Formal Proposal For Documentary

Topic: Shoes

Type of documentary: Mixed, closed, multi-stranded

Style of documentary: Light-hearted and informative

Channel and scheduling: Channel 4 at 7.00pm, inheriting the programme after Hollyoaks as it targets the same audience

Target Audience: Aged between 16 and 30, mainly female

Primary Research:

Secondary Research:

Narrative structure: Non- linear

Content: Voxpops, video interviews, archive footage, changing styles of shoes, how shoes represent personality

Resources: Camera, tripod, voice recorder, microphone, telephone

Brainstorm Of Content For Documentary

Below is a photo of the brainstorm our group created showing all the content for our 30 minute documentary.

Questionnaire Results

After we collected all of the results, we analysied each question with graphs and drew a conclusion from them.

Questionnaire Results from bethsquires

We also made audio and video recordings of a few people answering some questions from our questionnaire.

Questionnaire

 



 

 As part of research for our documentary, we made a questionnaire about shoes and asked it to 30 people:

 

 

Initial Plans

Initial Plans

- The topic we have decided to make a documentary about is Shoes.
- The target audience we have chosen to aim for is aged 18 to 30, it will be aired on Channel 4 at 7.00pm on a Thursday evening.
- Our working title for the documentary at the moment is "Walk This Way".

Ideas For The Documentary - Brainstorm

Below is a picture of the thought shower we did of all the different ideas that our group came up with when deciding what our documentary should be about.

TV Scheduling

Evaluation Of "It's Good To Talk"

Above is my preliminary task finished. The class all watched each others interviews and gave feedback for each of them to improve on.This is the list of things that were wrong with my interview which I must improve on when I create my actual documentary:
- The ending cuts too quickly
- No fades are used
- The rule of thirds is not used properly
- Song choice is incorrect
- There are no cutaways
- Too many jump cuts
- The shot type is wrong
- Interviewee moves around a lot, changing the eye line
- The positioning of interviewee's body is not right
- Mise-en-scene did not link to the interview
- Camerawork used was not steady
- The music was too loud in parts
- Order of answers did not make sense

"It's Good To Talk" Finished Video

Below is the video of our preliminary task called "Call Me Maybe":

Editing "It's Good To Talk"

Below is a slideshare showing our task for today's lesson.

Filming "It's Good To Talk"

Planning "It's Good To Talk"

In this lesson, we planned how to film our preliminary task and what we would need to make it.

- The title of our preliminary documentary will be called "Call Me Maybe"
- Cutaways used will be a pan across some phones
- Our props will be the phones we use for the cutaway
- For the mise-en-scene we will have a plain background where the interviewee is being interviewed
- I shall be the interviewee for this task

Below is the storyboard we drew before filming our interview:

Codes And Conventions Of Filming And Editing An Interview

Documentary Analysis: In The Teeth Of Jaws on Prezi

Below are links to two of the documentaries I looked at to find codes and conventions of interviews:

In The Teeth Of Jaws – Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0kumw

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special In 3d On Ice Part 1 (Start playing at 3:18)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLGl7c5oHc

Codes And Conventions Of The Documentary Genre

Below is a Glogster of Codes and Conventions of a documentary