Feedback from the audience

After receiving the results from the audiences feedback, we looked over the results and most of the feedback was very positive and we didn't receive any critical feedback which was good. Im happy with the results and the reaction we received when we showed our documentary to an audience.

here is a link to our results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Api8FWz-urcPdG82VzYySXBZN1ZOVThrX0ZJQ2p0R3c&pli=1#gid=0

Audience Feedback

Budget

For our documentary we didn't have a budget as most of our equipment was borrowed from our school for free this was quite lucky for us. as to hire a professional camera would cost around £52.50 for only 3 days. it would work out cheaper to buy a camera and use it for longer then 3 days, as they cost around £200. for other equipment we used within our documentary, such as a tripod, we also borrowed this from our school free of charge. However to hire these normally would cost a little bit, a  tripod to hire would cost £30 for only 3 days a cheaper option for this is to buy one from amazon for only £14. . thanks to our school we saved at least  £270.50.

Finished documentary video - Young Smokers

Issues of documentary

Accuracy
 Accuracy means to be  accurate which is to be precise. when making a documentary  the director The has to be  completely accurate that  every thing they input in the documentary is either facts or true. For example you can not make a documeantary that hasn't got anything to do with facts because this will not be a documentary. to create a proper  documentary you need to include  true facts and  it needs to have a good base  of research of what it is going to be about. If your documentary has a one false fact it can change the way the audience see it and it can be biased and one sided which is not fair as it can create one side opinion and this cant be classed as a documentary. For example if you are filming a documentary about  a current election and you favourites over one MP and only parse the good in that one MP and not in the other MP's running for election you are not only creating a false opinion on one side you are also showing  a false fact . this could  be crucial to the audience  and any MP's running because  it could effect there own opinion  for the audience and it would be unfair to other MP's. If you want there film to be engaging and accurate as possible you should consider to use primary and secondary research skills.

Balance
When making a documentary the director should take in to consideration what the message is trying to be and how its being perceived and what  a affect it has on the viewer. It should not be a bias for the reason if it was to be bias the documentary would not expand the viewers minds and make them think. Also to balance a documentary out is to have atleast two points to be fully explained and two interviews for each of them and then at the end, Summerise it all up and to fully state the purpose of the documentary to the audience. 

Impartiality
When making a documentary you shouldn't be bias, you should share opinions and make it interesting by adding other  facts and ideas to create a bit of a debate and an effect where it makes you think. The person should be outside of the two sides of the subject and just state the points and facts of the two sides also the person should be neutral to the subject. 

Objectivity
When making a factual programme the person should Make a point and ask a interviewer questions which is normal. However the person should take in to consideration about the questions you ask to the interviewer and the facts that you state. You should be open minded and try and get the point that you are stating quickly and accurately. 

Subjectivity
When making a factual film in is crucial to keep all your personal opinion and views out of it the documentary. The reason behind this is because that if you do get your personal views it can turn the whole film one sided and make it bias. 

Opinion
When Producing a documentary a director should  interview different people to get there opinions of a certain subject, but they should also get all different opinions good or bad this shows two sides of a story  this could help to provide more ideas which can help bring the message of the film and to make it more clearer. When asking or stating a fact you should research into the subject and go in deep so that you can get a better viewpoint of a subject.This is a great way to make the audience to have a different viewpoint about the subject and come out with there own opinions. 

Bias
A bias factual documentary is when the subjects are one sided for example the person does not explain or go in to detail of the other side of the subject or argument.  this is classed as one sided opinion. 

Representation
Representation is when you are stereotyping someone or a subject by either their Person/group or their culture, society, Objects and events. All these lists of points are what you can expand on.

Research Within Documentaries

This is a Prezi of the research i have found by watching various documentaries such as '15 Kids and Counting' and also 'Gypsy Blood' i also watched a 4 minute wonder documentary '

http://prezi.com/v_zu8l9pcqxj/research-within-documentaries/

Mood board

Year 8 Teaching Session

By mentoring the year 8 pupils about there ideas and how to develop them and to create there documentary or news flash.

