Vox Pops: 3

On Friday 15th November, 2013 travelled to Liscard to finish off our vox pops. This time we managed to get a lot more people to answer our questions. As a result we finished all our needed vox pops and so did not require any extra filming.

Vox Pops: 2

On Wednesday 13th November, we all went to Liscard to have another go at doing our vox pops. Again we had many people who declined us in answering our questions. However, we were able to get a few more people than our first attempt at doing the vox pops, but due technical difficulties we have to go out and record them again.

Vox Pops: 1

These were the questions asked:

Do you read?
If not, why don't you read?
If yes, favourite book?
Favourite Author?
Kindle or Book?
Where do you keep your books?
Where do you read?
When do you read?
Why do you read?

On Sunday 3rd November, all three of us went to Birkenhead to do our vox pops. We spent one hour there, and after asking people only two would answer our questions in relation to books and kindles on camera. As a result we have to go out and do them again.

Interview 4: Liz Folan - Film and Book Enthusiast

On 11th November 2013 we planned and carried out an interview with a film and book enthusiast Liz Folan. Prior to the interview we set up a mise-en-scene of a number of posters of films that had been adapted into screenplays of books as that was the topic of the questions.

These are the questions that we asked Liz:

Do you prefer to read an eBook or physical book?

Do you prefer to read a book or watch a film?

Do you think films involving books will ever be driven by Kindles?

Do you think films will lose their magic if the physical books where to be replaced by eBooks?

After watching a film adaptation of a book that you haven't read, do you then go and read the book?

If you could pick any book that you have read that has been adapted into a film that felt that you gave the book justice, what was it and how did the film achieve this?

If you could pick any book you have read that has been adapted into a film that you felt didn't give the book justice, what was it and how do the film achieve this?

Can you name any films where books are the narrative drive?

In early film depicting the future, characters would read from devices like Kindles, but we don't often see them in films today. Why do you think this is?

What kind of narrative genre would you most associate with books?

Interview 3: Christine Walton - English Literature Teacher

On the 30th October 2013 we conducted an interview with Christine Walton, an english literature teacher at Weatherhead High School. We conducted the interview in the school library as to ensure the mise-en-scene was numerous shelves of books:

These were the questions we asked:

Why did you decide to teach English Literature?

Do you prefer physical books or eBooks?

Where do you store your books?

Do you own a Kindle/eBook?

How do you feel about the transition from books to eBooks?

Do you think schools should embrace the use of Kindles and eBooks?

What do you think are the benefits of eBooks?

What do you think are the disadvantages of eBooks?

What possibilities do you think eBooks could offer within English Literature?

What is your favourite book?

Interview 2: Julie Mann - Librarian

On Tuesday 22nd October, 2013 we set everything up so that we could interview Principle Librarian Julie Mann, at 2pm. This took place at Greasby Library so that the mise-en-scene was relevant to our documentary, which is Books vs.Kindles. The interview lasted 5minutes and 52seconds. We were also able to get cutaways of various books contained in the library, as well as somebody reading a book.

These were the questions asked:

Why did you become a librarian?

What is your favourite book?

Do you have a collection at home?

Can you explain the dewy decimal system?

Do you prefer eBooks or physical books?

What effects have eBooks had on this library and the surrounding libraries?

Would you say the the amount of visitors have decreased due to the eBooks?

Do you think libraries will become providers of eBooks?

How does eBook lending work?

Do you think that the availability of books as downloads have affected childrens reading?

Interview 1: Kate Maryon - Author

We conducted an interview with the author, Kate Maryon on 11th October 2013 during a visit she conducted to the school during author week.

What inspired you to become an author?

Do you prefer physical books or eBooks?

What prompted you to make you books available online?

How do you feel about the transition from books to eBooks?

What effects have eBooks had on your book sales?

Do you think the availability of eBooks have affected childrens reading?

Book Piracy?

What effect do you think eBooks have had on bookstores and libraries?

What is the effects of eBooks on first editions?

Filming

Storyboard for Opening Sequence

This was the storyboard that we used to plan our opening sequence. It involves the concept of moving to reflect our title "Moving Foreword" while sopmeobody takes a book to read in a library.

