Unit 27 Assignment 2

INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PROPOSAL
#Trend 

Who is the intended audience?

The intended audience for our documentary is young male and females aged 13 - 20 who use twitter. This is because a lot of these twitter trends are started by young people of this age because they're easily influenced by the social media.

  Goal or intended purpose(s) of the film
To inform and educate people about the dangers of following some twitter trends/challenges. Young people today are getting involved in twitter trends that are deemed cool and funny but can be quite damaging at times calling serious injuries etc.

What is new different, interesting, engaging about your approach?
This documentary will be different because nobody has really tackled this issue before in a documentary. It will be interesting and engaging because it's something that is a big issue with today's young people but doesn't get enough attention for everyone to know how dangerous some of these trends are.

Style (Any key stylistic elements in writing, shooting, audio, editing, etc.)
This documentary will be an observational documentary, with voice overs, found footage and filmed footage. This documentary will be quite informal because the audience is younger and usually prefer a more informal approach to more serious subjects, it makes them want to keep watching.

What about the soundtrack? (Any music, narration, etc.—If so, who? what?)
Because trends are popular on the internet, the music will be popular songs at the moment without the vocals, in the background because it ties in with the theme of popular culture.

Who is working on the project?
Director - Matt King
Editor - Vicky Howarth
Sound - Maddi Mullins
Camera - Jade Maher, Jess Pittman

Historical background or context of the story
The evolution of the twitter trend, how trends and hashtags started, what they actually mean and how they work and how twitter itself started.

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Structure of our documentary

Our documentary will be structured in the style of an observational documentary. We will use a voice over during our documentary to allow the audience to get more information and use interviews with relevant people but not feature the interviewer and edit in a graphic of the question being asked. We will edit this documentary in a way that it will flow and look seamless because we want it to effectively, tell a factual story. In the edit we will put together various clips to create cut aways add music to create tension and happier moments to make the positive parts of the documentary more upbeat and less negative. Lighting during interviews will create a particular mood according to the questions being asked. If the interviews are more positive, the lighting will be brighter and if the interview is relating to more negative subjects then the lighting will be more dim and low key to create a serious atmosphere.

Unit 27 Assignment 1

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Unit 27 notes

1) What do we mean by factual programmes?Programmes that sometimes aren't scripted, it can be objective (unbiased), a representation of the subject matter.

2) Give some examples of the different types of factual programmes on TV. 
David Attenborough programmes, Good Morning Britain, Louis Theroux documentary, Geordie Shore etc, one born every minute, 24 hours in a&e

3) What is a documentary?
A programme about real life, based on lots of research including statistics and surveys to give facts and figures. They can be on absolutely anything and more popular ones are usually based on ethical issues because they are more interesting.
They represent the world in a realistic style, can still be constructed,

4) What are the different types of documentaries? Give examples to demonstrate your points.

• Reflexive Documentaries are constructed and are debatable whether they are actually documentaries or not. Shows such as Big Brother and Geordie Shore. 
• Observational Documentaries, like wildlife ones where there is little interference they just film what the animals are doing. David Attenborough shows. 
• Performative Documentaries make you see things from someone elses perspective e.g showing what life is like for a particular ethnicity or gender etc in their society. An example would be In The Shadow Of The Sun. 
• Participatory Documentaries is where the film maker takes part in the documentary and becomes involved in the subject matter. An example would be Louis Theroux: Most Hated Family In America

5) Louis Theroux and Teen Mum High - What are the conventions of a documentary? 

• Interviews
• Introduction to the subject
• Conclusion about the subject at the end
• Statistics 
• Sometimes opinions from the film maker
• Film maker sometimes participates
• Voice over, usually the film maker 
• Travelling to places that are related to the documentary getting real footage
• Observing things that are happening
• Cut aways
• Text with peoples names on and age etc when they are being interviewed

6) Conventions of a news Bulletin

• Facts
• Interviews
• Key information 
• Short and snappy to keep it interesting 
• Title Sequence
• No opinions from the presenters on formal news
• Well spoken people who are easily understood by everyone
• Smart outfits, office wear / formal 
• Distinctive music so you can recognise it's the news. Dramatic music / formal to match with the formal presenters and stories
• Studio presenters/reporters and presenters/reporters on locations relating to stories. 

 Issues Facing Factual Programmes

Accuracy - Information correct, truthful, has to be accurate otherwise what's the point?

Bias - One sided opinion, Skewing the facts in favour of something is not on in a factual programme

Representation - The way the subject/topic/facts/people are shown to the audience, misrepresentation of these things is unfair and unbalanced

Positive Values Of Factual Programmes

• They can be educational
• You get a chance to see things you might not get the chance to normally see
• Keeps you in the know of current affairs and things going on in the world
• Entertaining 
• Informing the public of things we aren't aware of
• Creates empathy and urges an audience to help.
• To encourage social/political change, brings the issue to the public arena 

Benefits Street 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/benefits-street

Participants claimed they had been duped into taking part under the pretence it was a series about community spirit

Accuracy - Participants are real so information is likely to be accurate

Bias - Biased approach to people on benefits, negative

Representation - People are represented negatively, could argue they have been misrepresented

ITV Fake footage

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8792315/ITV-Gaddafi-documentary-claimed-videogame-was-terrorist-footage.html

What effect does 'fake footage' or lying to viewers have on the reputation of a programme/channel/ documentary filmmaker?

