Friday, September 24, 2010
8th October.
Jessica and Charlotte went to interview Margret Ross (Jessica's Grandma). Unfortunately, I could not make it to the filming because i was ill.
interview questions.
Margeret Ross.
- Tell me about how and when you lost your sight?
- How did you adjust to losing your sight?
- Are you happy with the amout of help and support you have recieved?
- What happens at your hospital check ups?
- How has it effected your daily life?
- How have you changed your surroundings to accommodate your loss of sight?
- Do you miss anything about being able to see? (if appropriate).
- What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
- Do you have any gadgets or technologies to make your life easier?
- What would make you life easier and better?
- Do you think a guide dog would be benificial?
- Are there any benifits of losing your sight?
- Talking books?
- What made you want to train guide dogs?
- How did you get into training guide dogs and was it difficult?
- Tell me about the training you, yourself, have to go through?
- When did you get your first guide dog?
- How long do you keep the guide dog for?
- Is guide dog training your primary career?
- How many guide dogs have you trained?
- Do you know anyone who is blind and who uses a guide dog?
- Can any dog be trained to be a guide dog?
- Do you find training guide dogs rewarding?
- What made you want to train guide dogs?
- How did you get into training guide dogs and was it difficult?
- Tell me about the training you, yourself, have to go through?
- When did you get your first guide dog?
- How long do you keep the guide dog for?
- Is guide dog training your primary career?
- How many guide dogs have you trained?
- Tell me about theprocess of training of a dog?
- Do you have to train the owner?
- Can anyone be trained to train a guide dog?
- Do you find training a guide dog rewing?
- Tell us about the guide dog assocation?
Primary research - Interviews.
Interviews we may do:
- Margret Ross who is partially blind and deaf. We will be interviewing her about what it is like being blind and how she manages.Margret will be interviewed in her house, sitting in 'her chair' in her living room. This is because this is where Margret is most comfortable.
- Lennie and Lyn who train guide dogs. We will be asking them questions such as what they do to train the dogs, how long they have them, how difficult/ rewarding it is. We will also be interviewing Lennie and Lyn in their house - as this is where the training takes place. (If they are training a dog at the point of the interview then we will film the training of the dogs to use as archive.)
- Indian restaurant owner in his restaurant talking about which curry's people order most and which curry they prefer.
- Sensory garden worker with the sensory garden as a back ground. We will ask them about what it is like to work in a sensory garden & what qualifications are needs.
- People who played the blind fold game at the table they played it on. We will ask them about the task and how they found it.
- Interview with Margret Wright about being deaf. The location of her interview will be in her home.
- Interview with a hearing dog trainer. We will interview them in the environment in which they train the dogs and will ask them about the dogs and how they train them.
Running order. 6th October.
Running order
Vox pop – ask questions about senses (only show the answers).
20 Seconds.
5 questions about the 5 sense (white writing) Zoom into the 5 senses as the questions appear.
20 Seconds (each sense 4 seconds).
Black background and creative text with features of purple which was the most popular colour & how much do we depend on our senses?
5 Seconds.
Close up of a lot of hands (touch) Voice over introducing topic.
4 Seconds.
Medium close up of someone sneezing.
4 Seconds.
Extreme close up of eyes (eyes and glasses) track along multiple eyes.
4 Seconds.
POV of food.
4 Seconds.
Mid shot of someone putting in a hearing.
4 Seconds.
POV down street – looking around surroundings, goes black, keep street sound & the interviewee voice.
30 Seconds.
Interview with Margret where she tells where she tells us about being blind.
1 Minute.
Blind fold someone showing them getting around a room. Margret’s interview over it telling us how hard it is to be blind and how hard it is to get around.
1 Minute.
Interview with Lennie and Lyn talking about training guide dogs.
2 Minutes.
Guide dog stories in the papers piling on top of each other. Birds eye view. Have a dog come in and sniff the paper.
30 Seconds.
Vox pop of favourite and worst taste.
15 Seconds.
Cut to an interview about curry and cut between pictures of the curry as he says it.
