Progress Chart (EVERYTHING)

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Newspaper Construction Begins

We've started writing and placing images into our double page spread. At the moment this is just a tester as much as the final thing. We want to make sure that everything looks and appears right. We used a template that we felt will keep our newspaper article on the right path, being the documentary style. We must represent the presenter and most important highlight the main focus of the documentary, example Lewis Sloan. As you can see the newspaper spread doesn't look that great, however once it's complete we hope it will appeal to everyone within our target audience.

As you can see the image at the bottom of the top image has no relevance to the documentary, however we put it in their, just to see what it looked like.

Radio Times Template Example

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE TEMPLATE IDEAS AND GENERAL DESIGN

All of these images are from the Buzz magazines, as you can see the layout and general organisation of the text, is exactly how myself and Lewis want it to look like. However we can't afford to get too carried away as we must remember that we are a documentary and not a film, music video or drama. We must keep on the lines of our convention.

Next on the Agenda

Well myself and Lewis have complete the first of the ancillary tasks. 1 Being a newspaper advertisement. So we now move onto the double page spread. In the spread we need to have a main image which stands out just like the poster however we need to make sure that this one is an actually image of Lewis up close. It's just so then people can see him more up and close. We hope to take a picture of Lewis for the page spread as soon as possible. We will take a picture of him dressed in his GB rowing jacket, the image will only be the waist up. We are also looking at the Radio times for guidance, and also looking at different templates.

The Real Thing

As you saw from the practise shots and posters, we've worked hard and come away with a great overall product. As you can see the font has change we made sure that the text/font stood out. The creative royal text give the whole thing a base feeling. The slogan speaks for itself, if you read it and look at the image you will notice that the image resembles the text. The spotlight effect took time and precision, however over time little touches here and there made it complete and exciting to look at.
If you look closer we put in the date, time and channel the documentary is to broadcasted, from thorough research we noticed that on advertisement pages the information is highlighted in small sized font and is of a simple text style. Again the slogan text is simple as we want to reinforce the main focus which is the spotlight. The reason for creating a spotlight and thinking of a slogan relating a spotlight effect came from when we realised that when athlete's compete they are under the spotlight (everyone is watching).
It's crucial that we put the 2012 London Olympic logo onto the poster as the documentary is based on the Olympics, and young stars within their sport.

Some Practise Advertisement

Working with Adobe

Adobe photoshop is what myself and Lewis ended up using. It has better overall effects, as it's the one professionals tend to use. In our advertisement we need to choose a image that will talk for it self. For example an image of Lewis rowing is what we want, however unless we put effects that help connote the image the audience will not pick up on the purpose and aim of the product.

We will use creative font for the title 'Olympic Dream' as that is the main focus. It's important that we incorporate a slogan as the advert is about appealing to the audience. As the poster will aim to BBC 2 audiences. Again BBC 2 is a high rated broadcasting channel and therefore we are expected to express our idea in a precise a way. Adobe is the perfect programme to enable us to create a great final image. I've used and personal belief that it's abilities can create something great for us.

Newspaper Planning Advert

Next on the criteria

Once we have complete our main product (documentary),then our attention turns to the 2 ancillary tasks. In this case it is a newspaper article(spread) and a newspaper advertisement of the documentary. The newspaper advertisement is to be the first one that we hope to complete. The idea is to use either adobe photoshop or macromedia fireworks. Both are great for special effects, and when we place our images into these software's we will be able to create a work of art.

We will be using guidance and reference from the radio times magazine and website as it publishes many TV dramas, movie, documentaries etc. Once we complete this we will move straight onto the double page spread as that involves writing many persuasive articles.

Final Piece

Drawing closer to the Finish :)

As we draw closer to the finishing product of our documentary, we move onto a new objective. That next step is ancillary task. Whereas in my As project all you had to do was film and create and fill a blog, at A2 you have to design and create posters and newspaper page spreads. Taking photographs is a passion of mine so the poster shouldn't be a problem.

The newspaper page spread is going to be the mission as we have to write an article and again find some pictures for the newspaper spread. Myself and Lewis will be moving onto this next task asap. Just to summarise the experience of filming a documentary, it's been great and have learn't lots it's just a shame that we didn't get to film a full documentary that surely would have been fun.

