Plenary

27.02.12

Lessons 1 & 2:

• The beginning of my documentary is completed. It shows Bhangra Heads journey through "Got To Dance"

Lesson 3:

• In this lesson I was able to teach year 8s about what a documentary is, what it entails and how it needs to be done. I have learned that pre-production is very important, the planning needs to be thought through in order to achieve a good quality documentary.

Structure for Documentary

The documentary will begin with footage of Got To Dance, the rehearsals, the interviews, the final performance and how it all built up.

It will then move onto the rehearsals for Britain's Got Talent, how hard Bhangra Heads have been working and how difficult is to juggle everything about. Footage of rehearsals and interviews with the leader will be shot and then the e-mail/phone call will say that there isn't a slot available to be able to audition. This will bring the group down and be a disappointment.

A phone call will then be made from someone from Belfast asking us to go over to their Holi Festival to perform. This will be the upside to the documentary, that they have the opportunity to be able to go to Ireland to perform. The documentary will then end with footage of the Belfast performance.

The Interviews

Throughout the documentary the interviews are going to be unstructured. So there aren't going to be set questions to ask. However the sort of questions that I will be asking are about the producers life, how he got into music, how he met his manager, how well his music/videos are going, what he hopes to achieve etc. Same with the manager, how they met, what is he doing as well as managing the producer etc.

Influences

These behind the scenes of video shoots have inspired me to make a documentary about and like them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiS8NW8aN3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYdA9pgf_FE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvAb0foxbJM 

Pre-Production:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBAJKRT94k

Mise En Scene

• Clothing
• Props
• Make-up
• Effects

The mise en scene for this documentary won't be set, for example all the clothes and props will already be there because I would be filming natural settings. The make-up will be done on the people who will be participating in the video otherwise that'll be natural too. The effects that will be used will be making the photographs look like the people in them is motion picture rather than images (burst).

Treatment

Specific shots:

• slideshow with photos
• groups of all the people that are present
• burst- shows motion with only images 
• point of view
• "home-made" feel to documentary (webcam usage - personal diary)

Treatment: 
This documentary will consist of the pre-production and steps taken to create a good video, it will be based around the producer and his manager and what they have to go through. This video will be taken of everyone that is involved in the video shoot, and of the main people that do all the work leading up to the shoot. Scenes will consist of how the producer got into the Bhangra industry, how he made his album, how he got hold of his manager etc. Then the managers story will come into it and then the actual work will be recorded leading up to the final video. To see the producers pre-production work I wanted it to look like he himself has recorded it on a normal camera telling the audience what he's doing and what he hopes to achieve and same with the manager (like a personal diary). Throughout the documentary locations will be shown, music will be played, and it may also consist of voice overs. The documentary will end with the slideshow of images with the producers track, eventually showing the credits which will consist of everyone who was involved in the documentary. There will also be emphasis on the dancing that will be in the final video, how the camera captures the movements, where they're positions, the formations that they have etc.Have a few question and answer interviews with random people, their opinion on music videos and whether they think that they're easy to make, what makes a good music video etc?

20/02/12

Second documentary idea:

The documentary that will be produced will be about Bhangra Heads and will focus on the leader of the group (majority of the time - main speaker). How he balances his life out, what is he doing other than Bhangra Heads etc. It will also focus on the development for Britain's Got Talent and how they called for Bhangra Heads to audition and then later on saying that there wasn't a slot. This will be a disappointment but then they will get another phone call asking to go over to Belfast for the first tour outside of the UK to perform at a Holi festival and the documentary will then finish with footage from the perfoamnce in Belfast. 

Holloway Prison

Mode:
his documentary has a EXPOSITORY and OBSERVATIONAL mode. This is because it exposes factual information to the public and the filmmaker is just looking at what is going on and isn't participating or having influence on what is being recorded.

Narrative:
The story behind this documentary is showing how female 18-23 year olds cope in prison and the effects it has had on them. It tells the audience how they got there in the first place and their individual stories within the documentary.
 
Construction:
This documentary was made by the filmmaker following the police and following the prisoners throughout the day within the prison. This shows how they're living and in what conditions.

What's the purpose?

It makes people who are watching it appreciate what they have in life and hope that they never have to go through what some of the individuals are going through. I think it's purpose is to show that they have suitable prisons where they're getting punished effectively. 

Who's the audience?

Mainly teenagers, but the audience for this can be anyone because it's information that anyone would want to know.