1 Minute 30 Seconds.
Clip of big brother chilli tasting with voice over about dangers of eating chilli’s and how to cool the taste.
1 Minutes.
Chilli on a chopping board – cutting between chilli being cut until it disappears.
15 Seconds.
The king is dead clip of Dappy unable to use his hands.
30 Seconds.
Statistic of “9 out of 30 people said they could live without touch”.
4 Seconds.
Blind game with different angles and count down tune.
30 Seconds.
Cut between answers.
10 Seconds.
Questioning of each person about how hard they found it.
2 Minutes (30 seconds for each person).
Vox pop of sound (favourite or worst).
15 Seconds.
Interview with a drummer.
1 Minute.
Concert footage.
15 Seconds.
Film ipods with voice over including statistics (“The most frequent volume of an mp3 player is 75%”). Information about headphones.
30 Seconds.
Close up of hearing aid changing settings.
10 Seconds.
Interview with a hearing dog trainer.
1 Minute.
Clip of a hearing dog working with a voice over.
1 Minute.
Vox pop of favourite and worst smell.
15 Seconds.
Interview with somebody who works in a sensory garden.
1 Minute.
POV hand held showing sensory garden.
1 Minute.
Guess the smell and interview about game.
2 Minutes.
Statistics over the picture of the smell.
30 Seconds.
Black background with creative writing.
20 Seconds.
Establishing sensory images with credits over.
20 Seconds.
Vox pop – ask questions about senses (only show the answers).
20 Seconds.
5 questions about the 5 sense (white writing) Zoom into the 5 senses as the questions appear.
20 Seconds (each sense 4 seconds).
Black background and creative text with features of purple which was the most popular colour & how much do we depend on our senses?
5 Seconds.
Close up of a lot of hands (touch) Voice over introducing topic.
4 Seconds.
Medium close up of someone sneezing.
4 Seconds.
Extreme close up of eyes (eyes and glasses) track along multiple eyes.
4 Seconds.
POV of food.
4 Seconds.
Mid shot of someone putting in a hearing.
4 Seconds.
POV down street – looking around surroundings, goes black, keep street sound & the interviewee voice.
30 Seconds.
Interview with Margret where she tells where she tells us about being blind.
1 Minute.
Blind fold someone showing them getting around a room. Margret’s interview over it telling us how hard it is to be blind and how hard it is to get around.
1 Minute.
Interview with Lennie and Lyn talking about training guide dogs.
2 Minutes.
Guide dog stories in the papers piling on top of each other. Birds eye view. Have a dog come in and sniff the paper.
30 Seconds.
Vox pop of favourite and worst taste.
15 Seconds.
Cut to an interview about curry and cut between pictures of the curry as he says it.
1 Minute 30 Seconds.
Clip of big brother chilli tasting with voice over about dangers of eating chilli’s and how to cool the taste.
1 Minutes.
Chilli on a chopping board – cutting between chilli being cut until it disappears.
15 Seconds.
The king is dead clip of Dappy unable to use his hands.
30 Seconds.
Statistic of “9 out of 30 people said they could live without touch”.
4 Seconds.
Blind game with different angles and count down tune.
30 Seconds.
Cut between answers.
10 Seconds.
Questioning of each person about how hard they found it.
2 Minutes (30 seconds for each person).
Vox pop of sound (favourite or worst).
15 Seconds.
Interview with a drummer.
1 Minute.
Concert footage.
15 Seconds.
Film ipods with voice over including statistics (“The most frequent volume of an mp3 player is 75%”). Information about headphones.
30 Seconds.
Close up of hearing aid changing settings.
10 Seconds.
Interview with a hearing dog trainer.
1 Minute.
Clip of a hearing dog working with a voice over.
1 Minute.
Vox pop of favourite and worst smell.
15 Seconds.
Interview with somebody who works in a sensory garden.
1 Minute.
POV hand held showing sensory garden.
1 Minute.
Guess the smell and interview about game.
2 Minutes.
Statistics over the picture of the smell.
