Filming

I have been involved with the filming process of our documentary.
Firstly for our documentary we had to film images of people’s tattoo’s and piercings for a montage that would be shown at the beginning of our documentary, this involved taking handheld extreme close-up’s of people’s tattoos and piercings. I filmed approximately 10 of these images for the montage. By doing this filming with a handheld camera, my handheld camera work improved significantly as I had to ensure that the framing was correct and I did not move the camera so that the image was on screen correctly, doing this also improved my framing work.
Secondly, I filmed still images for the sections ‘Tattoo History’ and ‘Piercing History’, this involved panning and zooming so that they looked interesting rather than just still images on screen. Some of the images from this work we we’re unable to us as the camera moved or the image was not framed correctly, so we had to re-film some of the images, which helped improve our skills and ensure that the images looked professional for use in our documentary.
I also played a part in the filming of our Voxpop, the first time we went out to do the Voxpop I was filming whilst the other person in my group was asking people if they were willing to take part and voice their opinions on camera, although some of the filming was unusable due to background noise or other sound issues or just down to what the people had said so we went out a second time to do more filming for this part of the documentary. The second time we went out I was asking people the questions and the other person in my group was in control of the camera work, although on both occasions we both helped each other out with the camera work and framing.
Finally, I filmed an interview with Josh Gilroy, doing this helped me as I had to use not only the camera, but also a tripod and microphone. I had to set up the camera in the correct position, ensure the framing was correct, so that the eye line was 1/3 of the way up the screen and check the interviewee was to one side of the screen and do sound checks with the microphone to ensure that all sound would be picked up.

Running Order - First 5 Minutes

Documentary: Skin Deep
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Wednesday 9pm
Duration: 24 minutes (including advert breaks)

First 5mins

30secs - A Montage of people’s tattoos & piercing, these will be shot in extreme close up.
20secs - Opening Titles, this will be the words 'SKIN DEEP' being wrote on a persons stomach. Each letter will be shown coming onto the screen separately and will end with the full title being shown on the stimch.
15secs - Voice over: ‘What do you think about them?’ - This voice over will be asking the audience what they think about tattoos & piercings whilst images will be shown of tattoos and piercings. The voice over will also introduce the topic and related information to results of the questionnaire we did and explaining the answers.
30secs - Tattoo history - The history of tattoo's will be heard on a vioce over whilst images from tattoos through history will be shown on screen. The images being shown will relate to what the voice over is saying at the time.
1min 30 secs - Tattoo getting done & interview with tattoo artist
30secs - History of piercing - The history of piercings will be heard on a voice over whilst images of piercings throughout history will be shown on screen. The images will relate to what is being said by the voice over at the time.
35secs - Interview with Josh Gilroy - We will be interviewing Josh Gilroy as he has lots of piercings on his face, this will be getting the point of view from someone who has piercings.
1min - Voxpop showing images of leopard man, lizard man & Elaine Davidson (Peoples Reactions)

Formal Proposal

Topic
Tattoos and Piercings

Type of Documentary
Mixed

Style of Documentary
Informal
Entertaining
Informative

Channel and Scheduling
9pm Wednesday, Channel 4

Target Audience
18 to 35

Primary Research Needed
Getting Images of extremely tattooed and pierced people
Questionnaire
Finding people to interview
Finding locations for filming
Props
Creating the Mise-en-scene

Secondary Research Needed
Extracts from Films & TV programmes
Images
Music
Relevant Documents (magazines, books etc.)

Narrative Structure
Open
Multi-strand
Non Linear
Circular

Outline of Content
Voxpop
People getting tattoos done
Interviews with:
- Elaine Davidson
- Steve-O
- Miami Ink cast
- Tattoo Artists
- People with tattoos (public)
- Lizard man
Archive Material

Resource Requirements
DV Camera
Tripod
Adobe Premier
Images for Voxpop
Microphone
Photoshop for Title

Decision for documentary and content ideas

We have decided to do a documentary about Tattoo’s and Piercings

Tattoo's

This is a brainstorm of the ideas for the content of our documentary

















Reasons
- Addictions
- Star Sign's
- Social Group's
- Art
- Relative's
- Football Team
- Symbolic
- Religion
- Partner

Ways
- Needle
- Indian Ink

Celebrities
- David Beckham
- Lizard Man
- Steve-o
- Dirty Sanchez

Getting It Done
- Tattoo Artists
- Like The Feeling
- Addicted
- Go back to complete a tattoo

Hennas
- Don’t want permanent tattoo
- Cost - Cheaper
- Don’t want the pain of getting a real tattoo
- Try it out before getting a real one.

