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1.In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge codes and conventions of real media products?

2.How effective is the combination of your main product and both ancillary texts?

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3. What have I learnt from the audience feedback?

The overall feedback we got was that they liked the fact we got in touch with the right kind of people "seek ed medical advice from a credited NHS nurse" "manager of a coffee shop". The documentary was "quite easy to watch" because of the narrative structure and the voice over "sounded like he was excited about talking about coffee" and that he also sounded like he himself had drank plenty of coffee!. From our audience feedback it was obvious that the overall sound quality wasn't too good and that this area could have been improved. I was fed back that when using the blue screen the tape had a blip so to watch it was a bit distracting to concentrate on the content. The title montage of the girl making a cup of coffee, this footage appears to be a bit shaky and made the whole sequence low in quality, this could have been overcome by making sure the tripod was fully secure before starting to film. Some of the constructive criticism was that in the nurse's interview and the coffee worker the framing wasn't the best it could have been and the mis en scene wasn't entirely relevant.

I further posted my documentary on facebook to gain some more feedback. Below is a picture of the comments I received.

The majority of people said that it looked very professional. A few people said we actually taught and informed them of something they did not know before, which is a role that documentaries should fulfill. The feedback included the fact that the sound was too quite, again this is something that we could improve and make better. One of the people commented on the use of voice over script and said that he asked a rhetorical question which he was actually wondering at the time. On a whole I have learnt that we should have sorted out the sound quality and quality of blue screen footage.

Here are a few graphs conducted from the rating questions and what I learnt from these;

4.How I used media tecnologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages.

How I used media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages. on Prezi

Documentary As Task

We watched two documentaries "Teeth of jaws" and "The Simpson's 20th anniversary...on ice". From watching these documentaries I learnt some of the main codes and conventions.

We then proceeded to film an interview about mobile phones for a documentary.

Planning

First we had to figure out the general aim of the interview. Which we decided on how teenagers rely heavily on their mobile phones. We planned out 10 questions for the interview and where it would take place. We did not plan where to do the cutaways as it is hard to make the cutaways relevant before if you film them before the actual interview.

Filming

We were issued with the equipment we needed and then went to film the interview outside. We decided to change the initial location to inside in front of the blue screen due to the weather conditions. We had to make sure that when the interviewee was answering the questions that he answered in full sentences so when the questions are edited out the answer still makes sense. We then filmed a few relevant cutaways of people texting, playing games and generally using their phones.

Editing

When editing we dealt with the questions by editing them out and leaving the answers using simple cuts. We used fades on the audio to avoid jumps and used a few cutaways over some of the jumps. We hadn't filmed enough cutaways so in the end we used some still images from the Internet.

Evaluation

If we were to do this task again we would have to think more carefully about the appropriate location of filming and filmed more relevant cutaways. We could use a background which contains mis en scene related to mobile phones instead of leaving the blue screen in.

Documentary Notes

What is a documentary?

John Grierson first used the description "documentary" in 1926 to describe his film about South Sea Island. The definition used by him "The creative treatment of actuality".

Documentaries can be objective and present unbiased facts in a creative way of capturing the reality: or subjective like many modern documentaries that present individual stories much like current affairs programs.

Documentaries are used to: inform people of what they have the right to know, change their opinions on subjects and they can even be powerful enough to change laws and businesses.

The five central elements of documentaries
1. Observation -When the camera is ignored, it intends the audience to believe they are eye witness to the portrayal of realities.
2. Interview -Documentaries rely on interviews, they can either be uncut; where the interview is allowed to be uninterrupted or inter cut; where bits of the interview are selected and edited with cut aways.
3. Dramatisation -This gives the documentary sense of drama through observation. Everything is to occur naturally in front of a camera, this increases the audiences’ involvement. Re enactments are used which are 'based on fact'
4. Mis en scene -The documentary maker uses what already is present and creates the shot so it contains relevant scenery.
5. Exposition -This is the line of the argument the documentary engages with. The exposition is what the documentary is attempting to get across to the audience.
Types of Documentaries
• Fully narrated - Voice overs are used throughout to make sense of visuals.
• Fly on the wall -The camera is hidden and films real events as they happen.
• Mixed documentary - Combination of interviews, observations, archive material and a narrator.
• Self reflective -The subjects are aware of the camera. Subjects usually talk directly to the camera crew.
• Docudrama -Staged re enactments as they are supposed to have happened due to facts of an event.
• Docusoaps -Combination of documentary and soap opera.
Structure of Documentaries
• Open -Not concluded at the end, leaving questions open.
• Closed -All answers are concluded by the end.
• Linear- Follows a chronological order.
• Non Linear -Features things such as flash backs and flash forwards.
• Circular- The documentary ends with the same idea as it started with.
Planning a Documentary
Voxpops
Street interviews edited so the answers from same question are strung together.
Construction of reality
A documentary is made with a conclusion known from the beginning, before filming. The interviews and answers are edited to give a sense of realism.
Visuals
Things such as: mis en scene and types of shots (mid/close) all add different meanings and give the documentary ability to interpretation. Shots are kept short to keep interest.
Interviews
Have related mis en scene usually an authorial figure to kept audience interested.

