Moving onto editing

Today we have started our editing process. We have finished doing our filming, and our research and planning.

Here are the editing sheets, we will add more as we go along:

Creating The Title Animation

Our documentary needed a title page so using Adobe Flash we created one to use at the start of our documentary.

We looked at title pages of the documentaries we had already analysed and drew inspiration and conventions from them, for example having the title of the documentary be noticeable and also pictures or images related to the topic or title are used.

We used this knowledge and made sure our title was legible and used an image of an apple to fit with our topic. We also kept our target audience in mind and used lined paper as the background for the animation since it is related to school/college work that students do.
 

Logging of footage

Day 9 of filming

Pictures

Day 8 of filming - Archival Footage filming

Pictures

Possible Archival Footage 3

This is the archival footage we are probably going to use within our documentary; this contains better archival footage than the other two considerations for the archival footage. This footage is better to work with and has better material. This is from a channel 4 documentary. This documentary contains past adverts etc, related to health, and this would become useful as we could display facts and statistics on the documentary itself, relating to this archival footage. Some of the adverts included within this documentary includes change4life, the government health campaign aimed at young people. So, this fits into our target audience very well.

Final Script

Script G2

Day 7 of Filming

Pictures

Day 6 of Filming

Possible Archival Footage 2

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/truth-about-food/Documentary archival footage

This Archival Footage is something we are considering using within our documentary; we are still researching for more and different archival footage, still related to the topic of health. It doesn’t really feature other archival footage such as adverts etc within it. This documentary is mainly about an experiment to do with health. But we are considering using this if we don’t find any other archival footage. We also think that our audience may not be able to relate too much to what is shown within this documentary, as its not aimed within our target audience, its mainly aimed at adults. We are looking for archival footage to be a filler within our documentary instead of just background footage

Day 5 of Filming

Day 4 of Filming

Update/Reflection

We have filmed most of our background footage and voxpops, which is what we aimed to complete this week. We only have a little bit of background footage and a few voxpops left to film. communication and time management are our biggest strengths. However, we are not working at a good pace.This is something we need to improve. We have unfortunately been turned down by the P.E teachers who were supposed to be our expert interviewees a few times. We have found some more possible experts to interview who are not P.E teachers, but who are involved in science. We are currently arranging an interview with the head of biology, so that they talk about nutrition. We have completed our research and planning for the documentary making. 

Day 3 of Filming

Day 3 of filming - group 1

Day 2 of Filming

Possible Archival footage 1 - Funny Archival Footage for documentary

Possible Archival Footage for documentary

                                   

This Archival Footage is something we are considering using within our documentary; we are still researching for more and different archival footage, still related to the topic of health. This is unique and humorous, mainly aimed at young people. As this is humorous, this gets the message of healthy eating across to the audience. So, as a result, we are considering using this as archival footage. Archival footage is a key code and convention, as it allows the documentary to take a small break from all the filmed footage, and focus on something else that is backing up the point that the documentary is making. Health documentaries tend to involve archival footage, and we intend on using archival footage.

Interview questions

Interview Questions

Each question varies for different people that we are going to interview. 

• We wanted to ask some personal preferences questions towards our voxpops. This is due to the fact that we want people to think about their own eating preferences and how it effects them. These voxpops are people within our target audience range, so this would probably provoke them to think about themselves a lot more, by seeing what other people's preferences are. 
• When it came to deciding what questions to ask the dinner/canteen staff at the college, we wanted to ask questions that would receive some eye-opening answers. This could again prompt the spectator of the documentary to think about their own choices.
• We were originally going to have a P.E teacher as an expert, but non of them were able to schedule us. So after this, we decided to interview a biology teacher. We picked a biology teacher as they teach the anatomy of the human body, and they know which right things need to go into our bodies. We used them as an expert within nutrition, so that this could help the spectator understand how important putting the right things in our bodies is.

Interview questions are important, as they help build a narrative structure within the documentary. The narrative is important to the spectator, so that they can follow what is actually going on in the documentary.

Day 1 of Filming

Day 1 of - group 1

Storyboard No.3

Shot types

Research

Facts and Statistics Amber

These facts and statistics will become useful within our documentary as they encourage the audience to really think about the eating choices they make, and these will help with the narrative of the documentary. These facts and statistics are meant to give a reflective response from the audience, which is our preffered reading.

Evidence of practice filming

Storyboard No.2

This is the second draft of the storyboard. As you can see this contains a lot more detail than the second draft. More detail is still yet to be added but this cannot be added till the logging of footage is properly complete. We still need to add duration of the actual scene, shot type, music, location etc. When we do our final 3rd storyboard, it should contain all these. This 2nd storyboard draft gives us a clearer view of what's going to happen.

Storyboard No.1

This is our first storyboard draft, it’s not a lot, but these are the first ideas we have on how the documentary is going to pan out. We still have more frames to add and more detail such as what’s happening in the shot, and all the Micro-elements etc. Thanks to our research into similar products such as BBC’s The Truth about Food’ and on narrative structure theories, we have briefly outlined what would happen in our documentary, such as having a presenter (BBC’S The Truth about Food) etc. We will be producing another draft of the documentary which include more detail, shots and frames.

