Scripting Radio Trailer

(Voxpops)

(Rebecca Jones)

We all love sweets, but we aren’t all aware of the consequences.

(Rebecca Jones)

It’s right that we all have a break and a treat once and a while, but is everyday too much

(Greg Beggs)
You love them but do they love you? New documentary Wednesday 9th January 8:30 on channel 4

codes and conventions of a Radio Trailer

Scripting Voiceover

So many shops all over the UK have changed in many ways, and many people have been effected by these changes, in a good way but also bad. But why do we have such an addiction to something so little.

Children in this era don’t really understand the effects sweets can have on your teeth. British researchers have found that over the past few years, there were more that 517,000 children with dental conditions.

Sports performers such as gymnasts have to think about there diets and the amount of sweets they eat, to ensure that they achieve their goals.

Although sweets have changed in many ways, people still enjoy them as much as ever, although many people need to keep a healthy diet a sneaky treat every now and then won’t harm you. Dentists allow you to treat yourself but you should take care of your teeth as well as your hunger.

Editing

Edit desision list

Logging sheet

 

Interviewing the Trampolinist

When the Tampolinist was interviewed, we got her to stand infort of a board with images of the school's olympic day, and images of her on a trip away with the PE department, this was a good mise-en-scene as there are images of her and her team mates doing stunts. The sound had good quality, however the lighting may have been bright and we could see Melissa well, but in the backgroud the is a small reflection of one of the lights howeve in the documentary this doesnt look as bad as we had thought.

A short clip of the interview

 

Interviewing the Dancer

In this interview, the dancer Megan, was in a frame with good mise-en-scene, as she had imaged of dancers on the wall behind her. The lighting was also very bright which allowed us to see Megan well through the whole interview. The sound had good quality and she was well projected. Megan discussed with us about how she remains to keep fit  by dancing and by keeping a healthy diet.

A shot taken during the Interview

Interviewing the Healthy eating coordinator

The interview with the healthy eating coordinator went very well. It took place at weatherhead high school, and we had her sitting in side the cafeteria, where you could see the shutters and bar behind her. The mise-en-scene, went well with her topic of discussion, and she was very enthusiastic about the things she does with in the school. The lighting was clear and we could see her and the surroundings. And although she spoke very fast, she was very clear, and understandable.

The Interview

Interview with the Gymnast

When we went to interview the gymnast Kirby, we didn't really have an apropriate Mise-en-Scene and the lighting wasn't as bright as we had hoped, also there want much room for the interviewee to stand. And Kirby's voice was echoed around the room, and the sound had very poor quality. We  re-filmed this interview and in the weatherhead high school gym, where there was appropriate Mise-en-Scene, suitable lighting, and the sound had much better quality. We then watched it back and it was much more adapted than the interview we had filmed before, and it was sutable to use in our documentary.

 

 

1.      Do you have a strict diet due to the fact that you are a gymnast, and why?
2.       If you are allowed to eat sweets, do you get normal sweets or are they sugar free?
3.      Does your coach allow you to eat sweets?
4.      How many times a week would you say you eat sweets?

The Second Take of the Interview
   

The Interview with the Dentist

When we went to film the dentist Greg Beggs, we were able to sit in the pactice room, where there was good quality lighting and plenty of room for us to move around and use the equiptment needed i.e. Tripod. The dentist has good voice projection and was very understanding of the questions being asked. Also the footage was filmed well and looked professional.

Questions
1. How many of your customers teeth are effected by having too much suger?
2. Around what percentage of your customers eat too many sweets?

3. What would you say are the worst sweets for your teeth?

4. From what age are you supposed to start watching what sweets you eat?

5. How do sweets effect teeth?

6. Do sweets cause the holes in your teeth?
7. Do you think there should be a limit on how many sweets people eat?

8. Are older people or younger people more likely to suffer from bad teeth if they eat to many sweets?

9. What is the worst set of teeth you have had to deal with, due to eating to, too many sweets?
10. Do you think if people knew the right effect of what sweets do to your teeth, they would stop eating as many?
11. What can be cause by eating to many sweets?
12. Is it harder to fix younger people's teeth or older?
13. from what age range would you say have the worst teeth?
14. Do you have any good tips on how to keep your teeth healthy whilst eating sweets?
15. What tips would you gve the public about looking after their teeth?