In my group me and Jas. had 4 students and we were helping them to develop there ideas of there documentary and how to structure it and how to use and put into a timeline by doing this and helping the students and telling them the knowledge that i already had about how to create a documentary made me feel more in control and where i had power to tell them what to do or what i thought was right to do within their documentary by helping the students, its given me more knowledge how to help others with the knowledge i already know and to remember the stuff i have learnt.

Brainstorm and Timeline

Story board 

Documentary Schedule

Schedule for filming

Monday	Thursday
20th Feb  Lesson 2 & 3 ·       Doing the timeline (4 scenes) ·       Short random clips of the school	23rd Feb Finish the ·       Stats & facts (3 scenes) Half do research and other make it on premier pro ·       Interview on young smoker
	1st march
27th Feb ·       Recording of the narrators voice ·       Interview a science teacher ·       Youngster going to shops	Start on our editing

Young Smokers Pre Production

Crew List: Syranpreet Rai,Shamim Miah, Kamiul Islam and Shaukat saleji

Shots we will be including: Long shot, Close up, Mid shot, Point of view shot

The Location we will be using are:

• School ( classrooms, reception)  

Outside school:

• primrose hill street next to the shops (interview)
• across the road of the school at the end of the school day 
• next to the flats 

Props and Equipment 
The props and equipment that will be included  in our documentary that will help to produce this documentary is a studio or theatre light, a camera, tripod, chair, cigarette, lighter and school uniform.
Treatment
The purpose of this documentary is that to inform and portray that young teens that are in early years of secondary school are grasping the bad habit of smoking. we are going to interview a

• science teacher the bad effects it has on to the body. 
• a young boy why he smokes and where he gets the cigarettes from. 
• a youngster who just got hands on a box of cigarettes 

Risk assessment 

The risk of our group producing this documentary at various places such as across the road can lead to serious injuries for example a member of our group might fall and hurt our themselves or by carelessness not looking both ways before crossing the road it may led to a cause death by a car accident. 

Also another hazard is when using the studio light we should be cautious when plugin it in to the socket in case one of the members get electrocuted also we should take time for the light to cool down if not one of us can get seriously burnt.  

A final risk of recording in the school is the we may trip and fall over chairs and table.s 

 

Time for each scene

scene 1- timeline - 5 seconds

scene 2- brief history - 1 min 15 secs

scene 3- Timeline part 2 - 5 secs

scene 4- overview of the school - 10 secs

scene 5- interview the young smoker- 1 min 30 secs

scene 6- shop scene - 30 secs

scene 7- Timeline part 3 - 5 secs

scene 8- scientist interview - 1 min 30 secs

scene 9- stats/facts - 30 secs

scene 10- young smoker interview - 1 min

scene 11- stats/facts - 15 secs

scene 12- cigarette dropping - 10 secs

Length of documentary - 8 mins 5 secs.

Documentary Change

Due to the class grouping i had to join a different group which had a different idea of a documentary. so now i am with a group of 4 and now doing a documentary about young smokers the documentary will include information that will  inform and portray that young teens are in being influenced to smoke in their early years of secondary school and are adapting to the bad habit of smoking. Through out our documentary we will be  interviewing a science teacher to get their views on the bad effects it has on to the body. then we will go on to interviewing a young boy about why he smokes and where he gets the cigarettes from and then finally a younger child know how to get hands on a box of cigarettes. The message this documentary sends out is to aware adults that its becoming more and more easier for children to smoke and to get hold of cigarettes and to reveal why more and more young children are starting to smoke within school with their peers.