Storyboard of Interviews

We storyboarded one shot of each interview we planned to film to see what framing we were going to use and to assess the mise-en-scene. Each of the quick sketches we did showed where the interviewee was going to be sat and a brief idea of what the mise en scene was going to be like.

Running Order

This is the running order we formed for our documentary.

Running Order

Primary Research

These were the arrangements we made for each interview and the details of interviews we tried to get for our documentary but were unsuccessful.

Documentary arrangements from Belladog55

The locations for the interviews we did shoot successfully were as follows:

• Christine Walton - Weatherhead High School Library
• Kate Maryon - Weatherhead High School Staff Social Room
• Liz Folan - Film and Media Department at Weatherhead High School
• Julie Mann - Greasby Library

Secondary Research

We did a large amount of research into book and eBooks to fuel the information for our documentary. This ranged from the history of book making to book sales and books that had been made into films.

Research for Documentary from Belladog55

Formal Proposal

This is the formal proposal that we formed for our documentary. We covered our target audience, our primary and secondary research. We defined the documentary type and style, its channel and scheduling. The requirements we needed, narrative structure and the outline of the content.

Brainstorm of Content for the Documentary

The group did a brainstorm during one of our lessons to come up with content ideas for our documentary. This involved various aspects such as topics and cutaway ideas.

Questionnaire Results

We grouped together some of our responses from the questionnaire's and formed some graphs and data from them to find out the most popular answers for each question. These answers will help us to choose specifics for areas of our documentaries like colour schemes and background music. They may also provide us with information and data to mention within our documentary.

Book Questionnaire Results

Audience Research

In our group we created a questionnaire to find out information about our target audience. We printed out and found 30 people to complete our questionnaire to find out information about themselves, on their music and colour interests and a lot about their opinion on books.

Here is the questionnaire that we formed:

Book questionnaire from RachLou96

Here are two audio clips of two of our target audience's responses to the questionnaire.

Initial Plans

Today we discussed our initial plans for the documentary we are going to make. During this discussion we discussed the main ideas for the programme, the scheduling and channel and the audience for our documentary.
Title Ideas:

• Digital Prologue
• The Final Epilogue
• The Last Chapter
• Chapter "E"
• Moving Foreword

Final Agreement:

Name: Moving Foreword
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduled Time: 7:30pm
Target Audience: 16-30

Further Ideas

We then narrowed down our ideas to three main ideas and then looked at the aspects within these three ideas.

3 Main Ideas

Main Task: Brainstorming

As a group we brainstormed a number of ideas that we could use as our main idea for our actual documentary idea. We came up with a wide variety of ideas and put them together.

Documentary Idea

TV Scheduling

To complete this task I lookked at a TV schedule and I identified programmes within them. This allowed me to see how TV scheduling worked and what it involved.

A schedule is the pattern in which media programmes are arranged and presented to the audience.

The TV schedule for everyday can be broken down into five clear segments. The segments are;

·                     6am-9am: Breakfast time TV

·                     9am-3pm: Daytime TV

·                     3pm-6pm: Kids TV

·                     6pm-9pm: Peak time

·                     9pm onwards: Post watershed

The target audience for these segments are;

Breakfast: People who get up early generally, children going to school, adults going to work and housewives.

Daytime: Unemployed/retired people, housewives and students.

Peak: Everyone/families.

Post Watershed- Adults.

The most popular genres on television are;

·                     Soaps

·                     Police dramas

·                     Reality TV

·                     Games shows

·                     Cooking shows

National and local news as well as kids TV are compulsary.

The target audience for the terrestrials channels are;

·                     BBC- Everyone, because its a PSB.

·                     BBC 2- Minority audience

·                     ITV1- Adults

·                     Channel 4- Minority audience

·                     Five- Everyone

Some channels have repeats  in their channels, BBC1 and ITV1 contain less than 2% of repeats as they __ meanwhile BBC2, Channel 4 and Five contain more than 50% repeats.

Some channels include imported programmes in their scheduling. For example, Channel 4 and Five, They do this for revenue as they can make money buying programmes that are already made and advertise during them, this is a cheaper alternative to them making their own programmes.

