Blank Questionnaire

1.       How old are you? (please circle)

16-21                           22-29                               30-38                                      39 or over

2.       What gender are you? (please circle)

Male                                    Female

3.       What’s your favourite colour?
Black      Yellow       Green     White    Red     Pink     Blue

4.       What channel do you normally watch? (please circle)

BBC1               BBC2                         ITV                           C4                            C5

5.       What’s your favourite font out of these examples? (please circle)

Phobia                            Phobia                      Phobia                  

                Phobia                               Phobia                             Phobia

      6.       What’s your phobia if you have one?

 

      7.       On a scale of 1-10 how scared are you of your phobia?

8.       Would you be put of your food if you saw something horrible in a documentary? E.g graphic surgery.

9.       What makes you scared? (please circle)

clowns                           spiders                      slugs/snails                  people in hoodies

                  stickers                          insects                               rats                              the dark

      10.   What’s your favourite type of music? (please circle)

reggie                              rock                             blues                              hip-hop

                  classic                               trance/dance         



      

11.   Do you find this scary? (please circle)   Yes         No
  

12.   Do you have a strange phobia you’re willing to talk about?

 

      13.   Would you be able to overcome your phobia if you were given help?

            14.   What is your reaction to seeing someone react to something their scared of?

            15.   What background would you associate with phobias? (chose one)

            16.   What type of voice over would you like in a documentary about phobias? (circle one)

sarcastic                         eerie                           sympathetic                   serious

                 informative                 bored                                 happy      

      17.   What would make you want to watch our documentary? (circle one)

interviews                          interesting clips                     reaction shots

                      interesting information                          experts

     18.   Has a phobia ever stopped you from going out the house, etc?

           19.   Have you ever had any help from professionals concerning your phobia?

           20.   How many phobias do you have that you’re aware of? (Circle one)

           1-2                                 3-5                          6-8                        9 or more

Scheduling

There are three ways in which an auidence can be pursuaded into watching a programme by one, inheritance, where the audience from a previous programme being watched are tuned into the next following show.
Two, pre-echo, is when the auidence turn a programme on early, before the show they want to watch and are engaged to fully view it the next time.
And three, hammocking, is the means of placing a show in middle of two good programmes. E.g. Coronation Street and how they have a half an hour gap to see what happens next.

They say that each TV programme has a particular favour by the auidence and popularity.
BBC2, being the less popular.
BBC1, being the more popular.
ITV1, being popular to family.
Channel 4, being popular and educational.
Channel 5, being not as popular but similar to BBC2 and BBC1.

Our documentary about phobias is going to be titled, "There's a monster under my bed..." and as it is an educational show about how phobias are developed, overcome and effected by people; we thought that Channel 4 would be best suitable to view on. Starting at 8:30pm due to the fact there is some graphical and violent content. This also should attract the correct age at 16-40 year olds as it is not placed during the day when children could view it and are less likely to be in bed. Monday has been chosen to host our documentary as it is the start of a new week where people are most probably going to settle in after a busy weekend.

Ideas for Documentaries

Music, consoles/games, food, cars, sports, comic books, cakes, takeways, drink, stereotypes, make-up, technology, television, social networks, hair, sweets, alcohol, transport, religion, phones, films/animation, coffee, pets, history, laughter, paper, accents, bananas, apples, water, drugs, ghosts, bacon, tattoos, piercings, clocks, old people, sandwiches, college life, litter, gingers, human body, phobias, gambling, halloween, senses, video games, relationships, celebrities.

Codes and Conventions

Interviews, observations, cutaways, archive footage, voice overs, reconsructions, evidence, facts, exposistion, dramatisation, linear narrative, relevant backdrops, simple graphics, diegetic/non-diegetic sounds, relevant location, alternative left and right shots, conflict, opening ending to opinion, narrator leads story (Q and A), themes, close-ups, high/low angles, match on action, fast/slow paced editing, non-biased narrative, extreme close-ups, montague, off center graphics, music bed, actual footage, vox ops, green screen, fact against opinion, no questions asked on screen, rule of thirds, variety of camera angles, continuity, experts as audience, witness, ambient sound, transistions, un-biased, no answers to questions, interview is always interupted, location footage, clear narrative, types of shots, important people, tight.

