Evaluation

Beginning draft...

My media product involvers the representation of ‘Adam’s’ disability, his mental illness and cerebral palsy, based on real life conditions, this fly on the wall documentary reflects from the documentaries I have research into such as ; ‘Dispatches’, ‘Torrettes’ and ‘why are thin people not fat’ which usually look at a social acceptance, personal positive responses and development and backing this up with factual relevant information, that we as a audience can interoperated in different perspectives due to our societies ideologies on incidences throughout the media.
The Mis en scene in documentary needs to involve a naturalistic circumstances, props, clothing, sounds, camera angles and locations. That can be easily related to the subject in hand. primarily throughout a documentaries lighting should always be natural as possible, as we don’t want it to look quirky . It would be taken as seriously, but there can be exceptions for artificial lighting, for instance in low lighted areas like tombs and caves in historical documentaries and for wildlife programs to create a ‘photographic’ (barthes) element.

Camera shots, that are usually involve are lots of rapid multiple shots, moving or stationary with basic visual effects with text. The shots that are constructed are somewhat photographic, each shot is aliened to be a photograph, pleasing to the viewers eye, as a passive audience this is probably dismissed by most of the public. ¬-Animated text involves information about the sequence that is being situated on the screen, this usually involves information about the Character/ person shown or facts and figures, so we can get a clear understanding on what is going on.
Characters/the people involved in the documentary are somewhat voluntary but selected as they are ideal for what they have been selected for, because as a producer you can select the person that you want to involve in you documentary e.g. the characters situation and circumstances of lifestyle. You would ask you self if you broadcast to 6,000,000 viewers, the subject is about drug use, and the affects thay have on young people will they understand the condition and empathy you want to project across to your audience.
Digetic/ non-digetic sounds are as followed, Soundtracks, voice and sound effects, important within a documentary.
Many aspects of a documentary aren’t created/ setup in a documentary, as it is a documentation of something or someone, but to some extent it is because you as a producer you have the power to choose the location, the characters involved and how it will be presented through the lens, it is key to capture the subject in unworthy situation, for example selected a family which is situated in luxury villa, rather than in a suburban area in a council flat it wouldn’t acceptable as you want to create this atmosphere around the character that they are isolated and far beyond control.
There are many conventions in a documentary but they seem quite bleak and unrecognisable as we are quite a passive audience. As above I have stated a few of the codes and conventions throughout the media, which make a production successful. But throughout each generation codes and conventions adapt due to our growth in technology, on what is achievable within the making, as cameras become more manoeuvrable and the exploration within ideas have become broader because society has become more intelligent.

The choice of disability was a person influence due to own experience to consider basing our main task on. Using such a emotional subject to base the extract on, we were thinking hopefully it would grasp the audience attention.
I have chosen to represent a specific disability in society, and discusses the feelings within one particular household, its is displayed as some sort of fly on the wall production. The codes within this particular genre, well there isn’t a particular genre as such in as a documentary attempts to display the deception of people, places or situations within reality as it is not fictional.
The representation of our documentary that should be portrayed to our designated audience is, it is a natural as possible, and realistic as possible, this should be obvious throughout the production, within out soundtracks selected, the camera angles chosen and the pace of the cuts/edits the digetic/non digetic adn location (mise en scene).

The section of society that should that should be interested in our documentary are those that like to engaged within self educating and seeking information. As ours displays a serious subject with facts and first hand opinions on the matter. The ‘representation’ of our documentary

In a book published in 2001 called ‘Introduction to Documentary’ (Indiana University Press) Bill Nichols defines the following six modes/sections of documentary
The Poetic Mode 'reassembling fragments of the world', a transformation of historical material into a more abstract, lyrical form, usually associated with 1920s and modernist ideas.

-The Expository Mode 'direct address', social issues assembled into an argumentative frame, mediated by a voice-of-God narration, associated with 1920s-1930s, and some of the rhetoric and polemic surrounding World War Two
The Observational Mode as technology advanced by the 1960s and cameras became smaller and lighter, able to document life in a less intrusive manner, there is less control required over lighting etc, leaving the social actors free to act and the documentarists free to record without interacting with each other

-The Participatory Mode the encounter between film-maker and subject is recorded, as the film-maker actively engages with the situation they are documenting, asking questions of their subjects, sharing experiences with them. Heavily reliant on the honesty of witnesses'

-The Reflexive Mode demonstrates consciousness of the process of reading documentary, and engages actively with the issues of realism and representation, acknowledging the presence of the viewer and the modality judgements they arrive at. Corresponds to critical theory of the 1980s

-The Performative Mode acknowledges the emotional and subjective aspects of documentary, and presents ideas as part of a context, having different meanings for different people (often autobiographical)

These sections/ criteria’s of the theory developmental are part of genre due to the adaptation of society, and how its introducing new technology though out generations of documentary production, and how then film makers challenge conventions and broadened the boundaries that documentaries can explore.