Analyasis Of Documentaries

1.The Devil Made Me Do It

Investigative and reflective were the classification for this documentary because the documentary investigates the nun's attack and reflects on the event.

The themes raised in the documentary were; religion (satanic), social influences on youth, death, rebellion and culture.

It formed a circular narrative as it started with the attack on the nun, then it raised and solved issues throughout about the attack on why and how it happened and then ended with the attack.

The material featured contained many point of view shots, as if getting the audience involved in the action and creating more emotions and opinions on the information uncovered. There was a clip of handheld material which was reporters’ footage, for example Marilyn Manson travelling to his car, CCTV tapes, reinforcing the fact that it was a documentary on a real subject. When details of the attack were being narrated filler clips of churches, trains and concerts were used to visually reinforce what the narrator was disscussing.

The dieagetic sound was the narrator, the interviewees and sounds of everyday life. However the non-dieagetic sound was linked to the narrative; Marilyn Manson’s music, religious and spiritual music – these formed two extremes too compare and put emphasis on the extreme differences in the lifestyles’ of the girls and the nun. The documentary used some sound effects when re-enacting the nuns attack there was no visual stimulus for the attack, therefore was conveyed through sounds eg, stabbing and nun screaming etc.

The editing nicely compliments the sound as at points there was fast editing creating fast pace and slow editing creating an opposite pace. These two extremes tied in with the audio stimuli for example religious music complimented and emphasised the slow pace.

The three main archive sources were; the CCTV footage, news broadcasts at the time and Marilyn Manson concerts and conferences as it is reflecting on real life happenings the film crew for the documentary would not have been able to film as it was happening so had to use archive material to give the audience evidence and to add realism to the documentary.

Graphics included name and relation tags when a person was being interviewed. Apart from that not many graphics were used.



2.Loose Change

Investigative, reflective and historical are the classification for this documentary. Investigative as it was investigating the 9/11 attacks, reflective as it reflected on the attack and historical as the happenings are a historical event when the documentary was released, The documentary was created to inform the public an alternate view on the 9/11 attacks. It could be argued that the documentary was also persuasive as the narrator became very bias to his opinions and asked rhetorical questions in a way pressuring the audience to agree with him.

The themes raised in the documentary were; government, conspiracies, economy and terrorism.

The narrative structure of loose change is linear as it starts at one point and resolves questions towards the end of the documentary.

All the material in this documentary was archive material examples are: newspapers, news videos, government reports, documents, tape recordings/ phone recordings, CCTV and footage from other documentaries. Most of the shots were handheld making the documentary more intense. The emphasis on the eyes relates to souls this was possibly used to “uncover lies”.

Dieagetic sound in this documentary would have been the “explosions”, speech of people in interviews, aircraft engines all of which sets the scene. Non dieagetic sound being the narrator and continuous background music, the continuity of the music creates tension and keeps attention.

The documentary featured many cross fades in and out, this created more continuity to do simple cuts from one scene to another wouldn't have worked therefore cross fades were essential. On the documents, post produced highlights and cross hairs have been used to draw attention to the important parts of the information.

Graphics used were dates and some reconstructions of the attacks, to scientifically convey evidence in a safer more productive way.



3.The Meth Epidemic

This documentary comes across as investigative as it looks into the rise and falls of meth amphetamine and investigates the many causes behind them. It also informs the audience of how meth amphetamine works and the effects on the body, shocking the watcher to NEVER do the drug.

The themes are drugs in society, crime levels due to drugs, medicines and the business side of drugs.

The documentary obtains a circular narrative structure as it starts with an anonymous woman upset over something, we learn by the end of the documentary why she was upset.

