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My mentor meetings helped me to create attainable targets for my documentary through many different ways including, advice on research, help contacting PC Hawkett and helping me ensure I could manage my time effectively. With regards to giving me advice on my research, the meetings helped me with looking at similar types of documentaries and how they created a documentary to fit the target audience and looking at ways that I could use these techniques in my work. For example, one way that I used a technique discussed in a mentor meeting was the use of black boarders in the framing of PC Hawkett. Furthermore, this meant that my documentary would appeal to a more arty target audience, as I had intended. When trying to organise filming PC Hawkett for the documentary, I spoke to my teacher as I knew that PC Hawkett had previously worked with the school to do documentaries. My teacher helped me to form an e-mail to send to PC Hawkett including why I wanted to film him and that the footage would be seen by no one other than the examiner and my classmates. This helped me be confident that I could contact PC Hawkett with the correct information and that I could get him to be in my documentary as I made him aware of all the questions I would ask and what the documentary was about. Moreover, my mentor meetings helped me with managing my time effectively as each time I had a meeting we would set achievable target that I could do by the next meeting we had. This then enabled me to break down the work load into smaller chunks and ensure that I had done all of my work. Lastly, the mentor meetings helped me with assessing footage whilst I was in the editing process to ensure that I successfully got my intentions across and that I made the documentary appealing to my target audience as much as I could. This included advice on different instrumentals, shot types and people to interview in my documentary. 

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