Documentary idea rationale

My documentary idea is called 'The day in the life of a pianist', my documentary will follow an aspiring, professional pianist Lewis Peart to see how much time he spends practicing the piano and what his daily routine consists off such of how he balances his social life with his dedication to become a professional pianist. My documentary will show one individual person creating his own path to having a career as a professional concert pianist.

The conventions I intend to use for this documentary are Observational footage, interviews, and a voice over. The observational footage I will use will be cutaways of Lewis playing the piano and footage of his home and college to compare the different environments he plays the piano in. The observational footage will illustrate and show the audience what and how Lewis plays the piano to give the audience a better understanding of the skill and effort Lewis puts into playing the piano. I will also use observational footage to make my documentary look and feel more authentic and professional. I also intend to use observational footage to make my documentary more interesting for the audience instead of just using footage of interviews with Lewis.

Another convention I will be using is interviews. Throughout my documentary I will show footage of interviews with Lewis, I intend to use interviews is to give the audience more insight into the reasons why Lewis wants to become a professional pianist and information about how he started playing the piano. Interviews also are one of the main convention in documentary film making as they focus on the specific person the documentary may be on or to give information on what the documentary’s subject is  which is what I want to achieve in my documentary due to my documentary being on one person and his journey to become a professional pianist.

The final convention I will be using is a voice over. The reasons I will be using a voice over is to narrate the situations and give information to the audience about the footage being shown such as facts and figures about Lewis or develop on the information he has given in the interview. The voice over that I will be using will also be the answers to the questions that I am asking Lewis in the interview over certain footage to make the documentary more interesting.

My documentary idea will deal with issues relating to factual programming by being impartial and objective towards the subject being shown. This is due to the documentary dealing with one person’s aspirations of becoming a professional pianist and shouldn't be shown in a prejudice way such being biased and subjective with my opinion but allowing Lewis to give his own information and view on it due to many different documentaries not being subjective and voicing the opinions of the presenters. My documentary will only show the facts and opinions of Lewis as the documentary is about him and his daily life.