Monday, 14 January 2013
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Evaluation
Question 2)
3. What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
My audience feedback about my documentary was pretty positive, I have found out that it looks quite professional with the techniques I have used and footage I have included. The audience specially like few bits like music at the beginning of the documentary which was about which was about addiction which they have found really interesting that it links in with the theme of my documentary so that has impressed them, another thing they thought was good about documentary was the part with the interviews about smoking and fast food, they found it really interesting but also the setting of recording with the white background and rule of thirds.
Things they didn't really like about my documentary was the ending bit of the documentary which was the bit with the beauty expert talking about beauty products, they said it would be more interesting to watch if the last interview was cut into smaller pieces rather than just one long one which made it boring and therefore they would rather change the channel if they were watching it on TV. Another thing that was said which wasn't good was lighting because it was too light so they would prefer it if it was a bit dimmer. Overall they said it was pretty good but it would have been better if I have changed few bits like, lightning, length of last interview and also it could use a bit more editing.
After looking at my audience response, thing I would change length of last interview, I would cut into smaller bits so that it would look more interesting and prevent the documentary from looking boring but also I would probably try to get more interviews and also more B-roll footage to boost my documentary and make it look more professional. Another thing I would change about my documentary to improve it and make it better would be make the lightning of the interviews and make the light a bit dimmer which would improve it as my audience mentioned that it needs to be a bit more dimmer, last thing that I would about my documentary would be that I would try to edit it a bit better and cut out any bits that make it look boring and also edit some interviews and their length.
Question4)
Formal Proposal
Dear Sir/Madam we wish to film a documentary and broadcast it with the help of Channel 4. The topic of our documentary is everyday addictions. Such as; fast food, beauty, alcohol, tobacco & social networking. Why people get addicted to these things and how it affects their everyday life, or even if they realize they have an addiction unless someone points it out to them. By researching these subjects we wish to discover the impact it has on individuals and on a demographic scale, and also from the huge corporations point of view and find out some statistical information and just how much they make from providing these products and services. We will conduct our research with specialists, experts and professionals in the respected subjects; fast food, beauty and so on. This way our research is very likely to be accurate and reliable.
Our documentary is a Fly on the Wall type documentary. The style of our documentary will be informal with plenty of statistics and facts. We also hope to add a shock factor which will intrigue our audience and make them realize the meaning of our documentary on a wider scale.
Our target audience is really wide range of people from anyone over 16 and above. We feel the high majority of the general public will be able to relate to the topic of documentary. Everyone must have an addiction of some kind or other?
The channel that we have chosen our documentary to be broadcast on is Channel4 at 21:00pm on Thursday 16th of December. We chose this channel and time because with our primary research we found that our target audience watch Channel4 around this time. We are hoping with our scheduling plans to inherit the audience from 4thought.
The resource that we will use to film our documentary is a good quality Sony HXR – MC2000 full 1080p HD camera. This will shoot the footage that we will edit together and if we have a high quality camera our documentary will look more professional. We will also use a microphone that the interviewee will wear on their clothing so that the camera will be able to pick up their answers more efficiently without picking up much excess background noise. Without the use this microphone it may become very hard for the interviewee to be heard during the documentary. We will also get hold of a tripod. This will help keep the camera steady when we are shooting footage and will prevent any shakiness that we will get if we hand held the camera. The last thing that we will use is Adobe Premiere. This is the programme that we are going to be using to edit our footage. By making use of all the tools that are on this programme we should be able to put together a very professional looking documentary.
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Single Frames
Single frames
For each section we will require different types of props and mise en scene for example
The fast food section will need external shots of various fast food establishments along with shots of people eating and drinking within said restaurant.
The beauty section will need to include different beauty products in shot, beauty procedures and salon employees.
The social networking section will include many shots of computers and mobile phones showing Face book and twitter.
The smoking section will include shop workers, cigarette packets, people smoking, possibly a shot of the damage it does.
The alcohol section will include many shots of people drinking inside pubs and clubs, also the bar workers would be good to talk to as they know alcoholics, booze packaging also.
