Audience Feedback

From our feedback we have learnt that people thought that the documentary was entertaining as in response to our question ‘on a scale of 1-5 how entertaining do you think our documentary was?’ one response was, ‘5 because you… gave a good overview of everything like you covered a lot of aspects’ and ‘5 because I think it was really entertaining, cause it was informative but funny’ and ‘4 for entertainment, it had some funny moments in’. The responses linked with our target audience of 16 – 35 and our general view of the documentary being more informal that formal it’s good that the audience relate to this and see the documentary in a serious and fun way.

When asked the question about the professionalism of the documentary in comparison to documentaries seen on TV, the responses were generally a 3 or 4 on the scale of 1-5 as most said it was good as an amateur level but probably not yet at the level of a TV professional documentary.  Another person said a 4 because everyone was professional in it, like it was produced professionally just because of obvious things like you don’t have the same studio and experience as normal documentary makers.’

In response to ‘on a scale of 1 -5, how informative do you think our documentary is?’ one responded with it was ‘very informative although it was a bit general like it just went with the whole tattoo thing, it didn’t really specify one particular part of tattoos.’ And another said: ‘4 and a half because all the information on tattoos was really good and it gave me like a good range of views’ but then goes onto say how she would of liked to have heard more about a certain part which was in the documentary. These opinions are helpful, although the clip they saw was only of the first five minutes and so it is hard for them to give a full view on the content which would appear in the rest of the documentary.

On the subject of the technicalities of our documentary, a lot rated it at about a 4 saying they like the music and how ‘tattoos are normally associated with that genre’ but how there were some faults in the editing. 

When asked to comment on how enticing the opening sequence was in terms of making them want to carry on and watch more, one responded with ‘yeah because I really liked the music, the black and white theme and the drawing on the back because that is what a tattoo is, like drawing on somebody’s skin and I thought that was quite an interesting and different way to look at it because it just brought tattoos down to their essence, like what they actually are.’

Overall we gained good feedback that gave us both good points and bad points which let us know how we could improve on it.

Newspaper Advertisement Production

Drafting Newspaper Advertisement

These images show quick sketches of the initial ideas for the poster. We thought the idea of a persons back being shown and then being drawn on or showing something to do with our documentary would be the best idea. We were originally planning to interview someone who had a large dreamcatcher tattooed on their side so we thought this would be cool to draw on a persons back for the poster. We stuck to the conventions needed and made sure we had the channel 4 logo on the right side, a main image and the title, tag line and shapes to go behind the text.

Codes and Conventions of Newspaper Advertisements

Most adverts have the same conventions but as ours is for channel four, these are their main conventions:

- Channel 4 logo
- one main background image
- minimum amount of words for the tag line and documentary name
- Tag line and title of doc on basic font over a a rectangle box
- Bold text but that doesnt draw attention away from the main image.
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The two following adverts are from channel four, they show the typical conventions:

Recording and Editing Radio Trailer

After we had asked someone to be the voice for our radio advert we chose somewhere quiet where we could film them, set everyhting up: cip mic, camera and gave them the script to practice. We then just filmed as they read, we would wait at least 20 seconds  in between each sentence so that id needed we could easily cut and seperate the different parts to it.

When we had done this we just put it into premiere and deleted the footage, leaving the sound. Next we edited the clips so that they fitted in with our other sound bites.

Scripting Radio Trailer

N: Do you want a tattoo? Why do you want a tattoo? A personal influence?

Liam: Wow my dad's got a tattoo, I really want one, I wanna get one now

N: A drunken mistake?

Doody: I ended up with Jake Forshaw on my left bum cheek.

N: Have you really thought about it?

Dave: Somepoint you're gonna regret it cause you've not really thought about it much

N: Do you even like tattoos?

Old man: Body, perfect, God...

N: Tune in to channel four, wednesday 14th, 9pm

Codes and Conventions of Radio Trailers

General codes and conventions of a radio advert are as follows:

- Scheduling - channel and time

- Narration - voice over tells a little about what the show is about

- Clips from the documentary/programme

- Approximately 30 seconds long

- Narrator may ask rhetorical questions for the listener to think about, the questions would be answered in the documentary

 - Background music as a base - music bed

 

Scripting Voiceover

For the documentary we decided to use a voice which would be quite neutral and calm. We wrote the script for our narration after we had done most of the documentary so we could plan what was to be said and where it could fit in.

