Here is my sound analysis for a mixture of different film types, such as documentary and teaser trailer/trailer sound analysis.
Diegetic sound is something included within a film, it may have been added additionally to the film but it is something that sounds like it is within the film, such as someone talking or the sound of someone dropping a pen. This may include silence, and this may be used advantageously within a film in order to create some sort of dramatic effect. These sounds are implied to be present by the action of the film. As said previously, it can be used on screen or off screen depending on whatever it's source is within or out of the frame.
Non diegetic sound is something not included within the scene itself, so would be something like a soundtrack or a voiceover. It is a sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action. It is something added for dramatic effect, and the distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic sound depends on the context and our understanding of the conventions of film viewing and watching. It includes incidental music, which is added for certain effect.
Editing of sound can be done in various ways; there are things such as sound bridges; going from one sound to another. There can be cuts in and out of certain shots to create effect, for example going from a voiceover on a documentary to a non-diegetic incidental music.
Sound is important within a film or documentary because it means a better experience for the audience, it can help determine the genre, for example a horror film would have slow music and a light hearted rom-com would have some upbeat pop music. The academy awards recognise how important sound is within film and they offer rewards for good sound within films.
Dialogue is essential within a film, and only a few exceptions can be made to this rule. It is a conversation between two people, and gives context as to what is happening within the scene. A commentary is essential for what I am making, because it is very rare to find a documentary being made without a voiceover. It provides information for the narrative, so within our documentary we will use voiceovers to inform the audience on questions to ask to interviewees and to also inform the audience on statistics that won't be included in the typography.
A score is music made specifically made to accompany a film. It is placed within the background of scenes, and usually isn't used very loudly. It may be used to make the audience more emotional about the film that is being made. It is usually incorporated within action films. Soundtracks are fairly similar, but they aren't made specifically for the film being made. These may be royal free, meaning anyone can use it within their film. The soundtrack for a film can be a large mix of songs, for example Forrest Gump contains songs from a large range of artists.
Sound effects are used within a film to create an effect, and it can be anything from loud footsteps in a horror film such as 'paranormal activity' to a feather flying in the wind in 'Forrest Gump'. They are diegetic and are added in post production of the film.
Ambient sound is a background sound that is present in a setting or location. Common ones are things such as birds flying away.
Friday, 16 October 2015
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Mise En Scene and Titles- Documentary
The mise en scene for our documentary will be mainly normal fashions and up to date things that people wear when it comes to costume. The people we interview will be wearing casual clothes that would usually be associated with someone fairly young and within latest fashion trends. This will be from high street stores, such as h and m and topshop. More mise en scene included within our documentary will include the makeup, which on girls will be fairly toned down because we plan to interview people that would be in the majority when it comes to usual teenagers in the UK. Below are photo ideas of what we would like to incorporate within our documentary when it comes to outfit ideas. We would want this to be fairly toned down. It would be in a font fairly similar to the one typed in this; nothing that draws attention away from what is being shot.
For the titles within our documentary, we won't want anything too obvious or anything that would take away attention from the documentary itself. This would include fonts such as times new roman and others that are notoriously known for bring subtle fonts of typography. Within the credits of our documentary, we will aim to include who made and distributed the film, who came up with the costumes and people who have been interviewed within the documentary. We will also include the places in which we filmed the documentary, which is Castle Quay in Banbury and me and Sophie's houses, and this could convince the people watching the documentary that we had permission for wherever we wanted to film.
Camera angles, shots. We are going to try and incorporate a large range of different camera angles and shots as this will keep the audience interested and provide an interesting range for the documentary. In our preliminary documentary we learned that they stay interesting when there is a large range of angles and lots of different shots in a short amount of time, but not so many shots that the audience lose interest because it becomes hard to keep interest. These will include: worms eye shots, long shots, establishing shots, extra long shots, high angle and low angle if we want to show a power imbalance, eye match shots and much more. This will provide a good diverse range of shots for our documentary and allow us to get the better marks for our coursework.