Editing (Special Effects)

Editing was one of the strenuous parts of the production as myself and Lewis were trying to better our knowledge and ability to use Final Cut Express. All threw our documentary we used a pen tool which gave a fading ability. As a documentary quick pace cuts and transitions aren't that essential.

We used the pen tool also to edit our audio, for example voice over's when listening you want to make sure that you have a fine balance between diegetic sound and non diegetic sound, it adds to the realism of an actually documentary.

Hours and hours of editing can be tiring however the end result is always something to be amazed of. The 5 1/2 minute documentary, transitions from slow cuts to many fast cuts. Take the Coupe footage for example in a racing situation you don't tend to see slow cuts as it will make it seem fake and unrealistic. We modified the speed of some shots to connote the feeling of finishing and joy.

As you will see the music merges well with the footage to create a synchronised effect. Disadvantage of placing music into Final Cut Express was that you had render the music before you could listen to it as a whole, this was extremely time consuming, however apart from that minor setback, editing ran slowly but smoothly and therefore our final products is almost looking perfect with only some minor changes to do.

Working hard threw lessons to get the editing complete

Myself and Lewis finding out that the Log and Transfer process on Final Cut Express can sometimes take forever

Up to 80 gigabytes of high definition footage was shot, and it was just for a five minute documentary

The Freakout Tent

HERE LISTEN TO THE AUDIO WHICH WILL GO INTO OUR DOCUMENTARY!!

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

This is ClockworkRoyalty-free music for professional licensing

This is AirRoyalty-free music for professional licensing
After hours and hours of listening to the Freakout Album myself and Lewis found the sounds which we felt would fit perfectly into our documentary. Clockwork was the best for the Coupe de la jeuensse footage whereas the intro when we are at Dorney lake, the audio Air is perfect. The interview process you will be able to hear a low tune which is Yes Yes Yall and that was great to be put as a sound bridge.

Equipment Used (Technology)

Of course without a top of the range camera with shoots stunning high-definition footage, it wouldn't be possible to film. As is was our A2 coursework myself and lewis managed to get our hands onto this mid - range price camera. As the video highlights it truly is as good as it is made out to be. For example look at some of this information,

• 1920 x 1080 Full HD video
• 3-megapixel images
• 16GB embedded Flash memory
• Exmor R" CMOS sensor
• Smile Shutter™ technology
• Face Detection
• Direct Copy
• 25x optical zoom

So fantastic specs for a camera which only cost £499.

Lets not forget that without a tripod filming is impossible, especially when it's documentary.

Jamendo

Free music for professional licensing

Jamendo is a royalty free music website which enables anyone to grab music and use for personal reasons. And the best thing about it, it doesn't break copyright rules. The Freakout Tent is an album from the artist Tab. Tab is a triphop experimental genre, which in fact means there's more instruments and more themes attached with it. As you will find out when listening to the music. The decision to put the music into our documentary isn't final, however there are potentially good sounds in this album which would be great for the documentary.

Music (Royalty Free music)

Music the long journey

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Mise en Scene

Mise en scene

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First draft DEADLINE

Well me and Lewis have just handed in our first draft, however we haven't put any additional audio into it as we are still searching for the perfect sounds to be placed and to emerge with the documentary. As a whole me and Lewis are happy with our first attempt to the documentary, the interview process went well and any extra footage seems to have given the documentary some life.
However until we put in our audio we won't really get the real taste of the documentary, we have many back drop footage and voice over's and without music it seems hard to imagine the final product. None the less we will hand it and wait for feedback.

Production Day 4

Interview beside the river was to be our next task. In the interview we would ask lewis many personal questions. The reason for this documentary was to get up and close with the athletes and therefore we made sure that the questions would be interesting and engaging for both the athlete and the audience.

We were to try many different styles of interviewing, for example in many documentary you tend to see walking and on the move interviews it just makes it interesting instead of just the traditional one- one chat amongst the presenter and the athlete.

We went with one particular on the move interview and then approached a bench were we would then film. The way we filmed the bench interview was different, firstly we asked the lewis the questions with the camera facing towards the point of interest, once he had answered all the question 's we would then turn the camera toward to the presenter and then just ask him to say the questions again without an answer. Therefore when we come to editing we can show both sides of the party.