The Interview

 

 


Filming the interview from sn000


 

Interviewing the Sweet Shop Owner

 

As a group we went to a sweet shoop names 'Sweet Image' where we intrviewed the shop owner. The interview went really well even though she was very nervous. Our only problem was the failing of the microphone working which once we realised what had happened was resolved and the iterview went on.

The Mise-en-Scene was appropriate as she has a shelving unit of sweets behind her, she has a very kind and gentle voice, but it was projected well through the microphone, she was also very enthusiastic which created a fun atmospheric feel in the documentary.

Also at our interview we were allowed to look around the shop and take many different photographs of the different sweets they offered. Both shop owners were really helpful and welcoming and gave us some free sweets and chocolates to help us further with out documentary.

  

Filming the interview with the shop! (2) from jessicajones123456

Potential sweets powerpoint from sno94

Potential sweets powerpoint 2 from sno94

Planning

Opening title story boards:

This is a rough sketch of the mise e- scene and framing that
we are going to have for our  interview with the sweetshop.

This is a rough sketch of the mise-en-scene and framing
of the interview we are going to have with the dentist.

 

This is a rough sketch of the mise-en-scene and framing
of the interview we are going to have with the gymnasts.



This is a rough sketch of the mise-en-scene and framing
of the interview we are going to have with the
hhealthy eating coordinator




This is a rough sketch of the mise-en-scene and framing
of the interview with the Dancer




This is a rough sketch of the mise-en-scene and framing
of the interview with the Trampolinist

 

 

 

 

 

 

Running order

Running order: (24 minutes)

Montage of images of sweets shown while a voice over is played with people saying what their favourite sweets are [from vox pops]. (Willy wonka/mika music playing)
(20 seconds)

Opening titles
(20 seconds)

Voiceover starts to speak introducing the sweets topic to the audience. An extreme close up on a sweet shop door slowly zooming out into a long shot of the shop. (10 seconds)

Voiceover mentions about all the millions of different types of sweets around the world – close up’s and extreme close up’s of different candy bars
(10 seconds)

Interview of shop owner explaining what it is like running a modern all sweets sweet shop. –Mese-en-scene = red blue and pink sweets in background (Cut away clips from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory).
(2 minutes)

Vox pops of people talking about how they love sweets and how often they buy them.
(20 seconds)

Shots of children, teenagers and adults eating all different sweets (extreme close ups and close up’s on their mouths) as voice over speaks about everyone’s love for sweets and statistics for most eaten sweets.
(20 seconds)

Voiceover speaking about the downside to eating too many sweets. Cut always showing people with braces, fillings and bad teeth.
(20 seconds)

Interview of dentist speaking about rotten teeth with cut away of children eating sweets – extreme close up’s on mouth
(1 minute)

 ------------------------ The first 5 minutes ------------------------

Archive footage of inside the factory clip from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory
(20 seconds)

Voiceover talking about the film and how popular the sweets became after its launch (20 seconds)

Slow zoom out of image of loads of different Willy Wonka chocolate bars showing all the different varieties of bars.
(10 seconds)

Voice over speaking about the contrast between the old Willy Wonka film and the 2005 one, and how it shows how sweets have changed since the 70’s. (1 minutes)

Interview with parent talking about how often they buy sweets for their children and how they affect their teeth. Showing cut aways of children with bad teeth
(2 minutes)

Interview with an orthodontist about the troubles of children’s teeth being bad due to cavities.
(1 minute)

Establishing shot of town zooming into the local sweet shop with none diegetic sound of a shop bell ringing.
(10 seconds)

