I've recently become more confident in my project due to uncovering specific queries which I felt would limit the information and entertainment I could convey in my documentary. I felt plagiarism would play a key role in preventing me from using a lot of footage I wanted to, however after speaking to my centre coordinator, I have discovered that it is a lot more simple to overcome than I first thought. I just need to create a reference page alongside my essay to credit the owners' footage, including time points. I have also began my mid-project review, writing the stage that I am at and what I will begin to do in the future. My centre coordinator has also advised me to meet up with another member of staff who will outline the necessities of a documentary which will be useful for me so I can be a lot more confident when making it because my next step is to begin writing elements of a script-like piece that I can read out and record as part of my documentary. Also, referring to my gaant chart (see above) I should also be writing up my essay plan so that, when it comes to it, it will be very neatly structured and I won't feel a need to think on the spot.

After the holiday break I have come back to a reply from my centre coordinator surrounding my first project proposal. I am very happy with it because there is little I have to change it is simply more about my proposal and the fact that I wasn't clear enough about specific points. It does suggest that I need to approach certain academic values surrounding my topic which is actually a good idea to add to my documentary, using such things as experiments on injuries since the game became professional and physique since they began to get paid etc.
In addition, I have only received one reply from the 16/17 players I sent letters to about their opinion on the matter and I am beginning to get anxious. I will wait another fortnight for replies and then I will have to take matters to a more personal front and get voice recordings of less famous players that have experienced a change. I can do this by going down to my local club or other clubs and ask about any changes to the youth system or if they'd noticed any change in the competitiveness of the game.
I have also filled in an update of my planning and have taken on board comments that my advisor suggested I should follow, such as going more in depth on rugby league players, looking at how they may have switched to European rugby since it became professional and also how some southern hemisphere players may have done the same. This is a potential task for the future but for now I am going to begin setting out a structure for my essay and vaguely writing down topics I need to cover in my documentary... and continuing to get hold of Mr. Condliffe.

Unfortunately, little has happened since my last post because I have been busy with other subjects and also chasing down an advisor to aid me in structuring a documentary. But I am sticking to plan of my Gaant chart in a sense that I have completed September, October and November's activities and am now focusing on plagiarism. I will research what I must do to use other people's resources legally and without their dis approval and then ensure I do this before gathering features for my documentary.
The only thing I can really take note of as progress for this week is an email from the WRU and RFU about my letter, confirming that they have sent on the individual letters and now all I can do is wait on a reply. There is little more I can do than this otherwise I will have to settle with primary data from an source which is not useful to me such as a fellow student etc.
I have recovered the sites in which I have taken information from and have placed the addresses/information on the page in to a document which I will complete a source analysis on at some point. The images on the right simply show the screenshots of images from Bill Treadwell and Jan Hill confirming that my letters have been forwarded to the required address, aside of one player who has moved to South Africa and they have been unable to track his whereabouts.
 

I have recently been working on my organisational skills, which was one of my weaknesses which I discovered through doing the skills audit earlier on in the course. To help with this, my first step was creating a Gaant chart. This is basically a chart which outlines all of the main activities I need to complete over the next few months and highlights how long is reasonable to take with each task. This way I am working to small deadlines each month and I'm not going out on a limb and improvising, hoping that what I do is correct and I have time to do anything else I need to do. In addition, I can show development on my project by printing out a copy of the following image on the right and over time, altering it as I go because the decisions I made on the length of time each task will take were not justified. They're simply off hand a reasonable length that I feel each task would take, I will not know how long each will take me until I begin to perform the task. I can then alter this chart to show the development of my project and review. 
I have also sent off the letters I have wrote to the RFU and WRU which they will then forward on to the players which I have written to. This is a step towards receiving the feedback and primary data I'm looking for, it also shows potential communication skills because I have to show respect because, after all they are heroes of mine and have accomplished things beyond my capabilities. But I also must be slightly imperative in a way that will get things done. I enclosed a stamped envelope with my address on the front to urge that sense of guilt upon them if they do not reply, this will make it more likely for me to receive a reply.
My future plans are simply to review and analyse my data in order to pick out what will be useful for me to use and I then need to justify the selection, but I feel that I have not collected enough because there is little fact on the matter, it is simply down to opinion and emotion my topic so it will be fairly difficult.