30 Seconds.
Black background with creative writing.
20 Seconds.
Establishing sensory images with credits over.
20 Seconds.
Primary planning. 5th October.
Target audience research.
1. Are you a male or female? Male : 8.
Female: 22.
This shows that most of the people who did the questionairre where female. Therefore, are programme will be aimed towards mostly females.
16. What is your favourite sense?
Female: 22.
This shows that most of the people who did the questionairre where female. Therefore, are programme will be aimed towards mostly females.
2. How old are you?
Most of the people that answered the questionairre where 16 - 25. So are target audince are going to be between 16 and 25.
3. What channel do you what the most out of the following?
Most of the peopel who answered the questioairre watch channel 4 the most. This is the reason that we are showing our documentary on channel 4.
4. What time are you most likely to watch a documentary?
Morning: 1.
Daytime: 0.
Evening: 26.
Laght night: 3.
Because most of the people watch television in the evening we are going to be showing our documentary at 9:00pm.
5. How often do you watch documentaries?
6. What is your favourite coulour?
7. What is your favourite genre?
R'n'B: 3.
Indie: 7.
Acoustic: 1.
Country: 1.
Death metal: 1.
Heavy mtal: 3.
Pop: 7.
Alternative:2.
Rock: 2.
Punk:1.
Dance:1.
8. Do you wear glasses? If not have you ever been for an eye test?
Yes: 12.
No: 18.
Optitians: 15.
9. Have you ever had problems with your hearing? If yes, what?
Yes: 5.
No: 18.
Problem: General problem - 1. Layrinthitis - 1. Selective - 1. Tinitives - 1. Ear infection- 1.
10. How loud do you listen to your music?
25%: 5.
50%: 7.
75%: 11.
100%: 7.
11. How spicey do you have your food?
None: 6.
Mild: 8.
Medium: 8.
Spicey: 4.
Hot! Hot! Hot!: 4.
12. What is your favourite smell?
13. What is your least favourite smell?
14. Have you ever broke a bone?
Yes: 15.
No: 15.
15. What sense could you live without?
16. What is your favourite sense?
Small teen, big world - BBC1.
Type of documentary.
- Self reflictive.
- Disability.
- Acceptance.
- Individuuality.
- Relationship.
- Health.
- Closed narrative structure.
- Non-linear.
- Video footage of the mum aged 30.
- CU of face.
- 2 shot of mum and daughter (Jasmine).
- Fast pan around Jasmine.
- Establishing shot of New York.
- Establishing shot of the beech in low angle.
- MCU of friends sitting on the rocks.
- CU of feet.
- 2 shot high angle.
- P.O.V of the crowd of convention.
- Establishing shot of 'The Marriott'.
- Stockfootage of the festival.
- CU of the mum and Jasmine.
- CU of face massages.
- ECU of candle.
- CU interview with social worker.
- Pinky red tint - Love? Slow motion shot.
- Music in background.
- Jasmine - voice over at beginning.
- Music - 'New York' anchors the establishing shots.
- Cuts.
- Fastmotion - In the garden to Jasmine.
- Fade from the beech to hairsacon.
- Flashbacks.
- Slowmotion - Holding a cup.
- Crosscutting - Girls in spa chairs.
9/11 - After the towers fell documentary.
Type of Documentary.
Mixed.
Themes.
Terrorism.
Fight for Survival.
How peoples lives changed.
Narrative Structure.
Linear.
Closed narrative structure.
Single strand.
Camerawork.
Interviews - MCU, CU, framed right or left of screen, eyeline 1/3 way down the screen.
Birds eye view of skyline.
Tilt shot up the towers.
Handheld camera - most used because people recorded it as it happened.
Panning shot.
Zoom out of buildings.
Zoom into still images.
Tracking shot of rubble.
Wide shot of firefighters.
POV shot.
CU of firefighters badge.
Long shot of empty streets filled with rubbish.
Two shot of two firefighters.
Mise-en-scene.
Fireengines.
Firefighters.
Police.
Cameras.
Background of interview -grey.