This documentary features lots of interviews with experts, police, users and other people involved. The fillers used for example taking Sudafed of the shelves and police lights are used regularly when the narrator talking to add a visual stimulus. There was some hand held footage of raids and arrests as it gets the audience more engaged and feel more a part of the action.

Mis en scene was set up mostly in a professional environment or in a slummy environment showing the extremes of people involved (Investigators/Police - Users/Dealers). The Mexican brothers- whom produced a lot of the meth amphetamine- were presented on a mech fence possibly symbolising that most of their work was done on the streets and are now confined.

Apart from the talking and narration dieagetic sounds such as police sirens all add audio stimuli and convey the seriousness of the documentary. The background music is usually soft and emotive when telling negative accounts of the meth addicts.

Archive materials such as “the faces of meth” are taken from police records on how meth has changed their looks over a short period of time. Using this type of archive material shocks the audience and comes across as a very strong message.



4. The Real Sleeping Beauty

The type of documentary is informative as it informs audience on a rare sleeping disorder. Because the disorder is so rare the documentary has to be self reflective of Louisa Balls lifestyle. She and her family often talk directly to the camera crew. The documentary does come across as a docusoap because it follows one person from start to finish.

The themes the documentary raises are sleeping disorders (kliene levin syndrome) and Louisa balls life.

Mis en scene of most of the interviews is homely setting showing the supportiveness of a family surrounding. She is interviewed in her bed room this could possibly convey that there is a lot of the time spent in that room. When they go to the hospital the interview with doctor features mis en scene such as technical equipment (mri scanners, xrays, and a medical setting)

The narrative structure of the real sleeping beauty is non linear as it features flashbacks such as holidays, dance competitions. It is also open as questions raised in the documentary are never answered because they can't be answered yet.

There was many cutaways used in interviews usually of Louisa in an 'episode' or of clouds and cutaways related to the topic of what narrator says. For example exam desks and papers being handed out when talking about Louisa having to sit her gcse's. The documentary features a cutaway of one of her friends writing on her school shirt the title of the documentary.

Non-diagetic sound reflects what happens on screen, for example when Louisa is having an "episode" the music appears to be sleepy and calming. Whereas when she is awake and living like a normal teenager more upbeat music is played to emphasise the two extremes of Louisa's life. The documentary is heavily influenced by the narrator who only appears in audio as non-diagetic sound. Diagetic, such as phones ringing, music at her dance lessons and school bells, this type of sound adds realism to the whole documentary.

When a new day appears the same shot of the house and clouds are sped up to create an illusion of passing time. The edits appear slower when Louisa is in sleep mode and seems as if there is a dark edit put onto the clips to make it seem more dull and depressing.

Minimal achieve material is used, at the beginning a clip from the news is used when the news featured something about Louisa's rare condition. This introduces the whole documentary and instantly grabs the attention of people because the news is a credited source and it is viewed in a very seriously dramatic way.

Graphics are mostly just name and relationship titles. Also when a flash back features the date will appear on the bottom of the documentary.
Comparing "Girls on the pull, 4OD" and "Cherry goes drinking, BBC3Iplayer"

Both these documentaries are set out to inform and raise awareness, however one tackles an everyday issue (drinking) and the other not so common (mental disorder, TTM). Both subjects are engaging but "cherry goes drinking" seems to appeal more as almost every girl can relate to the theme of the documentary whereas not many people are known to suffer from TTM. Also "Cherry's documentary conveys a warning to girls, especially young, on the effects of alcohol and constantly emphasises the fact may be fun but also DANGEROUS.

"Girls on the pull" follows a three part structure, three different patients and their lifestyles. Two were linear narratives, as it starts at the disorder and progresses through tackling it and ends with hope of curing. However the third part shows a circular narrative as her life events goes as such Disorder> Progression> then there is a phone call at the end showing that the mental disorders will most probably always be there as she fell back into old habits. In Cherry's documentary it’s linear, and similarly too "girls on the pull" there are mini structure featuring different age groups though.

The mis en scene of both is set up similarly; most interviews with the public/patients are set in houses and with families which both emphases the normality of the subject featured. Both have an interview with at least one expert, "...pull" documentary features an expert for personal reason and chose to become an expert. "Cherry..." interviews ambulance guys who see firsthand the dangers of alcohol. All the fillers such as hair fillers, dolls, alcohol add visual stimuli to the documentary and also help to make sure audience understands what the theme of the documentary is. Close ups of the girls pulling their hair out subconsciously is similar to the close ups of the girl drinking multiple glasses/bottles of alcohol.