Beside the bench was the River Thames, this was the perfect location for us to do the interview, as you see lewis is just making sure that our voices are sound and clear.

Production Day 3

Production day 3

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Production Day 2

The second day of filming was just as interesting as it was at Dorney Lake. This time we were to film at the school. We were fortunate enough that the school was empty, due to a teacher training day.

Our main focus was with the filming inside the gym. We started outside the gym, this was because the presenter (myself) was to talk about Lewis Sloan, and then after he would him beside the gym entrance. We filmed in the gym and got through many takes, however we encountered problems, one was that we over expressed the way we spoke and secondly their were many mirror's in the gym, so making sure that we didn't get the film crew into the shot.

We now turn our attention to the Boat club as it the next scene for our documentary, we will be filming on the river and then talking to lewis whilst he tells us about his experience within this boat club.

Rowing Machines inside the gym, this is were lewis will be demonstrating how to row on the machine

A straight flat view of the gym, here is where majority of our conversations will take place, with many voice over's which connote to what lewis is talking about.

Weightlifting platform this will be were we will do a voice over of lewis doing his

weight exercises

Production Day Photos at Dorney

These's are images of the first production day, as you will see in the documentary Dorney Lake is where it starts.

First Production Day

Getting out and filming was great, after weeks and weeks of planning it finally came down to a session of filming. Dorney Lake was the first location that we were to film at.

The day was a bit dull, with some showery spells, filming was delayed by a few hours making the light to disappear slightly; nonetheless we got on with the task ahead, which was to film the opening sequence to our documentary. The first sequence we had many ideas for where and how we should place the camera to make the shot effective. We did many different shots filming the same thing as we wanted to draw our idea towards the traditional documentary shots.

However as a whole filming went well we managed to get through all the sequence and also managed to film some spare extra shots if need be. Our next challenge is to film at the school, in the gym and then after that at the Boat club.

We Film Tomorrow

Well me and Lewis can't wait to film, we done a lot of planning leading up to this stage, so hopefully everything can run smoothly. As you can see below this document lists the timing schedule for our first production day. So it would be great if we can follow this itinerary. Not everything has to do be done in order, however it would be important we get everything done, that is seen on this document.

Practice Shots

Risk Assesment

A risk assessment is vital, and without it we can't film. we must highlight the potential risk of filming. We also need to find possible solutions to those risk so that we minimise potential danger to our selves.

The Script

The Script

Storyboarding (Documentary)

Location Hunting (Part 2)

Location hunting (part 2)

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Location Hunting

Location Hunting is extremely important when it comes to research and planning as it the potential location scene that the documentary is to be filmed at.

Location needed in order to Film

The location's are important for our documentary, because we use the words Olympics and school, gym etc..

1) Our introduction to the documentary will be done from the 2012 Olympic venue. This should hopefully set a good tone for the documentary as a whole. Dorney lake is only a 10 minute drive away and is essential as it's closest to a 2012 venue that we can get. Dorney has many great locations and it's important that we can place some those locations within our documentary.

2) The school gym is just as important as it's the location that we want Lewis to meet the presenter. Lewis is a young hopeful, and inside the gym Lewis will be giving us a real-life tour of were and how he train's to become successful.

3) The Boat Club is the next location on the list, after the introduction to lewis at the gym, we have the opportunity go and watch him out on the river were we will be training with his partner as they prepare for the first big test of the season. Once we catch footage of Lewis out on the river, we will be asking questions beside the boathouse it self and again he will be giving us a tour around the premisses.

4)Bench (Interviews) Beside the river their are many benches and things to do whilst asking lewis the first batch of personal questions. We will be asking many question's relating to personal, social, school and family life, and to see how he is able to cope with the demand of physically draining sport at the same time.

The Planning and Structure

As you know now we will be filming after the first minute and half. And everything we do after that needs planning and structured well. We created a chapter system which will enables us to break down each point of interest that we want to cover in the documentary. This document will give us the basic(foundation) overlook into the documentary. This document should help keep us on track.

As you can see the document shows a break down of each segment. We have put chapters that we think relate to the point of interest, we will be talking about the London 2012, Biography into Lewis, Interview with Lewis Sloan and etc.. We have put things onto the sheet which may not be in the documentary, although may possibly be needed unless current topics don't work. So just to wrap things up this is a important document which will help us complete our documentary and keep us on the correct path.

