Research on Double page spreads and magazines

To help us with our Ancillaries we had to do a task of research our double page spreads and adverts in magazines and newspapers

This was my first draft. The feedback I got from this was that I used a lot of photographic magazines instead of using magazines that would allow me to annotate what I learnt from it.

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Part 3

Institution

After looking at various documentaries we believe that our documentary will be best classified as a BBC Three documentary. This is due to the target audiene that we are aiming at.

BBC three also tends to show:
Entertaining documentaries
Factual documentaries

This is precisely the purpose of our documentary.

When I compared my findings to BBC one Channel 4 and Sky documentaries. What i noticed about these documentaries was that they were either critical or serious topics that are related to world related issues. E.g Channel 4- Extraordinary people.

Channel 4- Extraordinary People.

BBC One Documentary-

BBC Three documentaries-

Documentaries like these are mainly targeted at a young audience, hence the reason why we decided that BBC three as an institution would be suitable.

Script, Storyboard and Shotlist

This is our current sho tlist,

Sing a song for me

MUSIC

As part of our research and planning Tobore put together a music powerpoint. =)

Gathering our ideas

As tommorrow is our deadline for our task on research and planning. As a group we have each decided to take on a role in order to get the research and planning completed.

So this is what we have done as a

Potential Target Audience- Victoria
Actors, locations, costume, and props- Jamilla
Shotlist, script and storyboard-
Short term and long term planning- Mariana
Music- Tobore

KEY:

Tobore
Mariana
Victoria
Jamilla
Everyone

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As part of my resarch and planing I have put together a powerpoint of all the documentaries that I have watched and what I learnt from it

3rd Draft of Script (introduction)

At this stage as we are still forming and putting together our ideas, I have only decided to focus on the opening of our documentary.

What i also realized was that my previous formats of the scripts were structured incorrectly.

Wait Till Your Teacher Gets Home- Documentary

This is a documentary that was shown on BBC Three.
Broadcasted at: 2.40 am
On: 5th of November.
Duration: 60 minutes
Category: Family and Relationships

The Link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vl3zc/Wait_Till_Your_Teacher_Gets_Home!/#recommendSource=tv_episode_page

To help me get more ideas and understanding about documentaries watching the first 5 minutes were crucial for me. And whilst doing so I gained a lot of knowledge and also came across different filming and editing techniques in the introduction of the documentary.

• The beginning of this documentary starts off with a long shot of school children walking- alongside non-diagetic rock music.

• There is then a low angle shot of the school's name plaque as well as an establishing shot of the school; with the diagetic sound of the school bell. This is important as already within the first two seconds of this documentary with the inclusion of two differnt shots the location has already been set clear to the viewer.

• There is then a mid shot of the school pupils during the school day, going to lessons. This again sets the scene and lets the audience know the main theme or location as to where this episode is set.
  

The director introduces the main character through a mid shot of her arguing with two people at this stage we do not know who they are.


at 0.19 seconds the voice over starts. Which formally introduces the main character of the documentary.

Structure of the Interviews.

The structure of this interview was also something that we already decided to incorporate into our own documentary. The way in which this interview was structured was that the teacher directly answered questions to the camera. As the viewers we cannot hear the questions being asked but when listening to the answer giving it is clear as to what he may have been asked.

Voiceovers

The type of voice overs used in this documentary was extremely effective as, we see "Loretta" showing lack of work in the classroom while the teacher's voice over says exactly this. This is effective as it allows the viewers to picture and see what the teacher is saying at the same time co-ordinating images with visuals

Then from the teacher's interview being a voice over it then switches to where she is talking directly to the camera. This editing technique is effective as it keeps the audiences attention.

This is displayed in the print screen shots below.
(Where the voiceover begins)

(Where the interview then switches to the actual teacher talking)

Overall from this documentary I have learnt a lot of things that I would like to include in our documentary. This includes:

• A different technique to voiceovers
• Showing clips from the actual documentary in the first few seconds allowing the viewers to see what the documentary include.
  

My Script 2nd Draft

CONVENT OF JESUS AND MARY. Exterior. Day

Jamilla’s walking down the steps of the garden as she introduces the programme.

Jamilla

Hello and welcome to JMTV, my name is Jamilla Joseph and today’s documentary will focus on the ultimate national use of SLANG within education.

Today’s episode will focus on the use of informal language used in the classrooms. Slang has always been used in the English language but most people see slang as abbreviations. E.g. Computerà PC. However now slang has evolved into a whole new era and it’s now popularly used amongst teenagers.