Task Checklist

Wednesday 12th December 2012

Alex & Andrew - Period 2, 3 & 4:

• Finalise fonts to be used for the credits
• Look over current footage
• Decide what footage to be used and what to be removed
• Decide remainder of footage that needs to be shot

Thursday 13th December 2012

All - Period 2 & 7:

• Organise main questions on paper to create documentary template
• Work out a solid progression for the documentary

Monday 17th December 2012

Andrew, Anthony & Alex - Period 2

• Conduct and film focus group

Tuesday 18th December 2012

All - Period 1

• Complete rough edit of footage with blanks (Alex)
• Create a list of what we need Ruth to record in Africa over holidays

Thursday 24th January 2013

All - Period 2 & Period 7

• Review Ruth's footage
• Fill in the blanks with Ruth's footage
• Record voice-over

Things needed within our documentary!

Contrasting footage:

• Anthony Studying= Cousin not having good facilities
• Sophie in the Theater= a child dancing in the street
• Culture= life in London

1. Car journey
2. airport shots+ departure & arrival (film inside)
3. People welcoming us (singing and dancing)
4. Africa- Market, cars driving etc.
5. Interview my cousin

Updated Shot List

Location 1 CONGO, KINSHASA

Location 2 CENTRAL YMCA CLUB 112 GREAT RUSSELL STREET LONDON WC1B 3NQ

Location 3 LEA ROWING CLUB SPRING HILL, CLAPTON LONDON E5 9BL

Location 4 MOSSBOURNE COMMUNITY ACADEMY 100 DOWNS ROAD LONDON, HACKNEY E5 8JY

Location 5 OXFORD STREET LONDON W1C

Location 6 HEATHROW AIRPORT CROYDON ROAD, HILLINGDIN GREATER LONDON TW6 1AP

Location	Day	INT/EXT	Set/Synopsis	D/N
1	2	EXT	Establishing shot of people walking streets	D
1	3	EXT	Establishing shot of the local market	D
1	5	INT	Medium shot: film my cousin; interview	D
6	1	INT	Long shot/Low Angle shot: Film the departure and arrival times	N
6/1	1	EXT	Bird’s eye view: Filming my departure from London and landing in Congo	N
5	12	EXT	Establishing shot of people walking	D
3	15	INT	Anthony rowing on the machines	N
3	16	EXT	Anthony in the water rowing	D/N
2	17	EXT	Filming Sophie’s daily life	D
4	15	INT	Film interview with Oxbridge candidate (Sam Wratten)	D
1	5	EXT	Close up shot: Cousins reaction to answering questions	D
4	15	INT	Filming Anthony in lesson	D

Shot List

Establishing shot in Africa:

• People walking 
• Local market 
• Local enviroment
• Houses 
• Caring for families etc.

Establishing shot in London:

• Youtube
• People walking 
• Local enviroment

Long shots:

• surroundings of both countries (Cousin's surroundings-house etc., Anthony- School, Training etc. & Airport departures) 

Bird's eye view:

• Airplane arriving in Africa (see land)

Close up shots:

• Cousin's reaction to answering questions- triggering an emotion

Medium shots:

• interviews

Match on action:

• Juxtaposition of child in Africa picking up something to Anthony picking up his school bag

Support and advise for mistakes my team has alrady made

Our Mistakes

• miscommunication
• lack of care for our documentary
• understanding what we wanted from our documentary
• not following the treatment
• different people in the group wanting different things

Support and advise before shooting:

•  reseach
• create a list
• write a "shooting script"
• get creatice

Support and advise after shooting is complete:

• log your tapes- log and catergorize the pieces in the puzzle
• review the BIG picture- main element
• create scenes
• build a roller coaster- powerful moment in my documentary
• villain/hero- person, thing or event
• Beginning, Middle and End
• the ending start strong - core message, create curiosity
• what's in the middle
• script template

Documentary Voiceovers and Titles/Credits

Voiceovers:

• "Mission to explain"- main aim of a voiceover to help uncover the "story"
• 'The story is shaped in shooting and editing in response to what is discovered or uncovered, and then any final voiceover would have be written'- the voiceover is able to change the whole aspect of the documentary in some ways making the documentary more subjective than objective
• Facilities- the voiceover will be done in school: the school recording studio   
• Voiceover would have to be written at the end- because we wont know what will come from the editing we therefore need to wait in order to see the finishing product
• Voiceover prior to shooting anything else pulls the piece together
• Voiceover considered a primary tool- something that has to be perfect along with timing  

Is your type of documentary suited to any voiceover at all? 
Our documentary will require a voiceover in between the main subjects talking where we can then use this time to ask the audience questions and what we are able to learn so far/voiceover person. This therefore makes our mode of documentary expository rather than performative or it could be a collection of both. In doing the voiceover the problems that will occur is the timing and certain places where we think the voiceover maybe relevant as well as who should do the voiceover; a boy or a girl? Because our documentary includes a voiceover it might create a biased view which is something which we will try to avoid

Credits/Titles

• Implying the future
• Contrast to the film

General research:

• Seal footage
• Building block

Titles:

• The Journey (example title)
• Credits (crew)
• Introduction credits (Anthony+Sophie+Child)- Font
• Location credits

Voiceovers:

• Equipment
• Timing
• Who? Male/ Female
• Objectivity/Subjective
• Trial