Creating name for Documentary

Creating a Name for the Documentary

Film Name

Me and Lewis just realized that we needed to create a name for the documentary. No immediate names came forward however, that will be of absolute importance. Quicker we get the name for the documentary then quicker we can move forward with the main task. Which is to film the documentary. Knowing the name of the documentary will give us a better understanding in the way we need to address certain points in this documentary.

Start of the documentary (Further Research)

The criteria says that if we are to film a documentary, it must be five minutes of the documentary. It can be any part of the documentary start, middle or even finish .Well myself and Lewis have the opportunity to choose at which point of the documentary that we will film. We have made it clear that we will not be filming the ending of the documentary, as we don't want to be at the end of the documentary without having introduced to the audience the sole purpose of the documentary.

We felt that the start would be best for us as we would be able to introduce and explain the reasons of the documentary. We were not to film the first 1-2minutes of the documentary, we would start filming just after the intro, which you tend to see in real- life documentaries, e.g. gold fever in that documentary the first 1minute is just to set the tone.

As you will see in my planning and structure document all the stages and chapters will occur after the opening of the documentary. We really can't wait to start filming and watch the construction of the documentary happen.

Target Audience

Target audience 3

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What idea have we chosen?

What is the Idea That We Have Chosen

Brainstorming for documentary genre

Brainstorming for ideas

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Textual Analysis 3

The textual analysis of this third documentary is more of an interest to me. As it has interview’s in it and again creative editing. The documentary is based on engineering/construction. The documentary gets broadcasted on the National Geographic channel which appeals to quite a broad audience. The first minute of the documentary is quite eye catching and picturesque, the use of fast transitions and slow fades makes it absolutely different from any other documentary that I have looked at. There were even dissolves in the first minute of the documentary. The tempo of the voice over made it seem WOW!

It’s only till the third minute of the documentary that you get to see your first interviewee for example in this case the owner of the construction appears and mentions how his desire to build this monumental building was a long time ambition. Apart from the interview moments this entire documentary is narrated by a voice over. This documentary is based on actual facts and is a timeline leading to the final piece. This would seem slightly story based. The audience is seen to portray these figures as extremely high class folk, with a lot of wealth, great demographics, and many people would be aspiring to be like these people. You can tell threw the tone of the voice that these people are extremely well educated.

In this type of documentary you would really have enough evidence to make much of a perception, as it’s not that personally related, it’s more about the constructing of a piece of great engineering. The only time credits appear in this documentary is at the end, apart from that credits only occur when a person name is shown, the place and time, otherwise it isn’t revealed. As I mentioned at the start of the essay the first few minutes and this reflects into the rest of the documentary, is that there are slow to medium transitions where the shot takes time to fade away. The reason why this happens is because it’s meant to represent time and enjoyment. The reason why the documentary is based around a casino is because it about enjoyment and fun, hence why many of the cuts connote this. Even the music connotes a relaxing environment with a touch of fun to it. The sound has an element of ambiance and special effects. The ambient sound being, cash machines and people enjoying themselves, the special effect sound emerging with the dissolve cuts to connote passing of time but also the feeling of racing against time.

The shots in this documentary are mainly establishing shot, as there are plenty of new things to cover. Especially as the presenter is a voice over, this causes the documentary to made up of establishing shots and close ups. One thing you do notice when filming a documentary is that you are limited in the way you film, e.g. fast pan shots would disorientate the audience. The angle in which you film must represent the way you speak, as it’s noticeable in this documentary.

Again you can see the creativity of the filming, it may be a documentary but it’s still appealing and persuasive. This kind of creativity would only be possible if it was to broadcasted on a large scale in this case National Geographic Channel.

First Videolog

Textual Analysis 2

Andrew Marr's Modern Britain Documentary

This textual analysis is on a documentary, this formal documentary which targets a broader audience, the documentary is history related. The documentary has plenty of voice over shots but the difference from this documentary and the Gold Fever documentary is that it’s more professional, it’s more factual. The first minute of the documentary is creative using the sounds of previous events and doing a voice over whilst creative movie montage appear. There isn’t much talking apart from the last 20 seconds which the producer starts to describe and set a platform, in which he can use his creative formal language in order to appeal to the audience.

