Wednesday 17 December 2014
Music choice and permission email.
A track we are interested in using for our documentary is 'we are done' by 'The Madden Brothers' we emailed their record label multiple times, unfortunately we didnt get a response.
Music choice and permission email.
we are also interested in using the song 'Geronimo' by band 'Sheppard'.
After emailing both their record label and press manager we unfortunately still got no response
Location.
We have 5 main locations where we shot our documentary - these places were deliberately chosen to create a specific atmosphere and set the scene. We didn't have any deliberate or specific props so it was important that our locations were memorable and effective.
Weybridge high-street
Most of our panning shots are of Weybridge high-street. We chose this location as it conveys a sense of normality, it shows a local place, suggesting to the audience that the subject matter is not out of the ordinary or an uncomfortable topic. We also want our audience to feel that our documentary is relevant to their everyday lives.
The Mormon Church in Addlestone
We wanted to use an actual Mormon church in our documentary, therefore we used shots of the nearest Mormon church in our area. This is used during the time lapse, it relevance is increased due to the narration of Mormon facts being played in a voice recording during the screen time.
School/the common room
This location was very convenient as it meant that we could do the shots in our lesson time. It is also a familiar place to encourage the message of Mormonism being very normal and natural to our audience. It creates a relatable and comfortable atmosphere.
Emily's kitchen
We chose to shoot Andy's (our Mormon) interview here. We felt this was appropriate as it is a normal and familiar place, further reassuring our audience of the normality of the documentary's topic. The location also provides a good background with soft, neutral colours; we felt this also symbolised tranquillity and a sense of comfortable normality.
Emily's bedroom
This was where we decided to film my interview. We agreed on this location as it was convenient, relevant and displayed a comfortable and familiar environment, not unlike the location of our Mormon Andy's interview.
Weybridge high-street
Most of our panning shots are of Weybridge high-street. We chose this location as it conveys a sense of normality, it shows a local place, suggesting to the audience that the subject matter is not out of the ordinary or an uncomfortable topic. We also want our audience to feel that our documentary is relevant to their everyday lives.
The Mormon Church in Addlestone
We wanted to use an actual Mormon church in our documentary, therefore we used shots of the nearest Mormon church in our area. This is used during the time lapse, it relevance is increased due to the narration of Mormon facts being played in a voice recording during the screen time.
School/the common room
This location was very convenient as it meant that we could do the shots in our lesson time. It is also a familiar place to encourage the message of Mormonism being very normal and natural to our audience. It creates a relatable and comfortable atmosphere.
Emily's kitchen
We chose to shoot Andy's (our Mormon) interview here. We felt this was appropriate as it is a normal and familiar place, further reassuring our audience of the normality of the documentary's topic. The location also provides a good background with soft, neutral colours; we felt this also symbolised tranquillity and a sense of comfortable normality.
Emily's bedroom
This was where we decided to film my interview. We agreed on this location as it was convenient, relevant and displayed a comfortable and familiar environment, not unlike the location of our Mormon Andy's interview.
Wednesday 26 November 2014
Music choices and permission email.
The tracks by singer 'Birdy' are 'Tee Shirt' and 'Skinny Love'. We like the idea of using these songs as they are soft and mellow, gentle and would provide the uplifting atmosphere we want.
I emailed her manager to ask for permission. I sent this email multiple times, unfortunately i did not get a response.
I emailed her manager to ask for permission. I sent this email multiple times, unfortunately i did not get a response.
Music choices and permission email.
We emailed the managers of the artists Lenka to ask permission to se her song, we emailed three times but ave still had no luck with a response.
We want to use her music (specifically her song "the show") as it is fast paced and upbeat and would fit
really well with the mood we are trying to create in the audience for our documentary.
really well with the mood we are trying to create in the audience for our documentary.
Music choice and permission email.
For our documentary we are required to provide a non diegetic soundtrack. This of course will need to be suitable for our subject matter of Mormons and create the type of atmosphere
Tom Odell
The tracks that we are interested in using are by singer Tom Odell. These are 'Another Love' and 'Real Love'. We feel that these would interconnect with our documentary well, as they are soothing and gentle songs.
Unfortunately we have not had a response yet.
Tom Odell
The tracks that we are interested in using are by singer Tom Odell. These are 'Another Love' and 'Real Love'. We feel that these would interconnect with our documentary well, as they are soothing and gentle songs.
Music choices and permission email.