In "cherry..." Background music is mostly clubbing music and then emotion portraying the two extremes of alcohol. However some comical mick take moments occur when "True British" music plays over a terrible newspaper article shocking that people are taking this issue as not serious and enforcing the fact it is only OUR country that has such problems. On the other hand "Girls..." is mostly narrated over and soft emotive music. At one point there is a whole scene of just thought processes when we see the hypnotherapy which adds to the effect of the problem most likely being caused by faulty or irrational thought processes.

Both documentaries do not feature any archive material apart from a few newspapers and photographs, this will be because the broadcaster of the documentaries would have funded a large budget to get primary material instead.

Codes and Conventions of Documentaries

• While the interview is taking place there are certain camera angles that are used. The documentary always keeps to these rules that an interview shot is a talking head shot.


• The person being interviewed is normally framed to the left or the right of the screen.
  
• The person being interviewed does not look directly at the camera but looks directly at the interviewer at the same eye level.


• Mise en scene around is always related in some way to the topic of the documentary.


• Interviews are never filmed with a some form of light source behind them because it would make the focus of the shot harder to see.


• The questions being asked are edited out so you only hear the answers.


• Cut away shots used to break up the interview and give the audience some sort of visual stimuli. Another reason is to avoid jump cuts.


• The voice over sounds authorical and enthusiastic about the subject matter, professional documentaries use figure head/celebrity, for example Russel Kane in "Freak Like Me".


• Documentaries use achieve material to add authenticity to the documentary.


• Fitting music to the subject matter enhance what the documentary is trying to get across, For example in "Supersize Me" the childish music undermines mcdonalds.

Brainstorm ideas and initail idea

Brainstorming.

1. Catholic church
2. Student drivers
3. Football hooligan's
4. Gaming
5. Obssesive Compulsive Disorder
6. Music Industry
7. Hippy culture
8. Coffee
9. Language
10. Subliminal messaging

The ideas we discussed;

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

It is an interesting subject which may a attract young audience as well as people interested in psychology in general. Two members of our group study psychology as one of their A-levels so they have some knowledge in this area which may increase reliability of our documentary. However, if we decided on this idea, we would need an expert (possibly a psychiatrist, or at least a psychologist) to add authenticity. Otherwise, the documentary would not seem as authoritative (which we aim for). It would be more reliable and valid if we got a person with OCD which would be difficult and may be a breach to their confidentiality.

Football Hooligans

This seemed like an exciting idea which would be interesting to investigate. It would extend our personal knowledge on the psychology which is helpful for other subjects as well. It wouldn't be to difficult to find an expert on the psychology behind the behaviour as the subject is very widely used recently. This topic effects many young and old so the range of opinions would be something we could research into. There are many famous fights which have been filmed which we could used for archive material. However finding a real hooligan would be dangerous and if we were to do this the person would have to be kept anonymous with blur and voice effects.

Coffee

At first coffee seemed like a dull idea however as we decided to research some more information about it, it seemed to be the best of the three because there are many things we thought we could include in the documentary about coffee, for instance coffee addicts, various types of coffee, people’s habits (morning coffee etc.), sociological effect of coffee on relationships (e.g. when people ‘go for a coffee’ it might mean they want to catch up), unusual coffees and the list goes on. It would also be easy to find people talking about coffee because almost everyone this beverage. Moreover, if most of the people drink it, then our target audience will be broader (and we mainly aim at people at the age of 16 and more, and/or business people). In the town centre there are many coffee shops we could go to film how different coffees are being prepared and ask an ‘expert’ (someone who’s worked there for a long time) questions ‘coffee-related’. As our 10% archive material we could use short clips from coffee factories (‘’How It’s Made’’ etc.)

Brainstom of Content

Target audience reasearch

Questionnaire

A copy of our questionare

Results from questionare

Gender:

Male or Female

Asking about gender is not only a general questionare question but it enlightens us on different opinions from the different sexes.

Age:
16-18years 19-25years 25+years




By finding out the age group that we targeted we can then find out the best day to shedule and what time is best. Which would be a weekday night when the audience would not be at work.

Do you enjoy watching documentaries?
Yes No

This chart shows that because we targeted mostly 19-25 year olds we realised that most of them said they enjoyed watching documentaries and therefore they would be the most suitable for the target audience.