Documentary Analysis - Don't Text and Drive

Type of documentary: Mixed with observations, cutaways, interviews, vox pops, voice overs, etc.

Themes: Police, society, death, dangerous driving, modern technology, mobile phones, concentration.

Narrative structure: Beginning, why are mobile phones causing accidents?
Middle, the science behind reactions between driving and texting.
End, how it can be solved if people were more aware of the statistics and deaths of others.

Camerawork: Establishing shot of the motorway, relating to the subject matter. Close-up inside the car and of the car logo/police shoulder badge. Mid-shot showing facial and body expression. Close-up of face, showing saddening expression.

Mise-en-scene: Inside of a car, on location, motorways.

Sound: Diegetic, non-degetic. Ambient sound of sympathetic music.

Editing: Still images of smashed up and damaged cars. Shot-reverse-shot. Fade on the policeman who enters the house.

Graphics: Black on white, that contrast each other and can be read easily by the viewer.

Documentary Analysis - One Inch Punch

Type of documentary: Mixed - observations, interviews, cutways, voice over.

Themes: Martial arts, film industry, fitness, will power, industrial revolution.

Narrative structure: Linear. Beginning, what is the one inch punch? Introduces Bruce Lee and the films he features in. How powerful is the one inch punch?
Middle, what effects it has at such a short distance. Damage of it.
Ending, the loss of interest in martial arts due to video games. How industrial revolution changed everything. Auidence are left to answer will it make it back to modern day?

Camerawork: Mid-shot of the person being interviewed. Alternative positions, left and right of the frame between two people. When guy is demostrating the one inch punch, his hand can be see doing it. Two shot of two people doing the one inch punch. Close-up of hand.

Mise-en-scene: Guy sat on the couch with martial art related trophies placed in the background pulling poses we'd normally associate with it. On location, in office.

Sound: Auidence sound effects of people cheering on the person peforming the one inch punch. Film sounds. Chinese-like music played near the credits, relating to the documentary.

Editing: Snapshot, almost as if someone has took an image using a polaroid camera when demostration is showed at the beginning. Slow upwards zoom on the image that has supposedly been taken. Disolves onto next frame. Same clip at the beginning is used at the end to link together and tie up the documentary.

Archieve material: Demostration from August showing the one inch punch in action. Image of Bruce Lee. Film in which Bruce Lee is in. Diagram of how the one inch punch works. Kill Bill footage. Video game footage.

Graphics: Basic white on black font, contrasts each other and can be read clearly. Simple font, doesn't relate to the subject matter. The name caption is put onto a transparent black strip with a white font so that the bottom half of the interviewer isn't blocked out. The proffesion is placed beneath the name.

Documentary Analysis - Lara Croft: That Thing

Type of doc: Mixed, interviews, observations, cutaways, voice over.


Themes: Games industry, idols, sex appeal, film, virtuality vs fiction, media, girl power.


Narrative structure: Virtual and reality of Lara Croft, linear. Beginning - Introduction to character, who is she? Middle - Determing the games to the film, idolising, AJ. End - Ties up opinions of character, demale attraction. Women want to be her.


Camerawork: Pan of computers, people playing the game, surverying how many people play. Zoooms on websites, mid-shots, close-ups of people on computers. Track and crane, computers, static camera, alternative, focused on important people. Tilt shot down stairs, canted, over the shoulder shots. Panning shot around Lara Croft.


Mise-en-scene: Game playing in the background, flowery blue background for intro. Computers, studio. Editing, projection on faces, relevant, creator on computer screen.


Sound: Madonna music played when female idols are mentioned. Diegectic, non-diegetic. game soundtrack? Sound effects of gun shots. Ftting music. Techno, signifies the intensity.


Editing: Montague of magazines, shot-reverse-shot, fast motion, green screen, cutaways, play button for guy on screen.