360 degree spin around the sweet shop showing all the different sweets (10 seconds)

Fastened up tour of the sweet shop ending back at the sweet counter – None-diegetic music of Mike – lollypop
(10 seconds)

Interview with sweet shop owner talking about how easy/hard it is keeping an olden day sweet shop open.
(2 minutes)

Vox pops of public speaking about how often they buy sweets, and if they ever go into specific sweet shops to get a certain sweets, do they think sweets have changed in price and size (30 seconds)

Panning shot of Tesco or Morison’s sweet isle with costumers shopping buying there sweets
(10 seconds)

Interview the doctor telling us about how sweets can affect you body and attitudes– Cut-aways to doctors room and sweets that are the worst (2 minutes 30 seconds)
 
Panning shot of the dentist’s room as the voice over talks about teeth
(10 seconds)

Interview with a young child about how they love/dislike sweets – How many sweets they eat a week.  Cut -aways to the sweets they like, or to them buying their favourite sweet (2 minutes)

Vox pops of public and do they think their teeth have been affected by the sweets they eat
(1 minute)

Interview with a diabetic person – ask they can eats sweets and if not what do they replace them with, or if they do what sweets do they get and are they hard to get if they are diabetic sweets
(1 minute 10 seconds)

Were we can get the different sweets from (America, Belgium etc.)  – Voice over telling us about all the different sweets, shots of sweets being put on shelves that are from different countries
(2 minutes)

Voice over how sweets are good but you should what you eat and how you should be careful with your teeth (2 minute)

Formal Proposal

Formal Proposal

Topic:
Sweets

Type of documentary:
Mixed

Channel and scheduling: Channel 4
8:00pm - 8:30pm

Target audience:
20-40

Research:

- Primary research:
We needed to ring and email the people we wanted to interview, as we needed to confirm dates etc. We also explained who we where and what we wished to do during the interviews.
- Secondary research:
We used the internet to find out about the different place we could go and interview e.g. Dentists and sweets hops. We also used it to find out information and statistic about different types of sweets and children’s teeth.

Narrative structure:
Beginning – We will be focusing on the 1971 film ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ and we are going to explore how his sweets how gone worldwide. Also we will be talking about the contrast between the 1971 film and the 2005 film; ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.
Middle – We will focus on shop owners and how they manage to run a shop, and how many sweets they get in. We will talk about how people eat too many sweets, and then we will show conflict with the dentists, and what sweets do to your teeth.
End – Diabetics and what sweets they have (If any). We will talk about how everyone loves chocolate and the different types of sweets. We will also focus on how have changed in price etc.

Outline of content:
Interviews, vox pops, Willy Wonka, dentists, children and sweets

Resource Requirements: - Camera
- Tripod
- Little dolly
- Crane
- Voice recorder

Research for documentary

·         Conflict: How sweets are bad for your teeth

·         People who don’t really like sweets

·         Interview of a dentist about how many children/adults have rotten teeth due to sweets

·         How sweets have changed over time

·         How old sweets have come back

·         Price changes over the years

·         Interview of older generations about money changes

·         How many sweets you could buy with the smallest amount of money

·         Children’s love for sweets

·         Interview of a child about their love/hate for sweets –how many sweets they eat a week

·         All different types of sweets available

·         Peoples favourite sweets

·         Not as many traditional sweet shops around as there used to be

·         Interview of a shop owner

·         How easy/hard it is keeping a sweet shop up and running

·         Talking about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory

·         How has the film had an impact on people’s views on sweets

·         How the film went global – modernised 

·         How Wonka bars and sweets are available in shops all over the world.

