Formal Proposal For Documentary

In lesson we were told to come up with ideas and agree on final plans. These included the topic of documentary, the type and style of the documentary and the research needed to make it. Once we had discussed all our ideas we went through the positive and negatives of each idea.

 

Brainstorm of Content For Documentary

In the lesson we were told to come up possible content for our documentary. This resulted in a list of possible interviews that can be done, archive material that can be used, cutaways that we may film and the style of the voice over.

Target Audience Research

We had to create a questionnaire in order to gain audience feedback. The results to this will enable us to have a better understanding of what types of things people like and we can incorporate them into our production.
Questionnaire

Initial Plans

In lesson our group we discussed and came up some initial ideas for our documentary.

Topic of Programme: Dogs
Target Audience: Families
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Starts at 6:30pm on sundays
Title for our Programme: Paws For Thought

Tv Scheduling

In lesson we were told about Tv scheduling and what it is all about. This included learning about pre-echo, inheritance and hammocking

Brainstorming

In lesson we were asked to come up with as many possible ideas for what we could make a documentary about. These varied from subjects such as school to topics such as tables. We were the tolf to think about which ones we thought would be the best option to make a documentary about.

Preliminary Task- Interview

For our Preliminary task we were asked to film and edit our own interview. We got given a set of questions to ask about mobile phones and we had to go off find a person to interview, record the person along with the cutaways and edit it.

Codes and Conventions of Interviews

In lesson I was asked to look at the codes and conventions of interviews that are included in documentaries. I created a slide share for the information gathered.




Examples of interviews shown in a prezi

Codes and Conventions of a Documentary

In lesson we were told to look at the codes and conventions of a documentary.I looked at aspects such as interviews, archive material, editing, mise-en-scene, graphics and camera work. This information was collected and I have presented it in a video.