We emailed an artist named Lindsey Stirling, she is a female violinist who is also a full time Mormon so using her music would work perfectly in our documentary. Unfortunately we haven't had a response but we have tried emailing to three to three of her accounts (facebook page, website, email) and hopefully we will get a response as her music would really fit in with the documentary mood.
We want to use her music a it suits the "feel" of our documentary and will hopefully make the audience feel happy and create a good vibe about our subject matter.
UPDATE:
We had a response from Lindsey's assistant giving us permission to use her music.
We want to use her music a it suits the "feel" of our documentary and will hopefully make the audience feel happy and create a good vibe about our subject matter.
UPDATE:
We had a response from Lindsey's assistant giving us permission to use her music.
Music choices and permission email.
We emailed the band Van Susans to ask to use their music in our documentary and we were lucky enough to get a response straight away so we can now use their music.
We wanted to use their music as most of their songs are up beat and catchy so would create the right atmosphere in our documentary.
We wanted to use their music as most of their songs are up beat and catchy so would create the right atmosphere in our documentary.
Wednesday 22 October 2014
27/09/2014-22/10/2014
During this time my group and I have been doing all our group work towards the planning of our final project (documentary). All of our research and planning is now completed and on our blogs. We have have researched documentarians and styles of documentaries, also planned what our documentary would be about and include, we also started filming and editing our documentary. We have completed storyboards, planned scripts, emailed our interviewees and auditioned for our documentarian.
Questionnaire results and analysis.
In order to to get an idea of what would be most successful we created questionnaire containing questions relevant to our documentary. In order to send it out to our target audience we shared on our facebook profiles and encouraged friends to complete it.
Shot list.
We will use many different camera angles including:
Panning shot:
We will use this shot so we can show more of the church also because it sets the scene.
Establishing shot:
We will use this to set the overall scene for the documentary.
Mid shot:
We will use this in our interviews to show the interviewee and a bit of the background to create a setting that the audience will then relate to the interviewee.
Close up:
We will use then when we are filming the montages so you can just see the interviewees face.
Extreme close up:
We will use this during interviews to add more to the interview, so that it is not just one long continuouse camera angle that may bore the audience.
Slow motion:
We will use this to add more technical aspects to our documentary, also to emphasize a point that we might be making at the time.
Zoom in/out:
This will be used to either focus in on a point or to add more to the shot.
Panning shot:
We will use this shot so we can show more of the church also because it sets the scene.
Establishing shot:
We will use this to set the overall scene for the documentary.
Mid shot:
We will use this in our interviews to show the interviewee and a bit of the background to create a setting that the audience will then relate to the interviewee.
Close up:
We will use then when we are filming the montages so you can just see the interviewees face.
Extreme close up:
We will use this during interviews to add more to the interview, so that it is not just one long continuouse camera angle that may bore the audience.
Slow motion:
We will use this to add more technical aspects to our documentary, also to emphasize a point that we might be making at the time.
This will be used to either focus in on a point or to add more to the shot.
Friday 10 October 2014
Auditions and interviews.
We interviewed many people to be our main documentarian (as seen above in the video). We came to the conclusion that Emily would be the best option for the documentarian as she is enthusiastic, confident and has a direct link to the subject matter. However we have Sophie on stand by and did an interview audition for her so that we can use her in the future if we have any problems or issues with the first documentarian we chose.
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Email to the participants
We emailed the main participants we would be using for our documentary asking them for their permission to be featured in our documentary.
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Friday 26 September 2014
09/09/2014-26/09/2014
During this time I have been back at school (school term) and have re joined with my group we have all added documents to our blog and come up with our final idea for our documentary. We have also come up with a plan (timeline) that we ll stick to so we know when we will have all our work done and our deadlines.
Friday 12 September 2014
Wednesday 27 August 2014
Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock
Born: 7th November 1970
About: He is an American documentary film maker best known for his documentary Super size me, Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden, Comic-con episode IV: A fans hope and One direction This is us. He went to New York university.
Documentaries: He has done a lot of work in the media industry and created many documentaries but his most well known is Super Size Me, which was released in the US on May 7th 2004. Spurlock Gets many of his ideas from things around him, for example Super size me he said the idea came to him on thanks giving when he was watching the news and saw that a lawsuit was being held against McDonalds by two teenage girls who blamed their obesity on them.
However Spurlock also liked to have life and energy in his documentaries and liked to bring less known subjects to the masses, that is why he did his documentary Comic-con episode IV: A fans hope, where he worked with Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, AintItCool.com founder Harry Knowles, and comic book creator Stan Lee.