What type of documentary interests you the most?
Reflective Nature Lifestyle Entertainment Economic Social Political Science

The most popular subject type is health, lifestyle and social therefore our documentary should investigate the health effects of coffee, how coffee is a part of a lifestyle and how coffee effects people social lives. Least popular was reflective so will should not reflect on annecdotal stories about coffee.

What documentary would you want to watch more? Coffee/ Coffee Addiction

When answering this question lots of people just said 'coffee in general would be less boring' which came across as strange. However, we realised that coffee adiction could just feature in a documentary about coffee giving us more things to work with.

Do you drink Coffee?
Yes No

Lots of people do drink coffee, a few do not. Our documentary could target both of these by investigating into how coffee should be drank, wether its changed over years and different types of coffee.

How many cups a day of coffee do you drink?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
How often, do you think, you should drink Coffee?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6

The line graph shows many people know they shouldn't drink as much coffee as they do, it also shows that quite a few people from our target audience exceed the recomended caffine intake a day. We could research this more in our documentary to inform people of the health effects from coffee and the dangers of drinking to much.

How do you think coffee can be drank?
Hot Cold
No one thought that coffee could be drank cold and were disgusted by the idea. We could inform in our documentary other ways of drinking coffee an the many different unknown tastes.



Video feedback results

Formal Proposal

Topic

The topic of our documentary is coffee, we have chosen this because we feel that with this topic there are many different angles that we can take on coffee, one of our main angles is going to be, “could coffee drinking be seen as an addiction” and possibly a drug. Also everyone is familiar in coffee and has opinions on it therefore it will be easier for us to gain feedback from people on the street.

Type of Documentary

Our documentary will be a mixed style because we consider this to be the easiest and the most effective. It will consist of narrative voiced over by a male voice as we consider this to be the most appropriate to our style. It will also have interviews and archive footage. This will increase documentary’s trustworthiness by showing evidence. The editing we have considered will include simple, sharp cuts; fades and dissolves in-between interviews. We will also use voxpops. Music will be diegetic as well as non-diegetic. In the beginning we will try to gain the attention of the younger audience so we are going to use a song by Blur however during the documentary we are not going to use any music as this may distract and annoy our target audience from the topic. Also our documentary is informative and will be filmed in a formal, factual style.

Channel and Scheduling

We feel that Channel 4 broadcasting, is suitable and the best schedule time for our documentary would be in the hours of 8.30-9pm. We considered broadcasts earlier because people usually drink coffee in the morning but the audience would be small. The evening schedule we decided would be more likely to gain larger audience because people are not in work at this time - our younger as well as older audience. We also feel that our documentary should be aired during the Christmas period because television programme is more interesting then and it is more likely that people will watch our documentary.

Target Audience

We have had to broaden our target audience to an adult audience because feedback from our previous audience (teenagers), through our target audience questionnaire, was not positive enough for us to carry on aiming our documentary at that audience. There is a possibility though, of the group maintaining the previous audience as many may still watch our documentary at our proposed schedule time and our documentary has the potential to change our previous audience’s opinion of coffee.

Primary Research

Our primary research will consist of interviews and the general public’s opinions on our subject of choice (voxpops). An interview with coffee workers will be set in local coffee shops (Café Nero and Rhode Island Coffee Shop). This will be to present coffee in its most believable way because coffee workers have more knowledge as well as contact with coffee on a daily basis than everyone else. They will be a possible authority speaking for the coffee industry. During the interview there will be appropriate mise en scene which will include coffee shop in general as a location, coffee related objects in the background and probably their uniform considering most coffee shops have special uniforms for their workers. Framing will be as usual – talking head shot. Graphics underneath will show their position and name but this only will be for more important interviewees in the documentary.

An interview with a nurse will be filmed in her office. She will be sat in front of a computer to represent her authority. The interviewee will be wearing her usual uniform for work as we expect to film her during her normal hours of work. Title underneath will show her name as she is a very important figure in our documentary. We wanted to film an NHS nurse because she has knowledge on negative health effects of caffeine on our bodies and also how coffee effects a full time NHS worker. Another interview will present a man who is enthusiastic about both coffee and tea. He will be presented within a relevant mise en scene. This will be set in Priestley College because we need to use the blue screen and some quite place where we could film him. We think it is important for our documentary to present facts in unbiased way and inform people about positives as well as negatives of coffee, which is why we asked for interviews with a range of various people with different approaches to coffee. Our tea and coffee enthusiast will also be presented with a title underneath. We will create a set of questions for each of our interviewees as this will show our preparation for the interview and professional approach.