Scripting Radio Trailer
Radio Script
“The Nation is fixated with various substances, some are considered addictive, others are not: Drugs, sex, alcohol, coffee, fast food, social networking and the need to feel beautiful. We are here to see what the people think, and find out whether people are addicted to illicit or legal substances.”
Audience Feedback - Questions
1. Which one of these do you consume/do the most?
-alcohol
-cigarettes
-fast food
-caffeine
-beauty
-social networking
-sex
2. How often?
one a day
1-5
more than 5
3. Why?
-enjoyment
-personal gain
-boredom
-social pressure
4. Age?
16-18
18+
5. Gender?
-male
-female
6. Employed?
-yes
-no
7. Cost per Week?
0-5
5-10
10-20
20-30
30+
8. Where do mostly engage with your habit/addiction?
9. Ethnicity?
10. When do you mostly engage with your habit/addiction?
11. Influence?
-friends
-parents
-family
-media
12. How do you gain access to the resources needed to fulfil desired habit?
Codes and conventions of radio trailers
Radio Advert: Codes and Conventions
Radio Adverts have some essential features that all radio adverts within this genre have and some features which only some companies use.
Essential-
What Channel?
What Time?
What is it about?
Why you should watch?
What Channel?
What Time?
What is it about?
Why you should watch?
Optional-
Humour
Music
Slogan/Hook line
Snippet from the show
Sound Effects
Humour
Music
Slogan/Hook line
Snippet from the show
Sound Effects
It is more often Women that are casted for radio adverts.
They are generally 30 seconds long
Types Of Documentary
6 types of documentaries
1. Poetic documentaries, which first appeared in the 1920’s, were a sort of reaction against both the content and the rapidly crystallizing grammar of the early fiction film. The poetic mode moved away from continuity editing and instead organized images of the material world by means of associations and patterns, both in terms of time and space. Well-rounded characters—’life-like people’—were absent; instead, people appeared in these films as entities, just like any other, that are found in the material world. The films were fragmentary, impressionistic, lyrical. Their disruption of the coherence of time and space—a coherence favoured by the fiction films of the day—can also be seen as an element of the modernist counter-model of cinematic narrative. The ‘real world’—Nichols calls it the “historical world”—was broken up into fragments and aesthetically reconstituted using film form.
2. Expository documentaries speak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voiceover or titles, proposing a strong argument and point of view. These films are rhetorical, and try to persuade the viewer. (They may use a rich and sonorous male voice.) The (voice-of-God) commentary often sounds ‘objective’ and omniscient. Images are often not paramount; they exist to advance the argument. The rhetoric insistently presses upon us to read the images in a certain fashion. Historical documentaries in this mode deliver an unproblematic and ‘objective’ account and interpretation of past events.
3. Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked in this sub-genre often saw the poetic mode as too abstract and the expository mode as too didactic. The first observational docs date back to the 1960’s; the technological developments which made them possible include mobile lighweight cameras and portable sound recording equipment for synchronized sound. Often, this mode of film eschewed voice-over commentary, post-synchronized dialogue and music, or re-enactments. The films aimed for immediacy, intimacy, and revelation of individual human character in ordinary life situations.
4. Participatory documentaries believe that it is impossible for the act of filmmaking to not influence or alter the events being filmed. What these films do is emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation. Not only is the filmmaker part of the film, we also get a sense of how situations in the film are affected or altered by her presence. Nichols: “The filmmaker steps out from behind the cloak of voice-over commentary, steps away from poetic meditation, steps down from a fly-on-the-wall perch, and becomes a social actor (almost) like any other. (Almost like any other because the filmmaker retains the camera, and with it, a certain degree of potential power and control over events.)” The encounter between filmmaker and subject becomes a critical element of the film. Rouch and Morin named the approach cinéma vérité, translating Dziga Vertov’s kinopravda into French; the “truth” refers to the truth of the encounter rather than some absolute truth.
5. Reflexive documentaries don’t see themselves as a transparent window on the world; instead they draw attention to their own constructedness, and the fact that they are representations. How does the world get represented by documentary films? This question is central to this sub-genre of films. They prompt us to “question the authenticity of documentary in general.” It is the most self-conscious of all the modes, and is highly skeptical of ‘realism.’ It may use Brechtian alienation strategies to jar us, in order to ‘defamiliarize’ what we are seeing and how we are seeing it.
