Stadium Tour Update

As shown on the storyboards, and explained on the brief, the questionnaire and the script we planned to go on a stadium tour of each stadium, this takes up 45 seconds for each tour therefore 1 minutes and 30 seconds in total, almost a third of the entire documentary. However after inquiring over the use of the tripods and cameras that we wanted to use to film whilst inside the stadium we were told that no photos or recordings were aloud. As this has been a long prepared part of the documentary it was a major setback to our topic. However after a lot of thought and consideration myself and my partner sat down and came to a joint agreement to solve the issue and make up the time it would take. Instead we are now going to slightly extend each interview to 1 minute and 15 seconds roughly adding on an extra question to each interview. We have also decided to add some extra detail to the interview by using screen on screens, cutaways, props etc. We will also be experimenting the use of extra shots in the documentary to show our flexibility and our range of camera angles that we have included. Despite the stadium tour being a somewhat important element of our documentary we feel we can work around the obstacle and strive on to produce an even better documentary.

Documentary Interview Questions - Chelsea FC

Documentary Interview Questions - Fulham FC

Letter to Participant - Chelsea FC

Dear Season Ticket Holder

I would like to invite you to participate in our Year 13 A Level Documentary in which you would be asked a series of questions by myself and my group partner regarding Chelsea Football Club. The questions asked will remain on the subject of Chelsea FC and we will be finding out what your opinion is on the current ticket prices, the quality of the stadium itself, the current level of security at Stamford Bridge and we will also be asking you about the perks of being a member and a season ticket holder at the club.

We would be extremely pleased if you would accept this offer and be part of the Stadiums: Head 2 Head Documentary appearing on Sky Sports 1 HD.

Yours Faithfully

Jamie Ross
Jackson Ghosh

Letter to Participant - Fulham FC

Dear Season Ticket Holder

I would like to invite you to participate in our Year 13 A Level Documentary in which you would be asked a series of questions by myself and my group partner regarding Fulham Football Club. The questions asked will remain on the subject of Fulham FC and we will be finding out what your opinion is on the current ticket prices, the quality of the stadium itself, the current level of security at Craven Cottage and we will also be asking you about the perks of being a member and a season ticket holder at the club.

We would be extremely pleased if you would accept this offer and be part of the Stadiums: Head 2 Head Documentary appearing on Sky Sports 1 HD.

Yours Faithfully

Jamie Ross
Jackson Ghosh

Interviews in our Documentary

Interviews are a conversation between two or more people where questions are asked by the interviewer and answered by the interviewee. The interviewee will answer various questions giving the audience an understanding of his/her opinion about a subject. In a documentary the interview is extremely effective as it enables the documentary-makers to find out information e.g. opinions, facts and figures and in a documentary interviews also give a sense of realism. Anyone can be interviewed depending on what information the documentary-makers are wanting to access. The interview itself does not actually have to be on the screen, it can also be off-screen. Overall interviews in a documentary give a subjective account to what the documentary is relating to, sometimes this account could disagree with the overall moral of the documentary to give both sides of the argument and let the audience give their own opinion but generally most documentaries contain interviews that support the overall vocal point of the documentary.

Stadiums: Head 2 Head

For our documentary, the interviews were effectively used to show a subjective account of a season ticket holder from each football club, Chelsea and Fulham. These interviews allowed me to ask them a series of questions relevant to the set question to allow us to get a deeper understanding of their opinions of the football clubs and how they are treated/rewarded for paying to be a season ticket holder. For our audience each interview allows them to understand why they pay the money to go, what rewards they get for paying, and it gives them an idea of how much they had to pay to be a season ticket holder. The Chelsea season ticket holders interview will take place in a location away from the stadium itself, but it will be a different location to where the Fulham season ticket holder will be interviewed which will also be in a separate location to the ground. Overall these interviews may will help us in identifying which stadium is better, our target of the documentary.

A Background of Interviewing Styles and Formats

 
I decided to do some extra research to get myself a background of knowledge for the different styles and formats of interviews. Although these will not apply to my documentary it gave me an idea as to how to present yourself and how to professionally behave in an interview. Furthermore I now have a wide variety of knowledge regarding different interview styles therefore if I decide to include one of these in a future documentary I will know what I will need to replicate.

