Questionnaire

As part of my market research for my target audience, exhibition, and documentary topic, I created this questionnaire using Survey Monkey, and shared it with my target audience through social media. I have presented what my aims were, as well as evaluative results using Emaze below. This software was particularly helpful for this research due to its chart tool to present my data.

Health and Safety Evidence

In order to prevent any health and safety issues for me and my cast during my shooting and photographing, I've filled out a risk assessment/ health and safety form for my productions which I found from the Ravensbourne TV studio company, and have embedded through Google Drive below. This allowed me to identify any possible risks and take measures to prevent them before production.

Audio

I've considered foleying my diegetic dialogue and narration in order to improve their sound quality and clarity by removing background noise; however I found from research of documentaries that this technique is unconventional, most likely due to the vast amount of speech to foley and the fact that documentaries are mostly unscripted and shot on the move. 'Blurred Lines the New Battle of the Sexes' also included a shot on a busy London street with lots of noise to present their city location, which is also appropriate for my production.

As I am shooting in mostly quiet locations (including a library and relaxed area of the city centre) at non-busy times (9:30am and 4:00pm with the latter being shot in a calm indoor location), I will rely on my high quality camera and the noise reduction audio editing process to eliminate the need for foleying.

I will record my voiceover with Rowan using the same camera in a quiet location within the library, as it is especially important for the voiceover to be clear, as there would be no context presented by the footage for where the background noise is coming from, and could therefore confuse my audience.

Finally, my non-diegetic music is prepared for editing:

Cast Responses and Production Log #1

Following my planned cast choices post, I have had positive responses from 2/3 of my cast choices; however Sam (my expert interviewee) is unavailable for filming due to his personal choice. As a replacement, I have decided to contact Tom Cranston and Scott Warr for this role; both active and educated feminists who meet the same actor specifications as Sam. If both actors are available, I may conduct two separate interviews, as I think that they would both be suitable and useful to my production.

As Emily and Rowan have both agreed to act for their roles, I have scheduled the dates of my shoots with them;

Thursday 8th January: Emily and Rowan at 4:00pm within cafe location

Friday 9th January: Rowan at 9:30am at the city centre/ Forum library. Throughout this shoot, I will photograph Rowan for my ancillary product images using the same camera which captures high quality photographs (tested during my location planning shoot).
I'll also be shooting by myself next week to capture location shots, most likely on Friday once I've finished shooting with Rowan.

I have considered borrowing 2 cameras and tripods from my media department in order to shoot a range of different angles using the 180° rule; however it is conventional of documentaries to be shot with minimal equipment as they are fast moving and partly improvised. Therefore I will borrow 1 camera and tripod next week, but film 2 takes from different angles and pause between shooting to change filming positions, in order to produce footage from a variety of cinematographic angles.

Next I will be planning the other equipment (mainly mise en scene, costume and make-up) which I need to prepare for my shoots, as well as finish writing my script and shot list.

Documentary Deconstruction: 'Blurred Lines the New Battle of the Sexes'

As I'm confident with the structure and conventions of documentaries from my research, I'm now beginning to focus on smaller details including stylistic cinematography, editing techniques, and how content and narrative is presented through these things. I've deconstructed a similar documentary to my own production by the BBC; 'Blurred Lines the New Battle of the Sexes', presented below using SlideShare. I found this documentary particularly engaging and powerful, which makes it appropriate for me to analyse what it is which makes it so successful.

Documentary Deconstruction: Blurred Lines the New Battle of the Sexes from Courtney O'Donnell

Comparative Documentary Deconstruction

As this is my third deconstruction, by now I am feeling confident with this genre. Therefore I've chosen to deconstruct a contrastingly styled, fly-on-the-wall documentary, and evaluate how it compares to the other documentaries I've investigated. I've presented this deconstruction below using Prezi.

Job Specification

I've organised the different roles for my pre-production and production and who they are allocated to using this simple and professional looking table making software: truben.no/table. This is an important planning process to stay organised, make sure that every role will be completed by somebody, and manage my crew and personal workload.

Job/Role:	Person Allocated:
Director	Me
Cinematographer	Me
Producer	Me
Script Writer	Me
Editor	Me
Musician	Maya Law
Narrator	Rowan Perrow
Voice-Over	Rowan Perrow
Expert Interviewee	Sam Baker
Interviewee	Emily Gooda
Audio Editor (including foley artist if required)	Me
Casting	Me
Make-up Artist	Me
Costume and Mise en Scene	Me
Locations	Me
Planning and Production Blogger	Me
Storyboarding	Me
Lighting	Me
Photographer	Me
Journalistic and Advertisement Writing	Me
Photoshop Editor	Me
Titles and Typography	Me
Market Research (directed by me)	Focus group and social media followers

Cinematography

To shoot my documentary in an artistic, interesting, stylistic and professional looking way, I have researched the art of cinematography and the techniques which I can refer to when forming my shot list.

red-gecko-productions.com/redgecko/2010/07/29/the-skills-of-a-documentary-cinematographer
This article was interesting and helpful due to the stated conventional techniques for documentary cinematography, and how to successfully shoot them; (click to enlarge)

This presentation was another useful resource due to the detailed/ technical descriptions of the rule of thirds, depth of field, and framing; refreshing my knowledge from AS Level. From my research of documentaries I've found that these are conventional techniques - particularly rule of thirds during interview shots which I will also be using. The depth of field will be useful when photographing and editing for my ancillary product images, as well as the descriptions of different representational shot types for focal actors and objects. This was a simpler and less specific resource, but significantly beneficial for my research.

Cinematography for Foundation Portfolio from Nicola Naisbett

Next I'll be considering this research when planning my shot list.

Character Planning/ Influences and Casting

The characters and cast members I require for my production, and will include some of within my ancillary products (character descriptions and introductions in double page listings magazine spread, and short introduction in newspaper advertisement) include;


I will update a post with my responses to be an actor for my production/ photograph for my ancillary products from my cast.

Plan for my Script

I've decided to make a detailed plan of my script to successfully produce it, and organise my structure and content. I'll format my final script professionally using plotbot.com.

I'm structuring my documentary in 4 parts to separate the different sections that I'm focusing on - divided by subtitle shots with the part number edited in text:

• Part 1 - Introduction and a main focus on music industry. I'm using this for my extract and the beginning of my documentary as the music industry is most relevant to all demographics of my target audience according to my market research, which would therefore immediately engage them, encouraging them to watch my documentary.
• Part 2 - Focus on the film and TV industries as I've found from my research there are significantly less issues in relation to sexism for these areas, therefore they can be discussed quickly together. They also link together.
• Part 3 - Focus on journalism and feminism in relation to the media, which also links together due to feminist articles/news websites and magazines that I've found such as thefword.org.uk and everydayfeminism.com.
• Part 4 - Summary and conclusion of documentary; answering my questions from my introduction and over viewing what I've found.

Script plan for part 1 (my extract production)