Editing. For our documentary, the editing being raw will be a very important thing we need to input. Since there will be a range of camera angles and shots, editing everything together to make it all look smooth will be important because this is a fairly large convention of most documentaries. We will need to edit some of the shots to be blurred in order to put some typography involving statistics over the top, and these will be either in black or white font so they stand out and grab the audience's attention. We will try, like our initial documentary, to include lots of different answers when one question has been asked. This provides a good insight into the vast diversity in which our documentary is being filmed. This means we will try and cast people for the interviews that are from a variety of backgrounds, so we can demonstrate that even though we have people all of the same age that some can be much more privileged than others. This may also help to bring in a more diverse target audience if we include people who are privileged and those who are not.
For the titles within our documentary, we won't want anything too obvious or anything that would take away attention from the documentary itself. This would include fonts such as times new roman and others that are notoriously known for bring subtle fonts of typography. Within the credits of our documentary, we will aim to include who made and distributed the film, who came up with the costumes and people who have been interviewed within the documentary. We will also include the places in which we filmed the documentary, which is Castle Quay in Banbury and me and Sophie's houses, and this could convince the people watching the documentary that we had permission for wherever we wanted to film.
Camera angles, shots. We are going to try and incorporate a large range of different camera angles and shots as this will keep the audience interested and provide an interesting range for the documentary. In our preliminary documentary we learned that they stay interesting when there is a large range of angles and lots of different shots in a short amount of time, but not so many shots that the audience lose interest because it becomes hard to keep interest. These will include: worms eye shots, long shots, establishing shots, extra long shots, high angle and low angle if we want to show a power imbalance, eye match shots and much more. This will provide a good diverse range of shots for our documentary and allow us to get the better marks for our coursework.
Editing. For our documentary, the editing being raw will be a very important thing we need to input. Since there will be a range of camera angles and shots, editing everything together to make it all look smooth will be important because this is a fairly large convention of most documentaries. We will need to edit some of the shots to be blurred in order to put some typography involving statistics over the top, and these will be either in black or white font so they stand out and grab the audience's attention. We will try, like our initial documentary, to include lots of different answers when one question has been asked. This provides a good insight into the vast diversity in which our documentary is being filmed. This means we will try and cast people for the interviews that are from a variety of backgrounds, so we can demonstrate that even though we have people all of the same age that some can be much more privileged than others. This may also help to bring in a more diverse target audience if we include people who are privileged and those who are not.
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Casting for Interview Element of Documentary
For our interview part of our documentary, we want to have a diverse range of people in order to have a good range of answers from people. For this, we will talk to various people out of who we know in our sixth form that spend a lot of money on clothes and those that are slightly more lenient towards their spending habits.
In order to do this, we will cast our interviewees dependant on whether they spend money monthly on clothes and whether they are open to the idea of discussing their monthly income and if they are sensitive regarding this. On another post on this blog, I will incorporate photos of those who are willing with getting involved with interviews with our documentary.
We will need around five people to interview, and as each person will be asked ten questions; it will allow us to have enough footage to be picky with what we want to put into our documentary and allow us to put what we think is best. This will take around two to three minutes of our five minute long documentary. Each question will take around five to ten seconds, and there will be breaks between each answer, similar to the way in which we structured our preliminary task this summer.
In order to do this, we will cast our interviewees dependant on whether they spend money monthly on clothes and whether they are open to the idea of discussing their monthly income and if they are sensitive regarding this. On another post on this blog, I will incorporate photos of those who are willing with getting involved with interviews with our documentary.
We will need around five people to interview, and as each person will be asked ten questions; it will allow us to have enough footage to be picky with what we want to put into our documentary and allow us to put what we think is best. This will take around two to three minutes of our five minute long documentary. Each question will take around five to ten seconds, and there will be breaks between each answer, similar to the way in which we structured our preliminary task this summer.
Questions for Interviews
Here are the ten questions we are going to range between for asking in our interviews to extract information about various teen's shopping and spending habits.
1: how much on average do you spend on yourself monthly as disposable income on clothes?
2: How much money do you usually earn per month?
(we understand this may be a sensitive issue for certain people so this question is definitely optional, if people don't want to talk about their income we will not include them in the documentary)
3: What shops do you spend most of your money in?
4: What shops do you tend to avoid when shopping due to a dislike of clothes or other views? why?
5: When was the last time you went shopping?
6: How much did you spend?
7: Do you prefer to go online shopping or to an actual shopping centre such as Castle Quay in banbury? Also, do you usually go local or do you travel far?