Carson’s David Holzman’s Diary (1968); David & Judith MacDougall’s Wedding Camels (1980).
6. Performative documentaries stress subjective experience and emotional response to the world. They are strongly personal, unconventional, perhaps poetic and/or experimental, and might include hypothetical enactments of events designed to make us experience what it might be like for us to possess a certain specific perspective on the world that is not our own, e.g. that of black, gay men in Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied (1989) or Jenny Livingston’s Paris Is Burning (1991). This sub-genre might also lend itself to certain groups (e.g. women, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, etc) to ‘speak about themselves.’ Often, a battery of techniques, many borrowed from fiction or avant-garde films, are used. Performative docs often link up personal accounts or experiences with larger political or historical realities.
1. Poetic documentaries, which first appeared in the 1920’s, were a sort of reaction against both the content and the rapidly crystallizing grammar of the early fiction film. The poetic mode moved away from continuity editing and instead organized images of the material world by means of associations and patterns, both in terms of time and space. Well-rounded characters—’life-like people’—were absent; instead, people appeared in these films as entities, just like any other, that are found in the material world. The films were fragmentary, impressionistic, lyrical. Their disruption of the coherence of time and space—a coherence favoured by the fiction films of the day—can also be seen as an element of the modernist counter-model of cinematic narrative. The ‘real world’—Nichols calls it the “historical world”—was broken up into fragments and aesthetically reconstituted using film form.
2. Expository documentaries speak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voiceover or titles, proposing a strong argument and point of view. These films are rhetorical, and try to persuade the viewer. (They may use a rich and sonorous male voice.) The (voice-of-God) commentary often sounds ‘objective’ and omniscient. Images are often not paramount; they exist to advance the argument. The rhetoric insistently presses upon us to read the images in a certain fashion. Historical documentaries in this mode deliver an unproblematic and ‘objective’ account and interpretation of past events.
3. Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked in this sub-genre often saw the poetic mode as too abstract and the expository mode as too didactic. The first observational docs date back to the 1960’s; the technological developments which made them possible include mobile lighweight cameras and portable sound recording equipment for synchronized sound. Often, this mode of film eschewed voice-over commentary, post-synchronized dialogue and music, or re-enactments. The films aimed for immediacy, intimacy, and revelation of individual human character in ordinary life situations.
4. Participatory documentaries believe that it is impossible for the act of filmmaking to not influence or alter the events being filmed. What these films do is emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation. Not only is the filmmaker part of the film, we also get a sense of how situations in the film are affected or altered by her presence. Nichols: “The filmmaker steps out from behind the cloak of voice-over commentary, steps away from poetic meditation, steps down from a fly-on-the-wall perch, and becomes a social actor (almost) like any other. (Almost like any other because the filmmaker retains the camera, and with it, a certain degree of potential power and control over events.)” The encounter between filmmaker and subject becomes a critical element of the film. Rouch and Morin named the approach cinéma vérité, translating Dziga Vertov’s kinopravda into French; the “truth” refers to the truth of the encounter rather than some absolute truth.
5. Reflexive documentaries don’t see themselves as a transparent window on the world; instead they draw attention to their own constructedness, and the fact that they are representations. How does the world get represented by documentary films? This question is central to this sub-genre of films. They prompt us to “question the authenticity of documentary in general.” It is the most self-conscious of all the modes, and is highly skeptical of ‘realism.’ It may use Brechtian alienation strategies to jar us, in order to ‘defamiliarize’ what we are seeing and how we are seeing it.
Carson’s David Holzman’s Diary (1968); David & Judith MacDougall’s Wedding Camels (1980).