Documentary Ideas

This is a brainstorm I compiled with ideas for the topic of the documentary


This is a complete list of the ideas on the brainstorm:

• Friends
• Models
• Animals
• Skateboarding
• NHS
• Drawing
• Brushing Teeth
• Dancing
• Rollercoasters
• School
• Hobnob
• Trampolining
• Make-up
• Sport
• Gig's
• Wok
• Money
• Colours
• Wallet
• Fighting
• Cooking
• XBox
• Cars
• English
• Shoes
• Maths
• Technology
• Space
• Astronomy
• Extensions
• Choirs
• Butterflies
• Death
• Comedy
• Alcoholism
• Eyelashes
• Wii
• Pink
• Media
• Teaching
• Laptop
• TV
• Alcohol
• Christmas
• Sexism
• Fashion
• Nature
• Food
• Fake Tan
• Teenagers
• Music
• Waffles
• Computers
• Football
• Peircings
• Bluetooth
• Anorexia
• Film
• Celebrities
• Diets
• Comedians
• Americans
• Abroad
• Army
• Fudge
• Immigrants
• Dinosaurs
• Lifestyle
• Tattoos
• Architecture
• Science
• Surrealism
• Cannabis
• Drugs
• Drinking
• Mobile Phones
• Sleep
• Bages
• Darkness
• Shopping
• Games
• Liverpool
• Holidays
• Discrimination
• Racism
• Writing
• Education
• Nail Varnish
• Facebook
• Culture
• YouTube
• Cheese
• Hair
• Love
• Nurses
• Chocolate
• Entertainment
• Stars
• Jewellery
• Anime
• Halloween
• Party Popper
• Paint
• Social Groups
• Art
• Travel
• Globe

Questionnaire Results & Analysis

Questionnaire

Q1) Are you:
 Male
 Female

Q2) How old are you?
 15 – 19
 20 – 24
 25 – 29
 30 – 34
 35+

Q3) Name three favourite colours:
___________________
___________________
___________________

Tattoos

Q4) Do you have any tattoos?
 Yes
 No

Q5) If yes to question four, what is it and why did you pick it? E.g. Celebrity, symbolism, religion etc.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Q6) If no to question four, would you ever consider having a tattoo?
 Yes
 No
 Maybe

Q7) What are your views on people with numerous tattoos?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Q8) Name three celebrities that you associate with tattoos
___________________
___________________
___________________


Piercings

Q9) Do you have any piercings?
 Yes
 No

Q10) If yes to question 9, where is it and why did you get it?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Q11) If no to question 9, would you ever get a piercing?
 Yes
 No

Q12) What are your views on people with numerous piercings?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Q13) Name three celebrities that you associate with piercings
___________________
___________________
_____________________

Q14) Please add any additional comments you would like to add about tattoos and piercings
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for filling out our questionnaire 

TV Scheduling

The schedule for each day can be broken down into clear segments. How would you categorise these schedules?

Breakfast

Daytime

Children's Programmes

Peak Time

Post Water

Who are the target audience for these segments?

Breakfast - Differs acording to the channel.

Daytime - Housewives, elderly, unemployed, students.

Children's Programmes - Children.

Peak Time - Families, Mass audiences. This is shown between 7-10pm and is the most important time of the day.

Post Watershed - Adults.

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

Soaps are the most popular e.g. Eastenders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks.

Sit-coms e.g. Friends, Skins.

Reality T.V e.g. X-factor, Big Brother, I'm a celebrity get me out of here.

Game Shows e.g. The Cube, Deal or No Deal.

Cookery Programmes e.g. Ready Steady Cook, Come dine with me.

Football - one off's, not sport in general - football matches.

Who is the target audience of each terrestrial channel?

BBC1 - Everyone - We have to pay the license fee for it so everyone must be catered for at some time in the day.

BBC2 - Minority Audiences, although, it has become more popular.

