Saturday, October 17, 2009

Running Order

This is the final draft of the running order below:

1. Vox pop opinions of Halloween and trick or treating. A range of ages to show a variety of answers. They will cross fade between each clip. The only sound used would be the voices of the interviewees. Filmed in a busy shopping centre.
20 sec

2.Opening sequence of the letters H A L L O W E E N being carved out then swirls off at the end
3 Sec

3. Clip of Pumpkin being carved and sped up. Medium close up on the pumpkin. This will be speedup 500%. The mise on scene will be simple- outdoors on a table for health and safety and to reduce mess. There will be spook music from the film The shining as a soundtrack. This will end with the finished pumpkin lit and the title will fade onto the screen then the page will twirl off to the sound of a menacing laugh.
27 sec

4. There will be continuity shot of two children dressed up trick or treating. The camera will follow them on there journey to one house. The voice over will be an introduction and results about a survey on what people thought Halloween is about.
20 sec

5.Footage of Halloween decorations with voice over
10 sec

6. Interviews with a vicar and a sociologist will be cut together along with cut aways of – a church from many views, different shop headings, a graveyard, church figures of saints, Halloween merchandise, children at a superhero party, an advert for a shop and fancy dress costumes. And also clips from films, Hocus Pocus and Wickaman. The vicar will talk about the churches view on Halloween and the sociologist will talk about big brand and big business influences on Halloween.
1.40 secs

7. Voice over about religious side, paganism etc… With a reconstruction of a pagan ritual at a fire side.
30 secs

8. Fade out and fade in to priest (high priest of pagans find this) , priest discusses religious side of paganism. Discussion about the great emphasis today on the ghoulish and occult aspects of Halloween? Explanation of November 1 All Saints' Day and November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honour the dead. Discussion about paganism rituals.
2 mins

9.Archive footage of the film, the wicker man. Showing the paganistic rituals. (voice over in beginning discussing about the ritual being used.
30 secs

10. Archive footage of a newspaper article, books with voiceover talking about historic articles and books that have been created about Halloween.
40 secs

11. Tracking shot of elderly man walking, voice over talking about the older generation of Halloween.
20 secs

12. Interview with elderly man about Halloween when he was younger and how it’s changed. (cut aways of archive footage of younger children in the early 1900’s and photographs of elderly man when he was younger.)
2 mins

Break 3 mins

13. Voice over talks about Dracula’s and how people believe in them. Asks the questions are they real or not. Discusses Transylvania (archive footage of film Dracula)
1 min

14. Fade from black, establishing shot of hope university. Then goes into the interview with the specialist on Dracula’s. The specialist talks about the articles he wrote about Dracula and what fascinates him about Halloween.
2 mins

15. Track shot through Liverpool to smithies shop, establishing shot of smithies and pan along the different costumes (voice over discussion about costumes and sales and where we are)
30 secs

16. Close up of costumes, people choosing costumes, spooky products. Slow pan around the shop to show how spooky. Voice over continued
30 secs

17. Interview with smithies owner, how sales have gone up? Is smithies a spooky place at Halloween? What’s it like in Liverpool round this time?
2 mins

18. Voice over of what we found out about costumes and discussing teenagers, how they like to dress up. Establishing shot of Weatherhead highschool and a tracking shot round the 6form common room. Clip of the common room being dressed up for Halloween.
30 secs

19. Vox pop of interviews with students. About how excited they are about dressing up for school and discussing their social lives on Halloween.
1 min

20. Cut back to man in graveyard, talking about the sales and teenagers are the main reason why the sales have gone up and the most popular costume (witch) talks about how some people think there witches.
30 secs

21. Reconstruction of witches chanting, voice over of man talking witches, explanation of what witches done on Halloween? Achieve footage of the witches from Macbeth screen play.
1 min

22. Interview with person who thinks she’s a ‘witch’. Discusses rituals, beliefs and history of witches.
2 min

23. Small clips from throughout the show. Discusses what was found overall.
1 min

24.Vox pop of most of the people (interviewees, members of the public) saying one word to summarise Halloween.
1 min

