Wednesday 7th December 2011

So far we have kept up to date with the production schedule that we created and we have filmed two interviews for our documentary, we have also recorded the introduction to our documentary and the outro of it, we have also edited in some pictures with a voiceover from both of the presenters in the documentary, this posed us with some problems considering timing and getting the voiceover to fit perfectly with the background music and the pictures that were relevant to the subject the presenters were talking about.

We are currently having some problems with one of our interviewees as he is a teacher and he has barely any time to for our interview, this interviewee is Mr Jones and we are currently also trying to arrange a time and place were he will be free for an interview. This interview will not cause much disruption to our production schedule as it will easily be edited in to the documentary and it will only make up a small fraction of the documentary as a whole.

Today due to travel issues we changed our filming destination in the public from Enfield town to Waltham cross,we went to Waltham cross to ask various members of the public and some shop keepers their opinions on homosexuality and how it is perceived in society. The result of our venture was not as expected as there where no willing participants whom wanted to express their opinions on the subject and most of them said that the subject of homosexuality was "too sensitive" or they were too shy about being filmed. Due to this negative result we have decided to change the plan and remove this part of our documentary and we have decided as a group that we will get a group of people to have a discussion on the subject as this will be equally entertaining as the interview in the public would have been and this interview will be easy to set up plus it will not cause any disruption to the rest of the project and it will not create any major disruption with the dates on our production schedule.

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print ad conventions

DISARMING BRITAIN (PRINT AD)

· Kids attract the viewers attention as of the signs they are making with hand (connotes a gun in his hand) which relates to the title of the documentary

· Dark lighting shows that it a serious matter and the background looks like an alleyway and viewers know that crime takes place in alleyways, serious and connotes dark days and times.

· Red title at the bottom right of the poster (connotation) of blood and violence alongside the brick wall which will pull in viewers as it is interesting and people are generally interested in violence and the real world.

· Channel 4 – channel four is an entertainment channel screening predominantly fictional programs therefore if the play a documentary it is bound to pull in viewers just by having the channel four logo on the printed advertisement.

IRAQ: THE BLOODY CIRCUS (PRINT AD)

· In this ad there is a lot of dramatization in the scene, this is to pull in the viewers, as they will be dragged in by the unusual scenery ant the look of the soldiers. Also the title of the documentary is called the bloody circus this shows that there will be clowns involved as shown in the picture and clowns are a connotation of people being silly and stupid, this will encourage the viewers to watch also as the will be interested in why the connotation of the soldiers is being used.

· The background of the ad is vey dull and it looks like a battleground this also appeals to the public as they will be interested in what is happening and the will be interested in why the soldiers are dressed as clowns, the background of the print ad is what makes it as it gives the viewers an idea of what the documentary will be about.

· The More 4 logo on this print ad is green and this is the same green as the soldiers hairs this may be another feature to attract viewers as it stands out so that the know what channel the documentary will be played on.

· More 4 is part of the 4 channel range there fore it is a well known brand, this will show the viewers that it will be purposeful and may be a good watch for them. But this is one of the lesser-known channels for entertainment therefore the viewers of the as will know that it will be a serious documentary.

THE INBETWEENERS (PRINT AD)

· In this print ad there is a colour clash between the bots in the middle and the correctly uniformed students this shows the viewers that they are “the inbetweeners” it also shows that they stand out from the crowd and that they are the main characters of the show. Also in this print ad all of the pupils and the teacher surrounding “the inbetweeners” are staring at them that is a connotation that they are rebels and they are different from the rest of the class, the reason for this is that they are supposed to be portrayed to the viewers as different and this is what pulls the viewers in to watching the series.

· The series is on E4 and E4 is a popular entertainment channel the show will be viewed as a must watch as it is on this channel and they produce several successful shows and this will be a great selling point of a the series as it will be very popular.

Conclusion

By looking at several print advertisements have discovered that to become noticed and to pull in viewers the ad should have the following:

· Bright colours

· Eye catching scenery

· Something that stands out

· The title of the documentary

· What time it will be showing

· What channel it will be premiering on

· And a colour scheme to match the purpose of the documentary

All of the above list should be included in a print ad in order to make it successful and in order to attract an audience to watch the program

Channel choice

From the results gathered from the questionnaire we narrowed a choice of five channels to two. Our final two were BBC three and Channel 4, these were the two channel our target audience felt that it was most suitable to show a documentary on sexuality. Finally we decided to use Channel 4 as our choice of channel.