Sound.
Voice over - male, standard english and calm.
Screams.
Phonecalls.
Music in the background.
Messages off the radio.
Editing.
Writing dissolve off screen.
Cut - different people running and screaming.
Re-construction.
Archive Material.
Radio messages.
News shows audio.
Footage of towers falling.
Graphics
Translation of audio - serif, white and yellow font.
Interview - name and title- serif and bold.
Time, date and where they are - white font, serif and bold.
Mixed.
Themes.
Terrorism.
Fight for Survival.
How peoples lives changed.
Narrative Structure.
Linear.
Closed narrative structure.
Single strand.
Camerawork.
Interviews - MCU, CU, framed right or left of screen, eyeline 1/3 way down the screen.
Birds eye view of skyline.
Tilt shot up the towers.
Handheld camera - most used because people recorded it as it happened.
Panning shot.
Zoom out of buildings.
Zoom into still images.
Tracking shot of rubble.
Wide shot of firefighters.
POV shot.
CU of firefighters badge.
Long shot of empty streets filled with rubbish.
Two shot of two firefighters.
Mise-en-scene.
Fireengines.
Firefighters.
Police.
Cameras.
Background of interview -grey.
Sound.
Voice over - male, standard english and calm.
Screams.
Phonecalls.
Music in the background.
Messages off the radio.
Editing.
Writing dissolve off screen.
Cut - different people running and screaming.
Re-construction.
Archive Material.
Radio messages.
News shows audio.
Footage of towers falling.
Graphics
Translation of audio - serif, white and yellow font.
Interview - name and title- serif and bold.
Time, date and where they are - white font, serif and bold.
TV scheduling.
The schedule for each day can be broken down into clear segments. How would you categorise these segments?
- Breakfast.
- Daytime.
- Childs.
- Peaktime (family) 7pm - 9pm.
- Adults 9pm.
- Catering for a spread of audiences. Depending on each channel.
- Homemakers, unemployed, students.
- Children.
- Family.
- Adults.
- News.
- Soap operas.
- Sitcoms.
- Game shows.
- Films.
- Reality shows.
- Dramas.
- BBC1 - everyone ( mass broadcasting). Direct competatives with ITV1.
- BBC2 - educated audience (minority). Direct competatives with channel 4.
- ITV1 - everyone (mass broadcasting). Direct competatives with BBC1.
- Channel 4 - Young adults/teenagers and educated adults. Direct competatives with BBC2.
- Five - everyone (mass broadcasting).
- Rare to get repeats at prime-time viewing. It is cheap as well.
- Channel 4 - USA - everybody loves Raymond.
- Five - USA - CSI. Austrailia - Neighbours.
- 'Shed' audience - get rid of kids.
- More adult viewing.
- It is 9pm technically but has shifted to 10pm.
Lara Croft - That thing!
Type of documentary: Mixed.
Themes: Games, creation of Lara Croft, representation of females and power of the media.
Narrative structure: closed narrative structure, non-linear, single strand narrative structure.
Camerawork: ECU interviewee.
Fast pans/tracks.
Pans across tomb raider title.
Interview - eyeline 1/3 of the way down the screen, left or right of the screen in low angle, tilted interview.
Pan over pictures.
Whip pans.
Fast tracking shots.
Mise-en-scene: Dark face of interviewee.
Sound: Game sound in the background of interviews.
Sound effects.
Editing: Game playing in the background of the interview. This could distract the audience from the interview.
Archive material: Games.
People playing games.
Barbie footage.
Tomb raider film.
Latters to Lara Croft.
Pictures of Lara Croft.
Graphics: Lara Croft - Bold, White and capitals.
Name - Bold.
Title - smaller than name.
Themes: Games, creation of Lara Croft, representation of females and power of the media.
Narrative structure: closed narrative structure, non-linear, single strand narrative structure.
Camerawork: ECU interviewee.
Fast pans/tracks.
Pans across tomb raider title.
Interview - eyeline 1/3 of the way down the screen, left or right of the screen in low angle, tilted interview.