·         People who are diabetic and their experience with sweets

·         Interview of someone who is diabetic

Songs:

‘Willy Wonk and the Chocolate Factory’ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKe5EcDR-Ko

 

Lolly Pop - Mika http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyY26u8uZvU

 

Candy Man - Christina Aguilera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UMU30wHuTE

 

Questionnaire Results

Results from the questionnaire powerpoint from Andie-gurtiie Bp

Conclusion:

The results that came back from the first question was pretty clear, we asked people from the ages of 20-40 to answer our questionnaire, and the age that appeared the most was 20-25 year old, this gives us a clue on what age it is we need to focus our documentary on. The next question was about gender, there were more female to answer the questionnaire then men, so again our results tell us that we need to base our documentary on women and what they like. However there will be aspects to the documentary that will possibly appeal to some men.

The next question we asked was do you buy sweets? only three people said no and the other 27 said yes this allows us to go ahead with the idea of having a documentary on sweets, but it also show that we can have conflict in our documentary because we can talk to those who do like them and who doesn't like them.
Th next question was asking if they were diabetic, only one person said yes, but it will still be a good idea to talk about this in our documentary as we can ask them about what types of sweets they buy etc.

The next question was ow often do you buy sweets, 13 people said every week this was what people said the most, the least voted was every year, only 2 people said this. The next question was how much do you spend on sweets? the majority of people said that they spent £1 - £2 and the least amount spent on sweets was £5 or other. This will allow us to talk about how the prices have changed throughout the years, which links with the next question. We asked do you think sweet have changed since you were younger, 53% of people said yes to this question. The next question was do you think the prices have changed since you were younger, 28 people said yes.

We asked people what there favourite sweet were and we had many different types of sweets given to us, some that are old and some that are new. The top three colours that were chosen most for the documentary were red, pink and blue. We also asked what songs do they think are associated with sweets the majority said 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' songs, and 'Candy Man' by Christina Aguilera.

We asked the audience if they would prefer a male or female voice over, 22 people said famale, 2 said male and another two said either they didn't mind, one person actually said if depends on what is being talked about.

We asked if they liked the original 1971 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film' the majority of people said yes, one person said they liked it because the songs were really catchy. 4 people said no, one person said because it looked fake and was over exaggerated. We asked the audience if the film had any influence on them liking sweets 11 people said yes "I liked the idea of a chocolate fountain" and 19 people said no "I already like sweet".

We asked the audience if they watched documentaries 53% said yes and 47% said that they did not. However we asked if they would watch a documentary on sweets, on channel 4 at 8 O'clock and 22 people said yes and 8 people said no. This tells us that was are able to run it at this time on this channel.

Our last question was how regularly do you go to the dentist? most people said every six months and the least said was every month and other. This tells us that it would be good to interview a dentist as it allows us to find out how many people they see every six months.

Questionnaire

1. How old are you?
2. What gender are you?
3. Do you like sweets?
4. Are you a diabetic?
5. How regularly do you buy sweets?
6. How much do you spend on sweets?
7. Do you think sweets have changes since you were younger?
8. Do you think prices have changed over the years?
9. What is your favorite sweet?
10. Pick three colours that you associate with sweets.
11. What music do you associate with sweets?
12. Would you prefer a male or famale voice over in a documentary about sweets, and why?
13. Do you like the origenal 1971 film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'?
14. Did 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' have an impact on how much you liked sweets? And why?
15. Do you watch documentaires?
16. Would you watch a documentary about sweets, on Channel 4, at eight o'clock?
17. How regularly do you go to the dentist?

'Initial plans'

 

Our Title: Sweet or Sour

   

Ideas for the documentary - 'Brainstorm'

I used the softwear glogster, as it is a good way of creting brainstorms and collages.

TV schedualing

1.

The schedual for each day can be broken down inot clear segments. How would you categorise these segments?

Early am - Adults and children - News, CBBC, Cbebbies etc.

Late am, early pm - Retired people, jobless, housewives, mothers

4:00-6:00pm - Childrens television, the news

6:00-9:00pm - Soaps, TV drama

9:00pm onwards Watershed) - Violence, drigs, alcohol, sex etc.

2.

Who are the target audience for thede segments?

Early am: Children and adults

Early pm: Those who dont work, those who stay home in the day time

Late afternoon 6:00pm : Children, Adults, Teens, Elderly

6:00-9:00pm - Young adults, Adults, Elderly

9:00pms onwards: Adults

3.

