Monday, 30 November 2015
Start of Filming
Me and Sophie have allocated this Friday in order to film the interviews, half of them with two people. We are going to get twenty responses, because we are asking both people ten questions. During the filming of this we will also get our permission sheets from both of people and scan them in to a separate blog post in order to prove we have got permission, otherwise if we upload something they are unhappy with it could involve having to go through the process of re-editing which could be very demanding on our time schedule.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Shooting Schedule
Here is mine and Sophie's schedule for shooting for our documentary. This will determine when we will film, and will help us keep a high level of organisation and time management.
Day of filming Plans of shooting Place of shooting
29/11/2015 Shots of people shopping Banbury Town Centre
more information: These shots will be filmed alternatively between me and Sophie, we will try and get a variety of time lapse shots, close ups and some long shots as a background
2/12/2015 Interviews Sophie's house
Half of interviews will be shot on one occasion, and another occasion we will shoot the other half of interviews with another person.
10/12/2015 Shots of shops Bicester Village
Shots for the background of statistics and shots to use for a voiceover and incidental non diegetic music in the background.
12/12/2015 Interviews Sophie's house
We are going to get the other half of the interviews completed and look back over the shots we have done so far and see if we need to reshoot anything. We will get two people interviewed in each set of having an interview.
15/12/2015 Shots of shops Birmingham
We have decided that if we look back over the footage from both Bicester Village and Banbury and decide that there isn't enough footage that we want to include in our documentary, we will make a trip to Birmingham and take some more shots there.
17/12/2015 Start of editing School
This is going to be the start of our editing. With this session we will aim to get the first rough draft together and just patched together in the right order. We have a few hours in order to do this and won't be including anything like sound just yet .
19/12/2015 Editing Session School
During this editing session, we will try and make the cuts between each shot more smooth, yet try and make the footage still seem fairly raw because this is the way in which a documentary should come across. Most of the editing will be completed in this session.
27/12/2015 Editing Session Home
For this, we are going to edit from home for the first time. This will just involve research to find what sound we are going to incorporate within our documentary or filming some sort of a piano for the non-diegetic music, and this will be actually put in the background of our film during a later editing session as we won't have the equipment to work from home over the Christmas break. We will also film the voiceover for statistics and information.
4/1/2016 Editing Session School
This editing session will involve the finalisation of putting everything together and putting the background music in and fading it in and out as to where we feel it will be appropriate. This will also involve putting the voiceover in the background and talking about the statistics. By this point, we aim to be done with most of the editing.
6/1/2016 Editing session School
This will be putting in the titles, and we will only have the final bits to edit and then we will be done with the making of the documentary. After this, we will get audience reviews and find what our audience like and dislike about this post. If all goes to plan, we will be able to post the final piece on the night of this.
Day of filming Plans of shooting Place of shooting
29/11/2015 Shots of people shopping Banbury Town Centre
more information: These shots will be filmed alternatively between me and Sophie, we will try and get a variety of time lapse shots, close ups and some long shots as a background
2/12/2015 Interviews Sophie's house
Half of interviews will be shot on one occasion, and another occasion we will shoot the other half of interviews with another person.
10/12/2015 Shots of shops Bicester Village
Shots for the background of statistics and shots to use for a voiceover and incidental non diegetic music in the background.
12/12/2015 Interviews Sophie's house
We are going to get the other half of the interviews completed and look back over the shots we have done so far and see if we need to reshoot anything. We will get two people interviewed in each set of having an interview.
15/12/2015 Shots of shops Birmingham
We have decided that if we look back over the footage from both Bicester Village and Banbury and decide that there isn't enough footage that we want to include in our documentary, we will make a trip to Birmingham and take some more shots there.
17/12/2015 Start of editing School
This is going to be the start of our editing. With this session we will aim to get the first rough draft together and just patched together in the right order. We have a few hours in order to do this and won't be including anything like sound just yet .
19/12/2015 Editing Session School
During this editing session, we will try and make the cuts between each shot more smooth, yet try and make the footage still seem fairly raw because this is the way in which a documentary should come across. Most of the editing will be completed in this session.
27/12/2015 Editing Session Home
For this, we are going to edit from home for the first time. This will just involve research to find what sound we are going to incorporate within our documentary or filming some sort of a piano for the non-diegetic music, and this will be actually put in the background of our film during a later editing session as we won't have the equipment to work from home over the Christmas break. We will also film the voiceover for statistics and information.
