Interviews

Both these interviews were based on the questionnaire we contrusted.

Research

Our primary research consists of interviews with someone who is affected by their phobia so much that it stops them from leaving the house, a counsellor and a psychiatrist as these people have first hand experiences with phobias and know first hand how they are affected by them and why they are affected by them.

Our secondary research consists of archive footage from video game trailers such as dead space and F.E.A.R as we thought that sometimes phobias can stem from things that don't really exist and facts from the various websites in our research records to help us find out how phobias affect people, why and how they develop as well as what the most common phobias in Britain are, we also used images from Google of the most common fears in the UK such as spiders, clowns, snails, etc. For the newspaper cutaway, a still template was found on Google and edited onto with primary graphics and facts.  

Formal Proposal

The topic we decided to choose was from a range of ideas including house pets, fast food, tattoos, phobias and piercings. After brainstorming and discussing reasons for and against, we decided that phobias would be the most interesting topic for our documentary. The main reason we chose pobias because it appeals to most people simply because they have a phobia of some sort.The type of documentary is a mixed documentary. The channel we chose is channel 4 because it shows a large amount of documentaries such as dispatches, so people expect to watch a documentary on this channel. We wanted our documentary to show on a Monday at 8:00 because we feel this is a free slot with little competition from other documentaries and when we looked at the most common time people watch T.V. on a Monday we discover it was between 7 and 9. The target audience we think would be most interested is age 16-30 this is simply because we feel the documentary has a mature theme but will appeal to a wide range audience. For our documentary we will need a good amount of facts on phobias such as how many people in the U.K. are scared of spiders, how many people suffer from phobias in the U.K. and why most phobias develop including primeval phobias. We will definitely need to interview people with strange phobias and even people with normal phobias, it would also help maintain interest in our documentary if we confront people with their phobias and get a great reaction shot of them scared. If we had enough time it would be great if we could help someone overcome their phobia, this would add a great story line to the documentary but it would take a long time for someone to overcome their fear. We could also ask people why they think they have developed their phobias and then narrate all the facts as to why people develop them. The documentary running time is 27 minutes the reason for this is we feel an hour would be too long for this topic as everything that’s important we will cover in the 27 minutes. The people we would like to interview vary from a doctor with some insight on why phobias exist, people who are effected by phobias, someone who works with tarantulas at a pet store, someone who works at go ape that has first hand experience of people with a phobia of heights and perhaps get Fay to meet face to face with a snail! We will definitely need to film a tarantula but I am aware of a pet shop we could visit to get some footage of the eight legged fur ball. We will probably have the interview over lapping instead of just a five minute interview with one person and then the next; this should help maintain interest and quality for our documentary. Some of the props we could use are that persons phobia if possible and perhaps interview someone in front of the green screen ask them a question about an experience with their phobia and then react it and have the video playing in the background with the person narrating what happened almost like a crime investigation but this could either be for comedy if that persons phobia isn’t serious or for a more serious phobia. The music should influence fear into the audience with screams in the background and generally dark music if the phobia is one that most people have a fear of. But I feel we could have upbeat sections as phobias might be scary to that person but for everyone watching they will be amusing depending on the significance of the phobia. We believe that a documentary about phobias will attract a large audience and will have a significantly appreciated content.

Location Sheets

Editing and filming diary

Tuesday 18th October, 2011: Filming started. Approximately 5 minutes was recorded that consisted of a few vox pops and two interviews, one with the college councilor and another with two college students who have a hobby of games. We got more footage than we needed to as it can be edited down to an appropiate time scale. During this day, we used the blue screen as part of our mise-en-scene relating to games, in which, we are going to add in with archieve footage later on in editing. The vox pops were filmed in a quiet meeting room in college, away from distracting/unwanted noise.

Thursday 20th October: Logging started. Footage was analysed for potential mistakes and any that shots that needed re-filming. Many of the vox pops and interviews contained problems we need to encounter such as the eye level was too high and the framing was a bit poor. Although the footage may not be used, logging was completed of what was captured.

Monday 31st October: Interviews were arranged to re-film footage that was not suitable to use. Vox pops and interviews are needed, along with the experiment.

Wednesday 2nd November: Experiment was contrusted using boxes and objects that felt like a rat and a slug were placed inside. Reactions when people put their hand in the concealed box was captured, along with a pan of the objects that are supposedly the most common fears.

Friday 9th November: More filming was done with the opening title sequence with people screaming.
Monday 13th November: Re-filming had to be done due to the fact that the college councilor was looking into the camera and not following the framing rules, which looked poor. Instead, a psychiatrist from the doctors replaced that footage.

Wednesday 15th November: Another interview with Ben's mum, who is also a psychiatrist, went towards the footage needed to support the facts included.

Thursday 16th November: Footage so far was captured and put onto the timeline in order, cut down.

Monday 20th November: A lot of the footage was poorly framed and so the interview with the two gamers was replaced with an interview with someone who is frequent with games and was afraid of Silent Hill when they were younger. Ideal for putting gaming footage behind them on blue screen.