25. Closing credits over montage of films, (scary build ups).
1 min

Total Time
27 mins

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Running Order

This is the running order of our documentary which we have also named :

Halloween: Things that go bump in the night

1. Vox pop opinions of Halloween and trick or treating. A range of ages to show a variety of answers. They will cross fade between each clip. The only sound used would be the voices of the interviewees. Filmed in a busy shopping centre.
20 sec

2.Opening sequence of the letters H A L L O W E E N being carved out then swirls off at the end
3 Sec

3. Clip of Pumpkin being carved and sped up. Medium close up on the pumpkin. This will be speedup 500%. The mise on scene will be simple- outdoors on a table for health and safety and to reduce mess. There will be spook music from the film The shining as a soundtrack. This will end with the finished pumpkin lit and the title will fade onto the screen then the page will twirl off to the sound of a menacing laugh.
27 sec

4. There will be continuity shot of two children dressed up trick or treating. The camera will follow them on there journey to one house. The voice over will be an introduction and results about a survey on what people thought Halloween is about.
20 sec

5.Footage of Halloween decorations with voice over
10 sec

6. Interviews with a vicar and a sociologist will be cut together along with cut aways of – a church from many views, different shop headings, a graveyard, church figures of saints, Halloween merchandise, children at a superhero party, an advert for a shop and fancy dress costumes. And also clips from films, Hocus Pocus and Wickaman. The vicar will talk about the churches view on Halloween and the sociologist will talk about big brand and big business influences on Halloween.
1.40 secs

7. Voice over about religious side, paganism etc… With a reconstruction of a pagan ritual at a fire side.
30 secs

8. Fade out and fade in to priest (high priest of pagans find this) , priest discusses religious side of paganism. Discussion about the great emphasis today on the ghoulish and occult aspects of Halloween? Explanation of November 1 All Saints' Day and November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honour the dead. Discussion about paganism rituals.
2 mins

9.Archive footage of the film, the wicker man. Showing the paganistic rituals. (voice over in beginning discussing about the ritual being used.
30 secs

10. Archive footage of a newspaper article, books with voiceover talking about historic articles and books that have been created about Halloween.
40 secs

11. Tracking shot of elderly man walking, voice over talking about the older generation of Halloween.
20 secs

12. Interview with elderly man about Halloween when he was younger and how it’s changed. (cut aways of archive footage of younger children in the early 1900’s and photographs of elderly man when he was younger.)
2 mins

Break 3 mins

13. Voice over talks about Dracula’s and how people believe in them. Asks the questions are they real or not. Discusses Transylvania (archive footage of film Dracula)
1 min

14. Fade from black, establishing shot of hope university. Then goes into the interview with the specialist on Dracula’s. The specialist talks about the articles he wrote about Dracula and what fascinates him about Halloween.
2 mins

15. Track shot through Liverpool to smithies shop, establishing shot of smithies and pan along the different costumes (voice over discussion about costumes and sales and where we are)
30 secs

16. Close up of costumes, people choosing costumes, spooky products. Slow pan around the shop to show how spooky. Voice over continued
30 secs

17. Interview with smithies owner, how sales have gone up? Is smithies a spooky place at Halloween? What’s it like in Liverpool round this time?
2 mins

18. Voice over of what we found out about costumes and discussing teenagers, how they like to dress up. Establishing shot of Weatherhead highschool and a tracking shot round the 6form common room. Clip of the common room being dressed up for Halloween.
30 secs

19. Vox pop of interviews with students. About how excited they are about dressing up for school and discussing their social lives on Halloween.
1 min

20. Cut back to man in graveyard, talking about the sales and teenagers are the main reason why the sales have gone up and the most popular costume (witch) talks about how some people think there witches.
30 secs

21. Reconstruction of witches chanting, voice over of man talking witches, explanation of what witches done on Halloween? Achieve footage of the witches from Macbeth screen play.
1 min