8: Do you prefer to spend or save money? And if so, what are you saving for at the moment?
9: Do you see shopping as a chore or an enjoyment?
10: Do you think you spend your money irresponsibly?
1: how much on average do you spend on yourself monthly as disposable income on clothes?
2: How much money do you usually earn per month?
(we understand this may be a sensitive issue for certain people so this question is definitely optional, if people don't want to talk about their income we will not include them in the documentary)
3: What shops do you spend most of your money in?
4: What shops do you tend to avoid when shopping due to a dislike of clothes or other views? why?
5: When was the last time you went shopping?
6: How much did you spend?
7: Do you prefer to go online shopping or to an actual shopping centre such as Castle Quay in banbury? Also, do you usually go local or do you travel far?
8: Do you prefer to spend or save money? And if so, what are you saving for at the moment?
9: Do you see shopping as a chore or an enjoyment?
10: Do you think you spend your money irresponsibly?
Planning for start of filming
Me and Sophie have arranged our storyboard and this has allowed us to have further insight into how many different times we will need to film and we have rounded it up to around six separate filming sessions. This will include:
1: Getting all our establishing shots around castle quey in banbury, different angles and will aim to get around a minute's worth of filming done in this. This will be a mixture of worm's eye shots, over the shoulder shots, long shots and we will establish the film with an extra long shot of castle quey, taken from over the road. We will not need special permission from anyone for this first shoot because it is a public area and we are legally allowed to film here.
2: The start of our interviews. Again, we will attempt to get around a minute's worth of filming done for the documentary and this will be of our interviews. We will interview two different people in this first session and we have the questions listed that we are going to ask. Within the reactions, we will extract certain shots and use them to inform our audience on different people's shopping habits.
3: Second half of interviews. We will use a further two people and aim to get another minute's worth of footage of interviews. This will involve the same questions being asked but for different people, and we are going to try and get a range of different people to interview which will provide a range of answers and keep the audience interested. These interviews will be filmed at Sophie's house or my house so we will not need permission as it is on private property.
4: Background shots for the intertextuality and statistics whilst on screen. We will shoot some plain shots with a handheld camera and a tripod so it is all fairly still, and these shots will be blurred so we can divert the attention whilst they are on the shots and we will write statistics over the top of this. This will take from around thirty seconds to a minute of the film, and for around each minute filmed in the documentary will take us an hour in real life. These blurred shots will be taken in the land around my house and we will not need permission for this because it is private land.
5: This will be the last of our shots, we may film some people in banbury castle quey and ask them questions about our shopping habits, but we also will shoot some more shots for the background of statistics that will be in focus.
6: This filming session will be after we have reviewed over every shot we have done so far and reviewed. If anything needs to be reshot, we will use these couple of hours to reshoot.
1: Getting all our establishing shots around castle quey in banbury, different angles and will aim to get around a minute's worth of filming done in this. This will be a mixture of worm's eye shots, over the shoulder shots, long shots and we will establish the film with an extra long shot of castle quey, taken from over the road. We will not need special permission from anyone for this first shoot because it is a public area and we are legally allowed to film here.
2: The start of our interviews. Again, we will attempt to get around a minute's worth of filming done for the documentary and this will be of our interviews. We will interview two different people in this first session and we have the questions listed that we are going to ask. Within the reactions, we will extract certain shots and use them to inform our audience on different people's shopping habits.
3: Second half of interviews. We will use a further two people and aim to get another minute's worth of footage of interviews. This will involve the same questions being asked but for different people, and we are going to try and get a range of different people to interview which will provide a range of answers and keep the audience interested. These interviews will be filmed at Sophie's house or my house so we will not need permission as it is on private property.
4: Background shots for the intertextuality and statistics whilst on screen. We will shoot some plain shots with a handheld camera and a tripod so it is all fairly still, and these shots will be blurred so we can divert the attention whilst they are on the shots and we will write statistics over the top of this. This will take from around thirty seconds to a minute of the film, and for around each minute filmed in the documentary will take us an hour in real life. These blurred shots will be taken in the land around my house and we will not need permission for this because it is private land.
5: This will be the last of our shots, we may film some people in banbury castle quey and ask them questions about our shopping habits, but we also will shoot some more shots for the background of statistics that will be in focus.
