Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Research Verve Productions
Verve Productions is a British documentary production company that produces factual programmes for bradcasting around the world. Although it specialises in science, medical and contemporary documentaries it also caters to the other genres and therefore has a wide range of audiences. The managing director for the company is Liz Tucker
The documentaries that they showcase can be found on channels:
BBC one
BBC two
BBC four
Channel four: the programme shown is called the man who faked his life. I decided to research more into the documentary as I am intending to schedule my documentary on Channel four
The man who faked his death has been put into the category of psycho as it unravels the bizaree stories of human criminal behaviour.
The documentaries that they showcase can be found on channels:
BBC one
BBC two
BBC four
Channel four: the programme shown is called the man who faked his life. I decided to research more into the documentary as I am intending to schedule my documentary on Channel four
The man who faked his death has been put into the category of psycho as it unravels the bizaree stories of human criminal behaviour.
Ancillary task: newspaper advert/Double page spread
Newpaper in construction
i then decided to do some changes to the logo which was influenced by this picutre that i saw
my final decision is to use the logo 3 which was
This is because it got the most votes when i asked people i widened my audience feedback instead of just having students I also asked adults too here were some of their comments on my final logo
The content outline of my newspaper advert
I would be using this image as my central image and the text showing the scheduled time and the date would be unerneath whilst the heading would eb at the top and the logo would be on the right hand corner of the page
youth of today is going to be my title and i chose the font to be in broadway its show a fun element to it and quite formal whilst also informal. I wanted the title to stand out so chose the colour red to make it eye catching and grb the readers attention. The type font size would be 7. On the picture I am also going to have a caption on the side of the main picture saying
Dream. Believe. Achieve. which would be written in grey colour and the same font broadway would be used
and would be written in a smaller font size than the title, it would eb in 6 and would look like this
Underneath the caption would have the schedule time and on what channel it would be shown on also what would have a brief description of the show and would look like this
the whole product would look like this
For my Double page spread I decided that I wanted it to be in Look magazine this was because not many of their spreads focus on teenagers so this would give for a wider audience also for their magazine and would challenge the conventions of the magazine.
I like the idea of a diary which would be how the double spread would be presented
Dream. Believe. Achieve. which would be written in grey colour and the same font broadway would be used
and would be written in a smaller font size than the title, it would eb in 6 and would look like this
I like the idea of a diary which would be how the double spread would be presented
Monday, 11 April 2011
Planning: story board sequence/ Running order
Tatenda in the gym—working out
Anita outside in a natural environment– showing her photography book
Martin– in a classroom– showcasing his original song
All three cast in a classroom– discussing representation of children
Running order
Checklist for February research
Running order
Introduction of cast- my story- 4seconds
Tatenda introduction with Drake winner- 7.1 seconds
Anita introduction- 9seconds
Martin introduction with his original music- 9.1 seconds
Anita voiceover about inspirations and future plans 32.4 seconds
picture of Anita 4.3 seconds
Tatenda talking about his gym routine 26.5 seconds
Anita with voiceover talking about inspirations and future plans 8.3 seconds
Martin talking about music 42 seconds
Tatenda talking about his inspirations and influences/being filmed working out 36 seconds
Martin talking about music 20.9 seconds
martin playing on the piano 7.8 seconds
Tatenda talking what he is doing at the moment training for olympics 24.8 seconds
Martin, Anita and Tatenda discussing the representation of teenagers in media 22.3 seconds
All three casts talking about the representation of teenagers in media 18.3 seconds
In total documentary would be 4minutes 41 seconds
Planning: actual plan for the documentary
Topic: teenagers
Title: my story
Style of documentary: Expository
Channel: channel 4
Scheduling: Monday: 6:30pm/ First showing on Monday 6th May :6:30pm- 7:00pm
Target audience- teenagers/ young adults/adults- 15-40
Primary research needed:
linear structure- with each character telling their story and swtiching from actor to actor
Outline of content:
filming of each of the characters narrating their story/inspirations/influences and hopes for the future, have the characters in their element aiming to show their lives and ending with a discussion between the three different characters of the representation of teenagers
Actors to be used in documentary:
Martin
Tatenda
Anita
Props to be used
Gym equiptment- tatenda talking about his regime /and olympics sport
computer- for martin to showcase his music
piano- martin playing on the piano
photgraphy book- anita showasing her portfolio
Costume:
The actors would be wearing normal clothing to depict visual realism
Location
in classroom- the characters discussion of teenagers
music classroom- martin showing his music
outside- anita showing her photogaphy portfolio
fitness suite- tatenda talking about sports
Shooting schedule
I do not have a production team as I am working by msyelf however I count some of the students in the class as part of my production team as they helped me to do parts of the work and were really helpful in giving me feedback for improving the work
I am hoping to follow these scheduling times
December- I would have to start shooting the video
January- Finish shooting the video and start editing
End of january/february- complete the work and get some feedback from students
February- make some improvements from the feedback of the students
March- continue editing my piece and do my two ancillary tasks and complete/complete evaluation
lightning
In the documentary I will stick to codes and convntions of documentaries in terms of lightning and would let the light come from the environment that is being filmed as this would allow me to create versimilitude from the real world to the diegetic world in the documentary.
camera
I will be using hand held camera there would be no need for a tripod or a dolly by doing this it would add authencity to the documentary through the shaky parts in the documentary and would allow for the viewers to not see the documentary as a construct- although it actually is.