Interviewing Definitions

Screening Interviews: Screening interviews are used to qualify a candidate before he or she meets with a hiring manager for possible selection, it will usually be with a third party recruiter or someone from the Human Resources department.

Telephone Interviews: This helps the interviewer and the candidate gets a general sense if they are mutually interested in continuing a discussion beyond the first interview. Saves money and is quick.

Computer Interviews: The computer interview involves answering a series of multiple-choice questions for a potential job interview or simply for the submission of a resume, some are done through the telephone or on a website.

Video Interviews: The transfer of videos and audio across sites. It is a convenient communication method and an alternative to the more costly face-to-face meetings.

One on One Interviews: A traditional interview where candidates meet with the employer one on one.

Serial Interview: Candidates are passed from one interview to another over the course of the day. Must be ready for the next interview.

Sequential Interview: The candidate meets with one or more interviewers on a one-on-one basis. This is done over the course of several days, weeks or even months.

Panel Interview: The candidate comes in front of a panel of people, this type of interview is usually done for time and scheduling efficiency to accommodate the panel.

Group Interviews: In a group interview, a company interviews a group of candidates for the same position all at the same time. This type of interview gives the company a sense of a candidate's leadership potential and style.

Audition Interview: Audition interviews work well for positions in which companies want to see a candidate in action before they make a hiring decision. Interviewers may take the candidate through a simulation or brief exercise in order to evaluate the candidate's skills.

Stress Interview: A stress interview is generally intended to put the candidate under stress and assess their reactions under pressure or in difficult situations. A candidate may be held in the waiting room for an hour before the interviewer greets her. The candidate may face long silences or cold stares.

Informational Interview: Job seekers secure informational meetings in order to seek the advice of someone in their current or desired field. They also want to gain further references to other people who can advise them.

Tag-Team Interview: The tag-team interview is often attractive to companies that rely heavily on team cooperation. A candidate may be expecting to meet one-on-one with an interviewer, but instead they find themselves in a room with several other people.

Group Auditions for Interviews

Hi,

I am writing to you to ask if you would like to participate in an upcoming documentary that we are producing called "Stadiums: Head 2 Head". The documentary consists of us comparing two stadiums: "Craven Cottage" and "Stamford Bridge" and looking at each stadiums ticket prices and the clubs stature. The documentary will last apporximately 5 minutes and as a season ticket holder we would like you to audition for a position in answering 5-6 questions about your club. We would be extremely grateful if you could audition to give us a variety of options on who to include in our documentary. The questions will include questions such as: "How much are season ticket prices and are they worth the money?", and "What perks do you get from being a season ticket holder". Your part in our documentary will last for just over a minute and is a key component in a succesful documentary.

The auditions will take place at our local school, Heathside School on the 20th December at 2pm. Each audition should take no longer than 30 minutes. If you have any enquiries or issues with anything then please dont hesitate to call us on this number - 07349342312. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Many Thanks

Jamie Ross
Jackson Ghosh

Final Task Storyboards

Final Documentary Mode

Questionnaire Feedback Analysis

After receiving our Questionnaire Feedback we noticed that the majority of people that filled out our questionnaire were aged between 11-20 years old. Looking closely at the feedback and seeing that lots of people within that age group had access to the Sky Sports channels, also seeing that many would watch a documentary regarding stadiums we came to the conclusion that we should change our target audience from 15-65 to 11-50 years old. Although the age gap has now decreased it gives us the chance to access a variety of audiences, with the previous target audience focusing merely on late teenagers to adults. With the new target audience we aim towards all teenagers who we feel would be interested in watching our documentary, but we also do aim towards adults as well but in my opinion there is no point aiming towards an older target audience as the feedback we got did not come from that age range.

Documentary Questionnaire Feedback

Questionnaire Feedback from ross95

Questionnaire Results

Documentary Questionnaire Results


Q1) What age category do you fall into?
 
1-10        0
11-20      21
21-30      3
31-50      6
51-64      0
65+         0


Q2) Are you a male or a female?

Male        24
Female     6


Q3) If you missed a documentary, would you go back and watch it?

Yes     14
No      16


Q4) When watching documentaries would you rather be informed or entertained?
 