4/1/2016 Editing Session School
This editing session will involve the finalisation of putting everything together and putting the background music in and fading it in and out as to where we feel it will be appropriate. This will also involve putting the voiceover in the background and talking about the statistics. By this point, we aim to be done with most of the editing.
6/1/2016 Editing session School
This will be putting in the titles, and we will only have the final bits to edit and then we will be done with the making of the documentary. After this, we will get audience reviews and find what our audience like and dislike about this post. If all goes to plan, we will be able to post the final piece on the night of this.
Casting
We aim to have a wide range of cast when it comes to having interviewees, and we believe that this will make for more interesting viewing, because if we choose everyone from the same background they will provide us with all the same answers and it will be a very boring documentary. In order to make it much more interesting, we are going to get some people that spend all the money they earn on clothes or in retail, and then we will choose some from a slightly more poverty-stricken background who don't have the same amount of money to be able to spend. This will make for a much more insightful and interesting documentary because everyone that features will come from a different background and we will have lots of honest people who are happy to consent to be in our interviews. I am going to make another blog post with photos and signed consent forms of the people who are happy to participate within our documentary.
The cast we are going to obtain will be predominantly young people, and we think this will help fit for our target audience, because I have done some research into it and found that people are more likely to watch something if they are watching something with people around the same age as them. This will help when it comes to finding more people that will watch our documentary and fit the audience pleasures and the familiarity that entail with watching a documentary of a young age group.
The cast we are going to obtain will be predominantly young people, and we think this will help fit for our target audience, because I have done some research into it and found that people are more likely to watch something if they are watching something with people around the same age as them. This will help when it comes to finding more people that will watch our documentary and fit the audience pleasures and the familiarity that entail with watching a documentary of a young age group.
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Documentary detailed analysis
I chose a documentary I really liked the look and sound of and decided how the documentary construction would relate with mine. I decided on a Louis Theroux documentary as one of my final analysis for the research module in my coursework, because it contains interviews, voiceovers, statistics and typography, similar to the way in which mine and Sophie's documentary will be made. This documentary, however, is around an hour long and ours will be around five minutes, but analysing documentaries such as these will give us a good insight into how good documentaries are constructed. We will need to input a lot more detail into ours if we wish to have a similar effect to much longer documentaries.
The conventions of this documentary are similar to a lot of popular documentaries- they contain a lot of information both in the form of statistics and voiceovers. Louis Theroux the presenter states a lot of thee statistics within this documentary both in the form of diegetic and nondiegetic sound, as a voiceover and as him talking within the documentary. The main difference between our documentary and those that are very popular and long is both the length and the presenters. For our length, we plan to make a documentary for around five minutes because that fits the kind of budget we have and the spare time we have in order to make it. Also, most long documentaries have someone presenting them and talking through everything, and although we will be presenting it in the way that our names will be in the credits, our faces won't appear in the documentary because we want to keep the focus on the people and places we are planning to film. We believe not presenting it in the way of standing in front of the camera and talking will be most convenient for our documentary because it will keep attention where it should be.
More conventions this documentary contains are the interviews. In order to obtain information from the people they interview, Louis (the presenter) asks various types of questions and this is his way of provoking answers from the people he is interviewing. He also keeps a very open mind when interviewing, which is something we need to remember to keep. It is very easy when filming to be discriminatory against someone you are obtaining information from, especially if it is someone Louis is interviewing which is someone who has gone to prison for fairly violent crimes. We will try and keep the conventions of being calm and composed and reserving judgement for anyone we are going to interview. This will hopefully show through to the audience when the interviews are shown within the documentary. If we decide to be judgemental to anyone we are interviewing, this might change the honesty and genuine nature of the person we plan to interview, so we are going to try and stay as open minded as possible when interviewing.
This documentary also has various conventions when it comes to the camera shots and angles and the way in which things are filmed. Firstly, a lot of these are filmed on hand-held cameras, which is what happens with Louis Theroux documentaries apart from the interview shots. This helps the footage to come across much more raw and genuine, and doesn't make it seem over edited. It also turns out more convenient because it is cheaper and easier to film with a hand held camera. Despite this, however, we are still going to use a tripod for some of our shots in order to keep it still. This will help with levels of continuity.
