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:

• Interviews with teenagers
• questionnaires
• facebook comments/emails on representation of teenagers

Secondary research needed:

• History of documentary
• research on existing producers/companies
• research on camer angles/framing
• research on documentary modes

Requirements for the shots:

• Iphone- for recording voice over
• camera recorder- for video
• camera- for taking pictures

Narrative structure:
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.