Wednesday 22nd November: More vox pops were filmed due to bad framing.

Thursday 23rd November: Two more interviews with people explaining what they are afraid of on blue screen.

Friday 24th November: The screams were replaced with people cowering due to the fact that the camera was looked into and was too staged.

Editing progressed.

Wednesday 7th December: Not enough footage was filmed for the timeline to reach 5 minutes so a reconstruction was done.

Friday 9th December: Archive footage was gathered for the blue screen such as gameplay and also a clip of a rollercoaster since Ben's mum mentioned she is afraid of them, which links in.

Editing progressed.

Wednesday 12th December: Poster advertisement done and made.

Friday 14th December: Scripts for the radio advertisement was constructed.

Monday 19th December: Editing is almost finished for the documentary.

Wednesday 4th December: More re-filming for the construction was done because the first take was too dark. The recording for the radio advertisement completed, along with the advertisment itself. Documentary finished. Put onto YouTube/Facebook for audience feedback.

Initial Plans

As a group we had several intial ideas these being:

• Piercings
• Tattoos
• Old people
• Phobias

We decided to go with Phobias as well felt it would be not only an interesting topic for the viewers to watch but also an interesting topic for us to research and do ourselves, we also felt that this subject would be more visually stimulating and would get us a higher mark. we had other topics such as tea, coffee but we wanted phobias because we felt no one else had done this before and wanted something that was different to the other subjects and something that we felt no one else had done.

Brainstorm of Content

Location Sheet: Town

Monday, 17 October 2011

Interview questions

Do you have a phobia?

2.       How long have you had this phobia?

3.       How has this phobia affected your life?

4.       Do you have any interesting stories involving your phobia?

5.       Why do you think you have this phobia?

6.       Do you think your phobia is a primeval phobia?

7.       Does any one else in your family suffer from the same phobia?

8.       Would you like to confront your phobia?

9.       If yes how did you find this experience of confronting your phobia?

                                        Therapist Questions

1.       Do you help a large number of people suffering from phobias?

2.       Are these people able to overcome their fears?

3.       What is the strangest phobia you witnessed someone suffering from?

4.       Have you ever just told someone to get over them self’s?

Formal proposal

Formal Proposal

                                                                     

The topic we decided to choose was from a range of ideas including house pets, fast food, tattoos, phobias and piercings. After brain storming and discussing reasons for and against we decided that phobias would be the most interesting topic for our documentary. The main reason we chose phobias is because it appeals to most people simply because they have a phobia of some sort.

The type of documentary is a mixed documentary. The channel we chose is channel 4 because it shows a large amount of documentaries such as dispatches, so people expect to watch a documentary on this channel. We wanted our documentary to show on a Monday at 8:00 because we feel this is a free slot with little competition from other documentaries and when we looked at the most common time people watch T.V. on a Monday we discover it was between 7 and 9. The target audience we think would be most interested is age 16-30 this is simply because we feel the documentary has a mature theme but will appeal to a wide range audience.

 For our documentary we will need a good amount of facts on phobias such as how many people in the U.K. are scared of spiders, how many people suffer from phobias in the U.K. and why most phobias develop including primeval phobias. We will definitely need to interview people with strange phobias and even people with normal phobias, it would also help maintain interest in our documentary if we confront people with their phobias and get a great reaction shot of them scared.

If we had enough time it would be great if we could help someone overcome their phobia, this would add a great story line to the documentary but it would take a long time for someone to overcome their fear.  We could also ask people why they think they have developed their phobias and then narrate all the facts as to why people develop them.  

The documentary running time is 27 minutes the reason for this is we feel an hour would be too long for this topic as everything that’s important we will cover in the 27 minutes. The people we would like to interview vary from a doctor with some insight on why phobias exist, people who are effected by phobias, someone who works with tarantulas at a pet store, someone who works at go ape that has first hand experience of people with a phobia of heights and perhaps get Fay to meet face to face with a snail! We will definitely need to film a tarantula but I am aware of a pet shop we could visit to get some footage of the eight legged fur ball.      

We will probably have the interview over lapping instead of just a five minute interview with one person and then the next; this should help maintain interest and quality for our documentary. Some of the props we could use are that persons phobia if possible and perhaps interview someone in front of the green screen ask them a question about an experience with their phobia and then react it and have the video playing in the background with the person narrating what happened almost like a crime investigation but this could either be for comedy if that persons phobia isn’t serious or for a more serious phobia.

The music should influence fear into the audience with screams in the background and generally dark music if the phobia is one that most people have a fear of. But I feel we could have upbeat sections as phobias might be scary to that person but for everyone watching they will be amusing depending on the significance of the phobia. We believe that a documentary about phobias will attract a large audience and will have a significantly appreciated content.

