Storyboard {1st Draft} - Finnlea Murphy

Diary- Finnlea Murphy

23/09/14:

We started our blog about our documentary. At the moment we have just had lesson on the background research about documentary styles. This helps obviously gain knowledge and give inspiration for the documentary we would like to create.

25/09/14:

We discussed ideas for our documentary. We went from 10 to 4 to now finally having one. The twist on our idea is that we are not going to have a question that most other documentaries may have. We, simply will have a title, by doing this it will give us a wider variety of things we can discuss in our documentary. I feel confident about the idea as we are discussing body confidence and I think a lot of people have different opinions on body confidence.

26/09/14:

I decided to do some individual primary research linking our idea about body shapes and fashion together , I thought a simple observation exercise would not only give me knowledge on how fashion effects body types but also give us some research. This could also be a useful way to get ideas for questions as we can link it in with our vox pops.

02/10/14:

Today we went on a 'Location Recce' this basically means scouting for places that we could possibly film parts of our documentary. I feel this helped our group to understand and thoroughly think about where we can see our documentary being based and help us decided what we think would look professional and the most appealing. A main worry of mine is that we may use the lecture hall to interview vox pops. I think this may look slightly unnatural and as there are alot of bold colours in the room it may take the attention away from the person being interviewed.
I also created a pilot questionnaire to hand out to a few people in order to see if our questions are understood.

06/10/14:

I handed our questionnaire out to five people who attend college. I collected the data, analysed it and set it our in a pie cart form. Our three questions gave us answers but we could use more detail so now I know to improve and add a few open questions into our real questionnaire.

09/10/14:

Today we evaluted the information and research we had on our blog. Me and Maddie added alot more thorough information to our posts and also added what we thought we needed.

10/10/14:

I created the story board from what we discussed as a group. I tried to remember as much as possible but I feel it needs a lot more detail.

To improve this i will look in detail in which i think will create a professional documentary

Setting up the Tri-Pod - Maddie Collins

Before we have started to film our documentary, we decided to practice setting up the equipment correctly. We did this so that our footage was the best it could be and we practiced balancing the spirit level so the camera would be straight. Each of us set up the tri-pod, took a photo then put the tri-pod back down. This is useful as we all now have thorough knowledge on how to set it up and take it down correctly for when we film our documentary. By doing this we have each learnt different skills on how to set it up and take it down correctly which is beneficial to our filming for the documentary because we didn't spend ages trying to set it up.this would have given us a loss of actual filming time and getting footage. 

Unclip the clips on the outside of the tripod. 

Pull the tripod up whilst keeping your foot on the bottom part of the tripod to keep it steady.

Once the tripod is pulled up to your desired height, make sure all of the clips are secure.

Take off the base plate and screw it to the bottom of the camera that you are going to use.

Then slide the base plate back onto the tripod.

After you have done this, you need to make sure that the spirit level is correct so your camera is straight and you will get the best shot which is level. 

Your tripod and camera are both then set up and ready to use!

To take the tripod down, you have to remove the camera off of the base plate and put it back onto the tripod. 

Unclip the clips on the tripod, pull up the middle part of it and then slide the tripod back down to the shortest height it can be.

After you have done this, make sure the clips are secure. 

Shot Types - Maddie Collins

Codes and conventions of Interviews - Billy Green

Vox Pop Questions - Maddie Collins

These are the questions that we are going to ask our vox pops. We are asking these questions to gain more knowledge on what our target audience generally think about body confidence and how it affect different aspects of their lives. We are also finding out what influences their body confidence and what their idea of 'perfection' and 'beauty' is. We are going to include snippets of each answer in our documentary.

We feel that these questions are suitable for our target audience of 16-21 year olds. By asking these vox pop questions we are going to create meaning within our documentary. We are doing this by representing most teenagers as having a lack of body confidence and feel that this will show to the audience through the answers we will most likely get from these questions. By showing this to the audience it educates them further on the subject and makes them more aware of this regular thing that is happening at schools, colleges, and universities. These questions also touch on the subjects of bullying and the influence on body confidence through celebrities. 

             

Pilot questionnaire result data- Finnlea Murphy

We decided to create a pilot questionnaire to see if people understood our idea of body confidence for a documentary. We also wanted to see if the documentary suited the target audience we were aiming for and if it was easy to express feelings towards the idea.

We asked five people ages 17-18 within The Sixth Form College Solihull three pilot questions to see what their answers were.

We did this task to ensure our ideas for the genre of our documentary made complete sense to the audience and was interesting and educational. I feel this helps us to choose what path we would like to go down with the types of questions we may ask our vox pops and experts. 

Research and Analysis on Body Confidence - Maddie Collins

Pilot Questionnaire - Finnlea Murphy

How old are you?

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Is body confidence something that affects you?

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Would you say you have body confidence?

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We decided to test our questionnaire out on a couple of people in our class to see if the overall idea of the genre of the questionnaire is understood. As our documentary is about body confidence, we need to see what our audience feels about the genre of our documentary.   

The purpose of creating a pilot questionnaire is so we get evidence that our target audience understand the questions being asked and so we collect the correct amount of information. We can apply the information we collect to our documentary by making a further questionnaire to give to a larger amount of people and collect the data to help towards the making of our documentary. I can say that i feel body confidence is the main subject for our documentary and the genre is still very educational and entertaining.  

Location Recce Photos - Finnlea Murphy