As a team, we brainstormed an assortment
of concepts we could use and broke them down into either feasible or unfeasible.
We then stared to narrow down the 'initial ideas' list, we were left with
seven; namely: 1) Behind the science with the police
2) Educating Heathside 3) Can you control love? 4) London Riots
5) Racism in sport 6) Drugs in Sports 7) London 2012 Olympics
Games. After consulting with our target audience we deiced on the ‘London Riots’.
Ed, our target audience and most
importantly, myself felt that the London Riots topic provided us a wide range of
scope. Through media language we can help to elaborate our topic and produce a
product that our target audience will find informative yet entertaining (their
preference). After finalizing our area of concern, we subsequently explored into
the appropriate sub topics and subsequently discussed how we would go about
interpreting them into our documentary. The final seven sub-topics we agreed on
are as follows: 1) London Riots in the eyes of the police 2) The role of
social media 3) What lead to the riots 4)Lasting legacy of the riots
5) How the youth of London feel London 6) The communities knock
on effect 7)What was done to resolve the dispute? Accepting that we
wouldn’t be able in integrate all seven ideas into our product we restricted
the down the list to three: London Riots in the eyes of the
police, The communities knock on effect and … To
integrate a subdivision whereby the audience would know how the police dealt
with rioters, we decided that we would use both archive footage and an
interview with a policeman. We later composed a letter addressed to Police
Commander and Captain, Mr. David Howe requesting an interview. To capture what
affect the London Riots had on the local community we decided on using another
interview with an individual directly affected by the riots (such as a store
owner).
Our
documentary
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Answers/
choices
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Reasons
for your choices/ how choices fit mode
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Subject matter:
(A) What/who?
(B) Who will you interview?
(C) Where will you visit?
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London Riots
Policeman & local council
London- places directly effected
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We feel that this topic will work for
our target audience and be informative
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Film language
(A) What types of shots are used?
(B) Is the camera static? Handheld?
(C) Does any type of shot dominate or is
there a variety
(D) I the editing fast or slow?
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Camera static- on tripod
Variety of shots
Slow paced to mirror
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We feel that by using the appropriate
film language, conveying over point will prove much easier.
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Documentary techniques
(A) Does the documentary include
interviews? ID so, who with?
(B)Is there a voiceover? What information
is given in it?
(C) Are we aware of the
documentary-maker? (Do they appear on camera?
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Yes, with a policeman &local
councilor
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This will give us a good amount o
interesting footage
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Sound
(A) What different types of sound are
used?
(B) What us the effect of any music used? (C)Does the image illustrate the voiceover says? |
Both diegetic and non-diegetic
Slow paced and low key
Voice over illustrates the image on
screen
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This will help integrate meaning into
our final product.
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