22. Interview with person who thinks she’s a ‘witch’. Discusses rituals, beliefs and history of witches.
2 min

23. Small clips from throughout the show. Discusses what was found overall.
1 min

24.Vox pop of most of the people (interviewees, members of the public) saying one word to summarise Halloween.
1 min

25. Closing credits over montage of films, (scary build ups).
1 min

Total time
27 mins

Formal Proposal

As a group we sat and discussed the formal proposal and all worked on it together and this is what we came up with:


Topic


The chosen topic for the documentary is Halloween. We aim to explore the origins of Halloween from the pagan ritual and all hollows eve, then to express how it has been developed into a consumer holiday for dressing up and eat treats. The plan is to express how the supposed American holiday has become a festival in its own right and how it is only really popular within younger generations.


Type of Documentary


Expository as it will mainly be characterised by ‘voice of god’ narration. The voice over will anchor the meaning to the images. Usually expository documentaries are based around a problem which needs solving therefore the basis of this documentary will be the discovery of the development of Halloween. Understanding that documentaries are rarely ever pure of a specific style, there will also be hints of observational. This will be shown through clips of trick or treater’s and also people shopping for Halloween treats, costumes and decorations.

Channel and Scheduling


Through use of intended target audience feedback, the most popular and relevant channel to schedule such a documentary would be channel four. This is because it already shows similar styled documentaries such as ‘Dispatches’ and ‘Witch hunters’. These are both informative and observational. The scheduling was chosen to be 9.30 on Halloween night. This is because it is a one off documentary to entice viewers through the relevance of the occasion. The time 9.30 was chosen as it was past the water shed enabling a wider range of footage and considering the topic is seen as scary. The show scheduled in this time slot usually is ‘Darren Brown’ which receives a very similar target audience to which we aim our documentary. Following the documentary is ‘Peep show’ which receives a young adult target age.


Target Audience


16-28. It is a wide range because we understand that different age groups feel differently about Halloween. This age group of young adults are more likely to be watching T.V at the chosen time and through questionnaires feedback they are the age’s group most interested in the theme of documentary.


Primary Research Needed


Questionnaires for audience feedback. Interviews required; a professor or sociology, a local vicar that knows about pagan rituals, a person who thinks they are a witch, an interview with the manager of a fancy dress shop, an interview with a large chain store manager, an elder person who can talk about how they remember Halloween, and some teenagers and their views on Halloween now.


Secondary Research


Achieve footage from the following things: Hocus Pocus (film), Scream (film), Halloween (film), Casper (film), The Simpsons (TV special), Night of the living dead (film), dawn/Sean of the dead (film), and Sico (film). There would also be footage of bats, owls and the moon. Other secondary research needed is information from books or the internet about the origins of Halloween for the narration.


Narrative Structure


The narrative structure of the documentary will be linear as it will go through the change of Halloween from the past when it was All Hallows day and a pagan ritual, through to the present and how it has become a consumer holiday.


Outline for Content


The documentary will start with a montage of different symbols of Halloween to introduce the audience to the genre and theme. Then the professor of sociology will explore the origins and about the witches and all hallows day. After which the religious aspect will be incorporated through an interview with the vicar, there will also be the interview with a pagan and someone who believe in spells and witchcraft. Moving on towards how Halloween is currently and there will be interviews with the shop managers and cut aways of different fancy dress costumes and people celebrating Halloween.


Resource Requirements


Equipment needed: Camera, Tri-pod, voice recorder.

Props needed: Mirror, pumpkins, cats, black rose, candles, newspapers and magazines with Halloween related covers, Suit for presenter, church bell, chocolate apples, lanterns, spiders, ladders, and religious symbol i.e. cross.

Locations needed: Graveyard, outside a church, an office, ASDA, fancy dress shop, Land a Liverpool city street to film the public.

Target Audience

From our results we found that the majority of the audience were between the ages 16-20 therefore that means that would be our target audience.

The results below show the age range of people who filled out the questionnaire who also said they would be interested in a halloween documentary.