Informed        1
Entertained   13
Both              16


Q5) Have you ever watched a sports documentary?
 
Yes     27
No      3

If Yes go to Q6

If No go to Q7
 

Q6) What sport was the documentary based on?
 
Football                        14
Rugby                           3
Cricket                          4
Tennis                           4
Golf                               0
Other (please specify)   2


Q7) Have you ever been to a sports stadium?
 
Yes     23
No      7


Q8) Would you ever watch a documentary based on football, which looks at a variety of stadiums?
 
Yes     19
No      11


Q9) Do you have access to the Sports channels on your Television?
 
Yes     28
No      2


  Q10) How much would you be willing to spend on a stadium tour? 

 £1-£5         4
£6-£10        2
£11-£15       4
£16-£20       2
£21-£24      12
£25+           6

Documentary Questionnaire

1) What age category do you fall into?

1-10            11-20

21-30            31-50

51-64             65+


2) Are you a male or a female?

Male             Female


3) If you missed a documentary would you go back and watch it?

Yes            No


4) When watching documentaries would you rather be entertained or
informed?

Entertained             Informed             Both


5) Have you ever watched a sports documentary?

Yes             No

If Yes go to Question 6

If No go to Question 7


6) What sport was the documentary based on?

Football             Rugby

Cricket             Tennis

Golf                 Other (please specify) …………………


7) Have you ever been to a football stadium?

Yes             No


8) Would you ever watch a documentary based on football, which looks at
a variety of stadiums?

Yes             No


9) Do you have access to the Sports channels on your Television?

Yes             No  


10) How much would you be willing to spend on a stadium tour?

£1 - £5                £6 - £10

£11 - £15            £16 - £20

£21 - £24            £25+



 

Stadiums: Head 2 Head - Wordle

Channel Research - Sky Sports 1

Sky sports presentation from ross95

Stadiums: Head 2 Head - Brief

Timeline of Planning, Filming and Editing

Documentary Conventions

Researching Famous Documentaries 8 - North Pole Ice Airport

Researching Famous Documentaries 7 - How It's Made

Researching Famous Documentaries Discovery Channel from ross95

Researching Famous Documentaries 6 - Football's Greatest

Researching Famous Documentaries 5 - Ross Kemp: Extreme World

Researching Famous Documentaries 4 - My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Channel 4 Documentary from ross95

Researching Famous Documentaries 3 - Girls Aloud: Ten Years at the Top

Researching Famous Documentaries 2 - The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion

Researching Famous Documentaries 1 - A History of Britain

A History of Britain from ross95

Researching Documentary Films 3 - The Interrupters

The Interrupters on Prezi

Researching Documentary Films 2 - Restrepo

Researching Famous Documentaries - Restrepo from ross95

Researching Documentary Films 1 - Your Father's Murderer - A letter to Zachary

Your Father's Murderer: A letter to Zachary on Prezi

Ancillary Task: Double Page Spread - Our Final Design

This is the design we have chosen for our double page spread, this design includes substantial detail regarding facts, quotes, peoples opinions, prices and more. Differences from previous drafts include: Adding a date/time box below the channel, this way people will know when it is on, as we felt just showing the channel is too vague. We have managed to make the double page spread more compact, by placing the images in a smaller section so they are not taking up half the page, also by putting the facts either side of the title, it gives the readers a chance to immediately find out an overview of the documentary and what is to come and presents readers with immediate knowledge. By adding a "peoples opinions" section it gives us a chance to interview others and find out what they think of their own stadium, how its run and what the prices are like. Furthermore we felt that the overall design looks more professional and informative.

Ancillary Task: Double Page Spread 4th Design

This was our fourth design creating a double page spread, after three attempts at adding detail and features, on this design we feel there is a good amount of detail within the double page spread. The images of the stadiums are smaller which was something we wanted to improve on, and the title is at the top middle, allowing people to see it as the first thing rather than previous designs where it was hidden away; there are features such as sub-headings, date and time, quotation sections, and also a did you know? section which we included in the design. The channel that the documentary will be shown on is also highlighted in this double page spread.

