3rd December

We interviewed one of the PCSO's on how they tackle underage drinking.

She answered every question thoroughly and also incorporated the question into the answer.

We also had a natural light coming in from the left hand side along with a light on the camera.

We also filmed some cutaways of her radio and all of her badges.

2nd December

We have received an email off of the East NPU police in Risley, Birchwood. They are going to be sending two PCSO's to college so that we can interview them. The interview is tomorrow at 11:00AM.

30th November 2014

We have now filmed some cutaways of alcohol in order to show some statistics, we filmed a lot of different kinds of alcohol and a lot of different amounts of alcohol in order to have a variety of cutaways that we can use if any weren't suited.

26th November 2014

We shot our Vox-pop again in a new location on the college grounds but kept our interviewees the same as they were all students, we still need to film more for this part of our work but we have another time slot for that. An issue with the vox-pop could be background noise.

We then went up to Hillcliffe church to film an interview again that we had previously done in order to improve the Mise-En-Scene and the camera angle, we filmed John Harper, who is a youth worker that runs a project for teenagers but sometimes finds drinking an issue around the project. This was our strongest interview to date as the camera angle was perfect, we also filmed some cutaways up in the area and got some impressive shots from above Warrington.

 

 

 

 

24th November 2014

We filmed our interview with a teacher:



The answers to all of the questions were detailed and he sentenced it so that it appeared we didn't ask them.
However, the set up of the camera is too zoomed out and there is too much background around him.

21st November 2014

We contacted a corner shop about an interview but they did no sell alcohol so there was no point arranging an interview with them.
We then looked online for close supermarkets and found the number for Morrison's round the corner from college so rung up and they agreed to take part in our documentary. We need to get back in contact to arrange this.
We also have arranged an interview with a teacher on the subject which will take place on Monday at 1pm.

18th November 2014

We filmed the interview with the underage band about them drinking before gigs



the mise-en-scene works well because they are in a recording studio

the set up was difficult as there is 3 of them but works well as they are all in it

they answered the questions sensibly and truthfully about underage drinking

17th November 2014

We have arranged an interview for 5.30pm tonight with a club event organiser.
We have also got in contact with an parent to discuss underage drinking when she was young and are waiting for a time and date to do the interview.
We have an interview on Thursday at 2.30pm in Birchwood with a nurse who deals with addiction.

We carried out the interview with the club promoter, set up in Jacks kitchen with alcohol in the background, however the microphone didn't work so we cannot use the interview.

14th November 2014

We have arranged an interview on Tuesday of next week with an underage band who drink before, during and after their gigs even though they are not 18. We are yet to hear back from most of the people we want to interview so have send another e-mail to each one saying it is urgent they get back to us soon.
We also have an interview on the Wednesday with a parent on her own children underage drinking and we have arranged to do our vox-pop on the Wednesday as well.

10th November 2014

We have spoke to a counsellor and the police who have both agreed to carried out interviews for us, we just need to get back in contact and arrange dates and times in which we can do this.

5th November 2014

Today we filmed two of our interviews and the cutaways we will use for our documentary.
We interviewed John Harper, a youth worker who set up a project for teenagers on Friday nights and has dealt with a lot of underage drinking. Also an elderly resident who discussed what underage drinking was like when she was a teenager.

Elderly resident Interview :



the set up works well as she is not central but not too much to the side

the lighting was strong

the mise-en-scene works as there is old pictures in the background

she gave detailed and relevant answers

 

 

 

John Harper Interview:

 

 

 

he is too far over to the side

the background is a bit messy and doesn't link to the topic

his clothes are related to the topic 

during the interview he kept looking at the camera

however his answers were very detailed and told us a lot about the topic

Mobile Phone Interview Evaluation

Planning: interview questions

Research for documentary

Running Order

Running Order

Running Order 2

Questionnaire results

REPORT

 

 

 

Questionnaire Results

Formal Proposal

Formal Proposal for a Documentary

Underage drinking documentary questionnaire

http://app.evalandgo.com/s/?id=JTk4biU5OG8lOUM=&a=JTk4byU5OWwlOUI=

Mobile phone interview

Brainstorming

Final 3 ideas:

• Rollercoasters
• Youth unemployment
• Underage drinking

Final idea:

• Underage drinking

Research and planning

• Idea: underage drinking
• Working title: "Underage and Wasted"
• Channel: Channel 4
• Audience: Teenagers and their parents
• Scheduling: 10-10:30pm, Thursday, after "Educating the East End" (9-10pm) and before Bouncers (10:30pm-11:30pm)

Creating a Documentary

We were given a documentary subject of mobile phones and we were placed into groups of 3-5 to create these documentaries, in my group there was me, Sarah and Dan. We made plenty of mistakes during the creating period of the documentary and we were aware of this during the final point of the task when we had to share our work with the class.

Some positives of our documentary were:

• The relevance of the cutaways to the questions and answers in the interview
• The interview was well framed

Codes and conventions of a documentary interview

• The interviewee is never central to the camera, they are always filmed to the right of the frame or to the left.

 

• The Mise-en-scene must always be relevant to the topic of the documentary, here we can see that the background is the teeth of a shark and this fits the title of the documentary "In The Teeth Of Jaws"

 

• The shot that is used to film the interview is conventionally a close up or a medium close up
• The graphics of the interview should always contain the name of the interviewee in the frame on the top line and their relevance to the documentary on the second line, the top line should always be larger and prominent than the second line.

 



 

 

 

 

• The interviewer's questions should always be cut from the documentary so it seems as though the interviewee is giving a direct address to the audience.
• Cutaways should be added to avoid any jump cuts but also the cutaway should always be relevant to the topic of the documentary.

 

 



 



Types of documentary

Types of Documentary

Genre analysis

Brief

I am going to be working with a group to complete the G324 Advanced Portfolio in A2 Media Studies
This will include creating:

A) Produce in a group a 5 minute documentary

B) Design and upload a 30 second radio advertisement promoting your documentary

C) Design and upload a newspaper advertisement for your documentary