16-20 21-24 25-28 29-32 32+
11 9 4 3 3



We also asked the target audience which channel they would tend to watch and which times at, the results are as follows:

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 ITV2 CH4 OTHER
4 1 3 0 16 6



More people said that they tend to watch channel 4.
Therefore this means that as most of the target audience watch channel 4 that the documentary would be featured on channel 4!

We also asked the target audience what times do they tend to watch television and our results where that more people tend to watch television between 9 and 10.
The results are as follows:

6-7 pm 7-8 pm 8-9 pm 9-10 pm 10+
2 1 8 13 6



Another question that was asked was when would the audience prefer to watch a halloween documentary, the options they had were:

On halloween Day
before halloween
Week before halloween
Day after halloween
Week after halloween

The majority of people said that they would prefer to watch the halloween documentary on halloween and the results are as followed:

On Halloween 16
Day before 13
Week before 1
Day after 0
Week after 0



0 Overall this shows the target audience are age ranging between 16 and 20 who tend to watch channel 4 between the times of 9 and 10 and would prefer to watch the halloween documentary on halloween night.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Questionnaire

Below is the questionnaire that we used to ask the audience questions basically to help us with our final product.

Halloween Documentary Questionnaire

1. Age: _________
2. Gender: Male Female
3. Occupation: _________________________
4. Are you religious? Yes No

5. Would you be interested in a documentary on Halloween?

Yes No It depends on the angle of the programme

6. I n your opinion what is Halloween about? (Circle one)

Chance to get dressed up Something for children Religious Festival
Celebrating Evil Waste of time Don’t know

7. Do you believe in superstitions? Yes No Only some

8. What are your opinions of trick or treating?
________________________________________________________________

9. Do you know where Halloween originates? Yes No I know of some aspects

10. Did/do you trick or treat as a child? Yes No I still do

11. Do you know what paganism is? Yes No Partly

12. What channel do you watch the most?

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 ITV2 Channel4 other (specify) ___________

13. What time do you watch TV the most during the evening? (Circle one)

6-7 7-8 8-9 9-10 later than 10

14. When would you watch a Halloween documentary? (Circle one)

On Halloween The day before The week before Day after Week after

15. Would you prefer a male or female voice over narrator?

Male Female Either

16. What songs do you associate with Halloween?
______________________________________________________________

17. What colours do you associate with Halloween?
______________________________________________________________

18. Do you think it’s important to have expert interviews?

Yes No Some but not many

19. Do you think it’s important to have a voice over narrator?

Yes No

20. Do you think it’s important to have clips from films about Halloween? If so give examples

Yes No
____________________________________________________________
21. What other documentaries do/have you watched that you like?
____________________________________________________________

22. What about these documentaries interests you the most?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

23. What words do you associate with Halloween?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Analysis of 6 documentaries.

Below are 6 documentary's that have been analysis:



Documentary- The devil made me do it - Marilyn Manson

Type of documentary:

  • Exposity
  • Interactive
  • Observational
  • Reconstructive
  • Voice of god Anchors
  • Voice over

Themes

  • Religion – Satan
  • Murder?
  • Binary opposition – culture
  • Devil
  • Everyone in the world has a role to play
  • Brain washing of rock
  • Media (power)
  • Violence
  • Influence - youth
  • Teenagers
  • Music
  • Vulnerability of teenagers
  • Establishment vs. alternative culture
  • Information age
  • Kids and parents (communication)

Narrative structure

  • Puppet master
  • Reconstructions
  • Non-linear
  • When following Marilyn Manson – Linear (Following time in order)
  • Follows Propp’s character theory – Hero – Villain
  • Follows Levi Straus theory (Binary oppositions)
  • Also follows Toderov’s theory – Equilibrium, disequilibrium etc
  • Parallelism – asking audience – Girls and Marilyn