What would you say are the most popular genres of television?

- Chat shows

- Reality TV: 'Celebrity get me Out of Here'

- News

- TV drama

- Factual

4.

Wgo is the target audence of each terresrial channel? Give examples of schedual programmes to support your views.

- BBC 1: Mixed ausdience, mainly adults, some children

- BBC 2: Older adult. E.g. 'My life in Books' - more niche

- ITV 1: Females inthe morning, mass audience later on in the afternoon. E.g. 'X-factor'

- Channel 4: Niche audience, at different times of the day; Children: 'Hoobs', 'Teens and childern: 'The Simpsons', Older audience:' Deal or no Deal', Older audience and Teens: 'Ugly Betty'

- Channel 5: More mass audience. 'Ice road Truckers'

5.

Roughtly, what percentage of each channels scheduals is take up eith repeats? Why do you think this is?

Roughly a third of each channels schedual is taken up with repeats, due to it being cheaper.

6.

Which channels have more imported programmes in their scheduals? Why do you think this might be?

- Appeals to specific target audience: 'The Simpsons' appeals to young children and adults

'Ugley Betty' appeals to an older female audience

- Could be that it is cheaper

7.

What do you understand about the term 'The watershed' and where does this occur in th e scheduals?

9:00pm and on wards
The term is the time period in a television schedule during which programs with adult content can air.
It comes from a geographic term, A ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems.

Inheritance:

Scedual a programme after a popular programme to inherit some of the audience.

Pre-echo:
Schedual a programme before a popular programme so the audience will catch the end of the new programme.

Hammocking:
Place a programme between two popular programmes.

New Technologise - Remote controls:
Weare capable to change programmes more easily, and due to this scheduals have less impact as an audience may 'Channel Hop'. However before remotes people used to have to move to change the channel, now it is easier. In the 60s, 70s and 80s there was channel loyalty, it is now a thing of the past due to global, digital and satellite TV. There are more trailers to encourage people to watch shows/programmes then there where back then.

Evaluation of 'It's Good to Talk'

Good points about the interview:

Cut-aways were good, as we used a variety of different shots As the interviewee was being interviewed she could be heard clearly.
he mise-en-scene was really good as it was relevent (mobile phones)
The framing was done well, as she was in the right hand corner  1/4 of the way done the screen.
he use of music was good, as it was clear and relevent to the documentary
('Telephone' - Lady GaGa and Beyonce, 'Call me maybe' - Carly Rey-Jepson)
he sound was clear as the interviewee could be heard and the music was clear.

Bad points about the interview:
The interviewee looked in the camera now and then whilst answering the questions, which shouldn happen.
The cutaways where only of mobile phones and didnt really illustrate what the interviewee was talking about. There needed to be a wider variety.
We used cross fades which we shouldn't have had to do if we had more cut-aways.
The music should be bedded all the way through the interview, and it shouldn't cut off as people are speaking, it just needs to fade be quiter.
The camera should be mounted on a tripod to prevent bad footage, as the camera appeared to wobble in areas of the interview.

Finished 'Its Good to Talk' video

 

Editing 'It's good to talk'

Editing from Andie-gurtiie Bp

Filming - 'It's Good to talk'

'It's Good to Talk' - filming. on Prezi

Planning - 'It's Good to Talk'

Planning - 'Its good to talk' on Prezi

The codes and conventions of filming, and editing interviews

The coads and conventions of filming and editing interviews
by: Andie_Pickersgill


In the Teeth of JAWS - part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Zj8R0kumw

When watching the documentary 'In the teeth of JAWS', many of the codes and conventions were noticable and were used continuously.

Graphics where used will mainly to identify those who were being interviewed. Graphics where also used in cut-aways to a shot of the sea, and an animated shark jumped out of the water this was possible to create tension and maybe shock.