From past experience history related documentaries are quite dull and cemented with tonnes and tonnes of factual information however in this particular documentary the editing stands out. You get a taste for what a real documentary entails, for example at the beginning there is creative imagery amongst the revealing of history. The sound is joyful, one that rarely appears in a documentary unless it was a wildlife programme; however the timeline effect movie sets a great tone, amongst many things. The producer’s tone of voice seems rather formal as if he is talking to a middle/higher class audience, the voice is expressive and clear and punctuality and grammar is good, which would suggest that he is from a good demographic.

The target audience seems clear, students and intellectual people which would seem rather stereotypically towards lower class demographic. There aren’t any credits in the documentary which is understandable as there’s no one to credit, however the only time credits do appear on the documentary is when a place, time or person appears. As you go on threw the documentary you shall notice how the editing plays more of apart. Fast cuts and fast fades connote that there’s an impulse to this all. Flashbacks into history which are shown threw fast cuts. Hardly any high or low angle shots as it’s rare that see those in documentaries. There’s plenty of close ups and establishing shots as the character Andrew Marr’s is constantly moving from one scene to another. It’s quite frequent that you see the presenter changing places. As it’s all a part of the story telling, which he must go onto tell. The pace of the music and the transition between the shots entirely depends on the presenter’s way of approaching a topic of interest, for example in the documentary he mentions how the government back in the early 1900^th century battled for power, as he said that fast transitions of past factual events appear, depending on the mood of the matter or event, the pace and rhythm of the sound can alter.

The sound and tempo correlates to the event, in this case a high tempo, using piano and wind instruments connote the feeling of joy. Whenever a terrifying event occurs a sound that resembles pain sorrow etc. There isn’t really one genre of music in this documentary as it partially acoustic and partially ambient/ instrumental.

Textual Analysis 1

Gold Fever Documentary Intro

The first textual analysis essay will be on Gold Fever, it’s a documentary, sporting documentary to be precise. The documentary explores the lives of five Olympic rowers during the closing stages for the Olympics. The unique thing that you notice when you watch documentaries are that you’re never really restricted in the way you go about filming, for example weather, it could be raining one moment and the next it will be sunny , continuity isn’t essential in a documentary.

Gold Fever is a sporting documentary; the whole point of this documentary is to get up and personal with the characters that the documentary follows. Pretty much the documentary has a narrative voice over. The first five to six minutes of the documentary will highlight the reason of the documentary and how the personal it will get amongst each of the characters. The introduction sets the tone and straight away you get the understanding that it’s up and close, every step of the character is tracked and recorded, from the frustrations and pain to the joy and laughter.

The shots are at random, some of the shots are done still e.g. hand-held by the characters themselves whilst the others are done with a tripod. The shots in this specific documentary represent different things, for example when the characters are training and feeling pain footage is more surrounded by close- ups and medium close-up. Being a personal documentary into the lives of these individuals, there isn’t much variation between shots. Cuts are all dependant on the activity for example when the individuals are racing or training the cuts will be quicker and when the camera is hand-held then the cuts will be more slower as it’s either personal or in a interview.

One thing that is clear about this documentary is that mise en scene isn’t vital the characters will change clothes quite frequently, as this documentary is narrative based the sound is rather simply to deal with. Diegetic sound and non diegetic sound is both features of this documentary. Ambient sound for the realism of the activity. The realism of the sound is to connote pain, aggression, joy, all aspects in fact.

As you can see this documentary is open minded, in the sense that the creativity with the camerawork isn’t there, however that’s understandable as its personal documentary and their no need for flashy artwork when someone is trying to express their feelings.

Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my A2 media project as you would have noticed my AS media coursework went extremely well, the key to my groups success was that planning and research was done well in advance.

The A2 coursework require me to create a music video, short film, documentary and many more. In my group for my A2 project is Lewis Sloan, both of us are in two mind of deciding on which task to go ahead with. We are extremely keen on exploring the documentary route and the music video route.

So which ever task myself and lewis take, it will be crucial that we can maximise our filming time as correction can take time, as I learn't back in the AS coursework.

The Group

Hello and welcome my name is Dalveer, I will also be acting in our documentary.

Lewis Sloan is my partner in this A2 project, he's also the main character as well.

And finally meet Vladimir Kleshnev he will be helping us film whilst myself and Lewis act.