The effectiveness is the combination of each ancillary is due to the continuity within the fonts, colours, characters and language used. With the double page spread there is a clear link due to main central image, as Adam is the main focus of our documentary it is highly relevant that we included him in the magazine listing. Also the fonts and colours are exactly the same to the main task as I want the pieces to connotate throughout

Using the ideology of ‘Barthes’ the connotations of the main central image of Adam are; the clothing that he is wear are quite dull, reasonably urban and the jacket has a hood. These represent Adams deception and masculinity. The anger seen on his face and the firm grip of the camera shows, anger and his control over this documentary, as this is a representation of his life. The white/ grey background is simply there to show professionalism and to draw your attention towards look at Adam’s aesthetics. The quote that is above Adam is there to show Adam’s place within the documentary, to show 1st hand feedback, and facts discussing the issues withheld.

I think that I have represent the unique selling point quite clearly, as for a start we have chosen to do a subject in reality in which a lot of families suffer from around the UK, we discuss the difficulties within ‘cerebral palsy’ with facts and first hand evidence from a voluntary family, they have been filmed for this production. They then explain the compications and the successful elements of Adam. Also as it is directed towards the ‘channel 4’ media this would fit quite nicely with Horizon’s documentaries such as ‘why thin people are not fat’, the codes and conventions such as camera angles, soundtracks and narrative are somewhat similar.

There are many different media platform that could involved with our documentary due to the producers being ‘Channel 4’ advertising this documentary would be easy as this is a production company which is highly successful and trusted by the general public. Website would included snippets and adverts for the production, channel radio station and podcasts would play a our radio ad, magazines for instances like ‘TV Magazine’, TV choice and ‘TV satellite, would all display the double page spread that we’ve created due to its relevance, also this text product could also be excesses on online magazines, like ‘Hello’ due to the growth of a intergrading media with technology. Producing such things as digital open a new market on seeing information as it can be seen on thousands of portable products.

Here is one of two of the minor production tasks. This is our the Radio Advert.
Edited on premiere pro the sequence involves clips from the extract but edited to create more atmosphere, due to the length.
The section at the edit stating when the program is on a the channel its situated on was my voice recorded with the laptops microphone on 'audacity' the noise was removed the pitch was decreased, the tempo was altered and then amplified. After that it was placed into premiere pro the pitch was then alter along with the fine tune.

Below is the double page magazine listing that advertises our documentary.
The central image is a photograph of Adam this has be altered by increasing the images brightness and contrast, (to make the background a clear and crisp white as the it was photographer on a white backdrop to begin with). Then the photo's 'green channel' had its brightness increased to create a slight tint to it. Lean toward creating some sort of lomo photography. This tint also add this vintage feel to it (quite 80s).
Simply the main headline of the documentary is on the left hand side, the text above the 'Adam rush' is in a quite sophisticated font, resembling style and seriousness.
The font of, 'Adam Rush' is simply to show continuity withing the main task and the ancillary task (The same reason for the colours chosen).























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This is my double page magazine listng created on photoshop. The writen task its self was created on photoshop. The boxes have been created from the 'rectangular lasso tool' with a colour alteration, then the box right hand side at the top was added to a new layer and the opacity percentage was altered so it would become transparent.




These images below just resemble the steps i tooking within creating this.

























These are just some examples of some other double page spreads for documentaries, the level of skill of this are quite poor, we have looked at several others, that are produced by the main production companies for example channel 4 and the BBC and the codes and conventions that are involved within those pieces are quite simple to reproduce.

Photos Associated with Adams Life andd his art work...
Above are the images we have to present in the documentary, to establish Adams character, within in the documentary. Seeing these images of Adam and Stuart the audience may sympathise towards Adam, as they represents his vulnerability as a child and the difficulties he is going to face in the future. These slides/ collages were created on Photoshop cs5 and arranged to look this way.

Also there is a second slide that involves Adam but this is representing him in a completely different way, in the slide that isn’t show Adam as a child is his art and photography work, we want to present Adam in a different light. (Showing his skills and what he could develop). They are examples of his A Level art and photography work.
With the images we have saved them after we scanned them in as JPEG's. so they can be easily manipulated into other programs.

