Planning and storyboarding the documentary

For the five minutes of our documentary that we are going to film we wanted to ensure that the topic was well introduced and that the content was interesting enough to draw the viewer in.
We decided to include vox pops and three interviews with relevant cutaways.
The vox pops will be filmed in Liverpool, to insure that we interview a variety of people.
The first interview will be with a hairdresser/beautician. This will be filmed in their salon. we shall also film cutaways of products.
The second interview is with someone who does male grooming. We will film them in their bedroom, with all of their grooming products behind them. The cutaways for this will be of his products and him using them.
The next interview will be with two older people (grandparents) to get the history of male grooming and a different generation's point of view. For this, we will use clips from old films and stills of old photographs for cutaways.
The final interview is with someone who doesn't do male grooming. He shall be filmed on his bed, infront of a wall with posters of. The cutaways for this will be him on his computer, the posters on the wall and his room.
We will film the two men getting ready to show how different they are. This will help create conflict.

Running Order

Research into male grooming

Formal Proposal

Questionairre results analysis

Questionnaire

Brainstorm of Content.

• Interviews with people who do male grooming
• Interviews with people who don't do male grooming.
• Interviews with professional hairdresser/beautician.
• History of male grooming: Interview with older people (grandparents) about what male grooming used to be like, what they think of it now.
• Look at different social groups that do male grooming, E.G Mods and Punks.
• Vox pops in Liverpool, range of different people. Ask their opinions on male grooming.
• Film some one who does male grooming getting ready for a night out.
• Film some one who doesn't do male grooming getting ready for a night out.
• Opening sequence: Write male grooming in shaving foam/hair gel on a mirror. Have the word 'uncovered' burst through the mirror (use photoshop to make it look cracked.)
• Songs: Nature Boy - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. All the Girls- Calvin Harris.
• Cutaways: Products, people getting ready, clothes, their bed rooms.
• Archive footage: Elbow video (Grounds for Divorce), Marilyn Monroe film, The Only Way is Essex.

Initial Plans for the documentary

Topic: Male Grooming.
A look at male grooming. With opposing views of men who do and don't do male grooming and their friend's and girlfriend's opinions. 
Target audience: 16-25 years old.
Channel: BBC3.
Time: 8.30pm.
Title: Male Grooming: Uncovered.

Ideas for the Documentary.

- Sport.
- Toys.
- Jobs.
- Liverpool.
- Fashion: Jewelry, shoes, clothes.
- Tattoos.
- Food: Fast food, healthy food, diets.
- Relationships/friendship.
- Local radio.
- Mods: Liverpool Mods, Mod history.
- Music.
- Makeup.
- Education.
- Pets/animals.
- TV/Film.
- Hobbies.
- Glasses.

TV Scheduling.

In terms of scheduling, the day is split into three segments. These segements are morning, afternoon and night. 
The morning segment includes breakfast shows and news. This programming is fast paced but the content is relaxed, thus allowing people to wake up easily. This type of programming is aimed towards people who are up early to go to work or school.
Afternoon television is made up of children’s programmes, game shows and antique shows. This segment is aimed at people who do not work or go to school, such as young children and older people. 
Night time television, especially the programmes on after the watershed are for an adult audience as they may contain swearing, sexual scenes, drug use and violence. The watershed is after 9pm and is the time in which programmes that are seen to show adult content, as stated above, are shown.

Moving onto popular channels and the types of programmes found on them. The BBC is a public service broadcaster, therefore BBC One and Two show programmes to cater to every need. For example, in the morning they have Breakfast, in the afternoon they have Antiques road show and CBBC and in the evening they have more adult programmes such as Waking the Dead.
ITV1 is mainly a family channel. This is reflected specifically in their weekend programming as they air variety programmes such as Britains Got Talent and The X Factor. 
Channel 4 has a younger audience, this is reflected in their evening programming through programmes such as Skins and Fresh Meat (focused around groups of young people.)
Channel 5 appears to have a target audience of mainly older men. I believe this is true as many of their programmes are about stereotypically male interest. For example, their evening programming includes Cowboy Builders and their afternoon programming includes The Gadget Show.

