Documentary script

Idea diagram

Folder

Our Youth Pitch

Cast and Crew Call Sheet

Client Draft

Our youth from sophia_april

BBFC letter

Recce report

Premier Pro work, editing

Here, we re-named the different shots to organise all the clips, helping us to identify which ones we need if we need to make any changes. Making it easier for the editing process.

We had to adjust the volume on the different sounds, moving them around to create sound bridges as the sound from one clip to another was very sudden so I needed to add natural sound in the back and adjusted the sound so it sounds better.

From the original clip on the left to the editing on the right, this was done so that the 2 people that were interviewed in the same place looked as though they were positioned differently. I did this by horizontally flipping it, making it in the opposite direction as it was.

I simply dragged this over the clip that i wanted it and it was flipped to how it is shown above

Treatment

Set Design

For this setting, we wanted it to be outside but not in a crowded place. This is the fountain edge in the F block in Long Road.

This is above reception, we wanted some of the interviews to be done indoors and this seemed quiet. It also makes quite a nice shot as the focus is on them and isn't on the surroundings.

This is at the end of the corridor in the G block, it was the perfect set up as you could tell it was done in a college.

This was the first location we chose, just beside the woods and outside our classroom. It went well with the style of the documentary.

Feedback from Simon and John

We gave our pitch ideas to Simon and John and they had different opinions of them. John said that my idea of stereotypes was good but it needed something to make it more interesting, make it interesting enough for the audience. Simon however, liked the idea but didn't know if it would work well depending on the people that will be involved when we interview them. When I pitched the idea to my teacher, Tom. He said it could work and be a good idea depending on who we ask and the questions that we choose to ask, how many questions we include due to who we interview.

Documentary so far

Feedback of Rough Cut from Class

Need to have more cutaways to make it more interesting for the audience
Archive footage, magazines, facebook/twitter as they talk about different social medias that they use.
Interview more people to get more opinions, more of a range of views on the subject.
Change the framing of some of the shots, make it look different when we talk to both Evie and Charlie. As it is exactly the same shot so gets a bit boring having the same location, same scenery
Add some music over cutaways (people on their phones) to show just how much people use them to go on media platforms like twitter, Facebook, instagram etc.

Risk Assessment

Trello schedule

Recce report

Consent Form

Practice shots

I went out on the weekend to take some recordings of the interview of stereotypes, in which I was asking my sister for her views on this. At first I wanted it to be the actual footage but hearing the responses, I wanted to change the questions slightly so I will be using the footage I got as practice shots.

Draft shooting schedule

Draft Script

Stereotypes from sophia_april

Flow chart of script

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Setting/location. 

(Camera pans round)

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Ask questions to first person/people

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Their response/reaction

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Cutaways to around the college, show where we are

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More questions

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See their answers

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Ask the same question to different people 

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Get their response

(use cutaways over some to act as a voice over)

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Show their personality in-between as they are talking

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Research on 'Stereotypes'

A Stereotype is a someone who fits into a characterised group according to the attributes they have.
This is mainly what people think of others and so put them in a certain group.
Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination are all seen as being related but have different concepts. Stereotypes are mainly seen as the most cognitive component and often occurs without us being aware of it, with prejudice it is the affective component of stereotyping and discrimination is the behavioural component of the prejudicial reactions. Although they relate to each other, the three concepts can individually exist of each other.
By stereotyping we give a person a whole range of characteristics and abilities that we assume other members of that certain group have. Stereotypes tend to lead in to categorisation, which is one of the different reasons for prejudice attitudes such as referring to different groups with "them" and "us", this then tends to lead into in-groups and out-groups

Genre and Target audience powerpoint

Narrative Structure

The Difference Between Story and Narrative

The difference between a story and a narrative is that a story engages the audience but is very closed minded, it has a beginning, middle and end so once it ends the story is over. Narratives, however are very open ended as they don't have a resolution so the audience can participate to determine the outcome.

3 Act Narrative Structures

1. Equilibruim

The beginning, everything is balanced.

2. Desequlibrium

Things start to happen, unfold.

3. New equilibrium

Things start to work out again, there is a new balance as the 'new equilibrium' has been reached.

5 Act Classic Hollywood Structures

1. Exposition

The key characters and the location

2. Development

We get to know more about the characters

3.Complication

Something happens

4. Climax

The problem then gets solved

5. Resolution

Happy ending

Linear and Non Linear Narrative

Linear is a normal storyline, it has a beginning, middle and end. It uses the Equilibrium, Desequlibrium and new equilibrium or exposition, development, complication, climax and resolution.

Non linear is different in the way the story is shown. It doesn't follow the set structure pattern that a Linear does. It will show the different steps of the acts and swaps them round along with having several story lines at once so that it will make it more interesting for the audience if the film is slightly boring on its own.

Idea and Feedback

Stereotypes

Interview different people showing their views on people being stereotyped and what they think about it. See if they think they themselves are being seen in a certain way by the public and if they want to change peoples views on them just because of their age etc.


Feedback

The Feedback that I received when two film makers came in was that generally it was a good idea but could be expanded on. I needed to think of ideas to make it appealing to the audience, add humour somehow. They had both different opinions, one didn't think it was as good as it could be but the other said that he could see it being interesting and involving the audience, if it was around certain questions and the right people that would be interviewed.

6 Ideas

1. Day in the life

Follow someone round for a day to see what they get up to, who they see, where they go

2. Stereotypes 

Talk to different people who fit into the category of the different stereotypical images and learn more about them, how people (if they do) treat them differently. What they tend to do in their spare time, who their friends are.

3. Stories from the paper
Get a local story, find out more about it

4. Marshalls airport
see what happens there, interview my dad

5. Uni life
Follow my sister around her Uni, show what its like and what happens.

6.Carer
Go to my mums place of work and see what they have to do, what responsibilities they have.

Plasticized Documentary

The documentary 'plasticized' was made by Michael J. Lutman.

It was extremely in depth and shows different places that have suffered by how they have evidence of 'the human footprint has reached every corner of the earth, even if we have not been there'.
It starts off by him talking about how everyone use to be respectful of it and how it has changed over the years, because of this they go travelling to see just how bad it is.
Plasticized is a close look into a journey with the 5 Gyres Institute to the first scientific expedition where they look at plastic waste from over the South Atlantic. Makes you more aware of the institutes global missions, studying the effects, reality and the size of plastic pollution around the world. The cast Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins are played by themselves. We follow them on their expedition and they tell us what usually happens when they go and get interviewed along the way.

Michael J. Lutman is an Editor, Director and Cinematographer. He is the editor of 2 shorts, 1 completed, along with Plasticized. The director of another documentary 'Cycle on Ceylon' and was the cinematographer and producer on it along with this. He also was nominated for a AACTA Award in 2014 for Best Editing with 'The Turning' made in 2013.