Archieve material: Game, footage, film footage, intervie with AJ. Barbie, magazine, internet, Nike advert.


Graphics: White on simple, off center.

Documentary Analysis - Marketing Movies

Type of documentary: Mixed documentary, interviews, observations, footage on location.


Themes: Advertising, marketing, audiences.


Narrative structure: Stratergies to marketing a film. Middle, merchandise, unsuccessful. Audience, decisions. End, industry, Mouse Hunt.


Camerawork: Zooms on badges, extreme close-ups of tickets, cups, merchandise, pans of cutaways, high angle of celebrities.


Mise-en-scene: Posters, relevant. Babe, Little Mermaid, Mouse Hunt. Location footage. Permiers, film, merchandise, Disney shop. People shopping. Man editing trailers.


Sound: Diegetic. Voice over, too official, led into what happened next. Movies trailers, cups ambient, natural sound.


Editing: Cutaways shots, slow paced, educational, explaination, not problematic. Intercut, left and right. Meaning on both sides.


Archieve material: Lion King, Mouse Hunt, Little Mermaid, premiere, Lost World.


Graphics: White on black, name and proffesion, money, super emposed. Diagrams, 3 part structure.

Documentary Analysis - The Devil Made Me Do It

Type of documentary: Mixed documentary, as it includes observation, voice over, interview, vox pops, cutaways, etc.


Themes: Death, religion, media, crime, music industry, youth, stereotypes.


Narrative structure: Linear. In the beginning, the audience are asked who killed the nun and who did it? The middle introduces the puppet master, Marylin Manson, as a bad influence. At the end, it's tied up in an equalibrilm. Everything is back to normal, resolved and out of the way.


Camerawork: Establishing shot on town which is made vunerable and peaceful. A place where the auidence would not expect such events to happen. Close-ups of expression as the media are inquiring information in order to see reactions. Mid-shot of interviewees to show their facial and body expression. Canted shot unerves the auidence during reconstructions, imitating the nun as she has fallen to the floor, dying. High angles, looking down on Marylin Manson, displaying his power to his fans. Two-shot in groups, interacting and socialising. Implies they are close and share the same opinion as each other about Mayrlin Manson. Static camera. Handheld frantics.


Mise-en-scene: Set on location, relevant. Places such as a house, jobs/offices, in comfort to these people. The opposing side was dressed in red, stood out contrasting the auidence that were at Marylin Manson's concert who were wearing black, imples she is against Manson. Stages, concerts, dressing room, all a comfort zone to Mayrlin. Teenagers in bedrooms. Couples on couches. Tiny town, peaceful. Man selling posters and Manson merchandise.


Sound: Diegetic/non diegetic. Sound effects like church bells, phones, slamming, heartbeats, create suspense in death/killing reconstruction. Religious hymms contrasting Marylin Manson songs. Voice over, narrative was calm and informative. Confessions of girls was acted out. Lyrics support provoking the girls.


Editing: Shot-reverse-shot, displaying baised opinions, not supporting one side more than another. Marylin Manson and woman expression, contrast. Fast paced, on crowds perhaps show the adrenaline. Slow paced during killing/confessions. Match on action. Static camera, long takes imply how long the killing took. Pan of darkened town. Canted, blurred. Slow-motion makes out the nun was very vunerable.


Archive material: Concert footage. Confessions. re-constructions. Funeral. News. Religious concerts. Supports.



Graphics: White graphics, serious matter. Gothic. Styled on back background. Contrasts.

This screenshot shows the caption in which the reconstruction was acted out. The slow pan across the town makes it seem vunerable and mimics the long death.


The begininng shows a fan of Marylin Manson putting their finger up at the camera which may suggest the influence he had on the girls as well as all his other fans.

Graphics were used to make clear to the viewer what the lyrics were. Using white, it contrasted the background behind.

Treatment of a Documentary

The purpose of documentary is to document an event. It must be done with evidence and actual footage, relevantly. Definition of documentary: problematic, as they can resemble truth though be fictitious. Therefore documentaries should be questioned if they are 'real'.