6. Performative documentaries stress subjective experience and emotional response to the world. They are strongly personal, unconventional, perhaps poetic and/or experimental, and might include hypothetical enactments of events designed to make us experience what it might be like for us to possess a certain specific perspective on the world that is not our own, e.g. that of black, gay men in Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied (1989) or Jenny Livingston’s Paris Is Burning (1991). This sub-genre might also lend itself to certain groups (e.g. women, ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, etc) to ‘speak about themselves.’ Often, a battery of techniques, many borrowed from fiction or avant-garde films, are used. Performative docs often link up personal accounts or experiences with larger political or historical realities.
Research from; http://collaborativedocumentary.wordpress.com/6-types-of-documentary/
Questionaire Results
1. Alcohol: 4
Cigarettes: 5
Fast food: 3
Caffeine:6
Beauty:3
Social Networking: 8
Sex: 1
Cigarettes: 5
Fast food: 3
Caffeine:6
Beauty:3
Social Networking: 8
Sex: 1
2. One a day: 8
1-5: 12
More than: 10
1-5: 12
More than: 10
3. Enjoyment: 15
Personal Gain: 5
Boredom:6
Social Pressure:4
Personal Gain: 5
Boredom:6
Social Pressure:4
4. 16 – 18: 23
18+: 7
18+: 7
5. Male: 13
Female: 17
Female: 17
6. Yes: 16
No: 14
No: 14
7. 0-5: 10
5-10: 11
10-20: 7
20-30: 1
30+ : 2
5-10: 11
10-20: 7
20-30: 1
30+ : 2
8. Home: 17
Work: 2
Parties: 2
College: 4
Everywhere: 3
Mc Donald’s: 2
Work: 2
Parties: 2
College: 4
Everywhere: 3
Mc Donald’s: 2
9. White: 27
Asian: 3
Asian: 3
10. Anytime: 15
Home: 8
Weekends: 5
At College: 2
Home: 8
Weekends: 5
At College: 2
11. Friends: 18
Parents: 4
Family: 2
Media: 6
Parents: 4
Family: 2
Media: 6
12. Shop: 10
Home: 3
Internet: 7
Friends: 4
College: 6
Home: 3
Internet: 7
Friends: 4
College: 6
Interview Questions
Interview Questions
Which from this list do you use/consume the most
-Facebook
-Twitter
-Alcohol
-Cigarettes <<(PICTURES)
-Cannabis
-Beauty Products
-Fast Food
-Coffee
How often do you consume or use your habit?
How much does your habit cost you per week?
Do you believe addiction to your habit is real?
Could you see yourself stopping your habit within the next month?
Which from this list do you use/consume the most
-Alcohol
-Cigarettes <<(PICTURES)
-Cannabis
-Beauty Products
-Fast Food
-Coffee
How often do you consume or use your habit?
How much does your habit cost you per week?
Do you believe addiction to your habit is real?
Could you see yourself stopping your habit within the next month?
Codes and Conventions of Newspaper Adverts
Always a channel logo
One main image Name of the programme away from the main image (usually centre) slogan/description of the programme
Very little text
the first 2 are channel4 adverts which have a house style of a 4 logo on one side with a quite simple picture and a mini description.
The E4 advert is similar in this case but usually their adverts are like an action shot in the middle of something.
One main image Name of the programme away from the main image (usually centre) slogan/description of the programme
Very little text
the first 2 are channel4 adverts which have a house style of a 4 logo on one side with a quite simple picture and a mini description.
The E4 advert is similar in this case but usually their adverts are like an action shot in the middle of something.