Drafts for main Main Task

Draft two this is all the basic filming now complete, there are a few errors and sections that need to be altered, also the on screen animation needs to be added.
(The names of the characters ect.)

Draft 2

Following our storyboard for the production here is the first section of our documentary replicating the storyboard as closely as possible, this section of our production contains only the title (animated) and the 1st minute of the production. This section


Program used: Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

What is included?
Edited (short cuts, long sequences & transitions)
Voice overs
Soundtracks (Faded in between voice overs)
Program title (Animated)

Title Screen Animation

Using the same program as before this was created with two layers, one as background, the still and the channel 4 logo as the animated section in a pgn format. this logo has to preset trasitions on it, a slide for the right and 'Boxes' fade.

Soundtracks

Links of the full songs will be in the descripition of the youtube video.

Here are the soundtracks that we have decide to use for the documentary. We have selected some of them, the ones that link in with the diolog and sound correctly.
Chosing the right soundtrack is vital to any production, and our documentary is no exseption, during the our clip we want to ephasis the emotions/ help you as an audience on what you should be feeling in each section of the extract.

Here is a Draft/snipit of the title For out documentary. First designed on on photoshop, with taking in account Channel 4's basic colours and arangment to there productions,by simply following the 'Channel 4 Identity Style Guide' it gives you a detailed analysis on the fonts, design and the logo.
E.g How the logo should be presented ect.

As this is my first draft i belive that it isnt as good as it could be the, it needs some more animation to the '4' and the main colour needs the be altered to.

















The Fonts/ text has created with photoshop. There is no particular font that i could that is used for channel 4, as it has been copyrighted. So i search through out 'dafont' for a suitable font that looks as identical.

Below is the font that i have chosen. It is called 'Sansation'



















The text inside the black text box was simply edited by useing the 'type tool' writing the correct information within it, then changing the font colour to white or #ffffff and after adding a new layer below to add a black retangular box for the white text to sit above.
These boxes above are going include when relivent, they will fade in and out during the correct clip.
Colour code - #fd610e

This paticular orange text boxed png file will be incuded within the main title and will also be a onscreen animation for the start of the house clip after the fade fade from black during the extract.

Presentation

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Here is our storyboard for our main task keeping with 'idea 2' below, we will follow this as closely as possible. Using the documentarys in the research as a refernce this is our detailed plan on how our documentary is going to be produced for examp. With video camera that films on a Pal 60 resalsion we will edited it in Adobe premire pro, on a widscreen format, that will be later on exported as a AVI so it can be veiw on youtube.

This was edited in a DV - pal widescreen 48khz format which is a 16:9 Ratio in TV specification.

The Plot to our production that includes a detailed outline on what we should produce

Once we had created our basic idea we created this story board and above. We have planned the extract as clearly and detailed as possible. If you have watched the examples in our research you will see several elements from each documentary combined.

The Neo Natzi documentary is a influence due the layout style and the way they construct there documentary we wanted to form a layout to fit are storyline idea.

The PowerPoint above is a 11 page original story board of what and the order of which we want to construct are documentary.

Basic information about are final idea

- Basic plot for this idea would be based on a individuals life.A charter that has a issues ,which is Celabal Palsy and following the life of that character.Showing the struggle for the character and their family,including home and outside environment shots.

- Make as realistic as possible, combined personal experience,and emphasise the issue.
- Character that will be used is Adam Rush would suffers with Celabal Palsy ( a student in are six form center).One of the reason we want to take forward this idea is because the inspiration came from the fact my group partener for this project Stuart Rush is a twin and the story line fits effectively.

-The story line will incorporate both Adam and Stuart Rush as they both have the disability and the relationship and home life is a fantastic storyline to take forward.

Characters are as followed
The Main character with the disability is Adam Rush as Adam, he is the main focus of our whole documentary. His twin brother Stuart Rush as Stuart. He is Adam identical twin within the production and in reality. Adams Mother is Julie King as Jane Rush, an actor for our production and Adams Friend Joe Hill as Henry Ford. He will be the outside man.
The Locations that we have chosen are: Adams home, some thing that resembles a Gym environment, a park, an area in which you can play basketball, a supermarket such as Asda or Morrisons and garden.