After statistics
During Lucky Diamond Rich

N: The popularity of tattoos has increased dramatically as has the controversy involved with it.

    :We showed the public tattoos like thes, lets see what they thought

After reactions
During oldest preserved body

N: Humans have had tattoos for over 5000 years but they were made more for function rather than appearence. People think less of tattoos beacuse they've lost their morning.

  : Let's ask Liam why he's getting his tattoo

After Liam, before Doody

N: Many young adults get tattoos overseas due to peer pressure or being under the influence of alcohol

During the old man - as he first appears

N: So what do the older generatipon think?

Old man

N: We came to Dark Arts as we followed Liam on his journey to get his first tattoo. We found out what they had to say about being a tattoo artist.

Edit Decision List

When choosing what things we needed for the final documentary and various things, we made our edit decision list so that we could  have a clear and easy folder to look in and find our work. We chose to cut footage such as videos of some tattoos that we took with a hand held camera. And we chose to keep footage we knew we needed like the videos from Dark Arts tattoo studio and stock images of celebrities that we were to use in the documentary. 

Planning

Questions for the Tattoo Artist
1. How long have you been a tattoo artist and why did you choose to be one?
2. What skills did you need to be a tattoo artist?
3. What is the strangest tattoo you have done; can you explain what it was?
4. Is there a most common tattoo?
5. what do you think influences peoples' tattoos the most?
6. What are the dangers of getting a tattoo?
7. Have you ever refused to tattoo anyone?



Questions for the customer
1. Tattoo do you have and what does it mean to you?
2. What are your other tattoos and are there stories behind them?
3. Do you think in the future you will regret getting tattoos because of how they effect your life, e.g. employment and relationships?
4. Do you think there is a limit on how many tattoos you should get?
5. Would you ever get a tattoo on more exposed areas of your body such as hands, face, neck, if so do you think it would be a problem?


Storyboard

The first storyboard shows the plan for the opening sequence and the second shows a plan for another scene.

Single Frames

This single frame shows the plan for the scene when we will film Liam and interview him about his tattoos and personal infliuences. We have decided to use two cameras so that we can have one on an angle and close up in whilst the other will be straight  on and at a medium close up.



The scene shows when we will interview Dave (the tattoo artist) about his job and experiences whilst he is tattooing Liam. We will use one camera at one angle set up on the tripod but may zoom into close ups occasionally and lower the angle for better shots of the tattoo in progress.

Running Order

Fade from black medium close up of women facing away from camera with another writing ‘Eye of The Needle’ on her back, cut with Montage of footage from the documentary when music starts.	17 Seconds
Extreme close up of womens faces, centered on the eye. Camera crabs 180 degrees around subject revealing openening titles tattooed on back.	6 seconds
Statistics shown in black text on a white background.	9 seconds
Fades to archive footage of heavily tattoed celebrity.	4 seconds
Stock images of tattos and celbrities, narrator comes into documentary and explaines how tattoos are becomeing popular but asks what the general public thought about images of shocking tattoos.	9 seconds
6 vox pop interveiws, we cant see what images they are looking at but we see their shocked reactions.	24 seconds
Archive footage of worlds oldest preserved tattooed human.	13 seconds
Interveiw infront of blue screen. Cuts between camera A and camera B using a medium long shot and a medium close up shot, background depicts black ace of spades tattoo. Name tag tells us subjects name an doccupation.	25 seconds
Medium long shot of person being tattoed abroad on their left bum cheek, fades to close up of tattoo.	7 seconds
Interveiw outdoors name tag intorduces subject, cut away to subject being tattoed as he describes the events that led up to it .	26 seconds
Interweiw medium close upo fo old man cut away to image of heavily tattoed model to show the audience what he is reacting to	35 seconds
Stock image of tattoo question mark as narrator asks question.	4 seconds
Interveiw, no name tag, subject has already been introduced. Cuts between camera A camera B, includes over the shoulder close up shot of subjects hands as he refers to a drawing of his tattoo.	24 seconds
Long shot. hand held tracking shot of tatto studio, changes to a panning shot. looks as if it is someone looking around the the studio to show that we are on the journey with the subject.	23 seconds
Interveiws of two tatto artist cuts from one artist ot the other and back as they tattoo people. Interveiws include cut aways of close ups that show them tattoing people.	55 seconds

Research for Documentary

Primary Research
After we chose the topic of our documentary we began to plan and research. We rang up multiple tattoo studios and enquired into being able to go and film at their studio, interview them and possibly some customers. We were left dissapointed for the first few times but eventually we got permission to film at Dark Arts in Warrington. This means we can interview tattoo artists, film the tattoo studio and also film whilst a person is getting a tattoo.