Watershed is the unwritten agreement between broadcasters that they will air explicit and unsensored programmes after the watershed which is at 9pm.

Hammocking- the strategic placement of a programme between two other programmes; positioning a new series between two well established shows that appeal to the same target audience often gives the right viewers an opportunity to sample the new series.

Pre-echo- Programme placed on schedule to come before a popular programme.

Inheritance- Programme placed after a successful programme in the hopes of inheriting some of it's audience.

TV listings will say the programme starts at a certain time. For example, Eastenders will start at 7.30pm however the programme rarely starts at that time because there is an advert strategically placed at 7.30pm which advertises a programme to a captive audience.

TV has progressed a considerable amount. For example, In the 1970's there was only 4 channels therefore the audience was more likely to stay watching that channel all night. However, because now we have such a variety of channels it means there's no shared experience, this is audience fragmentation (lots of people watching lots of different stuff).

Its Good To Talk: Evaluation

There a a number of things I would do to improve my preliminary task as it is far from perfect.
The first major issue which there was with our interview was that half the footage that we filmed had lost its sound and so we were unable to use that half of the footage. As we were unable to re film this footage due to time restraints this meant our interview was half the length it was intended to be. Next time we would ensure that the audio was working after each question to avoid the same problem.

There is not a massive change in the framing of the shot for each shot as the zoom is minimal and does not change the shot massivley. The camera was also a little bit off set and wasn't framed straight. Although it is barely noticable it looks unprofessional and can make the viewer feel disorientated if it is at too much of an angle.

The speech by the interviewee didn't really make sense when you listened to it back because obviously the questions were cut out so the viewer is reliant on the the interviewee's answer to work out what the question was. The interviewee's answers were pretty much straight and only a few answers made the question obvious. This means we will have to make sure the interviewees answer make the question obvious.

Preliminary Task: "Game Of Phones" - Final Product

This was the final video that we came up with for our preliminary task.

Its Good To Talk: Editing

This was the editing process of our our doucmentary - Game of Phones.

We started off by importing all our footage into Adobe Premier Pro. This allowed us to view and split each clip as we went along and added different parts of each part of our interview.

We cut each answer from our interviewee's response to the interview question and dragged it onto the timeline of the video.

We continued this until we had most of the answers placed on the timeline. We did however have an issue where the second half of our audio didnt record and so we could not put the second half of our interview into the finished video.

We then started to look through our cutaway footage and started to cut short sections of them and layer them onto the Video 2 layer to cover up any jumpcuts between questions. These were varied lengths because some cutaways were only cut minimally because they needed to be shown completely. ie. Someone typing on a phone.

We completed placing all our cutaways onto the video 2 layer and covered all the jumpcuts. We also had to put left audio onto the audio so that it was hearable through both speakers or headphones dependant on how the audience watched it.

We then added titles to show the interviewee's name and relevance to the topic that they were answering questions on. We put the text over a black box because it was indistuinguishable without it.

We finally added our titles and music base to the video. The music ensured that the background did not sound empty. The title fades in and out over a still image.

It's Good To Talk: Filming

We decided to do our interview filming first as it was the biggest chunk  of the filming that we needed to do. We seated our interviewee at a table so that we could place phones on the table to create the mise on scene as we had nothing big enough to put in the background.

(Interviewee)

(nterviewer/Camera Set Up)

We positioned the camera on a tripod on the opposite side of he table to the interviewee and the interviewer to the opposite side f the camera shot that the interviewee was sat. This ensured that the interviewee was not looking into the camera and was looking off screen at the interviewer.

 

We then filmed an over the shoulder shot of a subject browsing a online phone shop to start of our cutaways.

 

 

We then filmed a close up of a text being written and also someone browsing Twitter and Facebook.

 

We then filmed some close ups of a variety of phones and panned across them as well.

 

We also filmed people using their phones as cutaways to show how people were always using them.

 

I think some of the cutaway shots could have been improved by using a tripod but at times it was impractical and there was nowhere to place it.

