Friday, 30 November 2012

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





 

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.

  



Monday, 5 November 2012

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
 


 
 
 
 
 

Monday, 15 October 2012

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)

Friday, 12 October 2012

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

Monday, 1 October 2012

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