Camerawork

  • Establishing Point of view shot of mountains
  • Close up of brother to the woman who got murdered
  • Over shoulder shot of man driving
  • Tracking shot of people walking up the stairs
  • Close up of coffin
  • Three shot of people carrying coffin
  • Talking heads
  • Birds eye view of towns
  • Hand held camera work
  • Tilt frames
  • Close up’s of graffiti
  • Tracking shot of the police
  • Shots of fans
  • Tracking shot of Marilyn
  • Shots of people swearing
  • Close ups of peoples faces
  • Long shot of men talking
  • Long shot of doors in the dark
  • Lots of night shots
  • Tracking following brother
  • Low angle of man looking at grave
  • Close up of newspaper
  • Shots of teenagers (groups) smoking and drinking
  • Close up of hands clasped
  • Following interviewer
  • Low angle shot of Marilyn (power)
  • Hand held tracking/ blurry to make it look real
  • Long takes – direct address (follows various subjects

Mise-en-scene

  • Religious stuff – Cross, Flowers, Grave stone
  • People in suits
  • Office background
  • A church
  • Religious iconology
  • Teenagers smoking
  • Darkness
  • Rain
  • Framing of concerts
  • Grave yard
  • Juxtaposition of fans
  • Empty court
  • Light at the end of the tunnel
  • Binary opposition of Marilyn and interviewer

Sound

  • Music
  • Non-Diegetic
  • Drum beats
  • Whispering in the background
  • Heart beat – non-Diegetic
  • Non- Diegetic of woman’s confessions
  • Thudding
  • Stabbing
  • Voice of god
  • Violin solo
  • Choir music in background
  • Song at the end

Editing

  • Non- Diegetic of voice over
  • Italian with English overlay
  • Cuts
  • Reconstruction
  • Cut to houses were girls live
  • Red lighting
  • Fades
  • Cut away shots to establish location
  • Cut from concert to streets

Archive material

  • Footage of music video’s
  • Interview with Marilyn
  • Press conference

Graphics

  • Title –opening dark to show evil and a cross in the devil
  • Picture of person
  • Names and texts on screens
  • Newspaper articles
  • Lyrics to the song (Reinforce what he was singing)
  • Subtitles
  • Dresses like the pope

Documentary- Marketing Movies

Type of documentary:

  • Factual
  • Educational

Themes

  • Cinema
  • Merchandise
  • Advertising
  • Films

Narrative structure

Camerawork

  • Talking head, during interviews (Close up)
  • Pan showing merchandise
  • Fade to cinema
  • Zoom to poster
  • Long shot of audience
  • Fast cutting (merchandise)
  • Cut aways
  • People on red carpet/ interviews
  • Pan down on a poster
  • Pans of poster
  • Zoom out from poster
  • Close up of stars – Jonathon Ross (Archive)
  • Dissolves used e.g. poster to next picture

Mise-en-scene

  • Merchandise
  • Posters
  • Talking heads- see who’s talking (authentistic)
  • Camera crew
  • Tie ins with merchandise etc
  • Puppets
  • Books/ before films etc

Sound

  • Non- Diegetic of interview voicing over shots
  • Voice over’s
  • Sound track – engaging
  • Voice of god

Editing

  • Animated cut
  • Cuts from interview to merchandise / posters
  • Actual footage from films
  • Trailers
  • Teaser trailers

Archive material

  • Zoom out of exhibit
  • Stars e.g. Jonathon Ross
  • Lee Evans
  • Promoting merchandise
  • Award ceremonies

Graphics

  • Dates and money signs
  • Three strands
  • BB2 written at the top
  • Animated cuts
  • Copy/ Slow zoom of article
  • Text under new interview and their role

Documentary- Meatloaf – The Music Biz

Type of documentary

  • Exposity
  • Interactive
  • Informative
  • Compulation

Themes

  • Brit awards
  • Meatloaf as specific example
  • Music industry
  • Products are created
  • Branding of Meatloaf (Rebranded)
  • Manipulation of audience
  • Marketing industry

Narrative structure

  • Brit awards (setting scene)
  • Moves on case study of Meatloaf
  • Smaller study of YMCA (the village people) – Nutshell
  • Parallel narrative running – 2 strand narrative
  • Linear – direct address
  • Narrative in the narrative
  • “Meat staggers obediently” (message behind the movie)
  • Talent/ Product – Meatloaf
  • Metaphors – Staggers obediently.