Problems - After three other designs the problems were minimal as we have learnt to learn from our mistakes and improve our replace some of our faults in previous designs. However there are still a few problems with this design such as the middle section is all occupied by quotes, did you know?, fact, and the information about viewing. But the fact box isn't informative enough becuase too much of the middle section is filled with quotes and the viewing information, therefore the fact box has minimal information and it is too vague.

Overall there are major improvements from this design to the other three designs, more features have been added, and we have finally been able to reduce the size of the images and made the title stand out more. However in the final design a few things such as space management, and factual detail will have to be looked at and improved.

Ancillary Task: Double Page Spread 3rd Design

This was our third attempt at creating a double page spread, various features have been added in this design such as the date/time feature, allowing readers to know when it is on, also there are sub-headings informing readers what they will be reading about and when, there are also more quotations boxes, enabling us to pick out the most important parts of the documentary and making them bigger with a different font so they stand out.

Problems - Similar to the first two designs the images take up too much room on the page leaving little room for information, also we feel the layout in this design isn't realistic enough because the date/time, and quote section being in between the text actually separates the two texts from one another and we did not want this. Also the title needs to be in a position where it can be the first thing readers see, it isn't big enough in the top left hand corner and from a personal point of view the first thing I see is the images; we want to see the title first otherwise the images have little meaning because people wont know what it represents until they see the title.

Overall the design is improved from the last two with added features such as date/time and more quotation sections, however it still lacks detail.

Ancillary Task: Double Page Spread 2nd Design

Our second attempt at designing the double page spread was better than the first in our opinion. We experimented with the layout in this draft to see which we prefer, we have chosen to place the images on the left hand side of the page, with the titles in between them. Reasons for this were to try new things, to gives ourselves not just one option of layout but a couple so we can see which one suits our documentary. The facts are on the far right beneath each other in this draft. We have additional features in this draft, with a box to show a quote mentioned in the main information section; we have added sub headings such as prices and values to let readers know what they will be reading about at what time. Furthermore we have added in the top right the channel that our documentary will be shown on, this informs readers where it will be.

Problems: There were a few problems with this documentary - firstly we felt that the facts section shouldn't be on the other side of the page to where the images are because we want a strong link between the pictures and the facts, however by putting them on that side this wouldnt work, also regarding the layout we felt pour double page spread would look better if the information was on the left hand side rather than strarting on the right. Again despite including a few additional features we felt it lacked deatil, with a lot of the page being occupied by the images.

Overall it was similar to the first design but with a few added features it looks more professional than the first.

Ancillary Task: Double Page Spread 1st Design

For our ancillary task we have had to produce 5 different designs of a double page spread which will advertise our documentary and tell people what it is about and what channel it is going to be on. Our first attempt was what we would imagine the 5th and final draft to be similar to with a few minor changes. In this draft we have got two large pictures of either stadium covering the bottom half of the page and in the top half we have on either side - Facts about each stadium. Across the middle section in the top half we have information regarding our documentary such as prices, value etc. The title is situated in the middle.

Problems - However there are a few problems with this draft that need to be addressed for the other drafts, they include: The title isn't big enough, it doesn't stand out and the writing is completely surrounding the title, but the title needs to be dominant, bald and eye-catching in order for people to read it. Secondly the images take up too much of the page leaving too little space for text, despite the fact that we want our images big, we dont want to overshadow the rest of the information. Furthermore we felt that the double page spread was lacking detail, it seems to be pretty basic.

Overall its a good first draft as we can build from here and slightly improve certain aspects as we produce the other drafts.

Double Page Spread Research and Analysis

Double Page Spread Analysis from ross95

Listing Magazines Research

Practice Documentary Summary

Practice documentary from ross95

Practice Documentary - An Interview with Lynda Berger

Demons and Thieves - Lynda Berger Documentary from Will Knight on Vimeo.

In our practice documentary we were asked to make a short 10 minute documentary on the author Lynda Berger and her latest book Demon and Thieves. The aim of this task was to try and enhance our skills regarding video production in order to produce our best piece of work for our final documentary on our chosen subject.

