Formal Proposal

Brainstorm of content

Our Plan for our Documentary

Include fat, skinny, tall and small pets. The conflict in the documentary will be people who love pets against people who hate pets and have had a bad experience with them. The people that love pets and hate pets are all planned in the lists below.

Beginning- setting the scene lots of cut aways of different types of pets that people have. Some statistics

Middle- bit of conflict which interviews people who don’t like pets as much as others. Juxtapose

End-visiting parks, round the whole documentary up

Music ideas-cat Stephens “” i love my dog” Elvis Presily “hound dog”  Tom Jones “what’s new pussycat”

Interviewing

·         Pet shop in Wallasey village owner

·         People who love pets e.g (Olivia, harry lamb, Susan, Abby, mollies sisters, Tara, Charl Anson, Hannah’s mum, eves Nan and granddad, Melissa’s nan&granddad )

·         People who hate pets ( Robynn, eves dad, eves mum)

·         Interview breeders who Melissa knows

·         Dog training people in Meols

·         VOXPOPS- people in Harrison park, vale park, central park)

 

Cutaways

·         Susan’s cats

·         Susan sisters aquarium

·         Hannah’s dogs and cat and fish and pond

·         Melissa’s dog and fish

·         Mollies sisters reptiles

·         Abbeys rabbit

·         Abbeys dog

·         Jays dog

·         Emma’s rabbit

·         Mollies moody dog

·         RSPCA

·         Helens cats and dogs

 

Qustionairre Analysis

Qustionnaire audio

Questionnaire

Inital plans

Title - Pets at home

Target audience - varies (15+)

Channel - Channel 4

Scheduling - 8-8.30 wednesday evening

Ideas for our documentary

TV Scheduling

Evaluation 'ITS GOOD TO TALK'

Evaluation Of Our Mobile Phone Video!

As a class we showed our mobile phone videos and got feedback about good and bad points in our video.

Good points:

• Choice of music matched
• some good cut aways
• Handwork was steady
• interviewee was looking away not towards the camera
• the interviewee was in a medium shot
• the interviewer was not seen/heard

Bad points:

• had background noise during the interview
• the interviewee was not in the right place, she was in the centre instead of being to the left or right side of the shot.
• the mise en scene didnt communicate
• couldnt hear the interviewee's voice
• the sound was edited too much
• needed to use a tripod at times such as in the cut aways
• during the interview have a varitey of camera angles
• the interview was filmed by a light source (window)

I have learnt a lot by doing this preliminary task as it has taught me, that little mistakes can easliy happen. I have also learnt that planning is very important and to use your time wisely. Also to test out the interviwee yourself before making them do it, to make sure everything is ok.

When we do our main documentary we need to look out for the mistakes we made in our prelimary task which are, to make sure you use a tripod when interviewing, make sure the interviewee is either on the left or right side not looking at the camera, make sure during the interview there is no background noise as during our preliminary task there was a lot of noise. We also need to make sure that the mise en scene suits the genre as in our primlimary task the common room didnt communicate with mobile phones. We also need to watch that our backing track isnt too loud and need to watch we dont edit it too much as it was very jumpy.

Mobile video

Editing 'ITS GOOD TO TALK'

Filming 'ITS GOOD TO TALK'

Planning 'ITS GOOD TO TALK'

In my group there was me, Eve Blakemore and Hannah Mealor. Fristly we planned our film on a storyboard:

This storyboard suggests the shots we are planning on using, the mise en scene, any props and cutaways.

Camera shots/angles/movements
medium shot for the interviewee
close up for the interviwee
panning of a group of girls on the phone
zooming into an old
phone panning shot of loads of different types of phones
close up of money falling
tracking of someone on the phone
high angle of someone using the phone and zooming out
close up of slang language on a phone

Probs
old phones
new phones
money
internet

 Mise en scene
 in the common room to show that its in a teenage enviroment, as we interviewed a teenager.
In school, lots of young people use moblie phones

Cut aways
off an old phone
a row of all new phones to show how phones have changed
someone using the internet on their phone such as facebook, twitter etc.
money falling infront of the camera
someone talking on the phone
someone texting slag language
someone calling them
group of friends all using there phones someone
cradling their phone as they cant cope without it still images of phones

Codes and Conventions of filming and editing an interview.

Codes and Conventions of a Documentary

Documentary analysis 'THAT THING-LARA CROFT'