Camerawork

  • Talking heads
  • Low angle shot of radio city
  • Camera then pans down
  • Establishing shot of place
  • Establishing shot of award ceremony
  • Point of view shot – hand held shot to show behind the scenes
  • Hand held to make audience feel as if they were there – press pass
  • Interview
  • Mid shots of interviewee
  • Talking heads don’t look directly at the camera
  • Establishing shot of virgin headquarters (show location)
  • From mid shot to big close up (to make them connect)
  • Hand held a lot in the meetings etc
  • Set shot – interviews
  • Insight on how Meatloaf really feels
  • Hand held all over the place
  • Close up of betting screen
  • Few two shots
  • Close up of NME magazine
  • Zoom of radio city
  • Juxtaposition Meat and managers walking
  • Slow motion tracking of fans

Mise-en-scene

  • Crowds of people
  • Camera crew
  • Magazine
  • Celebrities
  • Old phone
  • Police man
  • Head phones
  • Everyone smartly dressed
  • Steady cam’s
  • Close camera work/ very busy
  • Loads of people
  • Background- interviewee in music studio with desk behind him (song writer)
  • Sunglasses /rock and roll
  • Direct interview
  • Album covers in the background
  • People dressed up (Santa)
  • Studio background – anchor
  • Betting office (screen of best)
  • Moving image in backgrounds

Sound

  • Voice of god narrator (male) non-Diegetic
  • Audience screaming in joy “woo”
  • Radio
  • Diegetic bus from the crowds
  • Background music
  • Meatloaf’s songs
  • Beating heart
  • Voice over’s
  • Peoples interviews
  • Songs Diegetic
  • YMCA- actual tracks
  • Diegetic sound of camera clicking
  • Talking about production of interviews

Editing

  • Magazines talking etc
  • Match on action
  • Fading of interviewee (super imposed)
  • Cut away shots to illustrate what they’re talking about
  • Background of interviews
  • Contrinuety editing
  • Fades
  • Talking heads
  • Compiling techniques
  • Juxtaposition of image of texts etc
  • Background music

Archive material

  • Celebrity
  • Interview with stars
  • Brit awards 1994- clips/ Grammys
  • TV programme
  • Meatloaf videos
  • Footage of making the video (documentary)
  • Footage from other programmes that Meatloaf has appeared in
  • Music videos
  • Posters
  • Footage from things
  • Trailers
  • Top of the pops
  • Stills
  • Newspaper clips

Graphics

  • Magazine collage with moving images
  • Title – The Music Biz
  • Titles of people
  • Marketing research
  • Filmed sheets of graphics
  • Photographs- panned across e.g. Meatloaf
  • Logo

Documentary- That Thing – Lara Croft

Type of documentary

Themes

  • Lara Croft
  • Technology

Narrative structure

  • Introducing Lara Croft
  • The film
  • Comments from the creator of Lara Croft

Camerawork

  • Talking heads done in close up
  • Close ups sort of make it exciting/ dramatic
  • Extreme close ups of Toby man
  • Fast paced – speeded up- internet café
  • Hand held camera

Mise-en-scene

  • Background
  • Film and computer

Sound

  • Gun shooting
  • Voice of god (code and convention)
  • Video game music
  • Music
  • Voice over
  • Diegetic and non-Diegetic
  • Layers of sound – music in the background

Editing

  • Interviewee put into computer screen
  • Speeded up – fish eye lens to make it fast pace
  • Short interviews
  • cuts

Archive material

  • using footage of video game and film
  • Barbie adverts
  • websites

Graphics

  • Lara Croft – Graphics
  • Name of screen – codes and conventions
  • Texts – websites
  • Pictures
  • Computer screen around mans face

Documentary- Wild Welsh Zoo


Type of documentary

  • Expository
  • Reality TV
  • Observational

Themes

  • Business
  • Animals
  • Money
  • Weather
  • Zoo’s
  • Animals injuries
  • Vets
  • Business trip
  • relaxation

