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.