This is a brainstorm of ideas we came up with for our documentary.
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| Brainstorm of Documentary Ideas |
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Friday 15 November 2013
Initial Plans
Target Audience
The target audience we're looking to aim our documentary at people aged 16-19 but also, to those slightly older aged 20-25. We decided on this because the artists within the genre are about the same age and the people that go to the events/gigs/concerts who watch them are around this age. In our target audience research, we ensured that we asked people within this bracket in which 27 of the people were aged 16-19 and the other 3 were 20-25. This gave us a good idea of who would watch it and the content included that would appeal to them.
Channel
The channel that we've decided that this would be produced on is Channel Four as they have a history of screening documentaires and they have a lot of programmes that appeal to a younger audience such as Misfits, The Big Bang Theory, Made in Chelsea, etc.
Scheduling
We would ideally screen the documentary at 10:00 on a Monday because it's around the same time as other popular TV programmes within the younger generation; Misfits and Made in Chelsea, and also, it would potentially contain either alcohol consumption or foul language, so it's after the 21:00 barrier.
Title of Programme
The title of the programme that we've decided to come up with is "The Upcoming"
The target audience we're looking to aim our documentary at people aged 16-19 but also, to those slightly older aged 20-25. We decided on this because the artists within the genre are about the same age and the people that go to the events/gigs/concerts who watch them are around this age. In our target audience research, we ensured that we asked people within this bracket in which 27 of the people were aged 16-19 and the other 3 were 20-25. This gave us a good idea of who would watch it and the content included that would appeal to them.
Channel
The channel that we've decided that this would be produced on is Channel Four as they have a history of screening documentaires and they have a lot of programmes that appeal to a younger audience such as Misfits, The Big Bang Theory, Made in Chelsea, etc.
Scheduling
We would ideally screen the documentary at 10:00 on a Monday because it's around the same time as other popular TV programmes within the younger generation; Misfits and Made in Chelsea, and also, it would potentially contain either alcohol consumption or foul language, so it's after the 21:00 barrier.
Title of Programme
The title of the programme that we've decided to come up with is "The Upcoming"
Formal Proposal
Proposal
Topic
The topic we
have chosen for our documentary is all about independent musicians or bands, discussing what it's like to be an independent, their dreams and ambitions and how to get signed in today's saturated music industry
Type of documentary
Our
documentary will be fully narrative.
Style of documentary
We want to
inform our audience about the independent music scene on what it is like to be an unsigned artist, we will be interviewing various bands and artists and also one successful artist who started of as independent and still is today.
Channel and Scheduling
We have chosen to broadcast our documentary on Channel 4 on
a Monday at 10pm. It would be more suitable for our target audience and Channel
Four tend to be more adventurous with their programming choices and we believe
this would be something that would sit well with our documentary style and
choice. The time slot we have chosen will be past the watershed so any swearing
or explicit language that may feature can be shown. We are planning to
broadcast our documentary on a Monday as more of our target audience would be
staying in their homes on that particular day due to work/college/University etc.
Target Audience
The target audience for our documentary is a young adult
audience aged between 16-30 we have chosen this as we feel this age group might
be able to relate to the documentary more as we are interviewing young unsigned artists and bands to give an idea on how to be successful and what needs to be done to achieve an artists or bands goals and ambitions.
Primary research
We need to research local gigs taking place in the Warrington/Liverpool area, organise interviews
with artists and producers, find locations to film including music shops and
performance area, get music props such as microphones and speakers for
mise-en-scene in interviews.
Secondary research
We need to look for archive footage of independent artists, their gigs or their music videos so we can compare their success to our selected choice of artists and bands. We also need to look into successful music which has been created by successful independent artists which we can play throughout our documentary.
Narrative
structure
Our documentary will be linear. Our documentary will start with initial questions on how the band came about and how they got into music, who there inspirations were etc. It will then develop on getting signed as a artist, It's linear through the process of starting a band, playing and then ultimately getting signed.Our documentary will begin with a montage of music videos from successful independent artists, with narration over the top discussing the theme of the documentary. We will then begin with our interviews where we ask the same questions to each of our interview subjects and edit them together so we have variation and depth to our questions and the responses that follow. During the interviews we will be switching to footage of our interview subjects, performing some of their music for us to add some dynamic to our documentary. It will finish of a summary of independent music and what it stands for looking to engage and inspire our viewers.
Outline of content
In our documentary, we will include various things including a montage of successful independent artists, to show that you can be successful as an unsigned artists. After this however, we will be discussing how hard it is an unsigned band to get noticed and hopeful provide an insight as how to get recognized with some help of interviewee's. We will also look to showcase our interview subjects music off to a wide audience in a attempt to boost their popularity.
Resource
requirement
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High definition Cameras
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Microphones
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Clip-mics
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Tri-pod
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Green screen
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Computers with editing software (premiere)
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Headphones
Wednesday 9 October 2013
Questionnaire
Documentary Questionnaire
1. What is your gender?
Male Female
2. What is your age?
16-19 20-25 25+
3. What genre(s) of music do you listen to?
Rock Hip-hop/rap Dance/house Alternative/indie Metal Pop Other: _________________
4. How many hours a day on average do you listen to music?
5. Who is your favourite artist/ band?
6. How often do you go to gigs/concerts? What was your favourite?
7. Do you go to any music festivals? Which ones?
8. If so, who is your favourite artist in that genre?
9. How do you find out about new music?
Radio TV Newspapers Magazines Internet Social Media
10. What source do you find it through? (e.g. TV channel, Internet site, magazine name, etc?)
11. Do you listen to unsigned artists?
Yes No
12. Do you support local bands by attending gigs?
Yes No
13. Do you use any of the following music sites or programmes?
Youtube Soundcloud Spotify iTunes
14. How do you download your music?
15. Would you buy music from your preferred artists?
16. Do you watch documentaries?
17. If so, why do you watch them? (e.g. Interest, enjoyment, boredom, etc?)
Thank you for your time and co-operation.