Channel 5 shows the most reruns, especially during their day time programming. Although, Channel 4 has recently launched a new channel, Four 7, which is exclusively for showing reruns of the last weeks most popular shows.

Channel 4 and its sister channels show the most import programmes. Channel 4 recently airred popular American shows The Killing and Homeland. E4 shows alot of American sit-coms, such as 2 Broke Girls and New Girl.

In terms of scheduling a new programme, there are two techniques that are used to attract viewers.
Pre-echoing is when a new programme is scheduled before a popular programme, so people tuning in for the popular programme may catch the end of the new programme and want to watch the next episode.
Hammocking is when a new programme is scheduled between two already popular shows. People may catch the begining after watching the programme before hand and be drawn in to watch the rest of the programme. People may also not bother turning a channel over if they are going to watch the next popular programme. 

New technologies have effected the way in which scheduling attracts an audience. Firstly, remotecontrols mean that nobody has to get up to change the channel so they are more likely to watch something they know they like and turn off as soon as it’s over, therefore they will not see any of the new programme. On the other hand, they may catch a new programme whilst channel surfing and continue watching it. Secondly, computers, tablets and smart phones have effected the way in which we watch television as we don’t actually need to sit down and watch the programme whilst it is on as we can use i-players or apps such as Sky Go to watch them on the go or later on.

'It's Good to Talk' finished task.

Evaluation of 'It's Good to Talk'.

There were several things we need to improve on when it comes to the coursework documentary tasks.
- The camera work was shaky so we need to use a tripod.
- We recycled several cut-aways so we need to film more cutaways and make sure they are relevant to what is being said in the interview.
- We were unorganized, which effected the quality of our work, so we need to plan more efficiently.

Despite these points, there was several good points to our documentary. We chose the correct mise-en-scene for the interview, which was also framed well. We also chose a appropriate peice of music for our music bed.




- Our mise-en-scene for the interview was appropriate.
- The interview was framed correctly.
- We chose a good song for our music bed.

Editing 'It's Good to Talk'

This is the first time anyone in my group had edited something like this. We had to edit out the questions being asked during the interview and replace them with the apropriate cutaways we had filmed. We also had to edit down the cutaways as some were too long and some had mistakes on.
After editing the video clips, we added a music bed. We had it playing throughout the entire documentary, but had to editing the audio levels to ensure that the music wasn't louder than the speaker.

Filming 'It's Good to Talk'.

We filmed the interview in the media technology room as we had planned. We ensured that the interviewee was framed in a medium close up towards the left side of the screen, facing the interviewer not the camera and with her eye line roughly 1/3 of the way down the screen.
The cut-aways were filmed in several locations throughout the school; The corridors, a break-out area and the court yard. We were unable to film several of our planned cut-aways because we did not have the appropriate props.

Planning 'It's Good to Talk'.

For the preliminary task I was in a group of three.
We decided to interview one of the assistants in the media technology room as it seemed appropriate to the theme of the documentary (mobile phones) because they work with technology all day.
In terms of mise-en-scene, we chose to conduct the interview in front of a computer screen with the Carphone Warehouse website on.

The cutaways we planned to use were:
- Someone using a computer to manage their phone accound online: midshot.
- Phone boxes piling up (stop animation.): Low angle.
- Someone texting: Mid shot/ over the shoulder close up.
- Someone listening to music on their phone: Close up.
- Someone making a call: Close up.
- Someone walking outside, using the phone: Extreme long shot.
- Someone looking at a timeline of mobile phone history on the computer: Arc shot.
- Landline phone ringing: Closeup.
-Someone sat at their desk looking at a landline phone: Long shot (black and white)
- Apps menu on a mobile phone: Zoom in shot.

We planned to film our documentary in the media equiptment room, breakout areas, the courtyard and corridors.

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