Secondary Research

Our secondary research will consist of photographs found on the internet, archive material of “How It’s Made” S11E3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1weA2J2DDK8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41bBfFLQ594 ) and internet documentations found on various websites. During the editing process if we do not manage to take some of the pictures ourselves we will research them on the web and insert in relevant parts in our documentary. This will be called our cutaway shots. We have been researching different things on coffee since our initial idea was established and found internet very useful, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

We will use some websites to enhance our knowledge on coffee. For example, we found this sentence "We do feel a boost from caffeine in the morning, but that's probably due to a reversal of the withdrawal symptoms” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6422279.stm ) and feel that we could use this in interview with NHS nurse or a coffee worker to find out what they think about it. Also we will use a footage from youtube presenting a civet and its faeces when interviewing a coffee worker as we already know what answer we can expect (What is the most expensive coffee in the world?), this source will be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5-WQqOu58. We found a festival that happens in bath based on coffee, we will use this website http://www.bathcoffeefestival.co.uk/home/ to find interesting people who know more obscure things about coffee.

As we know one of our interviewees will be an NHS nurse we are going to be well prepared for it: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/food-aliment/caffeine-eng.php

Narrative Structure

The narrative structure of our documentary will be linear as this way our documentary will be easier to follow and understand for our viewing audience. The beginning of our documentary will be mainly focusing on interesting facts about coffee. The conflict will be in the middle where the NHS nurse will be talking about coffee addiction and will compare it to alcoholism. Here we are going to interview a recovering alcoholic who now drinks coffee instead of alcohol. After this we are going to balance this conflict with other interesting facts from interviews with Derek Stansfield artist who uses coffee in his work and Jose Melim on the hidden secrets of coffee. At the end we are going to deepen audience’s knowledge on coffee beans being defecated from monkey’s faeces and create a conclusion.

Outline of Content

In the beginning of our documentary we are going to have a montage of various coffee/kitchen-like sounds that are related to coffee so our audience gets introduced to the subject of the documentary. Most of these shots will be close ups or extreme close ups to focus audience’s attention. Also documentary will start with non-diegetic music over the top: Blur – Coffee and TV as this may attract younger audience as well as is related to coffee. Afterwards they will be shown a title made out of coffee beans and voiceover will start narrating as the first picture of coffee/coffee beans is presented on the screen. Other shots, than photographs we are going to film, will include people drinking coffee and archive material of a production line from How It’s Made. Then we cut to coffee shops in Warrington town centre and present voxpops. The general public will give their opinions on coffee, e.g. whether they like it or not. This will be shot with relevant mise en scene, i.e. coffee shop in the background. To increase validity of our statistics of who likes coffee and who does not, we are going to speed up our some voxpops because we realize that all voxpops we were told to film (at least 20) are not going to be in the documentary.

In the middle we will put our main interviews with coffee workers and an NHS nurse. We are going to put graphics (titles) to inform people about their positions and names, also this will improve their authority. They all will be filmed using a talking head shot as most documentaries use this technique. First person being interviewed will be a coffee worker from Rhode Island coffee shop who will be talking about how working with coffee changes your views on coffee and different tasting coffees with appropriate cutaway shots. Also we will show parts of interview with another coffee worker and the NHS nurse answering questions like ‘Why do you think coffee is so successful?’All sounds will be ambient to add up on documentary’s trustworthiness. Afterward the voiceover will introduce the audience to the next part of the opening sequence which is popularity of coffee amongst famous people. Here experts will share their views on this subject. We think a good cutaway shot will be simply a celebrity with a cup of coffee. As the Rhode Island manager tells us more about coffee we will present a cutaway of someone drinking coffee. Then the voiceover will introduce the audience to the most expensive coffee in the world. We will insert a photograph of coffee and money together because this will be relevant and then a coffee person will inform people of the most expensive beverage. During this we will insert an archive material presenting a civet and how coffee is being defecated and then processed. Then we are going to present voxpops where people would answer a question ‘Would you drink a coffee made from monkey’s poo?’.

At the end of our opening sequence we are going to present the whole interview with a coffee drinker and the NHS nurse. Interview with the NHS nurse will be mainly focused on negative consequences, health effects of caffeine overdose and what things we should be aware of which will be backed up by relevant cutaway shots. Afterwards we will interview a coffee and tea drinker who will be discussing pros and cons of both.