 



Preliminary Task: It's Good To Talk

We started off by talking about the interview questions an discussing the cutaways which we could use which linked to them.
These were our initial ideas: n a small group we had to come up with the ideas to make a short exert of a documentary on phones. We had to come up with ideas for content and a name for the programme. These were our ideas.

• Someone texting/on the phone.
• Someone browsing phone sales/contracts online.
• Displaying old Phones.
• Using App Store
• Using social networking
• Emailing
• Text language
• 4 People in room/sat at a table texting
• Phone shops.
• Old to new transition panning shot.

We then discussed the props we would need for the task:

• A variety of old and new phones.
• Computers

Mise-en-scene:

• People sat with a computer screen behind them.
• Picture of phones.

We then discussed a name for our documentary.

• Game of Phones.
• Fones

Codes and Conventions of Filming and Editing Interviews

In class we compared two interviews to establish the codes and conventions of interviews.
They were:

In the Teeth of Jaws - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0Kumw

The Making of Downton Abbey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJn5SN-eg4

Camerawork:

• The interviewee is always placed to the left or right of the frame with their eyeline a third of the way down the shot.

• The interviewer is always placed to the opposite side of the camera shot just out of the shot so that when the interviewee responds to the question they are looking at the interviewer and not into the camera (This prevents direct address and the interviewee looking into the lens of the camera)
• The camera shot can be adjusted during the short period of time that questions are being asked.

Mise-en-scene:

• The background of the interview is normally relevant to the topic of the interview. For example; the Downton Abbey interviews were shot on set so that the background was that of the programme and so gave it a period feel, and in the Jaws interviews a giant image of a shark with its mouth open was used.

• You never place an interviewee in front of a window because it creates a silhouette of that person and makes their face unclear.

Editing:

• The interviewer is never heard asking the questions to the interviewee. This time is covered by editing cutaways into the interview so that it covers this time.
• They are also used to show archive material if the interviewee starts to discuss something which it is relavent to.
• Cutaways are also used to avoid jump cuts and to break up the inteview so that the whole programme is not one big interview.

Graphics:

• Text is overlayed onto the interview at the beginning of each new interviewee's interview for a few seconds so that the audience know who the person is and how they relate to the topic.

 

Sound:

• The background music always relates to the topic of the interview and/or programme. For example; The Jaws theme song was used in the Jaws interview and period music was playing during the Downton Abbey one.

 

Codes and Conventions Of A TV Documentary

In class we found out and researched about the codes and conventions of a TV Documentary and found out what they were. We then put our research together to form a piece of work which we could refer back to.

Documentary Analysis 5: Gibraltar: My Rock

I then went on to study the documentary "Gibraltar: My Rock". This documenatry followed a girl who was getting married in Gibraltar and about the islands history

Gibraltar

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Documentary Analysis 4: Click

The fourth documentary I analysed was "Click". "Click" is a documentary about developments in technology.

Click – BBC 2 from RachLou96

Documentary Analysis 3:That Thing - Lara Croft

The third documentary I analysed was "That Thing: Lara Croft". This documantary was about the influence of Lara Croft throughout gamers and as a role model.

Documentary Analysis 2: Meatloaf - The Music Biz

The second documentary I looked at was "The Music Biz: Meatloaf" a documentary about the band Meatloaf and their rise to fame.

The making of meatloaf – the music biz from RachLou96

Documentary Analysis 1: The Devil Made Me Do It.

I analysed five documentarys to pick out the codes and conventions, types and the purpose of the use of certain things within them. We picked out and anaylsed these aspects and then put them together in a short presentation for easy referral. The first documentary I watched was "The Devil Made Me Do It" a documentary on Marilyn Manson and his influence on people, mainly some of his fans who comitted the murder of a nun.

Types Of Documentary

We finally conducted research into types of documentary. This allows us to broaden our knowledge on the various types of documetary and what they include and need present to be that form of documentary.

The Purpose Of A Documentary

We then proceeded to research the purpose of a TV Documentary to improve our knowledge on the subject and then we put our research together, to ensure we were able to put our research together.

Brief

To produce the opening  five minutes of a documentary as well as to produce a newpaper advert and a radio trailer to promote the documentary.