Questionnaire & questions asked in interview

My survey on survey monkey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XDZQHK5

Pre-produtcion

http://prezi.com/fe9-rcwhsdtt/edit/?auth_key=p8a4tlr&follow=evrlr8d_2cuy

Concrete Circus

The concrete circus is a documentary about a group of athletes  all over the world like for example Paris, London, Wales who don't do normal sports but street sports such as free running, style bicycle and skateboarding. But the way it has been presented is different from most others as it uses wild footage for example footage of free running and skateboarding and style bicycle how the athletes run from different building jumping over buildings and climbing up buildings.
they do the most  amazing things we would dare to do like super human things from taking the extra mile and they have a narrator who explains everything in key detail about the background and life style as youths and how they started their hobbies and developed in them and made it their life. 

During the documentary, music was used a lot to create a mood and to fit with the activity of the scenes portrayed like fast music and edgy music. 

while watching this documentary i noticed there were many different camera shots and angles which is used throughout documentaries,  this  is so that you can  viewing things form a different point of view. 

These are some of the shots i found:

• Wide shots
• Panning
• Tracking
• Close ups
• Mid close ups

Documentary Analysis

Please and Thanks


This documentary is participatory you see the the points of views of the the public and how they react to manners and politeness. This documentary is also expositor as it exposes a lot of the views from the older generation in that they say that the younger generation have less respect for everyone and do not have manners.This documentary can also be one sided as it only shows the point of view from the older generation not from the younger generation. it is also informative  as it tells us about how people feel towards the simple words as in please and thank you and having a basic common courtesy to be polite. the way the documentary is filmed is in different clips of the public talking to the camera and the interviewer ask them questions but you never see the interviewer only the people they ask questions to.


The King Of Laughter


This documentary shows a man who basics his whole life on laughing as he thinks that it helps him to survive. the man has had a lot of disasters in his life and by laughing he can forget about them. He narrates to the audience that he had a lot troublesome times but he just strides the hardship with a smile on his face. documentary is also is a expository documentary because the main person is being exposed of his life story. The documentary is also a observatory because we also have quick experience of his day in his life. 

My Documentary Idea

For my documentary i have thought through a lot of options on how i want to make my documentary and what i should talk about within my documentary and i have come up with the idea of making a documentary within school and the hidden truth on why in school you are peer pressured and bullied by your friends or your year group or year group above.  

within my documentary i will be discovering why students follow the so called cool crowed and how it effects their own life and how it can lead to being bullied.

i will be asking questions to students who are classed as the cool kids about what they think about peer pressure and if it happens to them and what they think of bullying. then i will ask the same questions to the kids who are outside the cool crowed and outcasted, then i will compare the results to see if there is any differences and the weak points and strong points from both sides. by doing this i will be  a strong knowledge of the opinions of the affected few from peer pressure and the views from the group who affect theses things on them.

my main goal for this documentary is to see what happens to students when being peer pressured and bullied and how it effects the person and how we can come against it and make life for students better and show children in schools how bulling affects a person and what can be the out comes of this. over all i would like to improve how children see peer pressure and show them that that its not all fun and games and then i would like by doing this decrease the levels of bullying and peer pressure within schools.

The Different Types Of Documentaires

1.Poetic documentaries,The poetic mode moved away from continuity editing and instead organized images of the material world by means of associations and patterns, both in terms of time and space.Documentaries in the poetic mode forsake traditional  narrative content: individual characters and events remain undeveloped and appeared in these films as entities. The poetic mode of documentary film tends toward subjective interpretations of its subject. it also uses music to creat a mood. an example of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=692vC2YpRxg&feature=related

2. Expository documentaries, is speaking directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voiceover or titles, proposing a strong argument and point of view. These films are rhetorical, and try to persuade the viewer.   
1.Arose from dissatisfaction with distracting entertainment qualities of the fiction film
2.Voice of god commentary, poetic perspectives sought to disclose information about historical world & see that world afresh, even if ideas seem romantic or didactic
3.Addresses viewer directly, w/titles or voices
4.Advances argument about historical world 
All together there is over 6 different types of documentaries, all different in there own way im going to be talking about 6 of them.


1. Poetic documentaries, a poetic documentarie has subjective interpretations of its subject within a poetic documentarie it conntaines a narritaive but it has individual characters and events but they remain undeveloped. The poetic mode usually creates a mood by using music. 