Resource Requirements

Our resource requirements will consist of a microphone and windshield, a camera, a tripod, tapes, Adobe Premier Pro, computers, internet, editing machine, batteries etc., permission to film on property, transport (bus service) to move around and blue screen for one interview.

Production Schedule

Production Schedule
Programme title: What have you bean drinking
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Activity
Date
Location
Whether it went well or not, and why

Target Audience Research and Research Started
October 4th
Priestley College
Finished on the 5th of November

Formal Proposal started
October 9th
Priestley College
Finished on the 12th of October

Interview with a manager from Rhode Island coffee shop
October 25th
Rhode Island coffee shop, Warrington Town Centre
Bad framing, mise en scene (we were not allowed to film in the shop, only in the storeroom)

Interview with an NHS nurse
October 27th
Nurse’s home
Had to be rearranged for the 25th

Interview with the NHS nurse
October 25th
Nurse’s home
Nurse was not well and wished to be filmed in the garden

Interview with a coffee drinker, cutaways and voxpops
October 25th and 27th
ASDA, house, Warrington Town Centre, Golden Square Shopping Centre.
Filmed few on the 25th as did not have the camera for longer; needs more filming

Capturing footage
November 3rd
Priestley College
Bad framing and mise en scene had to be refilmed

Interview with the manager from Rhode Island coffee shop, cutaways and voxpops
November 8th
Rhode Island coffee shop, Warrington Town Centre
Clip microphone did not work, needs to be refilmed; also no plate on tripod made some footage shaky

Interview with Café Nero worker and voxpops
November 12th
Café Nero coffee shop, Warrington Town Centre
Filmed twice to ensure sound was recorded, turned out clip microphone did not work (although it appeared on volume meter on the screen) so had background sound in it, voxpops went fine

Interview with a coffee and tea enthusiast
November 13th
Priestley College
Feedback on tape, apart from that went well

Interview with the nurse
November 14th
Nurse’s home
Went well

Editing
November 15th-19th
Priestley College
Ongoing

Recording our radio advert
November 25th
Priestley College
Run out of time

Pictures for Print Advert
December 1st
Priestley College
Went well

Recording the voiceover and radio advert
December 3rd
Priestley College
The equipment recorded a horrible buzzing over the speaking therefore we had to do it again but using a standard camera and with another volunteer as the previous wasn't free anymore. We have to refilm the voiceover.

Recording the voiceover
December 6th
Priestley College
Went well



Date production started: 5/10/10
Treatment started for final idea: 8/10/10
Target research and research started: 11/10/10
Timeline started: 14/10/10
Formal proposal started: 19/10/10
Storyboard started: 18/10/10
Shooting started: 25/10/10
Editing started: 1/11/10
Location equipment required
Camerax1/tripodx1/microphonex1/headphonesx1/batteriesx2/tapex1/Permission to film on propertyx1
Transport requirements
Bus service
Crewing requirements
Cameraperson: Joanna Czachor
Interviewers: Ash Davies, Georgina Thomas
Technician: Georgina Thomas
Actors/Interviewees
Nurse: Sharon Moody
Coffee Worker: Manni Leschari,Rebekah Snape
Coffee Drinker: Ben Collins
Drinkers/Hands: James O’Gorman, Kelly Charlesworth, Adrianna Dlugajczyk
Props
Coffee cups, Coffees, Coffee shops,

Running Order

Documentary name: What have you bean drinking?