Interviews 
Liam Roberts is a student at out college, he is getting his first tattoo at Dark Arts in the next few weeks so we are going to interview him beforehand on why he is he getting it and his opinions. We plan to film Liam using two cameras so that we can have different angles and up close and long shots. We will film Liam in the blue room as we can then place images of his drawn tattoo on the screen behind him when we edit later on. We will then film him getting the tattoo in Dark Arts.

Tom C is another student who already has multiple tattoos. He has agreed to let us interview him about his tatoos and film them, also, he is getting another tattoo soon and has given permission for us to film it if the tatoo studio (Tattoo Fusion) allows it too. We have enquired with this tattoo studio and and are waiting fo a response. If so we will use the tattoo studio to film Tom's interview too.

Chloe Fryer is another student who has recently got a new tattoo. She has also agreed to let us film her tattoo and interview her. We will film her in the blue screen or in an art room as she is an art student we feel this would show her character and relate to her tattoo.

James Doody is a student who last year got a tattoo whilst on holiday. He is allowing us to film the tattoo and interview him on the suject. We plan to film him in a neutral area, most likely on a bench in green area then we could accompany his interview with images of his holiday cross dissolving in and out.

An idea for our iopening sequence in the documentary is to film a (fake) tattoo being drawn onto a persons back. We asked our friend, Lizzie Hazeldine if she would draw it and she has agreed. Chloe Jones (a member of our group) has also agreed to be the peson getting drawn on. We will simply use a black fine liner to draw it and use the blue screen but with the whote paper background and a chaire for Chloe to sit on, when filming.

When we got to Dark Arts to interview the tattoo artists we plan to film in the studio so that we have the camera set up in rule of thirds showing that the area we are in is tattoo related.

Joel Haywood is a male from Manchester, he is in a band and also has a vast amount of tattoos. We have enquired into interviewing him, and asked him over twitter, he responded asking for more information but has since not yet responded.

Vox pops
These will be quick fire responses to images of tattoos we have shown. We have decided to do some of these in college as we can have a variety of opinions and there are plenty of people. We will set up in the upstairs and downstairs of the wicked cafe so that we can ask people walking past and we will film it against a plain wall. We think it will be best if we also film some vox pops in another location out of college, so we are going to go to the centre of the local village - stockton heath - and set up inear some shops at midday so we can talk to a variet of people who are out.

Secondary Research

We decided that we would like music to play through most parts of the music as background noise. So we will search for heavy metal songs as we think these will fit in with the stereotypical view of tattoos, so if we play it quietly it should fit in nicely. When initially planning our documentary we decided on a basic running order so we knew what we needed to film. We have decided to start the documentary with a montage and so just need music to play that fits in, we have chosen eye of the tiger. The music we finalise and choose will just be downloaded using firefox and add ons then put into to premiere to fit in where we need it. A youtube video we have decided to use as part of our archive is one about Rick Genest, a man who has his body covered in skeleton tattoos. We have also decided to use some images of celebrities with tattoos as it links with another part of our documentary.

Formal Proposal for Documentary

Our documentary will be an expository with narration about tattoos. The documentary will include the history of tattoos, statistics, and footage of a tattoo being done and so on, there is also times when a direct mode of address is used so that we can involve the audience.  The documentary runs primarily on interviews but narration is also present in parts. It can be seen as mainly informal due to part of the documentary involving an interview with a tattoo artist who uses taboo language when speaking, showing he is in a relaxed environment and not scripted. Nudity is also seen.

Our documentary will be shown on Channel 4 at 9pm, we chose this scheduling due to its informalities and thought channel 4 would be suitable as it regularly shows a range f documentaries from both up coming and experienced film makers. The target audience for our documentary will be ages 16 – 35 as a result of our own research and others we found this age group would be most interested.