This documentary uses a fair amount of what are called 'talking heads', which means using random members of the public in order to obtain information. We are not going to use this within our documentary because we believe asking random members of public may put some people out of their comfort zones, and it would be much easier to ask people we know are confident and happily volunteer to be interviewed, because it is more convenient for both the public and us as we are not intruding upon their time and privacy, and then we are also in the knowledge that the people we are interviewing have signed consent forms. Also, the use of text to show who people are in plain font at a small part in the screen, shown used in Louis Theroux documentaries, are going to help show who is who within our documentary. We will also use titles for our credits, which is what this documentary does, in order to give the audience information and keep them satisfied.
Both this and the documentary we are going to make could be classed as expository. This means the presenters don't have a huge part within the documentary and they allow most of the film to be of what we are trying to learn about. This will be done in an objective manner, again with keeping an open mind and keeping the audience learning about something they wouldn't have previously thought of capturing. We want this documentary to be capturing information about certain people and the habits of their shopping, and to involve ourselves in large quantities kind of gets rid of the idea of keeping the documentary about other people and their lives. We want this documentary to be educational and fill people in on parts of life that they might be unaware of or don't usually think that would be captured.
We also want to keep some parts of the documentary in that would be deleted in a usual film, because this will keep the raw and natural part of our documentary apparent. If we deleted every part where someone is slightly awkward or stutters and everything runs perfectly it might seem like we have cut too much out and we want to keep it as close to the truth as possible, so in order to obtain this we are going to keep some 'imperfect' moments within our documentary.
The conventions of this documentary are similar to a lot of popular documentaries- they contain a lot of information both in the form of statistics and voiceovers. Louis Theroux the presenter states a lot of thee statistics within this documentary both in the form of diegetic and nondiegetic sound, as a voiceover and as him talking within the documentary. The main difference between our documentary and those that are very popular and long is both the length and the presenters. For our length, we plan to make a documentary for around five minutes because that fits the kind of budget we have and the spare time we have in order to make it. Also, most long documentaries have someone presenting them and talking through everything, and although we will be presenting it in the way that our names will be in the credits, our faces won't appear in the documentary because we want to keep the focus on the people and places we are planning to film. We believe not presenting it in the way of standing in front of the camera and talking will be most convenient for our documentary because it will keep attention where it should be.
More conventions this documentary contains are the interviews. In order to obtain information from the people they interview, Louis (the presenter) asks various types of questions and this is his way of provoking answers from the people he is interviewing. He also keeps a very open mind when interviewing, which is something we need to remember to keep. It is very easy when filming to be discriminatory against someone you are obtaining information from, especially if it is someone Louis is interviewing which is someone who has gone to prison for fairly violent crimes. We will try and keep the conventions of being calm and composed and reserving judgement for anyone we are going to interview. This will hopefully show through to the audience when the interviews are shown within the documentary. If we decide to be judgemental to anyone we are interviewing, this might change the honesty and genuine nature of the person we plan to interview, so we are going to try and stay as open minded as possible when interviewing.
This documentary also has various conventions when it comes to the camera shots and angles and the way in which things are filmed. Firstly, a lot of these are filmed on hand-held cameras, which is what happens with Louis Theroux documentaries apart from the interview shots. This helps the footage to come across much more raw and genuine, and doesn't make it seem over edited. It also turns out more convenient because it is cheaper and easier to film with a hand held camera. Despite this, however, we are still going to use a tripod for some of our shots in order to keep it still. This will help with levels of continuity.
This documentary uses a fair amount of what are called 'talking heads', which means using random members of the public in order to obtain information. We are not going to use this within our documentary because we believe asking random members of public may put some people out of their comfort zones, and it would be much easier to ask people we know are confident and happily volunteer to be interviewed, because it is more convenient for both the public and us as we are not intruding upon their time and privacy, and then we are also in the knowledge that the people we are interviewing have signed consent forms. Also, the use of text to show who people are in plain font at a small part in the screen, shown used in Louis Theroux documentaries, are going to help show who is who within our documentary. We will also use titles for our credits, which is what this documentary does, in order to give the audience information and keep them satisfied.
Both this and the documentary we are going to make could be classed as expository. This means the presenters don't have a huge part within the documentary and they allow most of the film to be of what we are trying to learn about. This will be done in an objective manner, again with keeping an open mind and keeping the audience learning about something they wouldn't have previously thought of capturing. We want this documentary to be capturing information about certain people and the habits of their shopping, and to involve ourselves in large quantities kind of gets rid of the idea of keeping the documentary about other people and their lives. We want this documentary to be educational and fill people in on parts of life that they might be unaware of or don't usually think that would be captured.