How it’s made, with narration 20 seconds
Establishing shot of coffee pot 2 seconds
Montage of coffee drinkers and making coffee 15 seconds
Stop motion title in coffee beans 10 seconds
Small part of interview with NHS Nurse 20 seconds
Voxpops 10 seconds
Did you know screen (animation) of the most expensive coffee being poo from a monkey 20 seconds
Voxpops of whether people would drink the coffee 10 seconds
Interview with coffee worker about how working with coffee changes your views on coffee and different tasting coffees with relevant cut aways 50 seconds
Did you know coffee’s alertness you feel from coffee is just your brain getting back to normal, the reversal of withdrawal symptoms(animation of a brain) 20 seconds
Interview with NHS nurse Sharon Moody health effects of coffee the amount of sugar and caffeine etc with relevant cut aways 60 seconds
Interview with Coffee worker again explaining effects on society etc 40 seconds
Clips of drinking alcohol age limits signs voice over compares this to coffee addiction and recovering alcoholics 30 seconds (5mins)
Interview with a recovering alcoholic who now drinks coffee instead of alcohol with relevant cut aways 120 seconds (7mins)
Narrator asking the audience “would you give up alcohol for coffee?” 5 seconds
Voxpops of public opinion of whether they would drink coffee instead of alcohol. 20 seconds
Footage from Bath coffee festival of the talks, shows different shows etc, with voiceover 120 seconds
Voxpops at the coffee festival 120 seconds
Interview with Derek Stansfield artist who uses coffee in his work 120 seconds
Advert break 180 seconds(16mins)
Montage of clips from coffee adverts old and new 50 seconds
Narrator talks about coffee in popular culture watching telly 10 seconds (17mins)
Archive material of friends when in the coffee shop, Rachel making coffee 20 seconds
Narrator asks the audience “so why is coffee such an acquired taste” 5 seconds
Interview with Manager of Rhode Island with relevant cut aways 35 seconds(18mins)
Interview with Jose Melim on the hidden secrets of coffee with relevant cut aways 120 seconds(20mins)
Establishing shot of multiple coffee shops 20 seconds
Groups of people on couch what their favourite coffee shop 20 seconds
Interview with Starbuck’s founder about why the coffee business is so successful 140 seconds(23mins)
Animation of Cherry stone Coffee, did you know?....... 60 seconds
Monkey poo interview with workers from Cambodia and other obscure lands with relevant cutaways.
120 seconds
Conclusion 60 seconds (27mins)

Interview Questions

Questions for an expert:

Can you inform us how dangerous coffee can be?
What are the physical side effects from coffee?
What are the psychological side effects?
What effect does coffee have on society nowadays?
Can coffee be a part of a healthy diet?
Can you inform us with some interesting facts about coffee?
What age should people drink coffee?
Why does coffee have such an acquired taste?
In three words describe coffee?
Do you agree with Peter Rogers statement that “We do feel a boost from caffeine in the morning but that is probably due to a reversal of the withdrawal symptoms”?


Questions for a coffee worker:

Do you like the smell of coffee?
Have your opinions changed due to working with coffee?
What effect do you think coffee has on society?
Do you think the taste of the coffee is an acquired one?
Are there any other tasting coffees out there?
Could you enlighten us to some interesting or unusual facts about coffee?
Why is the coffee industry so successful?
Describe coffee in three words?
In your opinion, what is the purpose of coffee?
Do you think coffee should come with a health warning?

Questions for coffee drinkers:

What impact does coffee have on your life?
Do you feel you could last a day without coffee? Is coffee the first thing you think about when waking up?
Does this scare you slightly?
Did you know that the recommended daily intake of coffee is four cups? Do you exceed this amount?
Why do you drink coffee?
Do you feel coffee has improved your social life?
Stranded on a desert island, three items you can take, would coffee be one?
What effects do you feel if you haven’t drunk coffee?
In three words describe coffee?

Story Boards

Primary and Secondary Research

Primary Research

Our Interviewees

Interview with Rhode Island Coffee’s manager/worker – 25/10 (filmed again on the 8^th November)

Interview with an NHS nurse – 27/10, rearranged for 25/10 (she was interviewed again on the 14^th November)

Interview with coffee and tea enthusiast – 13/11

Interview with Café Nero’s worker – 12/11

Interview with a coffee drinker – 25/10

We are also going to ask people on the street if they like coffee and see how many of them responds and ask if they would drink coffee made from civet’s faeces (after interview with Rhode Island manager).

We are going to take some photographs during the filming process and use them as cutaways. Also we will film some of our family members or friends in certain situations, e.g. when drinking coffee and use it as a relevant cutaway shot.

Filming locations:

ASDA

Rhode Island Coffee Shop

Golden Square Shopping Centre

Café Nero

Priestley College (to use blue screen)

Inside our houses

Photographs taken for our print advert:

Secondary research

Secondary Research on Prezi

Wikipedia

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/food-aliment/caffeine-eng.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6422279.stm


http://most-expensive.net/coffee-in-world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1weA2J2DDK8&feature=related -How It's Made (Season 11 / Episode 3 / Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41bBfFLQ594 - How It's Made (Season 11 / Episode 3 / Part 3)




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5-WQqOu58


Celebrities and coffee





Photographs of coffee/coffee beans










Tea