Music and sound effects were used in the documentary, for example, the JAWS theme tune was played in the backgroud, as a way of building up what they were talking about.

The lighting in the documentary was also well thought about, as there was no one filmed with the light behind them, and in one interview it looks as though the interviewee is being filmed with a lamp shining on him too add light.

There was a good use of location and mise-en-scene, as they interviewed a man who was sitting in front of a small beach were you could see the sea behind him this was good because, it was a main feature in the documentary. Most of the interviews had a large pisture of a shark or had things behind them that were related to sharks to keep the theme of the documentary.

There was a mix of shots, some shots were in a mid-shot and others were in a medium close up. Also in the interviews they had there interviewees sitting on different angles. There were also many cut-aways used to illustrate what people where talking about for example the picture designs of jaws, or the ways in which a shark moved, and what was most scary about a shark.

And archieve footage was also used throughtout the documentary of the movie that was made, to illustrate what was being talked about and said.

 

 

The Simpsons 20th Annaversary special:

 

 

Documentary coads and converntions

I used Xtranormal to design this blog as it is interesting and is a great way of showing my skills in graphic design.

Documentary codes and converntions
by: Andie_Pickersgill

That Thing: Lara Croft

Documentary of your choice - 'How to get a life'

Cherry healey documentary from Andie-gurtiie Bp

... Short clip from the documentary...

 

Documentary of your choice - 'Gold Rush'

My own documentary! on Prezi

'The music biz - meatloaf'

'The Music Biz: Meatloaf' on Prezi

'The Devil Made me do it'

 

The Devil made me do it is a documentary about the murder of an Italian nun, which was committed by three young teenage girls, many thought the murder was due to the behaviour and violent lyrics of Marylin Manson. As he was very popular around the time of the murder.

 

The documentary was mixed, as it used things such as archive material - for example there was footage from a Marylin Manson concert. They had a voice over for the narrator, also known as the voice of god. Cutaways and graphics were also used, to add variety to the documentary. There is also a narrative structure as there was a beginning, middle and end to the documentary. And a variety of different camerawork and editing was used to add depth.

In the opening of the documentary there was a montage of different camera shots, of fans and crowds in a Marylin Manson concert. The documentary uses enigma code, as it opens with a Marylin Manson concert, and then the scene changes and focuses on the death of an Italian nun, this mystery allows the audience to carry on watching to find out what the connection is between the two. Within twelve minutes the enigma code becomes clear. And the audience is told that Marylin’s music and attitude was what affected the behaviour of the killers.

There was also many interviews taken throughout the documentary, for example a lawyer was taken to a Marylin Manson concert and to view his behaviour which she found disturbing.
 Later in the documentary the audience is introduced to one of the young girls fathers. There are shots of him boarding a train on his way to see her, and throughout his interview there are
many cut-aways to images of what he is talking about e.g. cuts to his daughter in prison and then back to him.
 To change a scene in one point of the documentary they show a man walking out of a room turning of a light to black-out, as the next scene is dark this was used instead of fading to black. Throughout the documentary the audience is told a lot about the murder and how Marylins music affected people at that time, however there were questions left unanswered.

There is a wide range of camera work used in ‘The Devil made me do it’. There were many establishing shots used to show that the crime was located in Italy, for example, while the voice over was explaining about the Italian nun, there was a clip showing various streets and buildings around the village.

Also there were many interviews throughout the documentary, some of these were in two shots, for example, a couple who were in a medium shot, thee was also a woman in a close-up, to show how tense the documentary became this added variety and drama to the documentary to engage the audience. There was also an interview with friends of the killers, who were all in a medium close up of them lying on a bed talking to one another as they answered the questions, this represents them as being less serious and suggests they don’t care about the death.

The Mise-en-scene was focused mostly outdoors in the villages and towns of Italy. There were many large establishing shots of the land showing the murder location. Also in each interview there was a different scene, for example, there was a married couple sitting in the living room of there family home contrasting the horror. And there was an informal interview inside an Italian cafe, with three young people.