When doing primary research for our documentary, we will need to get interviews with the general public, people will tattoos and with a tattoo artist. We also need images of tattoos and to give out a questionnaire for people to complete. The secondary research we will complete will be to find archive music and images and also statistics.

A linear narrative will be used to guide parts of the documentary.  An outline of the content for the documentary is: footage of and interviews with a tattoo artist and a person being tattooed, a montage of tattoos, interviews/vox pops with people talking about their views on tattoos, people’s personal experiences and influences and statistics. Resource requirements that we will need are, two cameras, microphone/clip microphone, tripod, notepad, pen and held hand camera.  

Brainstorm of Content For Documentary

 - Interviews with tattoo artist, people with tattoos and who are getting a tattoo
- Montage of tattoos (could be at the start of the documentary)
- Various age groups interviewed
- Why people get a tattoo - personal experiences, serious reasons, etc
- Influences - bands/artists, celebrities, personal experiences
- Statistics - on average how many people have tattoos, etc
- Footage of someone getting a tattoo

Target Audience Research

We created a questionnaire then then after doing a tally we chose a few of the questions with the most interesting results to focus on : 

The first questions asks how interested the public are in tattoos, after tallying the response we found that out of 30 people, that the highest tally of 9 were most interested in  tattoos (5 out of 5) and 6 were not interested at all (3 out of 5). Yet only 3 people said they were 3, which meant they weren't that interested but weren't not interested in tattoos, 3 people also said they liked and 3 said they disliked tattoos choosing 1 and 4. Overall this graph tells us that people are mainly interested in tattoos but the people we asked had a vaiety of views. 

This graph asks whether people would like to see a documentary on tattoos. The majority voted no but quite a few also voted yes. However from the range age we asked, we would expect that they wouldn't be too interested in actually watching a documentary as they'd rather just get a tattoo rather than learn and find out about them. 

'What is your reaction to this image?' is the question asked and in response to the image on the right. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being love, 5 being hate, 9 voted 2 whereas 6 voted for 3, another 6 for 4 and another 6 for 5 but just 3 voted for 1. This tells us that most did like the image of but on average a lot were swaying more towards disliking it.

In response to 'Do you already have a tattoo?' the vote split as 15 voted yes and 15 voted no. This tells us that a lot of people who have tattoos could be interested in seeing the experiences of some of the people we plan to interview. 

Initial Plans

Initial plans for our documentary is to have a topic of Tattoos, showing one being done, having interviews with tattoo artists and with a variety of people telling us about their opinion on tattoos. We thought this would be a good idea as we found the topic interesting and we had plenty of good ideas to start us off. The audience would be for people agaed around 16 - 25 as we think this age range would be most interested in watching our documentary. We though BBC3 would be a good channel to air our show as it regurarly shows documentaries on many interwsting topics and so the scheduling would be for either 9 or 10pm. Ideas for the title of the programme: Scarred, Scart, Inked, Art for Life, Tatt do's and Tatt dont's, under the needle, eye of the needle, no regrets.

Brainstorming

This image shows on the left, documentary ideas and on the right, good and bad ideas.

Documentary Ideas:

- Beauty

- Driving

     - Journey

     - Adventure

     - How to/learning to drive

- The Beatles

- Fear/Paranormal

      - Farmageddon/Spooky World

      - Radbroke House

      - Psychics

      - Tour a haunted place

- Seaside Rock

       - How is it made?

- Trafford Centre

       - Security

       - History

       - Food court

- Radio

- Cadburys World

- Behind the scenes

       - Corronation Street

       - Emmerdale

       - Hollyoaks

- Blue Planet Aquarium

- Music

Good Ideas:

- Driving documentary

        - Insurance

        - Learning to drive

        - Fuel

        - Dangerous Driving

        - Police

- Paranormal/Fear 

        - Fear- why it affects them

        - Ghosts

        - Places to film - Radbroke Hall

                                 - Walton Hall

- Tattoos

        - Know people who work in a tattoo parlour and own one

        - film people - those who own tattoo places

                             - those with tattoos themselves of all ages

                             - how various people of ages and backgrounds view them on others

Bad Ideas

- Blue Planet Aquarium

         - Difficult to get permission to film

         - Animals are unpredictable to film

- Radio

Genre Analysis

The Meth Epidemic

A lot of cross cutting is used between A and B rolls which is works with the documentary as its an expose and is filmed quite edgy and raw. There is a lot of emphasis on cut aways to enhancing shots.  