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Running Order
Documentary: Fix Nation
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling
Duration 30 minutes (inc adverts)
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling
Duration 30 minutes (inc adverts)
Montage of interviews - 30 secs
Opening Titles 15 secs
Establishing shot of the area and beauty place (Narrator talks) 20 secs
B-roll of therapy 45 secs
Interview with beauty patient 1 min
Cut away and narrator speaking 1 min
B-roll time lapse outside a fast food establishment 30 secs
Interview with someone who eats lots of fast food 2 mins
B-roll of fast food (eating) 30 secs
Interview with McDonalds staff 2 mins
Flash/Dissolve/Effect to transition to Social networking B-roll 10 secs
Shot of Facebook or Twitter (Narrator talks) 30 secs
Interview with some Social network users 2 mins
Social network B-roll 20 secs
Cut away (Narrator talks) 45 secs
Opening Titles 15 secs
Establishing shot of the area and beauty place (Narrator talks) 20 secs
B-roll of therapy 45 secs
Interview with beauty patient 1 min
Cut away and narrator speaking 1 min
B-roll time lapse outside a fast food establishment 30 secs
Interview with someone who eats lots of fast food 2 mins
B-roll of fast food (eating) 30 secs
Interview with McDonalds staff 2 mins
Flash/Dissolve/Effect to transition to Social networking B-roll 10 secs
Shot of Facebook or Twitter (Narrator talks) 30 secs
Interview with some Social network users 2 mins
Social network B-roll 20 secs
Cut away (Narrator talks) 45 secs
---Ad Break---
B-roll of caffeine – coffee 2 0 secs
Interview with frequent coffee drinker 2 mins
B-roll of other types of caffeine i.e. energy drinks 30 secs
Interview with energy drink drinker 1 min
B-roll of graphics showing the difference between the two (Narrator talks) 30 secs
Cut away Establishing shot of a brewery (Narrator Talks) 20 secs
B-roll of machinery working away 30 secs
Interview with brewery staff 2 mins
B-roll of drinking booze 20 secs
Interview with alcoholic 1 min
Cut away to smoking B-roll (Narrator talks) 30 secs
Interview with smoker 2 mins
B-roll smoking 30 secs
Interview with a nurse talk about dangers 1 min
Narrator sums up1 min
Closing titles 30 secs
End
B-roll of caffeine – coffee 2 0 secs
Interview with frequent coffee drinker 2 mins
B-roll of other types of caffeine i.e. energy drinks 30 secs
Interview with energy drink drinker 1 min
B-roll of graphics showing the difference between the two (Narrator talks) 30 secs
Cut away Establishing shot of a brewery (Narrator Talks) 20 secs
B-roll of machinery working away 30 secs
Interview with brewery staff 2 mins
B-roll of drinking booze 20 secs
Interview with alcoholic 1 min
Cut away to smoking B-roll (Narrator talks) 30 secs
Interview with smoker 2 mins
B-roll smoking 30 secs
Interview with a nurse talk about dangers 1 min
Narrator sums up1 min
Closing titles 30 secs
End
Research For Documentary
Social Network Addiction-
- You spend a lot of time thinking about Facebook or plan use of Facebook.
- You feel an urge to use Facebook more and more.
- You use Facebook in order to forget about personal problems.
- You have tried to cut down on the use of Facebook without success.
- You become restless or troubled if you are prohibited from using Facebook.
- You use Facebook so much that it has had a negative impact on your job/studies.
People are asked to self-report how each statement applies to them:
(1) very rarely,
(2) rarely,
(3) sometimes,
(4) often, and
(5) very often.
(2) rarely,
(3) sometimes,
(4) often, and
(5) very often.
The researchers found that people who indicate "often" or "very often" on four or more of the statements may be experiencing a Facebook addiction--and women are at greatest risk, according to the study. People with poor sleep habits also score high on the scale.
"It occurs more regularly among younger than older users," study author Dr. Cecilie Schou Andreassen, a psychologist at the university, said in a written statement. "We have also found that people who are anxious and socially insecure use Facebook more than those with lower scores on those traits, probably because those who are anxious find it easier to communicate via social media than face-to-face."
Plus, let's face it, avoiding Facebook is tough. Recent research from the University of Chicago suggests that social media are more addictive than sex.
Information courtesy of:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/facebook-addiction-scale-social-media_n_1499738.html
Fast Food Addiction
Hamburgers and French fries could be as addictive as heroin, scientists have claimed.
'Cold turkey'
They found that rats fed a diet containing 25% sugar are thrown into a state of anxiety when the sugar is removed.
Their symptoms included chattering teeth and the shakes - similar to those seen in people withdrawing from nicotine or morphine, according to researchers.
Dr Hoebel said he believed high-fat foods stimulate opioids or 'pleasure chemicals' in the brain.
"The implication is that some animals - and by extension some people - can become overly dependent on sweet food," he said.
Further studies published in New Scientist magazine back up this theory.
