accounts of events of the war. One that has been particularly helpful for my first video has been the podcast The First Day on the Somme.  When reporting on historical events it is important to have first hand accounts, so this site was a great find. I have emailed the Imperial War Museum to see if I can use some of the audio from this podcast in my video.

The Imperial War Museum also has a lot of their on video resources. I have found hours of video from the Somme and the other areas with a large British presence during the war. This is a video of British mining activity. It is a dramatization for propaganda purposes, but it still explains the process of mining. At the 13 minute mark there is video of many mine explosions. The video was taken at the Hohenzollern Redoubt. 

Progress:

I am still working on my scrip for my first video. I expect to have the first video done next week. I am having some trouble figuring out what of my process to include in this blog, because I don't really want to put my script drafts and such out for the entire internet to see. I think this is just a journalistic hang up that I have, because publishing something that is not a 100% fully fact checked all ducks in a row final draft is not ok in most news media schools of thought. 

Upcoming issues:

I think when I move on to my other videos I will have more trouble finding video sources. The British records of the war are outstanding and I don't think I'm going to find similar resources form the French.

Also:

Podcast about Air warfare.

Podcast about animals in war.

Footage about pidgeons in WWI.

This is a trench club made of wire and nails. It came from the First World War Centenary podcast on Trench Raids.