We also want to keep some parts of the documentary in that would be deleted in a usual film, because this will keep the raw and natural part of our documentary apparent. If we deleted every part where someone is slightly awkward or stutters and everything runs perfectly it might seem like we have cut too much out and we want to keep it as close to the truth as possible, so in order to obtain this we are going to keep some 'imperfect' moments within our documentary.
Lighting
We learnt all about lighting and how it can affect a subject and how it can make something seem more or less dramatic. For example, lighting someone from the side makes them seem intimidating, such as lighting their face from underneath. Another way in which the lighting can have an effect is to make it seem like it is full time day lighting, and this replaces the need to film outdoors. We learnt how the face shape of someone can seem very different when lit from different angles. Lighting is an essential thing within film because it can change the perception of the audience. Different things such as using natural light or using very specific lighting can have a large effect on the way the film comes across.
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Team Meeting
We have had a team meeting (me and Sophie) and discussed the logistics of filming this coming Friday. We both have free time slots where we would have a usual media lesson, our teacher has allowed us to leave the premises of school during our lesson because what we are doing is productive towards our blog. We are going to pick up the cameras from school for around half eleven, and then that leaves us until half two, which is when we need to be back in school. For these three hours, we plan to get two of our interviews with people done. We are using our friends Eleanor Freshwater and George Youel, and we will ask the ten questions for them. If some need to be reshot, we have a lot of time in order to look back over the footage on the camera and decide if it all sounds good. The microphone is built into the camera so we won't have to worry about having a separate microphone. So during this filming session we will get around half of the filming done for the interviews hopefully, and that leaves us with getting the other half of interviews done and our shots. For our places, we are going to go to Birmingham and Bicester village as well as Banbury, to provide us with a large range of shots such as luxury retail as well as general high street.
Three hours worth of preparation and footage should be adequate for half of our interviews. After this, we have the next lesson in school to review everything we have shot and we can decide what we want to reshoot and that means that we can set aside time next week so we are able to reshoot what we need to do again.
Three hours worth of preparation and footage should be adequate for half of our interviews. After this, we have the next lesson in school to review everything we have shot and we can decide what we want to reshoot and that means that we can set aside time next week so we are able to reshoot what we need to do again.
Equipment List
Here is a list of the equipment we will need for filming and editing out documentary- from the process of the start with filming raw footage and having a fully edited film.
-Camera
-Tripod
-Computer for editing
-Car (transport)
-Actors (interviewees)
-Ourselves (directors for filming and editing)
-Camera
-Tripod
-Computer for editing
-Car (transport)
-Actors (interviewees)
-Ourselves (directors for filming and editing)
Timeline Analysis
Here is my timeline analysis for a trailer for the documentary 'Blackfish'. This relates to my documentary because it is highly informative on a very particular topic, and I am going to analyse everything that happens in the first two and a half minutes of the trailer for this documentary, and this will hopefully allow me a larger insight into the way in which documentaries and their trailers are constructed.
0;00-0;07: Black screen, cut to mid shot of some whales swimming.
0:08-0:10: Non-diegetic whale noises, mid shot then cuts to black.
0:11-0:14: Non-diegetic voiceover, long shot of man and whale
0:15-0:17: Continued voiceover, and long shot of whales in their natural habitat
0:18-0:21: Continued voiceover, underwater shots of two people with whale, cuts to black screen.
0:22-0:25: Two titles on screen, non-diegetic sound on screen
0:26-0:30: Non-diegetic sound of things clashing together, cuts to another credit, to black screen.
0:31-0:38: Black cuts to another credit, non-diegetic, incidental music. Cuts to black screen.
0:40-0:50: Non-diegetic voiceovers, close-up of a whale, cuts to interview with diegetic sound
0:51-0:58: Close-up shot, diegetic sound of someone talking.
0:59-1:08: More interview shots, non-diegetic voiceovers, cuts to black.
1:09-1:20: Mix of long shots and title screen, and people being interviewed. Music is a mixture of diegetic and nondiegetic, people talking and background incidental music.
1:21-1:30: Showing medium shots and close-ups of whales, and non-diegetic voiceovers.
1:31-1:40: Long shot, cuts to medium shot of whales, and cuts to black then an interview shot with someone stating something in the background, voiceover from what sounds like the news.