"It occurs more regularly among younger than older users," study author Dr. Cecilie Schou Andreassen, a psychologist at the university, said in a written statement. "We have also found that people who are anxious and socially insecure use Facebook more than those with lower scores on those traits, probably because those who are anxious find it easier to communicate via social media than face-to-face."
Plus, let's face it, avoiding Facebook is tough. Recent research from the University of Chicago suggests that social media are more addictive than sex.
Information courtesy of:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/facebook-addiction-scale-social-media_n_1499738.html
Fast Food Addiction
Hamburgers and French fries could be as addictive as heroin, scientists have claimed.
'Cold turkey'
They found that rats fed a diet containing 25% sugar are thrown into a state of anxiety when the sugar is removed.
Their symptoms included chattering teeth and the shakes - similar to those seen in people withdrawing from nicotine or morphine, according to researchers.
Dr Hoebel said he believed high-fat foods stimulate opioids or 'pleasure chemicals' in the brain.
"The implication is that some animals - and by extension some people - can become overly dependent on sweet food," he said.
Further studies published in New Scientist magazine back up this theory.
Target Audience Research
In order to find specific results regarding our target audience research we decided to produce a questionnaire which entails questions regarding the topics and subjects for our documentary. The results from this questionnaire will show us the different types of "addictions" that a variety of people of different ages have. Which in turn will also relate to the demographic and psychographic profiles of our target audience and in our results we will be able to find out what factors encourage different people's habits and addictions.
Within our group we developed a series of questions related to the different sectors within our documentary.
Within our group we developed a series of questions related to the different sectors within our documentary.
- Are you male or female?
- What age range are you in?
16-18
19+ - Which of these do you seem to use the most?
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Fast Food
Coffee
Cars/Mechanics
Beauty/Fashion
Social Networking
Sex - Are you employed?
- On average how much do you spend on your habit/"Addiction"
0-5
6-10
11-20
21-30
30+ - What area of Warrington do you live in?
- What is your ethnic origin?
- How often do you engage with your habit/"addiction"?
- What time of day is this most likely?
- What influences do you have regarding hobbies?
Media
Friends
Family
College/work
Self - Why do you take part or engage with this hobby/"addiction"?
- How do you gain access to the supplies needed to satisfy your hobby/"addiction"
Brainstorm of Content for documentary
The idea we decided to use is Everyday Addiction:
We brainstormed ideas to give us an idea of the content of our documentary and the different areas we would look into. The ideas we came up with are:
- Shopping
- Chocolate
- Alcohol
- Cigarettes
- Arts&Crafts- model building etc
- Gym
- Celebrities
- Fast food e.g Mc Donalds
- Music
- Establishing shots
- Dissolve
- Enhansing shots
- Cut aways
- Text overs
- Using a handheld camera
"backstage" footage - Archive footage
- Sound
- Montages
- Re-constructions
- Foley
- Ambient sound
- B-roll footage e.g using phones drinking coffee eating chocolate
- Various back grounds and blue screening
- Shot reverse shots for interviews
- Interviews
- Reaction shots
Initial Plans
Topic: Everyday Addiction
Target Audience: Males and Females between the ages of 16 and 34 as the demographic for channel 4 is between the ages of 16 and 34 so this will suit the channel for our documentary
Title: Fix- Nation
Target Audience Reaearch:
The psychographic profile for our documentary comes into the age range, as the social class and the way of life of our audience could change through time. This fits in well with the research we are doing as it shows that the addictions of people change throughout their lives.
The Channel for our documentary would be channel 4 as they usually host documentaries about everyday life and we feel that the topic of our documentary will fit in well with the usual programmes that appear on Channel 4.
The Schedule for this documentary will be 9 o'clock as it may feature some bad language or footage that might not be suitable for younger children and since our audience is between 16 and 34 these ages are most likely to watch it at this time and younger children are less likely to be watching TV at this time.