ITV1 - Everyone (but this channel is not as good as BBC1 as it has no specific kids programmes, however, it does have programmes that chidlren can watch.)

FIVE - Everyone

Channel 4 - Everyone

Roughly, what percentage of each channel's schedule is taken up with repeats? Why do you think this is?

BBC1 and ITV1 10% - have hardly any repeats, they have large audiences so they can afford to produce more programmes to fill up the schedule rather than repeating previously shown programmes.

BBC2 - 30-40% - they do not have the money to be able to produce more shows therfore they must use up the schedule with repeats from previously shown programmes.

FIVE - 40% - they do not have large audiences therfore they don not get the funding they need to make more programmes so they have to take up the schedule with repeats.

Channel 4- 30% - they do not have a large audience so they do not get enough money in order to produce more programmes so they have to take up the rest of the schedule with repeats.

Which channels have more imported programmes in their schedule?

BBC2, Channel 4 and FIVE all have mainly imported programmes in their schedule as it is cheaper to import new programmes rather than paying to make them whereas BBC1 and ITV1 can afford to make their own programmes so they dont have to import them.

What do you understand about the term 'The Watershed' and where does this occur in the schedule?

The term 'The Watershed' is a term used to describe programmes that will be starting from 9 o'clock onwards that are intended for adults only.

Documentary Analysis 4 and 5 - My Shocking Story & 911 Falling Man

Title of Programme:

My Shocking Story

Type of Documentary:

Mixed - Interviews, Actuality Footage, Archive Material.

Themes:

Obesity and the problems it can cause in later life. (Americans).

Narrative Structure:

Single Strand - The documentary is about one topic - obesity in children. Closed narrative - All the loose ends are tied up at the end of the documentary, the audience wern't left asking any questions, all answers were given.

Camera Work:

Interviews were filmed to either the left or right hand side of the screen and were shot in Close-up or Medium Close-up. Over the shoulder shots were used throughout the documentary. Point of view shot over the state of Texas, America. Fast motion is used as children walk past.

Mise-en-scene:

CHROMAKEY - Blue or green screen used as the backdrop for some of the interviews. Eyeline of the interviews was approximately 1/3 of the way up the screen. The boy Dexter has a very boyish bedroom; blue walls, football posters etc.

Sound:

Voiceover - the narrator of the programme is male, old and speaks satndard English. No clear accent, he is used as the glue to hold the narrative together - he is used to tell the story and anchor the meaning. Relaxing, soothing music is used in the background. A train is heard going past at one point in the documentary.

Editing:

Cut and cross cutting were the main editing used in this documentary, they used simple editing to keep the audiences attention on the story rather than them being distracted by too much fancy editing.

Archive Material:

Canteen
Library
Fat Acadamy

Graphics:

Graphics used to anchor who the people being interviewed were and their relevance to the topic. The text was always on the opposite side of the screen than the interviewee. The font and colour were plain (white) to prevent to much focus on them.

Title of Programme

911 Falling Man

Type of Documentary

Mixed - Interviews, Actuality Footage, Archive Material

Themes

Power of the media/images, Media Controversy, Symbolism, Death, Fear and Personal reactions towards media.

Narrative Structure

Single Strand - The documentary is about one topic - obesity in children. Closed narrative - All the loose ends are tied up at the end of the documentary, the audience wern't left asking any questions, all answers were given. It is also non-linear and closed.


Camerawork

Interviews are filmed with the interviewee to either the left or right hand side of the screen and they are in medium close up or close up, handheld camerawork is used for the archive material, Panning is not used on some of the images as it is not needed this is when the pictures are interesting and stand out the the audience already, although on some of the less interesting pictures panning, tracking and zooming is used.

Mise-en-scene

The lighting in interviews is good as they are all well lit.

Sound

The narrator is male and sounds to be middle aged, he speaks in standard english and has a sympathetic sounding voice. Music is used in the background to anchor emotions

• Music to anchor emotions
• Radio/news broadcasts over footage
• Walky talky recordings from firemen

Editing

• Cut
• Fade to black
• Blur

Archive Material

News broadcasts
• Photographs
• Video footage of towers

Graphics

• Name & relevance of person getting interviewed on opposite side of screen to the person
• Title of documentary, Simple, white font with black background