1:41-1:45: Previous shots from own-footage, and people talking non-diegetic in background
1:46-1:55: More home footage cutting into another, smoothly fading into each other, building-up non-diegetic music and building tension
1:56-2:06: Lots of long shots and medium shots of whales and non-diegetic voiceover
2:07-2:15: Medium shots of whales swimming and voiceover explaining news cover pages, and long shots and close-ups of the animals and what the people do to them
2:16-2:24: End credits and end of incidental non-diegetic music, continued voiceover which is also non-diegetic.
0;00-0;07: Black screen, cut to mid shot of some whales swimming.
0:08-0:10: Non-diegetic whale noises, mid shot then cuts to black.
0:11-0:14: Non-diegetic voiceover, long shot of man and whale
0:15-0:17: Continued voiceover, and long shot of whales in their natural habitat
0:18-0:21: Continued voiceover, underwater shots of two people with whale, cuts to black screen.
0:22-0:25: Two titles on screen, non-diegetic sound on screen
0:26-0:30: Non-diegetic sound of things clashing together, cuts to another credit, to black screen.
0:31-0:38: Black cuts to another credit, non-diegetic, incidental music. Cuts to black screen.
0:40-0:50: Non-diegetic voiceovers, close-up of a whale, cuts to interview with diegetic sound
0:51-0:58: Close-up shot, diegetic sound of someone talking.
0:59-1:08: More interview shots, non-diegetic voiceovers, cuts to black.
1:09-1:20: Mix of long shots and title screen, and people being interviewed. Music is a mixture of diegetic and nondiegetic, people talking and background incidental music.
1:21-1:30: Showing medium shots and close-ups of whales, and non-diegetic voiceovers.
1:31-1:40: Long shot, cuts to medium shot of whales, and cuts to black then an interview shot with someone stating something in the background, voiceover from what sounds like the news.
1:41-1:45: Previous shots from own-footage, and people talking non-diegetic in background
1:46-1:55: More home footage cutting into another, smoothly fading into each other, building-up non-diegetic music and building tension
1:56-2:06: Lots of long shots and medium shots of whales and non-diegetic voiceover
2:07-2:15: Medium shots of whales swimming and voiceover explaining news cover pages, and long shots and close-ups of the animals and what the people do to them
2:16-2:24: End credits and end of incidental non-diegetic music, continued voiceover which is also non-diegetic.
Monday, 16 November 2015
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Inter-Titles Research
Inter-titles are essential during credits of any short film, documentary, trailer, teaser trailer or more. However, they are used for more than just credits; they can be used to inform audience on the statistics within a documentary, they can be used as subtitles in films such as Amelie which was originally made in French, and they can be used for more than just credits.
For example, within a trailer of a film, there are inter-titles which give off one liners, and these are designed to give away a small amount about the film/documentary. This is meant to attract the attention of the audience and entice them to continue watching. They are used throughout a film at any point that someone may need to be informed on something that isn't included in a non-diegetic voiceover. Inter titles used to be used for every single line before sound was brought into film.
For example, within a trailer of a film, there are inter-titles which give off one liners, and these are designed to give away a small amount about the film/documentary. This is meant to attract the attention of the audience and entice them to continue watching. They are used throughout a film at any point that someone may need to be informed on something that isn't included in a non-diegetic voiceover. Inter titles used to be used for every single line before sound was brought into film.
Group Meeting
We have had a group meeting that involved discussing the logistics of being able to transport to and from filming places and school, what camera we are going to use, and how we will get use of it. We have decided to use the cameras that are in school, and use them as either handheld or on a tripod. We will bring a tripod with us wherever we film so we always have the choice of if we want to reshoot and make things steadier. Another thing that will help with re-shooting will be when we have reviewed back over all the shots- we will estimate how much we need to reshoot and this will help with how much time we will have to allocate for reshooting.
We also organised the storyboards which are now on my blog, explaining which places we are going to film and what shots we intend on taking. This will help us with technical construction.
We also organised the storyboards which are now on my blog, explaining which places we are going to film and what shots we intend on taking. This will help us with technical construction.
Statistics For Film
After extensive research into statistics about shopping and spending habits of people around the age of our target audiences, we have narrowed it down to these statistics to include as text within our whole documentary. We will use some that were incorporated within our preliminary task and ahead are the ones used in the previous documentary and facts found that we will use in the full one:
-on average, the UK spend around £59 billion per year on clothes
-tablets are becoming more popular with 20 percent of online shoppers in the UK buying clothing via a tablet within the last year.