Pan over pictures.
Whip pans.
Fast tracking shots.
Mise-en-scene: Dark face of interviewee.
Sound: Game sound in the background of interviews.
Sound effects.
Editing: Game playing in the background of the interview. This could distract the audience from the interview.
Archive material: Games.
People playing games.
Barbie footage.
Tomb raider film.
Latters to Lara Croft.
Pictures of Lara Croft.
Graphics: Lara Croft - Bold, White and capitals.
Name - Bold.
Title - smaller than name.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
BBC2 - The music biz - The marketing of Meatloaf documentary.
Type of documentary: Mixed.
Themes: Marketing of music.
Creation of image for singer or band.
Power of media to influence audience behaviour.
Power of media to influence audience behaviour.
Narrative structure: Non - linear.
Closed.
Single strand.
Camerawork: Interviews- framed to left or right of the screen, MCU or CU, eyeline 1/3 of the way down screen. They were conventional.
Variety of camerawork. Different shot types.
ECU of CD cover, mags. Camera movements.
High/low angle.
P.O.V shot of someone walking into the betting office.
Handheld camera - all behind scene footage.
Meatloaf - atleast 4 different interviews.
Brit award filming people filming awards.
Mise-en-scene: Chromakey - blue or green acreen behinde interviewee.
Background of chromakey in archive material or actuality footagerelated to the interviewees speech.
Sound: Voiceover - sarcastic, male, standard english, calm clear delivery. It linked with archive/actuality footage.
Meatloafs music under voiceover.
Editing: Interviewee's dissolve in and out.
Intercutting/crosscutting between interviews to construct narratives. Must of asked the interviewee's the same question.
See footage/music video then it freezes when interviewee fades into screen.
This is so the audience doesn't get distracted by the background.
Filming behind scenes then cut to the finished clip so the audience know what the finished music video looks like.
Dissolves.
Archive material: Magazine covers.
CD covers.
TV clips.
Music videos.
Chat shows.
Brit awards.
Newspaper headlines.
Villiage people videos.
News footage USA and UK.
Mr Blobby music videos.
Used as Chromakey background.
Used as Chromakey background.
Graphics: Title sequence.
Series logo - name if person, white, capitals and italics, sherif, left or right of the screen.
I have used this image within my blog because in the documentary they where filming the video for a few of Meat Loaf videos of this album.
Monday, September 20, 2010
The devil made me do it documentary.
The devil made me do it part 1.
The devil made me do it part 2.
The devil made me do it part 3.
The devil made me do it part 4.
The devil made me do it part 5.
The devil made me do it part 2.
The devil made me do it part 3.
The devil made me do it part 4.
The devil made me do it part 5.
Documentary analysis.
Type of documentary: Mixed - interview, acuality footage, archive material and observation.
Themes: Devil worship VS religon. Crime - murder investigation. Youth of today. Power of the media - can the media influene individuals behaviour.
Narrative structure: Open narrative structure. Non-linear. Single strand.
Camerawork: Interviews - low angle of Marilyn Manson gives him power. MCU or CU framed left or right, eyeline 1/3 way down the screen.
Guy selling poster - handheld carmera work.
P.O.V of inspector - OTS of two police men in the front of car then shot of inspector getting out of car.
CU of faces - show emotion.
Stock footage - churches, religious iconograogy, crosses, bell towers, alot of the footage is in low angle or high angle.
Tracking - following police officer walking upstairs: Manson walking through Rome/Macdonalds.
Paning.
Crane at cemetery.
Zoom - still images - inamite objects creates intrest.
Handheld camera.
Two shot of mother and father.
P.O.V of a fan in the crown of a Manson gig.
Manson press conference when her arrived in italy. Cameraman observesthe jornalists questioning Manson. Looks into another viewfinder of a camera.
Mise-en-scene: Police man - low angle of cap (big) on a desk.
Isolated nun.
Manson fans in make-up looking like Manson.
Man in graveyard alone.
Stockfootage - dark but a slight glow which gives out mystical feeling.