"What distinguishes documentary is the portrayal of the recorded, sounds and images of actuality." -- John Corner 1995.


Some documentaries are staged, where construction takes place. Some don't have to analyse and can be descriptive. They should leave the auidence/viewer with opinion after watching. It has been defined by the John Grierson in 1930's and GPO (general post office), who coined the term documentary in 1926. Definition: Creative treatment of actuality. It has solved many house problems such as CoalFace, 1935. At first, there was only cinema audiences because there was no televisions at the time. Documentaries give the opportunity to glimpse into lives of others and have an understanding which was a boost morale in war times. The government invested internet.

Scheduling documentaries and positioning them is tricky. Paranormama is the meaning of commanding a prime time slot as the audience. Documentaries offer balanced points of view where the audience is made to make up their mind. Journalism and the view of government and society changed creative treatment of actuality. Creativity and authenticty is important, a lot of documantaries have failed due to camera angles as the angles determine sides of raw footage.





"Truth is what you actually come away with at the end of seeing the film. I mean, it's your truth that you're seeing. Everybody who makes a film is putting their own truth on screen." -- Diane Tammes, film maker.


People argue over the true documentary. There are sub genres in documentary but everyone agrees on recorded image, sound and actual reality shoule be included. A deep analysis varies from 30 mins, any longer and it is then a current affair. Elements/ingredients: observations, mise-en-scene, interview, expostion, dramatision. Observation is pretending the camera isn't there and ignored, working as the eyewitness, witness to the event happening. Interviews can contrast observation. Relating images alongside an interview support the documentary and can be used to make sense. Usually done in two days and rarely full flowing. Segments. Voxpops is the voice of people. Dramatisation is where the audience is witness. Naturally, reconstructions are based on exposition. Mise-en-scene makes the drama to unfold and the audience is the argument of exposistion. Exposistion is the line of arugement, description and combined documentary, as if what the documentary is trying to say. Plain or direct, indirect or hidden. Narrator tells the auidence what to think, relying on observation. Current affairs are programmes on shorter deadlines and often move fast but can take months to make. Public has reasons. Documentaries changed laws and legislation. Jen Loach's documentary, Cathy Come Home (BBC 1966), improved conditions of the homeless. Documentary makers deeply organise fairness of society.





"It is critical that film makers be rid of fantasy of unproblematic represntation on of reality and truth, dispensed and received like valuim." -- Dennis O'Rourke.

Truth and reality can be confliction attract counter claims or lies. Corner believes evidence rather than truth. Physical world involves evidence of actuality or reality, evidence to support exposition. Played out with witness that fight for ones side of the story, not the other and represents a transformed world. Documentaries to cut commercial channels finds money. Ratings winners would include sex, law and order, violence. Not popular with controversia are not popular with TV networks as they offend. Three way process in which documentaries are aimed at, people in the documentary and the reaction of documentary being watched after. Often about victims unable to defend themselves, using humans as evidence. Big Brother, loosly connects with the idea.
Types of doumentary: Fully narrated, with direct address, voice over for expostion aka, the "voice of God." Fly on the wall, all cinemaverite, relying on observation.  The editing creates meaning and order. Mixed documentary includes observation, etc. Audience is made to argue in contrast with "voice of God." This represents objective reality and not selection contrustion, being self-relaxive, speaking to the film-maker. Draws attention to destruction and reality. Film for subjects have narrisism.

Docudrama is the re-enactments of events.
Examples include, Hilsborough by Jimmy McGovern.


There is truth, only hope that represents fiction. These can be mis-leading and dangeous because they are based on facts. Docusoaps evolve around occupations, airport, e.g. Katie Price. Evesdropping on popular events, orginated in the UK. The channels are cheap to make on location. Disneyfication, in which Steve Barrentt discovered was the means of watering down the genre with quality. Narractive was important, creative and story. Structure consists of a beginning, setting up, strong footage, persuasive. Middle, examines conflict, complications. End, fully apparent, no doubts in what has been said. Techniques within framing and questions, etc. Music and sound effects, fitting. Editing tells a story. Mise-en-scene relates to the subject matter.