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.

Pictures:

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.