Location sheets

Production group:Loretta, Fay and Ben
Production name(working title): There's a monster under my bed.
Name of Location: Doctors/counsellors office
Health and safety issues: Any liquids near electrical equipment, loose wires that can be tripped on, objects that can be bumped into, any unwanted public attention.
Date of filming: 18th of October.



Production group:Loretta,Fay and Ben
Production name:There's a monster under my bed.
Name of location: Priestley college
Health and safety issues: Any liquids near elecetricals, loose wires that can bbe tripped upon objects that can be bumped into.
Date of filming:18th of October.

Production group:Loretta, Fay and Ben
Production name(woking title): There's a monster under my bed.
Name of location: The fountain in Town
Health and safety issues: water going on equipment, people walking into our shots and into equipment, loose wires causing people to trip.
Date of filming:18th of October.

Location Sheet: Priestley College

Production group:Loretta,Fay and Ben
Production name:There's a monster under my bed.
Name of location: Priestley college
Health and safety issues: Any liquids near elecetricals, loose wires that can bbe tripped upon objects that can be bumped into.
Date of filming:18th of October.

Location Sheet: Doctors Office

Production group:Loretta, Fay and Ben
Production name(working title): There's a monster under my bed.
Name of Location: Doctors/counsellors office
Health and safety issues: Any liquids near electrical equipment, loose wires that can be tripped on, objects that can be bumped into, any unwanted public attention.
Date of filming: 18th of October.

Interview Questions

1.       Do you have a phobia?

2.       How long have you had this phobia?

3.       How has this phobia affected your life?

4.       Do you have any interesting stories involving your phobia?

5.       Why do you think you have this phobia?

6.       Do you think your phobia is a primeval phobia?

7.       Does any one else in your family suffer from the same phobia?

8.       Would you like to confront your phobia?

9.       If yes how did you find this experience of confronting your phobia?
Therapist Questions

1.        Do you help a large number of people suffering from phobias?2.       Are these people able to overcome their fears?3.       What is the strangest phobia you witnessed someone suffering from?4.       Have you ever just told someone to get over themselves?

Opening Titles Storyboard

Running Order

Research

Information source?  What information did you select from this source?   Why did you select this information?
phobialist.com | Accurate names of phobias | To find people with these phobias, if possible
wikipedia.org/wiki/phobia | Definintion of phobias. The science behind it. | Useful for an introduction
Maury Povich | Reactions that people have | To expect their reaction if we were to film someone
// | Reactions that people have | Useful, related content
10 most common phobias | Spiders, being judged, flying, anxiety, enclosed spaces, vomitting, cancer, thunderstorms, death | Facts to help support documentary
http://www.hypnotheraphykettering.co.uk/ | How phobias can be treated | Could be used to film someone confronting their fear/phobia
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/48376660.stm | Facts/statistics about phobias | Supports information
phobias-help.com/phobia_statistics.html | Whether women have more phobias than men | Who would be suitable to film
National Geographic (YouTube) | Professional help, serious treatment | Where informatiuon can be found, professionally
Frankfuiedi.com | Where the term phobia established in the 18th Century | Record of how long people have suffered from phobias
wikianswers.com | Where phobias came from | Introduction information
kidshealth.org | What age you can be to develop phobias | Inform our auidence
about.com | Are phobias real or made up by the media? | Ask auidence
disabled-world.com | Sme phobias are genetic influences| Ask auidence who experiences these
yahoo.answers | Death by phobia shocks | Inform audience about shocks

Questionnaire Graphs

This graphs shows that even though ITV is the most popular, favourited channel by the audience, we decided that Channel 4 would be more suitable for an educational documentary about phobias.

This graph shows that font 3 was favourited by the auidence and should be used in order to engage the viewers when the opening titles/introduction caption to people is put up on screen.

This graphs shows that most people are scared of their phobia on a scale of 8, whereas, 10 follows behind along with 1 and 2. This information would help us to film people who are most scared of their phobia to get the best reactions.

This graph shows that a large majority of females have taken our questionnaire and responded with the question so females would be more suitable to film.

 

This graph shows that the large majority of people who answered our questionnaire aged from 16-21 and would be useful to film people of this age to get the best interviews. We should also consider the 39 or over aged people as research shows that old people are most vunerable.

This graph shows that red should be used in order to engage our audience through the graphics and would associate with phobias well.

This graph shows that a serious voice over would be suitable to narrate this documentary as it might be considered a serious matter to some people of the audience. We may want to use a sympathic too, just to variate.

This graph shows that interesting clips would engage the audience in watching our documentary and keep a constant viewing numbers.

This graph shows that some people do fear going out the house because of their phobia and could be useful information for if we wish to film someone with this condition.

This graph shows that most people could overcome their fear with professional help if given, we could film someone going through the progress throughout the whole documentary and see the results.

This graph shows that most people would laugh if they saw someone react to their phobia and could contrast clips of the actual reactions.

This graph shows that spiders is the most common phobia in which people we questioned. We should expect that most people we do interview, would be scared of spiders.