Target Audience: Males and Females between the ages of 16 and 34 as the demographic for channel 4 is between the ages of 16 and 34 so this will suit the channel for our documentary
Title: Fix- Nation
Target Audience Reaearch:
- Gender, Sexual orientation, Religion, Class;
The psychographic profile for our documentary comes into the age range, as the social class and the way of life of our audience could change through time. This fits in well with the research we are doing as it shows that the addictions of people change throughout their lives.
The Channel for our documentary would be channel 4 as they usually host documentaries about everyday life and we feel that the topic of our documentary will fit in well with the usual programmes that appear on Channel 4.
The Schedule for this documentary will be 9 o'clock as it may feature some bad language or footage that might not be suitable for younger children and since our audience is between 16 and 34 these ages are most likely to watch it at this time and younger children are less likely to be watching TV at this time.
Brainstorming
This is a brainstorm of the possible ideas i could use when considering the topic of my documentary, they are the few that i think would be relevent to my group and would also be interesting to study.
In the beginning we came up with 5 ideas on the topic of our documentary here are the 5 ideas and why they could have been good and why they maybe wouldn't have worked;
Music: (+) Alot of people listen to music
(+) Alot of choice through styles of music
(+) Accessable through college
(-) Music is a wide catagory and there is alot to cover
(-) Everyone likes different music and it is hard to find balance
(-) Hard to get facts and famous musicians to film
Chavs and gangs:
(+) Could break stereoypoes
(+) Gives an insight to the lives of chavs
(+) Showing youths how they could end up without education etc
(-) They may not respond well to interviews
(-) Could create stereotypes
(-) Could be dangeourous
Everyday Addiction:
(+) Covers a wide variety of topics
(+) A lot of people have an everyday addiction
(+) Easy to get footage and stills
(-) Some people may not want to be filmed and interviewed
(-) Could be offensive or disturbing to some people
(-) Could be quite explicit
Sport:
(+) Easy to collect information about
(+) Accessable in college
(+) Alot of archive footage that can be used
(-) Not alot of people are into sport as much anymore
(-) Sport is not the most popular choice of hobby anymore
(-) Could be difficult to find people who play proffesional sport
Wildlife:
(+) Wildlife occurs everywhere
(+) Easy to find some sort of wildlife
(+) Could be locally filmed
(-) Hard to get permission from wildlife institutions
(-) Difficult to find a wide variety of wildlife and animals
(-) Could be dangerous to film
Mob Stories: The Big Guy
Camera
- Montage
- B-roll footage showing random parts of the mafia’s people
- Close up on one of the investigators while he is being interviewed
- Abstract establishing shots represent USA
- Close up on picture of one of the mobsters
- Mid shot of one of the book authors being interviewed
- Close up on picture of another mobster to show the audience how these mobsters look like
- Mid shot of former mob diver while he was being interviewed
- Mid shot of another investigator while he was being interviewed
- Close up on a FBI agent being interviewed
- Long shot on the pictures of many gang members that have been arrested
Editing
- Use of cross-cutting between A/B roll where the person who is being interview is talking but they are showing shots of related items that he is talking about, guns and dead bodies and arrested gang members, this has been used to make the audience realise how serious the Mafia is
- Jump cut has been used to make the documentary more smooth
- Freeze frame has been used to make sure that the audience memorises the mobster
- Fast cutting has been used to attract the audiences tension as the documentary is fast cutting between different shots of mafia related murders
- Graphic match has been used when the mob driver has been talking about car that has been shot with loads of bullet holes in it and then another pictures comes up with same stuff happened to it but different car model
- Massive emphasis on cutaways to enhancing shots
Theme
- Criminal activity
- Mafia members
- Mobsters
- Mafia related crime
- Murderers
- Law legislation
Mise en Scene
- Archive footage of the “hits” that the mobsters ordered
- Archive pictures of powerful mafia members to show the audience who they are
- Pictures of dead bodies
- Pictures of guns and seized guns
- Pictures of shot up cars
- Archive footage of Montreal in 1960’s to show the audience where does the mobster come from
- Archive footage of the mobsters living in prison
Sound
- Non-diegetic sound while there are different shots being shown
- Driven by narrator (Voice of God)
- Foley effects have been used when there was a picture of dead body and guns
- Gun shots noises to show the audience that this mobster is seriously dangerous
- Police sirens which represent criminal activity
- Asynchronous sound has been used when there is police car