1. Does not use continuity editing, sacrifices sense of the very specific location and place that continuity creates
2. Explores associations and patterns that involve temporal rhythms and spatial juxtapositions 
3. Social Actors rarely become fully-fledged characters
4. Opens up possibility of alternative forms of knowledge to
5. It takes shape around commentary directed toward the viewer; images illustrate  the verbal commentary builds sense of dramatic involvement around need for solution to a problem.
6. Nonsynchronous sound prevails (historical circumstances)
7. Editing generally establishes/maintains rhetorical continuity more than spatial/temporal
an exampe of this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRlrGxUqluI

3. Observational documentaries, attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention Often, this mode of film eschewed voice-over commentary, post-synchronized dialogue and music, or re-enactments. The films aimed for immediacy, intimacy, and revelation of individual human character in ordinary life situations.

1. Arose from available lightweight portable synchronous recordin equipment & dissatisfaction with moralizing quality of expository documentary.
2. It allowed filmmaker to record unobtrusively what folks did when not explicitly addressing the camera.
3. It stresses the nonintervention of filmmaker
4. Filmmaker cedes control of events more than any other mode.
5. Editing doesnít construct time frame or rhythm, but enhances impression of lived or real time.
6. This mode limited filmmaker to present moment and required disciplined detachment from events themselves.
7. It uses indirect address, speech overheard, synchronous sound, relatively long takes.
8. Its sense of observation comes from 
a. Ability of filmmaker to include representative & revealing moments b. Sounds and images recorded at moment of observational filming in contrast to voice-over of expository mode c. Illustrations do not serve generalizations but a specific slide of reality. d. Presence of camera on scene
  a negative of this is that it lacks historical context 
an example of this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kckoh4VGc9w

4. Participatory documentaries, believe that it is impossible for the act of filmmaking to not influence or alter the events being filmed. What these films do is emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation. Not only is the filmmaker part of the film, we also get a sense of how situations in the film are affected or altered by her presence.  The encounter between filmmaker and subject becomes a critical element of the film.
an example of this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcE3ZGreltQ

5. Reflexive documentaries, don’t see themselves as a transparent window on the world; instead they draw attention to their own constructedness, and the fact that they are representations. How does the world get represented by documentary films? It is the most self-conscious of all the modes.The reflexive mode considers the quality of documentary itself, de-mystifying its processes and considering its implications.
1.    Arose form desire to make the conventions of representation themselves more apparent & to challenge the impression of reality which other three modes normally conveyed unproblematically. 
2.     It is the most self-aware mode - its reflexivity makes audience aware of how other modes claim to cosntruct "truth" through documentary practice.
3.     It uses many of devices of other modes but sets them on edge so viewer attends to device as well as the effect. 
4. It tears away veil of filmmakers illusory absence 
5. Becomes technologically viable in 50s  with emergence of portable synchronous sound equipment makes interaction more feasible 
 NEGATIVE: TOO ABSTRACT, LOSES SIGHT OF ACTUAL ISSUES
an example of this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBsL2nBuJCk

6. Performative documentaries,stress subjective experience and emotional response to the world. They are strongly personal, unconventional, perhaps poetic and/or experimental, and might include hypothetical enactments of events designed to make us experience what it might be like for us to possess a certain specific perspective on the world that is not our own, Often, a battery of techniques, many borrowed from fiction or avant-garde films, are used. Performative docs often link up personal accounts or experiences with larger political or historical realities
. Like Reflexive Documentary, it raises questions about knowledge
2. Endorses definition of knowledge that emphasizes personal experience (in tradition of poetry, literature)
3. Tries to demonstrate how understanding such personal knowledge can help us understand more general processes of society
4. May "mix" elements of various documentary modes to achieve link between subjective knowledge/understanding of the world, and more general understandings, i.e. historical ones.
an example of this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATYJx3x0nyo

http://girishshambu.blogspot.com/2006/12/six-types-of-documentary.html