Manson interview - lighting - half face light/dark - saint and sinner. Artifical light.
Sound: Voice over - narrator - Male standard english, very calm. The voice over is 'the glue that hlds the narrative together.'
Other voice overs are translaters - most translators where the same as person being translted. eg male, fat.
Manson music.
Orchesteral music.
Sound effects.
'I spend more time speaking to their kids than they do.'
Editing: Cut.
Film priest driving the whole interview is audio, slow motion is used.
Clever, conveying a boring town linking the speech and the boring music.
Juxtaposition - opposite things eg, girls swearing and religious music. Putting two opposing things together to create meaning.
Macdonalds - he is a actor - The organisation looks at globzalisation. (Organisation destroys the identity of cultures.)He is meant to be standing up for individuality.
Archive material: Mansons music videos.
American TV coverage of riots.
News fooge - nuns funeral and police investigation.
Italian talkshows.
Still photos of woman with Marilyn Manson engraved on her chest.
Graphics: Names - white text (bigger), Sans serif font - simple - relevence (smaller) - job title eg father, mother etc.. Anchors the person to the topic. Left or right of the screen.
Title - Gothic - cross insted of 'T'.
White text on black screen to close documents, extract from diary, credits scrolling upscreen, translating Mansozdn lyrics, dates and locations.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Documentary.
The purpose if the documentary is to document, that is to report with evidence somethin that has actually happened. It an show thisby using ACTUALITY FOOTAGE or reconstruction. It can use narrators voiceover to anchor the meaning or rely on the participants themselfs with perhaps the occasional interjection by the narrator.
Actuality footage is 'real' footage of actual events.
John Grierson - General post office film unit in 1930's.
Defined documentary as : "the creative treatment of actuality." (or reality)
Actuality footage is 'real' footage of actual events.
John Grierson - General post office film unit in 1930's.
Defined documentary as : "the creative treatment of actuality." (or reality)
Features of documentaries.
John Corner of university of Liverpool. There are 5 centeral elements of the documentary.
Observation - The programme makers pretend that the camera is unseen or ignored by people taking part in the events. Audience is like eye witness observing, ignoring the camera.
Interview - People give opinion/information. They are relied on by documentary.
Dramatisation - all documents use a scene of drama through the observation element or dramatic reconsruction.
Mise-en-scene - Put in the picture. documentary makers carefully construct shots.
Exposition - The line of arguement in a documentary. Start with an idea the an exposition (the way the story is told.) It is what the document is 'saying'.
Different types of documentary.
- Fully narrated - a voice over is used to convey the exposition. The voice over is used to make sence of the visuals and dominates their meanings. eg, wildlife, natural history documentaries.
- fly on the wall - Draws in the french film movement 'cinema verite'. The camera is unseen or ignored and simply records real events as they unfold.
- Mixed - combination of interview, observation, acuality and archive material and narration to advance the arguement/narrative.
- Self - flexive - when the subject of the documentary acknowledges the presence of the camera and often speaks directly to the programme maker.
- Docudrama - re-enactment of events.
- Docusoap - documentary and soap opera. A group of centeral protagonists. Eg, airport.
Structure of documentaries.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE.
Open - loose ends which are not tied ip at the end.
Closed - there is a definate conclusion to the narrative.
It is either open or closed it cannot be both.
Linear - follows cronological order.
Non-linear - things are not in time order. eg, flashback or flashforward.
Circular - starts and finishes on the same thing.
Visuals - television is a visual medium. The programmeneeds too be visually stimulating to maintain the audience intrest.
Archive material - Street sceens, open countryside and close up of faces are all stock footage.
Interview - an interview can be held anywhere but the setting (mise-en-scene) can effect the meaning.
Vox pop (vox populis) - voice of the people. Get random people off the street ans ask them all the same questions. To get a representation of the audience.
Construction of reality.
Gatekeeping - The selection and rejection of information/content for inclusion in a media text.
editing - process is where gatekeeping happends in a documentary.
Voice over - can effect and alter meanings. It anchors the meaning of the visuals.
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