The main lesson I learnt was that you must use more than one camera when filming, the reason for this is because when we were interviewing Lynda Berger we did not realise that camera one was rather blurred because the camera was zoomed in, and as we didn’t have time to change it we had to put up with the blurred camera. However if we had only used that camera individually then we would have had a blurred documentary for the entire time. In the documentary the use of the second cameras angle was involved a lot because we wanted to see when it worked best. After producing the documentary we learnt that instead of transitioning to the second angle during questions it would work better to use the angle for the duration of the question and answer because constantly changing the angle affected the continuity and at times it seemed unnecessary. This has taught me firstly to double check all possibilities regarding camera positioning and secondly taught me to ensure I use more than one camera when filming my final documentary.

Will edited the practice documentary but I still personally learnt a lesson for the final task, Will used as many new tools as he could to see how they worked and the most effective scenarios to use them in. The tool he found most effective was when interviewing the third student he used what is known as a “screen on screen” where a mini screen appears in one corner of the screen whilst the student is still on the main screen. Furthermore, the tool had a similar effect to the cutaway tool but unlike the cutaway it can display both images at the same time.

Finally I learned something from the editing software iMovie. The cutaway tool was involved heavily in the documentary when Lynda is showing her artwork to the camera and also when we were interviewing the teacher and students. The cutaway tool allowed us to smoothly transition between the angles of the two cameras without affecting the continuity of the documentary. I really liked the effect the cutaway tool added to the documentary during Lynda's interview as it allowed us to show the close up of her artwork which camera one wouldn't have provided.

Overall I have witnessed things in this practice documentary that I will make sure won’t happen again in the final, on the other side of things I have learned that using the cutaway tool and the screen on screen tool are two effective methods of editing as they enhance the professionalism of the overall documentary and it shows that we are experiencing new technologies therefore improving our knowledge.
 

Documentarian Research #5 - Michael Moore

Documentarian Research - Michael Moore on Prezi

Documentarian Research #4 - David Attenborough

Documentarian Research #3 - Ross Kemp

Documentarian Research #2 - Nick Broomfield

Documentary Presenter Research - Nick Broomfield on Prezi

Documentarian Research #1 - Louis Theroux

Mind Map for our Final Task Documentary

In this task we had to present as many ideas of possible documentaries that we could do for our final task, we then had to narrow them down to the three most realistic subjects that we could do our final documentary on. I chose New drivers, Teenage Drinking and University.

Practice Documentary - Passion for Fashion

This was our practise documentary, we decided to do ours on Fashion and came up with the name Passion for Fashion where we interviewed students to find out exactly how much they spend on clothes, if they find fashion important and how often they shop for clothes. The clip had to be roughly 1 minute long so we interviewed Megan and Howard for around 30 seconds each. By the end of the film we realised that both genders spend £50 or over on clothes per month, but Megan finds fashion more important than Howard. I personally found this documentary useful and will be contemplating whether to continue with Fashion in my final task as it will certainly be considered following the experience I have taken from doing the practise documentary.

Documentary Ideas

For this task we had to produce three ideas for our documentary choices when looking into our final task. My ideas were the Olympics and the impact that it will have on the local economy, my second idea was Teenage Drinking where I would explore how much teengaers consume per week, and if their parents have any clue as to what they drink. Thirdly, my last idea was Fashion in which I would find out as to whether people find Fashion important and how much the average person spends per month.

 

Ideas for Documentaries - How is Hosting the Olympics going to have an impact the Local Economy?

How is hosting the london 2012 olympics going[1] from ross95

This task was to think of an idea for a practise documentary, I chose to pick The Olympics as it is a wide subject and allows me to pick from variety of choices, I decided to link The Olympics with the economy and aim to produce a documentary exploring how the money used from The Olympics could be used to improve health and educational services.

Exploring Different Documentary Extracts

Exploring different documentary extracts on Prezi

Exploring Different Styles of Documentary

Different Forms of Documentary

Introduction to A2 Media Studies

In A2 Media Studies we will be looking at a variety of documentaries, and analysing the different techniques used in them, and placing them into four different categories and why these techniques are used. The categories are: camera work, mise en scene, sound and editing. When we arrive at our final task later in the year we must decide a mode; this means how the documentary is presented, for example reflexive, participatory, observational, expository or poetic. We will explore a variety of different modes when watching different documentaries and will get a greater knowledge and understanding of the modes throughout the year. We will be watching the likes of Louis Theroux documentarties, also Michael Moore and Ross Kemp documentaries and will be using that information and experience to use it in our own documentary.