Script

Script 1

This is a documentary about homosexuality and how it is portrayed in society.

In 2005 on average 3.6million people were reported to be gay in the UK. London has the highest rate of homosexuals at 2.2% compared to Ireland, which have 0.9% homosexuals, and from the world’s population there are 1% of homosexuals. However this does not include those who have not revealed their sexuality due to religion or other causes.

Script 2

The media portray homosexuality in many different ways. A positive connotation of homosexuality is celebrities that help support the gay community. There are many different gay celebrity icons such as; Gok Wan who is inspirational to over weight woman and he is also a fashion icon to all woman even though he is a man, Ellen DeGeneres, Lady Gaga, Chris Colfer is an actor in glee who is gay, there are many more Gay celebrity icons. Lady Gaga is a Global singing artist that produced a track ‘Born This Way’; this was very inspirational to many people, one of these people being Jamey Rodmeyer who committed suicide as a result of bullying because he was Gay. Jamey contributed to the ‘It Gets Better’ Organisation by making a video of him revealing his sexuality and giving other people hope by telling them to stand up for themselves. Due to Jamey’s death Lady Gaga contributed to a protest in hate crimes.

Script 3

We are here on Enfield Town high road to ask people their thoughts on homosexuality

Script 4

After the break we will be coming back to explore in more depth peoples opinions and views on homosexuality.

Production Schedule Part 2

Production Schedule Part 1

PITCH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Our idea and why is it important to our audience – USP

· Our idea is to create a documentary on the topic of sexuality; we will be focusing on mainly homosexuals, as this will make the documentary seem more interesting as it will share personal views and opinions of the general public and keep the viewers interested in the film.

· Our target audience will be aimed around the age range of 16+ as people of theses ages will be interested in the documentary and they will be able to relate to the topics brought up in the documentary, the reason for this is that the people will also be emotionally developed if they are 16+ giving them a greater understanding and stronger POV on homosexuality.

· The unique selling point of our documentary is that it will include opinions of people from all ages and backgrounds giving a wider range of views and a more diverse view on the subject of homosexuality, also the documentary we aim to create will be very unique as there are very few similar that have been created.

What type of documentary would it be?

· The documentary we will be creating will be a real life documentary focusing on issues in society, and how gays are perceived in the eyes of the general public

· Our documentary will be using mainly expository, observational, reflexive and interactive modes as these will keep the viewers interested in the documentary and if we use various modes we will capture more aspects of the topic.

What other documentaries inspired us?

· Movies that inspired us to create a documentary were as followed:

o FagBug – which is a documentary based around the life of a woman who was victim to hate crime due to her sexuality, who drives her vandalized VW beetle across America to raise awareness on homosexuality and hate crime against gays and how it affects gays.

o Bi the way – which is a documentary based on how bisexuals are perceived in society and how bisexuals are increase in the modern day

· The reason that these documentaries have inspired us is that they are on sexuality and they are have been very successful in attracting the publics attention.

Is it viable? Prove it. How will we film/ manage it?

· Our project is viable as it is very practical and we will be planning it thoroughly and we will be looking for the perfect locations, we will be writing scripts for the documentary and planning interviews with people so that we can make the idea of our documentary a reality.

What locations will we use? Who will we approach to interview?

When we do the interviews for our documentary we will do some of them in the school setting to show students views on the topic of homosexuality. The documentary will also be shot at places such as peoples homes to show their views from the comfort of their own home, and many of our interviews will be on the streets the reason for this will be that that these interviews will give our documentary a sense of realism to the viewers.

We will not just approach one type of person as we aim to make the documentary as real and as unbiased as possible, at the moment we are planning to interview some random strangers on he streets, we also aim to ask students of our school and some teachers. We have also organized for some homosexuals to give us their view on the subject also and these interviews will be the highlight of out documentary.

How will the five-minute extract fit in to a larger whole?