Thank you for your time and co-operation.
Tuesday 8 October 2013
TV Scheduling
TV Scheduling
The schedule for each day can be broken down into clear segments. How could you catagorize these segements?
- Morning
- Daytime
- Primetime
- Evening
Who are the target audience for these segments?
Morning - Parents, People who go to work
Daytime - Older Audience
Primetime - Mature Adults
Evening - The younger adult/ Teens
What would you say are the most popular genres on television?
- Soaps
- Drama's
- Documentaries
- Reality TV
Who is the target audience of each terrestial channel? Give examples of scheduled programmes to support your views.
BBC 1 - Targets everyone as an audience an example of this would be "The One Show"
BBC2 - Older more mature audience as it shows documentaries mainly historical pieces i.e "The 70's"
ITV1 - More Mature Audience as it heavily shows soaps during primetime hours such as "Emmerdale" and "Coronation Street"
Channel 4 - Young Adults/ Teens Shows more relatable programmes like "Educating Yorkshire" & "The Fried Chicken Shop"
Channel 5 - Male Audience showing programmes such as worlds strongest man and the gadget show also actions films such as the punisher or point break
Roughly what percentage of each channel's schedules is taken up with repeats? Why do you think this is?
BBC One 0-5%
BBC Two 10%
ITV1 - 10%
Channel 4 10%
Channel 5 30%
The terrestrial BBC Channels would show less repeats as it is tax funded so they would want to provide the audience new programmes to watch on a regular basis.
Which channels have more imported programmes in their schedules? Why do you think this might be?
Channel 5 are known for importing most of their programmes as other channels are more established and attempt to provide viewers with top US Drama's to try and get an edge over the other terrestrial channels.
What do you understand by the term 'the watershed' and where does this occur in the schedules?
The watershed is the time of the evening (9pm) where swearing and matured themed programmes can be shown with no legal repercussion.
Types of Documentary
Types of documentary
Participatory Documentary - is where the documentary maker appears heavily throughout the filming often posing questions to the interview subject in frame, sharing and discussing their experiences of this. Participatory documentary is something the likes of Louis Theroux use heavily when creating their documentaries.
Fully Narrated Documentaries Fully narrated documentaries is where an offscreen voice is used to link the various pieces of footage or interviews. This is often called the "Voice of God" It's often used to provide a sense of authority, an example of documentaries that use the fully narrated style are loose change - 9/11
Fly on the wall Fly on the wall is a covert form of documentary making, where the camera's are either hidden or a camera crew films from a far away angle trying to maintain the realism of normal life. Camera's can be rigged up with no real need for a cameracrew to work and maintain them.
Mixed - A mixed documentary is where multiple documentary styles are used in the one documentary.
Self Reflexive Documentary - Self reflexive documentatries are where the narrator or the lead talk directly to the camera acknowledging it's presence, Participatory documentary styles are involved in the documentary type.
Docudrama - Docudramas are reconstructions which depict or recreate a historical event an example of a docudrama would be Crimewatch
Docusoaps - Docusoaps follow characters about in real life situations, are often called Mockumentaries as the situations can be constructed for TV purposes. Examples of a docusoap would be; Dog the Bounty Hunter or Nothing to Declare
Fully Narrated Documentaries Fully narrated documentaries is where an offscreen voice is used to link the various pieces of footage or interviews. This is often called the "Voice of God" It's often used to provide a sense of authority, an example of documentaries that use the fully narrated style are loose change - 9/11
Fly on the wall Fly on the wall is a covert form of documentary making, where the camera's are either hidden or a camera crew films from a far away angle trying to maintain the realism of normal life. Camera's can be rigged up with no real need for a cameracrew to work and maintain them.
Mixed - A mixed documentary is where multiple documentary styles are used in the one documentary.
Self Reflexive Documentary - Self reflexive documentatries are where the narrator or the lead talk directly to the camera acknowledging it's presence, Participatory documentary styles are involved in the documentary type.
Docudrama - Docudramas are reconstructions which depict or recreate a historical event an example of a docudrama would be Crimewatch
Docusoaps - Docusoaps follow characters about in real life situations, are often called Mockumentaries as the situations can be constructed for TV purposes. Examples of a docusoap would be; Dog the Bounty Hunter or Nothing to Declare
Documentary Conventions
Documentary Conventions
- Talking Head Shot "Rule of thirds"
- Typically linear in the narrative structure
- Interviews - Vox Pox & Rule of thirds
- Stats & Facts presented by - Narrator, Text, Animation & Graphics
- Reconstructions
- Music and it's relativity to the documentary
- Chromakey
- Archive Material
- Titles
- Narration
- Lighting e.g 3 point lighting
- Transitions
- Title Sequence
- Cut Aways
- Variety of Camera Angles
Monday 7 October 2013
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