6: This filming session will be after we have reviewed over every shot we have done so far and reviewed. If anything needs to be reshot, we will use these couple of hours to reshoot.
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Consolidation of Documentary Research
The area in which i would like to focus my documentary is social documentary. This would include interactional documentary and observational. Although we are participating in this documentary, we are also going to be handing it over to our interviewees during the main process so it is a bit of a couple of different documentaries. We have thought long and hard about what type of documentary would best fit the type we are filming, and as it is a social documentary and based on what people are like and what they do we decided this best type of documentary what we were going to go for. The idea of a social documentary appeals to us because we are personally both fairly social people so it will be easy to find people that will want to participate in this documentary being made. Also, we believe we could appeal to a lot of people through a social documentary because socialising and shopping is usually a fairly large part of an actively social teenager or young adult's life, and we could like to capture this.
By the end of this short documentary containing interviews, voiceovers, different shots and statistics and more, we would like our audience to come away thinking that the documentary was informative and kept their interest through the duration. In order to do this to the best of our ability, we will capture audience reviews and try and use this to improve on what we have already made and we will use our initial preliminary task to do this with.
We will technically construct this to appeal to our target audience by watching a range of different types of social documentaries and analysing how this is constructed. We have done this in the main research tasks done before we decided on genre etc. We can construct it by a wide range of angles and shots. We will start the documentary with an establishing shot, because I believe this is highly effective and makes the audience happy with the way the film or documentary starts.
As for the sound element, many of the documentaries that relate closely with our genre have a range of non-diegetic voiceovers, non-diegetic soundtrack which we will construct using either royalty free music or make our own using piano or guitar or something.
By the end of this short documentary containing interviews, voiceovers, different shots and statistics and more, we would like our audience to come away thinking that the documentary was informative and kept their interest through the duration. In order to do this to the best of our ability, we will capture audience reviews and try and use this to improve on what we have already made and we will use our initial preliminary task to do this with.
We will technically construct this to appeal to our target audience by watching a range of different types of social documentaries and analysing how this is constructed. We have done this in the main research tasks done before we decided on genre etc. We can construct it by a wide range of angles and shots. We will start the documentary with an establishing shot, because I believe this is highly effective and makes the audience happy with the way the film or documentary starts.
As for the sound element, many of the documentaries that relate closely with our genre have a range of non-diegetic voiceovers, non-diegetic soundtrack which we will construct using either royalty free music or make our own using piano or guitar or something.
Louis Theroux Analysis Documentary
Here is an extract from a documentary from one of the leading documentary makers, Louis Theroux. Within this extract it captures an interview between Louis, the presenter, and two criminals within the prison that this is filmed. This matches closely with my work because this is a documentary similar to one that I would like to film mine when following structural conventions, and in my documentary I would like interviews to take up a significant amount of time. During the course of this extract, all Louis says is questions to prompt the drug dealer to talk (apart from his non-diegetic voiceover) and this is how the audience learns the information they want to find out about this.
The editing in this footage is fairly raw, and this is so no attention is taken away from the interview itself with overly fancy editing. There is simply a few cuts here and there whilst the interview takes place, probably to contain the most seemingly interesting parts of the documentary and cut out the parts that the audience would lose interest in. At the start of the extract, there is a range of shots including medium shots and over-the-shoulder shots.This extract meets the structural conventions of a documentary because it contains an interview, voiceovers and some non-diegetic music, and it is rare to find a documentary without these conventions. Near to the start and end of the documentaries, there are a range of angles shot and this keeps the audience interested after they have found out the information they want to find out. There are no titles within this documentary extract. The genre of this documentary is interactive, because Louis gets involved with those who he is interviewing. Also, something I think is fairly important is the fact he still treats all of these people like actual people and doesn't have a bias or look down on them because they are in a prison. I think an important part of these documentaries being made is that the people participating within the documentary keep an open mind and don't look down on others because they are from certain backgrounds.
Used to film this would have been a high-quality hand-held camera, and you can tell this when the camera man follows Louis as he walks out of the prison. This makes it seem like all of the documentary makers are involved with each other, because they walk off together and Louis isn't seen as the only one making the documentary. This is also a key thing me and sophie will need to bear in mind when filming the documentary, we will need to keep together as a team and do everything together as teamwork.
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