The five-minute extract that we will be making could be extended and developed to cover all types of sexuality such as homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender . our documentary only cover homosexuality and we will show different aspects, vies and opinions on the subject and this is just a small insight in to the subject that is sexuality. But overall the documentary that we make could easy fit in to a larger whole by just touching on all types of sexualities and how they are perceived in society.

What research will be required in order to be well informed?

To stay well informed the re search that we will be doing will be constant research in to current affairs with the homosexual community in London, we will also be researching in to similar products so that we can get inspiration and ideas from similar documentaries and these can help us make some thing as good as a successful documentary or even better.

Who is your target audience? /audience research

Both males and females from the ages of 16-40 will be our target audience the reason for this is that we think these people will be interested in this type of documentary as they will be facing the homosexual topic a lot in every day life and they will have opinions from this era whereas the older generation will have very old fashioned views and opinions and the younger generations will not be able to understand=d the views and opinions expressed through the documentary.

Why would c4 or another channel want to commission this documentary?

We think that C4 would commission or documentary as it will intentionally spark debate about the gay community, also the documentary will attract a lot of attention from the public and will be very entertaining to the general public as many of them will feel strongly fro the gay community or against it.

Research into similar products

As a group we all researched similar products to our documentary, we found different types of programmes whether it was a documentary or a TV programme that influenced us intomaking our finaldecision on what to do our documentary on.

Programme 1- Fagbug

While researching different products we found a documentary called FagBug it is about a homosexual female being discriminated against by someone writing on her car window 'Fag' and, she also had a rainbow sticker on the back of her car which symbolised homosexuality. In this documentary it shows people who are not homosexual supporting people who are by also putting stickers on the back of their cars and they also done a march around herschool campus with homosexualand non-homosexual people showing their support towards this campaign. she decided to keep the writing and the sticker on her car to show everyone and make everyone aware of what people would do to put their feelings across about homosexuality. This programme helped us grasp the concept of different peoples feelings towards homosexuality and also gave us different ideas that we could include in our documentary.

Programme 2- Bi The Way

We also researched a documentary called 'Bi The Way' but we was only able to find the trailer for it we were unable to access the full version of the documentary. This documentary tells us about homosexuals that like both female and male. It gave us an insight into how the society is more aware of bi-sexuals. It also made us aware of how people may react to homosexual people andhow it may effect their lives and the way they live.

Programme 3-Jamey Rodemeyer

From our questionnaire feedback we was advised to contact the LGBT and we found different stories that influenced ourfinal decisions as well. We found a write up about a boy called Jamey Rodemeyer who committed suicide because he was being bullied about his sexuality, this intrigued us to learn more about this certain subject so we found a news report on abc news/health which gave us more information on where to find other peoples views and their blogs about being homosexual, one of the websites that we visited was an organisation called ‘it gets better project’ this allows all ages to post their own blogs for other people to look at about their problems and to reassure people who are having problems. We also gained information about different songs that could represent homosexuals such as; Lady Gaga-Born this way. This was also mentioned in the abc news/health about Jamey Rodemeyer. This song sends out the message to homosexuals that you can't help the way you are, you as born this way. http://www.itgetsbetter.org/ this is the website that we research to find the story about Jamey Rodmeyer.

Programme 4- Glees star Chris Colfer

Another programme that we researched was Glee, we researched into this because there is traces of homosexuality which shows us how TV shows stereotype homosexuals for example; they had Chris Colfers (Kurt Hummel) best friends to be girls which made him look more feminine to the audience. And this also shows us how revealing your sexuality may effect your social life for example; Chris Colfer who acts as Kurt Hummel in the TV programme was bullied for being a homosexual

Questionnaire Feedback

Questionaire

Documentary definition

Paige

A documentary is a presentation of actual real life facts that has been edited to show a true picture of a certain topic, but as it is edited it only shows you what they want you to see so they already determine our opinion.

Mo

It is a presentation that captures real facts and real life, as it is so diverse this therefore means that it is not anywhere realistic than a fictional film.

Ben

The use of a film medium to document a part of life around us. documentaries show "a" truth rather than "the" truth about the part of life a they show one side of an opinion rather that all sides. documentaries are usually edited in order to make them more entertaining to the viewers and this also makes sure that the documentary has an opinion that is aimed to be expressed