- Ambient sound is being used where there is a footage of streets being shown
MS-13: The World's Most Dangerous Gang
Camera
- Montage
- B-roll footage showing random parts of the hood and gang related stuff
- Long shot of police officer being interviewed
- Abstract establishing shots represent USA
- Close up on the police woman face to show the audience who she is while she is describing her self
- Mid shot of the police woman standing next to police car while she is being interviewed, this shot has been used because it links in with her job as she is a police officer
- Close up on the gun that has been used to kill two innocent men
- Close up on the “MS13” gang members and their ms13 tattoos, this has been used to show the audience who they are show their gang logo
- Long shot of L.A as L.A is the home of MS13 gang, this has been used to inform the audience where this gang lives and where the crime happens
Editing
- Jump cut has been used to make the documentary more smooth
- Use of crosscutting between A/B roll where the person who is being interview is talking but they are showing shots of related items that he is talking about, guns and dead bodies, this has been used to make the audience realise how serious that gang is
- Freeze frame has been used to make sure that the audience memorises the object
- Graphic match has been used when the gang members gun was shown and then another similar gun has been shown but that one was seized by police
- Massive emphasis on cutaways to enhancing shots
- Fast cutting has been used to attract the audiences tension as the documentary is fast cutting between different shots of gang related things like guns and gang members
Sound
- Non-diegetic sound while there are different shots being shown
- Driven by narrator (Voice of God)
- Gun shots noises to show the audience that these gangsters are seriously dangerous
- Police sirens which represent criminal activity
- Ambient sound is being used where there is a footage of streets being shown
- Asynchronous sound has been used when there is police car on a chase for gang members
- Foley effects have been used when there was a picture of dead body
- Montage
Mise en Scene
- Archive footage of the killing that has been happening in the country where the gangsters come from
- Archive pictures of gang members and their tattoos to show the audience who they are
- Pictures of dead bodies
- Pictures of guns and seized guns
- Archive video of them doing their gang sign and them beating up other people
- Archive footage of rock concerts, this has been used to show the audience what kind of music they used to like so basically showing their history
Theme
- Criminal activity
- Gang members
- Murderers
- Law legislation
The Iceman Confessions Of A Mafia Hitman
Camera
- Mid shot of the “iceman” while he is being interviewed to show the audience how he looks like
- Close up on the iceman’s weapons to show the audience what kind of weapons he has used when he killed his victims
- Close up on the attorney general while is talking about the iceman and describing him, this been used to make the audience listen closely to memorise what kind of person iceman is
- Zoom in on the poison that the iceman has used to poison and kill his victims, this has been used to show the audience how serious this murder was when it comes to killing people
- Mid shot of doctor being interviewed while he is talking about how smart the iceman was with poisons and knew how to kill people quick and easy
Editing
- Use of crosscutting between A/B roll, while the iceman is being interview there is picture shown of the guns and knife he has used to murder people
- Jump cut when there is a footage of poison being shown and then the shot jumps straight to the iceman’s face, this has been used to attract the audience’s attention and remind them who has done the damage to other innocent people
- Cross cutting has been used when the iceman is talking about how he killed people with poison and then straight away there comes the footage of how he was doing it while he is describing what and where he has done it
- Establishing shots when “the iceman” is being interviewed to make the documentary look more interesting
Mise en scene
- The guns that iceman has used to kill others have been shown to let the audience see what he has been using to kill people
- Poison iceman has used to kill people has also been shown to let people see in what ways and how far he would go to kill people
- Archive footage and picture has been used to let the audience see what he was really like and capable of doing
- Iceman being interviewed in dark grey room because he is a prisoner and dark grey links with prison
- Policeman was being interviewed in court room which links together because police is there to protect public and the law as well so the background matches with the police man
Theme
- Criminal
- Mass murderer
- Mafia hitman
Sound
- Non-diagetic sound is playing while there's loads of archive footage being shown
- Foley effects have been used when there was a shot of car being crushed
- Driven by narrator ( Voice of God )
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