-Primark is the most popular fashion retailer in the UK, making around 2 billion per year.
-The forecast for the market remains strong with sales expected to reach £19 million in the UK by 2019.
-UK economy grew 2.8% in 2014 as exports pick up and rising disposable income drives recovery.
-64% of 25 to 34 year olds bought clothes online.
-Officials believe that by 2018 22% of stores will close down due to online shopping becoming increasingly prominent.
-on average, the UK spend around £59 billion per year on clothes
-tablets are becoming more popular with 20 percent of online shoppers in the UK buying clothing via a tablet within the last year.
-Primark is the most popular fashion retailer in the UK, making around 2 billion per year.
-The forecast for the market remains strong with sales expected to reach £19 million in the UK by 2019.
-UK economy grew 2.8% in 2014 as exports pick up and rising disposable income drives recovery.
-64% of 25 to 34 year olds bought clothes online.
-Officials believe that by 2018 22% of stores will close down due to online shopping becoming increasingly prominent.
Health and Safety
In order to safely film everything for our documentary, we will need to identify potential health and safety risks, and with this we will need to assess how we will address these issues and prevent them from happening.
Since we aren't doing much filming outdoors, most of the precautions we will need to do will be based indoors. Potential issues arising with health and safety could be around there being food containing nuts if there is anyone who is allergic to nuts in our interviews or in the places we are filming. In order to avoid this, we will advise everyone involved within our filming not to consume foods containing nuts when filming product. Another health risk to address is the risk of falling over when filming when outdoors because it may have rained and therefore we will need people to be cautious when filming, especially if carrying heavy camera equipment something bad could potentially happen. To avoid this, we will only walk outdoors where we deem it dry and safe, and we will balance out all the camera equipment between me and Sophie so neither of us will be carrying a lot to be strenuous.
Another potential health and safety hazard is wires when filming the interviews in Sophie's house because things may need charging or connecting up to other things. To avoid people tripping over these wires, we can push them away to the side and pre-warn any of our interviewees and make sure they are in the knowledge that there is a potential tripping hazard where people could hurt themselves.
As a lot of our filming is going to be inside shopping centres and in Sophie's house, we will need to be careful about the public and their unpredictability. To avoid upsetting anyone when filming, we will ask before including them in filming and this means we can include their filming without knowing people are unaware their faces are being used in a documentary.
Overall, there are not a lot of safety and health risks when filming and editing our documentary because a lot of places we are filming in are seen as what we view as safe places because they are warm and dry on the inside, and they are public so safe to film so we will have permission to film there. Outdoors places we will film such as Bicester Village, and we will just need to be careful that we film on a day that it isn't forecast to rain and it hasn't already rained so we don't fall over with expensive camera equipment and damage both ourselves and the camera equipment we are filming with because we are borrowing provisions from school.
Since we aren't doing much filming outdoors, most of the precautions we will need to do will be based indoors. Potential issues arising with health and safety could be around there being food containing nuts if there is anyone who is allergic to nuts in our interviews or in the places we are filming. In order to avoid this, we will advise everyone involved within our filming not to consume foods containing nuts when filming product. Another health risk to address is the risk of falling over when filming when outdoors because it may have rained and therefore we will need people to be cautious when filming, especially if carrying heavy camera equipment something bad could potentially happen. To avoid this, we will only walk outdoors where we deem it dry and safe, and we will balance out all the camera equipment between me and Sophie so neither of us will be carrying a lot to be strenuous.
Another potential health and safety hazard is wires when filming the interviews in Sophie's house because things may need charging or connecting up to other things. To avoid people tripping over these wires, we can push them away to the side and pre-warn any of our interviewees and make sure they are in the knowledge that there is a potential tripping hazard where people could hurt themselves.
As a lot of our filming is going to be inside shopping centres and in Sophie's house, we will need to be careful about the public and their unpredictability. To avoid upsetting anyone when filming, we will ask before including them in filming and this means we can include their filming without knowing people are unaware their faces are being used in a documentary.