Other information: Spurlock uses different styles of documentaries and in a series 30 days he does a Participatory documentary where he spends 30 days in the life of someone else for example being in prison, a devout Christian living in a Muslim family or a homophobe staying with a homosexual person.
04/08/14-31/08/14
During these dates I have been on holiday and whilst being on holiday i have been doing research and adding to my blog.
15/07/14-16/07/14
Tuesday 15th- We had a blog lesson were we did research and worked on our blogs.
Wednesday 16th- My group and I made a story board of what our 5 minute documentary would be and include, we wrote what camera angles we would use and what content we would have.
NOTE: From Thursday they 17th of July to the 1st of August i was on holiday and didn't have access to my blog.
Wednesday 16th- My group and I made a story board of what our 5 minute documentary would be and include, we wrote what camera angles we would use and what content we would have.
NOTE: From Thursday they 17th of July to the 1st of August i was on holiday and didn't have access to my blog.
08/07/14-11/07/14
Tuesday 8th- We had a blog lesson were we did research and worked on our blogs.
Wednesday 9th- A woman from the company My Kind Crowd came to explain what she did and what My Kinda Crowd does. We then had to enter a challenge #SnapShotUni where we had to submit a photo or video with a caption of what university meant to us, i ended up being short listed and then won the prize of getting to go to City of London university for the day and get to be a "student".
Friday 11th- We watched more documentaries and compared them with the mark scheme.
Wednesday 9th- A woman from the company My Kind Crowd came to explain what she did and what My Kinda Crowd does. We then had to enter a challenge #SnapShotUni where we had to submit a photo or video with a caption of what university meant to us, i ended up being short listed and then won the prize of getting to go to City of London university for the day and get to be a "student".
Friday 11th- We watched more documentaries and compared them with the mark scheme.
01/07/14-04/07/14
Tuesday 1st- We had a blog lesson were we did research and worked on our blogs.
Wednesday 2nd- I watched extracts of documentaries (e.g Stephen Fry- Out there and The fame report) and took notes about them like the mode, key facts, interviewer/ee style, stylistic features and what the documentarian was trying to achieve.
Friday 4th- I watched last years documentaries and made note on them, we put them into grade boundaries so that we became familiar with the mark scheme and what we needed to achieve a good grade. We then made a tick list of what we thought our documentary should include to make it work.
24/06/14-27/06/14
Tuesday 24th- We had a blog lesson were we did research and worked on our blogs.
Wednesday 25th- I got into my group and we discussed our initial ideas that we could do for our documentary. We made a presentation of our three ideas so that we could so our class to get initial feedback.
Friday 27th- My group and i showed our initial ideas presentation to our class, we had it filmed so we could later put it on out blog. We then got our feedback back and made notes about it and then the class all had a debate about all our ideas and how they would work.
Wednesday 25th- I got into my group and we discussed our initial ideas that we could do for our documentary. We made a presentation of our three ideas so that we could so our class to get initial feedback.
Friday 27th- My group and i showed our initial ideas presentation to our class, we had it filmed so we could later put it on out blog. We then got our feedback back and made notes about it and then the class all had a debate about all our ideas and how they would work.
17/06/14-20/06/14
Tuesday 17th- I was introduced to the stylistic features used in documentaries and learnt what they were and how to spot them and which worked well and which didn't and thought about what i could use in my own documentary.
Wednesday 18th- I had to choose a documentary, i chose catfish a documentary series, and write about all the stylistic features used and the effect that they have and why they are used in the show.
Friday 20th- I had to present my stylistic features presentation to the class and have it filmed so i could later put it on my blog.
Wednesday 18th- I had to choose a documentary, i chose catfish a documentary series, and write about all the stylistic features used and the effect that they have and why they are used in the show.
Friday 20th- I had to present my stylistic features presentation to the class and have it filmed so i could later put it on my blog.
10/06/14-13/06/14
Tuesday 10th- I was given a brief about a "love documentary", first we watched a few love documentaries done by the year above and wrote notes on them to get idea on what we should include in our own documentaries and what to avoid. We then got put into groups and told what type of documentary we would be doing mine was reflexive.
Wednesday 11th- My group and I started and finished filming all the footage we needed for our love documentary.
Friday 13th- We had the whole double lesson to get our footage onto a mac and edit it, adding in music and transitions, to finish off our two minute documentary.
Wednesday 11th- My group and I started and finished filming all the footage we needed for our love documentary.