Editing
The editing that i would use would be continutity editing, cutaways, dissolve and probably fade out
Sound
I am going to make use of non diegetic sound and diegetic sound within my documentary
the non diegetic sound would be Drake winner and would be used for the introduction of the male actor and would be 10secs. The diegetic sound would be the original music of one of the male actors. The diegetic sound would be the natural sound from outside as Anita is shwocasing her photography portfolio.
Documentary techniques
the docuemtnary techniques I would use in my documentary would be: direct cinema and the actors talking of their inspirations- interview or known as 'talking heads'.
Camera angles/framing
In the documentary i would make use of medium shots instead of close up shots so that it is not too intimidating to the viewers as most of the older audience have a negative view of teenagers. I would also use long shots and give a bird eye view of these teenagers. This would be shown when filming Anitas art work i would show a bird eye view.
For the framing I would have the characters speaking directly to the camera which would be shown clearly in martins story and also I would make use of framing from the side this would be seen in tatendas story. alternating between the two framing styles would make the documentary more interesting.
Title: my story
Style of documentary: Expository
Channel: channel 4
Scheduling: Monday: 6:30pm/ First showing on Monday 6th May :6:30pm- 7:00pm
Target audience- teenagers/ young adults/adults- 15-40
Primary research needed:
- Interviews with teenagers
- questionnaires
- facebook comments/emails on representation of teenagers
- History of documentary
- research on existing producers/companies
- research on camer angles/framing
- research on documentary modes
- Iphone- for recording voice over
- camera recorder- for video
- camera- for taking pictures
linear structure- with each character telling their story and swtiching from actor to actor
Outline of content:
filming of each of the characters narrating their story/inspirations/influences and hopes for the future, have the characters in their element aiming to show their lives and ending with a discussion between the three different characters of the representation of teenagers
Actors to be used in documentary:
Martin
Tatenda
Anita
Props to be used
Gym equiptment- tatenda talking about his regime /and olympics sport
computer- for martin to showcase his music
piano- martin playing on the piano
photgraphy book- anita showasing her portfolio
Costume:
The actors would be wearing normal clothing to depict visual realism
Location
in classroom- the characters discussion of teenagers
music classroom- martin showing his music
outside- anita showing her photogaphy portfolio
fitness suite- tatenda talking about sports
Shooting schedule
I do not have a production team as I am working by msyelf however I count some of the students in the class as part of my production team as they helped me to do parts of the work and were really helpful in giving me feedback for improving the work
I am hoping to follow these scheduling times
December- I would have to start shooting the video
January- Finish shooting the video and start editing
End of january/february- complete the work and get some feedback from students
February- make some improvements from the feedback of the students
March- continue editing my piece and do my two ancillary tasks and complete/complete evaluation
lightning
In the documentary I will stick to codes and convntions of documentaries in terms of lightning and would let the light come from the environment that is being filmed as this would allow me to create versimilitude from the real world to the diegetic world in the documentary.
camera
I will be using hand held camera there would be no need for a tripod or a dolly by doing this it would add authencity to the documentary through the shaky parts in the documentary and would allow for the viewers to not see the documentary as a construct- although it actually is.
Editing
The editing that i would use would be continutity editing, cutaways, dissolve and probably fade out
Sound
I am going to make use of non diegetic sound and diegetic sound within my documentary
the non diegetic sound would be Drake winner and would be used for the introduction of the male actor and would be 10secs. The diegetic sound would be the original music of one of the male actors. The diegetic sound would be the natural sound from outside as Anita is shwocasing her photography portfolio.
Documentary techniques
the docuemtnary techniques I would use in my documentary would be: direct cinema and the actors talking of their inspirations- interview or known as 'talking heads'.
Camera angles/framing
In the documentary i would make use of medium shots instead of close up shots so that it is not too intimidating to the viewers as most of the older audience have a negative view of teenagers. I would also use long shots and give a bird eye view of these teenagers. This would be shown when filming Anitas art work i would show a bird eye view.
For the framing I would have the characters speaking directly to the camera which would be shown clearly in martins story and also I would make use of framing from the side this would be seen in tatendas story. alternating between the two framing styles would make the documentary more interesting.
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