Overall, there are not a lot of safety and health risks when filming and editing our documentary because a lot of places we are filming in are seen as what we view as safe places because they are warm and dry on the inside, and they are public so safe to film so we will have permission to film there. Outdoors places we will film such as Bicester Village, and we will just need to be careful that we film on a day that it isn't forecast to rain and it hasn't already rained so we don't fall over with expensive camera equipment and damage both ourselves and the camera equipment we are filming with because we are borrowing provisions from school.
Friday, 6 November 2015
Editing Research
Continuity editing- continuity editing smooths over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process, and helps to make logical sense between shots. It involves things such as cutting shots shorter to make sure things keep making sense.
Cross cutting- This is editing that alternates between shots occurring simultaneously in two or more different locations.
Dissolve- a gradual transition from one shot to another. These may incorporate the terms fade in and fade out, and are used to a colorful or blank image.
Eye-line match- this is a cut between two different shots, in which the first shot shows a person looking off in a certain direction, and the second shot shows either a space containing what he or she sees, or a person looking back in exactly the opposite direction.
Jump cut- this is where two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.
Montage- This is the process of selecting, editing, and piecing together different bits of film to form a continuous whole.
Matched cut- this is a cut in a film editing between two different objects, two different spaces or two different compositions in which two objects in the two shots graphically match. This is used to create a strong continuity of action.
Shot reverse shot- this is two shots that have been edited together between two characters, to demonstrate a conversation; and may involve one character looking to the right and one looking to the left to make it all smooth and make it look like the characters are actually looking at each other. However, shot reverse shot can be used in more circumstances than just a conversation between two people.
Cutting- A stop from one shot to another
Cross cutting- This is editing that alternates between shots occurring simultaneously in two or more different locations.
Dissolve- a gradual transition from one shot to another. These may incorporate the terms fade in and fade out, and are used to a colorful or blank image.
Eye-line match- this is a cut between two different shots, in which the first shot shows a person looking off in a certain direction, and the second shot shows either a space containing what he or she sees, or a person looking back in exactly the opposite direction.
Jump cut- this is where two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.
Montage- This is the process of selecting, editing, and piecing together different bits of film to form a continuous whole.
Matched cut- this is a cut in a film editing between two different objects, two different spaces or two different compositions in which two objects in the two shots graphically match. This is used to create a strong continuity of action.
Shot reverse shot- this is two shots that have been edited together between two characters, to demonstrate a conversation; and may involve one character looking to the right and one looking to the left to make it all smooth and make it look like the characters are actually looking at each other. However, shot reverse shot can be used in more circumstances than just a conversation between two people.
Cutting- A stop from one shot to another
Storyboard
Here is our initial storyboard for our shopping documentary. We have included the shots, angles, how they will cut into the next one, and what the shots will include and what sounds will be incorporated.
Vocal Pitch
In this Vimeo clip, we state the main intentions of our documentary, how it is going to be filmed and the basic outline of the documentary. From around twenty minutes onwards, we are the two girls talking about a shopping documentary. This vocal pitch is important because we get our ideas from paper actually into conversation, and we received constructive critisism from our classmates, which is very helpful because they have all seen the preliminary film and they can identify what they think we need to improve upon which we haven't already identified.
https://vimeo.com/144299129
https://vimeo.com/144299129
Location Scouting
Here are some photos of the areas in which we would like to film our documentary.
These locations are all suitable because they provide a wide diverse choice of shots in which to involve in our documentary. These places include high-end luxury retail, and then places such as castle quay in banbury will provide us with the slightly lower retail end such as poundland.
Bicester Village:
Birmingham Bullring Shopping Centre
Banbury Shopping Centre
These locations are all suitable because they provide a wide diverse choice of shots in which to involve in our documentary. These places include high-end luxury retail, and then places such as castle quay in banbury will provide us with the slightly lower retail end such as poundland.
Bicester Village:
Birmingham Bullring Shopping Centre
Banbury Shopping Centre
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Start of Filming
This week me and my teammate Sophie have decided to start our filming. We are going to get the first part of the filming completed, and this will be most of the shots and angles filmed in Banbury and Castle Quay. These will be including long shots, close ups, and we may bring some actors with us to banbury and we will use these to demonstrate some people shopping as well as using natural shots, whom we won't need their permission. This session will involve around two to three hours of filming, which should give us a range of shots to choose from to involve within our documentary. We will use handheld cameras from school and also use a tripod when we need panning shots and still shots, if there is nothing else to lean the camera on safely or securely. I will write another blog post when I have done the first filming session.
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