Here a simple break down of our story board.
First 5 seconds = channel 4 Logo that we will create.
5-12 'Seconds' it is a medium shot of Stuart talking towards camera establishing that there is some sort of issue between a group of people
12-14 High angle shot of the room shot with Adam included in it.
14-15 Side view of Adam faceing a tv.
15-16 Shot of TV screen showing what Adam was focusing on,with an on screen animation of facts rising from the bottom.
16-19 A Medium shot of Henry talking towards camera explaining some issues, the on screen animation fades of on the shot.
19-23 Adam entering kitchen,this will be a medium/long shot then some more facts arise from the bottom of the screen.
23-25 Close up/ over the shoulder shot of Adam watching TV or eating food. Another on screen animation will appear.
25-28 Medium/ eye-line view shot of Stuart talking towards camera about so more issues.
28-32 Medium shot of Adam in the kitchen, he walks towards the fridge and open it whilst arguing with His mother. During that there will be some more facts fading in and out of the shot.
32-37 Adam is now boxing there are going to be two different angled shots, a medium shot and close up shot(this will be a cut in).
37-40 A Long shot of Adam playing basketball by him self, also a close up of ball going through hoop after his shot .More on screen animations of text will be included.
40-43 A Medium shot of Henry Talking to camera about some more issues (direct mode of address).
43-46 Then a medium shot of Adam and Stuart playing basketball with more text arising then fading away.
46-47 Back to medium shot, (same shot) of Henry talking towards camera again.
47-52 Medium shot of Adam talking to camera about his issues.
52-53 a shot of the TV screen that is with some game footage.
53-53 Close up shot of Game controller,with some more facts on screen (Same animation).
53-55 Close up shot of the side of Adams head playing on the Xbox looking at the TV.
55-59 Medium shot, Henry is talking to the camera about Adam.
59-1.04 long shot to a medium shot of Adam walking towards the left of the camera to show his disability,then go to fade out transition.
1.04-1.08 fade from black to a long shot Pan of Adams home.
1.08-1.13 Medium shots of dog at the gates.
1.13-1.22 including some Photos of Adam as baby/ born.
1.22-1.27 Medium shot of Stuart talking more about issues to camera.
1.27-1.33 Over the shoulder shot of Adam sat at computer, then a cut in of Adam typing.
1.33-1.38 Medium shot of Adam sat down Playing on the Xbox, slow pan.
1.38-1.46 Medium shot of Adam doing weights.
1.46-1.57 A medium shot of Adam standing by the window.
1.57-2.02 A long shot to medium shot of Henry's car pulling up on drive way or up outside.
2.02-2.17 Henry Walks into the house ,slow panning medium shot following Henry.
2.17-2.27 A medium shot of Henry talking towards the camera about Adam.
2.27-2.33 A slow medium pan of living room, establishing that Adam and Henry sat down.
2.33-2.36 Medium to long shot of Adam kick starting up the bike.
2.36-2.45 Back to a medium shot of Henry talking to camera.
2.45-2.48 Long shot of Adam riding motorbike.
2.48-2.54 Another Medium shot of Henry talking to camera.
2.54-3.02 Long shot of Adam and Henry Standing outside with the motorbike talking.
3.02-3.14 Medium shot of Henry talking towards the camera again.
3.14-3.20 A medium and a close up shot of Adam smoking , side view of him sat down.
3.20-3.23 Slow zoom towards Adam sat on sofa playing games.
3.23-3.26 After is another Medium shot of Henry talking to camera about more issues.
3.26-3.35 Examples of Adams art and photography work.
3.35-3.45 Then Medium shot of Adam sat on bed using his mobile.3.45-4.09 And the final section of filming involves a range of shots, which are following Jane and Stuart around the store. Some example of the camera shot/angles we are going to use: A medium/long and close ups, pans tracking act.

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This PowerPoint explains our progression on our production on choices that we have made, the theory's we have looked at and vital codes and conventions. Such as mise an sene and camera angles . The reasoning for this PowerPoint is that, now we have specific ideas we can proceed and create a documentary with knowing what is expected.

This is our preliminary task, we decided to do a conversation that involved some exchange of some dialogue with some basic camera angles.
- First shot is a long shot pan that is on a slight low angle
- Followed by a high angled medium shot
- Then a medium shot pan
- After is low angle medium shot with slight movement to the left
- Then a medium shot, which follows the character sitting down
- A medium shot/ side view
- Close up of characters(easiest way to establish the emotion of each person), that switch back and forth due to which one is speaking
This was more of a chance to start editing with premiere pro as this program is new to me.
This was edited in a DV - pal standard 48khz format which is a 4:3 Ratio on TV specs.