PAIN OF SURGERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ive had my opperation today and all i can say is im in a hell of a lot of pain. i managed to count to 13 before i fell asleep with the anastetic!!! me my mum my dad my girlfriend sam and my sis went up to great ormond for the opperation. at the end of it i couldnt tilt my head up and i was in quite a bit of pain... i will b bak at skool hopefully on monday...ill post up a picture soon because i managed to have a surgeon take photos of me in theatre..

No MoRe TrAcKy ScAr!!!

tomorrow, Wednesday 28th Feb i will be going to Great ormond street hospital to have surgery on my neck....as you guys have probably seen, i have got a circular shaped scar on my throat where i had a tracheostomy in. i found that my scar is not very attractive and id rather it not be there. so with a talk with a doctor in Great ormond street i was told i could have the scar removed.

HOW WILL THEY REMOVE MY SCAR??
basically what they will do is sedate me under general Anaesthetic (where i am asleep fully) and cut a circle around my scar and remove that peice of tissue, i will be left with a hole in my neck by now... then they will take the top and the bottom of the circle and stitch them together so that i will be left with a small horizontal scar that would hopefully fade in the future...i will try my best to record the proceedure but i got a feeling they will not let me...wish me luck!!

MoThErLy LoVe

heres a picture of me in my first week of being on a life support machine with my mother cuddling me. the two red pipes you can see dissapearing into my neck are the ECMO tubes, they are pumping oxygenated blood into my body. as you could imagine, this period of time was scare for all who saw me in this state, especially my mum. she had to have the news given to her that i only had 10% chance to live. she stayed with me day in day out everyday of my stay in hospital for all 7 weeks just so she could be by my side to comfort me. she told me it was the hardest thing to do just looking at me with machines and wires and tubes all over my body and the sound the machines kept making. it also upset her that she had to wear a facial mask when she came near me just incase what i had was contageous...my mum was so brave through the 7 weeks.

Progress report

i have made more progress this week. i went for a ultrasound checkup on friday and they basically put jelly on my neck and used the same machinery that is used when lookin for a baby in the womb, the nurse told me they basically needed to check my arteries in my neck to make sure that they healed propperly after i was rished to surgery as my artary began to leak whilst i was in hospital in critical care, to my amazment she also had heard about me last year in hospital!!! she gave me the all clear and said it looks perfect.o yea and i also filmed that day and got some good shots..

i may feature in CHILD IN A MILLION on channel 5

after a few weeks of coming out of hospital i was invited to a hospital party which involved many patients such as myself who were in intensive care or on an ECMO machine... we had the news that channel 5 was comming to do some filming for a show called Child in a million. when the camerawoman came in the room she instantly saw me and apeoached me askin if im Anthony, i was pretty shoked an i was like yea and she goes OMG ive heard so much then she pointed the camera in my face and started askin me some questions... the documentary has 6 parts to it and each week 2 children are followed throughout their life in hospital...look out for me on one of the shows when they show a party it might be the last show

i also found out that whilst i was unconcious news reporters and TV stations were interested in my illness they wanted to make a documentary about me and my progress in hospital but my family declined all of these offers as they did not want me in papers and magazines and people intruding my life because i was soooo ill and they just wanted me to get better....WOWZA

suggestions and ideas

ive got a few ideas that i thought about over the past week on how i oculd improve my documentary. one idea was trying to round up all of the music i would use and i thought of some very interesting songs.

• craig david-Walking away, i thought id use this at the end and have all different shots of me walking away from the camera into the distance to connote that im walking away from what happend to me and starting fresh
• died in your arms tonight, the original and the jay-z remix i will use the original towards the begining/middle of my doc then have the remix fast passed version at the end just like in bowling for columbine did with the song "what a wonderful world.
• i got some classical music also but i dont know the name of it but its the sort that is emotional and gives that cold chill feeling, i would use this to make the audience engage more with what is going on
• other sounds being used is sirens and hospital beeps when the time is right in the documentary.

if anybody has any suggestions they think can help me please feel free to leave a comment..taaa

Test Screening Feedback

1.
Media Language (A-E)------B
Conventions (A-E)-------B
Creativity (A-E) ----------B
Attention to Detail (A-E) ------C
Technical Proficiency (A-E) --------C


2. positive

(cinematography?)
(mise en scene?) good set out, very realistic, well spaced
(lighting?) natural look, no artificial lighting so very positive
(sound?) just the voice of the surgeon
(conventions? matching audience?)very grippin, good and detailed

3. critisism

(cinematography?) ??
(mise en scene?) shaking camera
(lighting?) could be brightened up a bit
(sound?) cant hear ant much in the interview
(conventions? matching audience?) none
(miscellaneous) could have used a tripod

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ThIs WeEkS PrOgReSs

so what have i done this week? i called up Great Ormond Street and left a message for Liz Smith, the woman who is incharge of the ECMO team but she still hasnt replied to me so i guess ill have to wait tomorro and try ring her again to organise an interview because time is running out for me. ive done some minor filming in the snow because i thought that the snow scenes would add a nice touch to my production. i also did some filming in my room and filmed all the get well cards i recieved. my main focus for this week is to get my interviews out of the way so that i can relax a bit more and finish off with some other filming such as my self interview.
im still trying to get some archive footage of the disneyland advert but i cant seem to find any of them ANYWHERE, leave a comment for me if you know how i can get one plz, Taa

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iNfLuEnZa

this is a documentary about influenza, this is the same illness that i had but a different type, the way in which this documentary is structured is by having pictures instead of moving images with a voiceover being spoken over the slideshow of the pictures of people dieing and ill. the documentary is full of facts and figures and dates of different events that happend during the period of the massive outbreak of the influenza bug. i also noticed there is a background soundtrack that is being played behind the voiceover, this is to add sympathy and to lock the viewer in due to the fact that the music has a classical but cliff-hanger theme to it. this is a good documentary to analyse seeing as i also need to add pictures to my own and have a voice over. i learnt from this documentary that if i added a soft music to the background of my documentary, it instantly locks the viewers on and makes them focus more.

ExTrAOrDiNaRy PeOpLe

This is the incredible story of Jeanna Giese, a 15-year-old girl from Wisconsin who became the first person ever to survive rabies, one of the most frightening and deadly diseases known to mankind.

this documentary focuses on what is called a miracle, a 15 year old girl survives RaBiEs...a disease so deadly that no one has ever survived it, the documentary focuses on all the medical terms that the young girl had to go through with to survive. this will be useful for my documentary seeing as both me and this girl had illnesses bad that virtually nobody has ever survived it.

the girl had to be put into a coma for a week that was so strong that she was on the edge of death this was so the rabies could not affect her because rabies works by confusing the brain and muddling it up to a point that it starts to shut down parts of the body but if the doctors was able to stop the brain from being as active, her body could create antibodies that could fight off the disease.

the documentary shows many interviews with doctors, family and even interviews with the survivor of the illness. it shows the girl living day to day life in her neighbourhood playing with a dog (this is ironic due to the fact that dogs are animals that carry rabies) but at the end of the documentary it shows how the girl is living a happy life now and how she is a stronger person now that she has overcome her illness.