Underage drinking documentary questionnaire

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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.