7/10/2014 Objectives

We set ourselves objectives in the lesson to help us keep track of what we needed done:

We managed to update our blogs and complete both the risk assessment and research blogs however we were not able to schedule an interview, we had sent a message using tyber but had not received a reply yet.

Research into Similar Product - Kirtan

Watching a variety of documentaries for research - this gives us an idea of what certain topics of documentaries involve. Even though we have decided to do the topic of health, this research of this certain documentary gives us an idea of what other conventions different genres of documentaries have such as this one has a topic of Crime. We now know what to and what not to put in ours because of our topic.

Risk Assessment

Evidence of planning - setting up camera tripod

How to set up the tripod from a2media14f

 Just Pictures:

Location Recce

Grow Old – Health Documentary

Research into similar products - Liam

Watching this style of documentary becomes useful because our documentary is on a similar topic, and that also this gives us a good overview of what is supposed to take place over an opening 5 minutes of a health documentary.

Montages used in the documentary are all of relevant images to the topic of the documentary as are any establishing shots which is something we will have to follow if we want to keep our whole documentary on topic.
This documentary represents the residents of Iowa of being generally obese to further the effectiveness of their documentary and its importance however it doesn't not directly tell the audience this, they use facts and statistics to create this representation. Another convention we will pick up for the benefit of our documentary.

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Research - facts and satistics

Research

This research will become useful in our documentary when it comes to statistics we are going to use, we have a variety that we can use which will help us. These statistics will get the audience to think about how serious the situation of healthy eating is. Since our documentary is self-reflective, this will become very useful.

Research - Super Size Me

What Are the Main Codes and Conventions of the Documentary Genre Used In

'Super-Size Me’ is a Health Documentary that was part of our research. This was a detailed essay that involved us really analysing the codes and conventions of documentaries. This is on a similar topic to our group which is why it became useful research. Each of us did this individually. This essays part of our research as it is to do with the topic of health. This gives us a suggestion of what conventions health documentaries involve. The idea of the presenter being trustworthy in this documentary is useful to ours as we would like to have a main presenter who is quite normal and informal. This documentary could possibly be aimed at the audience we're looking to aim ours at, so this is useful for that too.

Target Audience Profiles

These profiles are examples of the type of people we will be targeting as our target audience for our documentary on healthy eating

Name: Daniel Hogan
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Education: 
-Place of education: BOA
-Course/s: Games Development
Interests: Computer games for entertainment
                 Goes to the gym
                 Tennis

Name: Kishana Miles
Age:16
Gender: Female
Education: Baverstock Academy
-Course/s:  Art, Sociology, Photography, English
Interests: Writing stories
                 Meeting up with friends
                 Modelling for a small company
                 Drawing

We made profiles to give an example of the people we expect to be in our target audience, this will help us to understand their interests that may be common to their age group and relate to them within the documentary to make it more effective.

Questionnaire Results

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

These are questions we will be asked the questionnaire we will be distributing. A few questions will open question and the others closed.

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This is the documentary form that will be distributed for people to answer. From these we can collect data and peoples opinions and create charts to display the information easier.



Questionnaire Group 1

Proposal

Final proposal from a2media14f

This gives us an overall idea and overview of how are documentary is going to work, and this helps us plan out when we are going to do what. This is a breakdown of our documentary process, some of this may change as we progress with the process. This process outlines everything that is going to commence when we start filming the documentary.

Possible Experts to Interview - Biology Teachers

Some Expert Interview Biology Staff we could interview in replacement for the P.E Staff we couldn't arrange interviews for.

Evidence of interview scheduling

Possible Experts

These are some of our possible experts that will be included in our documentary, we plan to tyber message them and arrange when they can meet with us.

Which topic we decided to pick

Documentary topics

documentary modes

Why did we need to know all about the things we posted?

We needed to know all about the things we posted because we need to develop out theoretical skills for our exam. The exam requires us to reflect on how we have developed our skills through previous coursework assignments. We also need to know about these things for research of the current coursework project we are doing. This will benefit us when it comes to making the actual documentary.

Diary Entry

Skills Used: Blogger, Microsoft Word, Internet explorer etc.
Progress: Good considering first day, quite fast. More posts have been added but we are still a bit behind.
Strengths: We have added more posts, communication, researching skills.
Weaknesses: We are not adding enough posts.
Areas to improve: Time management
Action plan: Add more posts ASAP

Documentary Conventions

Narrative Theorists

Narrative Structure

Diary Entry

· Used IT skills – blogger (refreshed blog skills), Microsoft Word and Internet explorer.

· Progress – slow, due to the fact that we have just started, but eventually became faster.

· Strengths – communication, first ideas, good working pace.

· Weaknesses – maybe a faster working pace so we can move onto the next task

· Areas to Improve – Research skills

· Action Plan – Use a variety of sources to research from and not just go to one source.