Friday 13th- We had the whole double lesson to get our footage onto a mac and edit it, adding in music and transitions, to finish off our two minute documentary.
Wednesday 20 August 2014
Sky Documentaries- Jesus camp
This is a singular documentary.
It was directed by by Heidi Ewing.
About: This documentary follows three children who are in the Evangelical church who go to a controversial summer camp which grooms the next generation of conservative christian political activists.
Style: This documentary is observational as you are completely unaware of the documentation however it also has expository content.
Stylistic Features: Voice recordings- to tell the audience a bit about the documentary also used to back up points being made.
Music- at events the music intensifies showing the drama, also the behavior creating an unsettling feeling for the audience.
Black screen and writing- showing the audience who is about to be interviewed.
Facts appearing on screen- informing the audience on the subject mater.
Camera angles: Close ups- of kids showing how young they are and how they act at these seminars exposing to the audience what the church is about.
Eye line match- showing what the children watch, also their behavior towards it.
Panning shot- Mum to kid (home schooling) showing to the audience that parents play a big part in this religion and the way the kids act.
Establishing shot- setting the scene for the audience/ the "camp"
Interviewees/techniques: Interview kids, parents and leaders of the camps.
You don't hear the questions being asked only hear the responses, within the answers the questions is often mentioned. Only interview one person at a time, when you hear what the children say without adult presence it is shocking as they are acting and speaking like adults.
I liked the fact that it has an interesting subject matter and want my own documentary to interest the audience like this one, however i don't like the style of the documentary and would rather use reflexive.
It was directed by by Heidi Ewing.
About: This documentary follows three children who are in the Evangelical church who go to a controversial summer camp which grooms the next generation of conservative christian political activists.
Style: This documentary is observational as you are completely unaware of the documentation however it also has expository content.
Stylistic Features: Voice recordings- to tell the audience a bit about the documentary also used to back up points being made.
Music- at events the music intensifies showing the drama, also the behavior creating an unsettling feeling for the audience.
Black screen and writing- showing the audience who is about to be interviewed.
Facts appearing on screen- informing the audience on the subject mater.
Camera angles: Close ups- of kids showing how young they are and how they act at these seminars exposing to the audience what the church is about.
Eye line match- showing what the children watch, also their behavior towards it.
Panning shot- Mum to kid (home schooling) showing to the audience that parents play a big part in this religion and the way the kids act.
Establishing shot- setting the scene for the audience/ the "camp"
Interviewees/techniques: Interview kids, parents and leaders of the camps.
You don't hear the questions being asked only hear the responses, within the answers the questions is often mentioned. Only interview one person at a time, when you hear what the children say without adult presence it is shocking as they are acting and speaking like adults.
I liked the fact that it has an interesting subject matter and want my own documentary to interest the audience like this one, however i don't like the style of the documentary and would rather use reflexive.
Tuesday 1 July 2014
Final ideas and Feedback.
My group and I had positive feedback from our ideas:
Everyone knew little about our subject matter so they were intrigued and wanted to know/learn more about it.
They were concerned about how we would relate it to a younger audience as they felt religion was a little out dated but we assured them by saying most of out interviewees would be young adults (the same age as them) so the audience could relate to them.
They told us that it has the potential to be good however we needed to be careful that it doesn't go from really interesting to boring as that can happen with documentaries about religions.
We valued all of this feedback and will listen to it and keep it in mind when we create out documentary.
Tuesday 24 June 2014
Love documentary
For this task we were put into groups and given a brief.
My brief was to create a short two minute documentary on love in a reflexive mode.
I decided to do my documentary on the different types of love interviewing two couples
and a teacher.
I asked the same question throughout the documentary, which also happened to be the
documentaries title "What is love to you?".
By doing this practice documentary I have learnt about different filming and editing
techniques and also my interviewing techniques.
Monday 23 June 2014
Friday 20 June 2014
3/06/14-6/6/14
Tuesday 3rd- I was introduced to documentaries and learnt the different modes that are used for filming and the range of styles used to create documentaries.
Wednesday 4th- I was shown different examples of the documentary modes and then was sent to do some research of my own on a documentary. I chose Louis Theroux's documentary on the Westboro baptisit church.
Friday 6th- I finished the presentation on Louis Theroux's documentary and presented it to my class.
Wednesday 4th- I was shown different examples of the documentary modes and then was sent to do some research of my own on a documentary. I chose Louis Theroux's documentary on the Westboro baptisit church.
Friday 6th- I finished the presentation on Louis Theroux's documentary and presented it to my class.
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