It can make people doubt itv in the future, people won't trust them. Making a 'mistake' like this could bring viewing numbers down, and not want to watch future documentaries that itv bring out. If they lied about the footage being real then what else have they lied about in the documentary or other documentaries? They could be lying about the fact that the footage was accidentally put in there when the programme was edited together.

Accuracy - Inaccurate footage, makes them seem untrustworthy and unprofessional

Bias - Their own opinion - miss selection of clips, wanted to show him negatively so they used whatever they had

Representation - The 1988 attack is being misrepresented leading up to debates/conflicts, offensive to soldiers/ service men and women

Frozen Planet - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073024/BBCs-little-white-lie-Polar-bear-cubs-filmed-Frozen-Planet-zoo-Arctic.html

Accuracy -  Inaccurate footage, makes you wonder about any other David Attenborough.

Representation -  Makes polar bears look more tame than they really are and not completely wild


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2955872/Channel-4-s-UKIP-Days-hatchet-job-receives-700-complaints.html

Accuracy -

Bias - Viewers thought that the docu-drama was highly bias against the political party and only showed them in a negative light.

Representation - It was an inaccurate representation of britain after UKIP have come into power, accused of showing israel as a far right country by showing far right protesters with an israeli flag.

Layout of Assignment 

Two out comes - One is issues and two is conventions

1. Define accuracy, bias and representation (p1)
2. Examples of these issues in a programme : Benefits street, ITV slide, Frozen planet slide, Your own bias etc. slide - The programme showed issues of A, B, R (m1). The impact on the audience is ... (D1) 
3. List the conventions of a news programme (p2)
4. Give examples of these conventions in BBC, Newsround, Your Own (m2)
5. Why are these progs using / not using them (d2) 
6. Define the two modes of documentary and conventions (p2)
7. Example of conventions in the imposter / stacey dooley / your own (m2)
8. Why these conventions and modes are used (d2) 

DEADLINE 20TH OF APRIL

Unit 16 Editing Techniques

Continuity Edit / Invisible Editing = Cutting with a characters movement to give it a seamless feel.
Jump Cuts = abrupt transition from one scene to another
Cutting on Action = cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.
Cross Cutting = often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations.
Matched Cut = a cut in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which objects in the two shots graphically match, often helping to establish a strong coninuity of action
Montage = Putting clips together usually over music to show things that would be too long to fit in normally

Continuity Editing

Jump Cuts

Cutting on action

Cross Cutting

Matched Cut

Montage

1903 - Basic Cuts in Film

Discuss what editing process was and why it was basic
Editing was basic in these days because film had to be physically cut and pasted by cutting the film reel with something called a splicer and stringing together the different shots all on a Steenbeck. This was tedious and took quite a lot of time but they didn't yet have the technology to edit on computers on editing software. This meant that the shots were long and they only used jump cuts.

1920s - Silent Film

Needed to allow audiences to understand time and space because we can see things from a different perspective because the black and white stops us from knowing what time of day it is in the film so it's hard to know the difference in hours/days. The shots changing allow us to know when the time has change because the location has changed and the characters are in a different place.

1940s - Hollywood Studio System

Sound was introduced in the 1940s, which meant films with more complex stories could be made because people could talk and basically tell a story. This made cinema become a lot more popular because they now had sound and people wanted to see more and more of it. Film makers used desirable, good looking characters to hook people into watching their films because it made the audience feel like they were watching a kind of dream like life where they had the characters looks and life. Films were still in black and white though so the problem with showing time was still there, but filmmakers began to use music as a way of distinguishing time. The music would change when they wanted to indicate a different time of day.

1960s - American New Wave

The american new wave was a time period when new young film makers were making history with their films in america. Their editing was different to before using things like cross cutting and cutting on action. Cross cutting allows us to see more of the narrative at one time, usually to show us two things happening at once. Cutting on action was starting to be used to make films look seamless. This is when films became more realistic and made you feel like you were there. Montage's were also used a lot in the american new wave. They allowed us to see a lot more of a narrative in shorter amount of time but in an effective way to bring the narrative forward.

1980s - High Concept cinema

High concept cinema was the era of action films. Action-packed, loud, flashy, simplistic, and tightly-structured films defined 80s cinema. Films such as back to the future, the terminator and top gun were some of the most popular films in the 80s. These films were all futuristic and full of special effects. Cross cutting was used a lot in 80s action films along with tense music and more exciting loud music during action scenes being cross cut to make the film more exciting. 

1990s - Digitial editing software introduced

Indie films were at the centre of 90s cinema. This meant that these films were reasonably low budget and meant that more and more indie film makers were trying to get their films out there. This made film festivals become more popular and gave indie film makers a shot at stardom. The digital editing rised in the 90s which was why so many independent film makers became famous because editing was more accessible for anyone who wants to make a film.

00s - Today.

In cinema today pretty much any type of editing is used. A lot of special effects are used to create stunning cinematography. Today its all about high budget, big company films.

CGI today has brought forward the animated world. Animation has become more clear and life like. It is now less pixilated and makes animated films more real. CGI has also allowed us to see unrealistic situations in real life, in a realistic way. It can enter us into a world we could never see in real life with things such as Avatar where humans can visit an alien world and also become an avatar.