Narrative structure

  • A woman with a dream to work with animals
  • Brought a zoo
  • Trying to get people to visit
  • Linear narrative

Camerawork

  • Establishing shot of Wales –Denby
  • Two shot of woman and husband high fiving each other
  • Fades
  • Mid shot of family by car advertising zoo
  • Tracking shots
  • Three shot of woman with fans
  • Low angle shot while woman’s driving
  • Pan from bottom of fence overlooking farm
  • High angle shot over looking animals
  • Close up of animals
  • People talking to camera
  • Close up of animals and babies (Leema’s)
  • Pan of café in zoo
  • Close up of food being cut up – while woman talking
  • Tracking shot of dog chasing kid
  • Close up of kid putting bucket on woman’s head
  • Extreme close up of kids face right in camera
  • Establishing shot of zoo
  • Close up of interviewee
  • Close up of Leema’s injury
  • High angle shot of kids playing in zoo
  • Extreme close up’s of zebras
  • Zoom out from herd of animals – fish eye lens used

Mise-en-scene

  • Vet with dart gun
  • Animals
  • Animal food
  • Wearing overalls (thick coats)
  • Umbrellas (because of rain)
  • Café – chairs etc
  • Natural background
  • vets

Sound

  • Voice of god
  • Animal noises
  • Shot of the gun
  • Phone call
  • Rain
  • Non-Diegetic music
  • Oinking of the pigs

Editing

· Fade to white

· Cuts

· Elliptical editing

· Contrinuety editing

· Cut aways to animals and location

Archive material

  • Animals playing round

Graphics

  • Title swinging down onto the screen

Documentary- Don’t tell the bride

Type of documentary

  • Reality TV
  • Exposity

Themes

  • Love
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Wedding
  • Control
  • money

Narrative structure

  • Man has to plan a wedding without the bride knowing
  • The bride worried that he would make the wrong choices
  • At the wedding the bride realises it doesn’t have to be a big wedding to make her happy.

Camerawork

  • Mid shot of the couple being interviewed
  • Pan of house
  • Two shot of couple cuddling and saying good bye to one another
  • Close up of best man knocking on the door
  • Three shot of men talking in the pub
  • Shot reverse shot of them talking to each other
  • Close up of bar
  • Over shoulder shot of mother and daughter walking into church
  • Close up of grooms face shocked at church
  • Establishing shot of run down church
  • Establishing shot of town
  • Pan showing inside of building
  • Mid shot of interviewee
  • Close ups of wedding shop
  • Long shot of man in wedding dress

Mise-en-scene

  • Signing a form
  • Wedding dress
  • Suitcase
  • Casual dressed
  • Sunglasses on head
  • Groom with pen behind ear connoting business
  • Church’s
  • Laptop
  • Football stadium
  • Tudor castle
  • Contempary buildings (modern)
  • Old fashioned building – knights in shining armour

Sound

  • Voice of god – narrator
  • Non-Diegetic music
  • Opera non-Diegetic music

Editing

  • Contrinuety editing
  • Elliptical editing

Archive material

Graphics

  • Bride and groom come out of cake




Monday, October 5, 2009

Brain storm of potenital topics for documentary

Idea's for possible documentaries.

  • Cross between waterloo road and airport about school life - Fly on the wall documentary following people on school life.
  • Digital divide - digital age.
  • Watching 18's in cinema - age divide.
  • Chocolate.
  • Racism.
  • Behind scenes of radio show.
  • Gender discrimination.
  • Life as head teacher.
  • War.
  • Long distance relationships.
  • Living by a train station.
  • Being a soletrader.
  • Following a band.
  • Film festivals.
  • IF people think its right to trick or treat (Halloween)
  • Weatherhead sings
  • Primark sweat shop
  • Choosing a university
  • Shakespeare
  • Music

Our final idea was Halloween.

The following stubjects are the subjects we are going to focus on the most. - Paganism, Misi night., trick or treating etc.



Brainstormed ideas