For my production paperwork i got my Actor/performer to fill in and sign an Actor release form to give me permission to film them in my documentary and for the film to be exhibited in anywhere in Hyde Clarendon 6th Form College.
Monday, 9 February 2015
Unit 27.3 Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television: Actor release form
For my production paperwork i got my Actor/performer to fill in and sign an Actor release form to give me permission to film them in my documentary and for the film to be exhibited in anywhere in Hyde Clarendon 6th Form College.
Unit 27.3 Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television: Recce
As part of my production paperwork i have created two recce's for filming my documentary. The information these two recce's contain are information on Shooting (filming), Lighting, Sound, and Power for the locations i have chosen to film my documentary at. The first location i have filled in a recce document for is Chethams School Of Music which i will be filming exterior shots of the college as cutaways during my documentary and the second recce being for the location of Lewis house where i will be filming inside the house for observational footage of Lewis playing the piano and interviews with him. Both of the these recce's contain information on the conditions i will be filming in such as the different kinds of light and sound i will have to deal with or use to get the best shots possible and what i will be filming in them locations etc.
Unit 27.3 Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television: Week 2 Production log
Week 2
During this week i hope to complete Recce documents for both of the locations i will be filming at which will be exterior shots of Chethams School Of Music in Manchester and Lewis's house. The Recce's will contain information about what i will be filming, The lighting of the locations, The sound of the locations and information on power.
I also hope to get my actor release form filled in so that i have permission to film Lewis and are able to create my documentary. I will produce a shooting schedule so that i am able to keep track of when i will film so that i am able to get my documentary finished before the deadline.
During this week i hope to complete Recce documents for both of the locations i will be filming at which will be exterior shots of Chethams School Of Music in Manchester and Lewis's house. The Recce's will contain information about what i will be filming, The lighting of the locations, The sound of the locations and information on power.
I also hope to get my actor release form filled in so that i have permission to film Lewis and are able to create my documentary. I will produce a shooting schedule so that i am able to keep track of when i will film so that i am able to get my documentary finished before the deadline.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Unit 27.3 Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television: Storyboards for narrative
As part of production and planning of my documentary i created storyboards to help me with filming due to the storyboard containing a description and illustration of the camera shots i am going to use and the audio that will be playing during them shots. The storyboards will help with the filming schedule as i will know what shots to film without me going over or under the time i have to film my documentary due to me possibly making mistakes and re filming shots which these storyboards will prevent. It will also stop me getting distracted or going of track with filming aspects which are not necessary or relevant to a certain scene in my documentary or making shots longer than they should be, I can prevent this by referring back to these storyboards during filming.
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Unit 27.3: Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television: Genre/Proposal: Idea, Content/style, Audience, Place in schedule
Idea: 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. My documentary will be around 4-7 minutes long so that i am able to give and show the audience every aspect of Lewis life and make them connect in some way with Lewis to make the documentary more interesting.
Content/style: The content of my documentary will follow a journey/factual human interest style documentary due to it following the life of one particular person and the journey he is taking to become a professional pianist, The documentary will hopefully evoke emotion in the audience and make them relate to Lewis and inspire them to follow a career path they want to take. My documentary will include several codes and conventions of documentary film making such as observational footage/cutaways, 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. The style of the observational footage will look and feel as beautiful as the music that is associated with the piano due to me wanting the audience to be able to connect with the music and Lewis and to also make them be inspired to play the piano or some form of instrument.
Content/style: The content of my documentary will follow a journey/factual human interest style documentary due to it following the life of one particular person and the journey he is taking to become a professional pianist, The documentary will hopefully evoke emotion in the audience and make them relate to Lewis and inspire them to follow a career path they want to take. My documentary will include several codes and conventions of documentary film making such as observational footage/cutaways, 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. The style of the observational footage will look and feel as beautiful as the music that is associated with the piano due to me wanting the audience to be able to connect with the music and Lewis and to also make them be inspired to play the piano or some form of instrument.
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. The voice over will be soft spoken and relaxed to match the elegance of the music and to also make the audience feel relaxed and comfortable as well so that they are able to listen to the information that is being said.
Audience: From my previous research i have found that my documentary idea will appeal most to an older audience such as people who are in the age bracket 40+ or who are interested in the piano and the music it creates. I also found that my audience will be mostly lower to upper middle class due to the people i asked working in a form of managerial job and that people who are middle to upper middle class are the type of people who are interested in these type of documentaries and would find similar interest in watching documentaries with the same types of themes as my documentary. Looking at the NRS social grade i found my audience would fit into these category's: Grade A (Upper middle class), Grade B (Middle Class), and Grade C1 (Lower middle class).
Place of schedule: My documentary will be broadcasted and aired on the BBC at around 6pm-7pm due to that being prime time for my audience to watch the TV as they would of finished work and possibly eating their tea in front of the TV. I chose the BBC for my documentary due to the BBC being the place in which documentaries of my style and genre will be shown and where my audience are most likely to go to to watch this type of documentary instead of turning to channels such as channel 4 which show mostly comical and less serious documentary's that appeal to a wider less specific audience whereas documentary's shown on the BBC appeal to more specific interests of their audiences such as documentary's that focus on musicians.
Audience: From my previous research i have found that my documentary idea will appeal most to an older audience such as people who are in the age bracket 40+ or who are interested in the piano and the music it creates. I also found that my audience will be mostly lower to upper middle class due to the people i asked working in a form of managerial job and that people who are middle to upper middle class are the type of people who are interested in these type of documentaries and would find similar interest in watching documentaries with the same types of themes as my documentary. Looking at the NRS social grade i found my audience would fit into these category's: Grade A (Upper middle class), Grade B (Middle Class), and Grade C1 (Lower middle class).
Place of schedule: My documentary will be broadcasted and aired on the BBC at around 6pm-7pm due to that being prime time for my audience to watch the TV as they would of finished work and possibly eating their tea in front of the TV. I chose the BBC for my documentary due to the BBC being the place in which documentaries of my style and genre will be shown and where my audience are most likely to go to to watch this type of documentary instead of turning to channels such as channel 4 which show mostly comical and less serious documentary's that appeal to a wider less specific audience whereas documentary's shown on the BBC appeal to more specific interests of their audiences such as documentary's that focus on musicians.
Monday, 2 February 2015
Unit 27.3 Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television: Equipment List
So that my audio is clear during interviews and to catch the music of the piano i will be using a zoom mic.
Unit 27.3 Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television: Week 1 Production log
Week 1
During the first week of production i will complete a finished storyboard to illustrate the shots i will use and an idea of how my documentary will look and feel due to the storyboards having a step by step visual and story to how my documentary will pan out.
I will also be completing my Genre/Proposal for my documentary which will include My idea, Content/Style of my documentary such as how it is going to look, what type of documentary it is going to be and what the documentary will contain, The Audience which is who and why I'm going to target a specific audience for my documentary and who it will appeal to, and Place in schedule which is what channel i will broadcast my documentary on and the time it would be shown to suit my target audience.
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