Extreme close ups and close up shots are seen of the meth with cutaways and B roll footage. A lot of the extreme close ups are seen which most are filmed loosely keeping the meth addicts face in the frame as they speak. Abstract establishing shots are seen to represent the USA along with the use of hand held cameras to get a real view like the audience is there and involved. The conventional, rule of thirds, is also used throughout. 

Drug abuse is the main theme in the documentary as that is what the film is based on. Child abuse is another theme seen as the documentary looks at what effects the drug has on not only those using it, but those who simply around those who do use it and are therefore part of the drug world. To show this, people who specialize in areas such as, child abuse, are interviewed. Criminality is of course another theme shown as the use of the drug is illegal and so during the documentary footage of the police and people being arrested is shown and discussed frequently as to how people illegally try to get around the system in order to make the drug. Law and legislation is also seen as a result of the criminality witnessed with the drug abuse. 

Throughout the documentary there is a narrator which is seen as the "voice of God" this person keeps the audience aware of what is happening in the documentary. There is an atmospheric drone which acts as a sound bed. Linking to the theme of the documentary, sirens are heard as a denotation of criminal activity.

This shot shows an example of the mise en scene on the documentary. The lady talking is more towards the right of the screen which follows the rule of thirds. This is a talking head shot which is filmed externally with trees/woodland as a background. This could be to create a calm and neutral back drop in comparison to the topic being discussed along with how the person being interviewed is a 'child abuse examiner' the backdrop suggests a more calmer atmosphere in contrast with the footage being shown before and after this scene.

Loose Change

Throughout the documentary there are various birds eye view shots. These are done to sow something in perspective and overall. The screenshot below is an example of one as it shows a birds eye view of some land. 

Primary footage is shown using A- roll then cutaways to B- roll footage. This allows for an image or footage of some sort to be shown whilst a person in A-roll footage may be speaking about it. Due to the topic of the documentary, a lot of archive information is seen. Newspapers (as shown in the print screen below-), mobile phone footage and transcripts of interviews are all shown.

 

Eerie music in the background adds to the topic if the documentary. There is the constant voice of the narrator. A person who narrates the documentary, is able to keep a monotone voice throughout. This keeps a neutral element even the documentary is blatantly bias. 

The Mise en Scene of this interview is good as it shows him being interviewed in a professional setting. 

Clear themes are seen within the documentary, these are: 9/11, the government and the acts of conspiracy. In particular the document focuses on the idea of there being a more conspired reason behind the events which happened on September 11th 2001, refracting the widely spread reason  that it was due to foreign problems. The beginning of the documentary focuses a vast amount on the archaic documents used as evidence to support the view shown. 

Through the Wormhole: Is There a Sixth Sense?

This is a documentary exploring the possibilities of there being a sixth sense.

The documentary begins with a montage of close up shots to do with the five senses. Establishing shots are used to show Earth and

large areas of land in birds eye view. The narrator talks to the camera and is filmed in close ups to show just

the top half of their body as they speak.

Rolling footage is used as are flashbacks and the use of a hand held camera. Close up shots are used from blurred going into focus. Low angle shots are used to make the speaker look bigger, so the audience is looking up to the speaker. There are lots of interviews with experts on subjects in relation to the documentary's theme. Sped up footage is used then into a close up of a head with camera in the background. 

In editing, cutaways are frequently seen along with A and B roll and a lot of cutting between interviews.

Themes seen are to do with the outside and living things like trees and buildings and places of work like offices. 

Hawaii - Message In The Waves

This is a documentary about the local people  of Hawaii and how they see the area is being affected by the new tourist view of Hawaii.

There are lots of close ups of the sea as this is a main theme and also the waves and ripples in the water establishing shots are shown of Hawaii and then cuts straight to the beach. Low angle shots are used as well as underwater camera and shots that zoom in/out. 

In a lot of the interviews the background noise is natural to the setting - the sound of waves in the background/ocean noises and the sound of people talking as they walk past where the interview is taking place (on the beach). Mise en scene is good as it shows the area surrounding - the beach and some forestry surrounds. The general theme is the sea and sea life  also community and school life and the views of local people. 

Baby Beauty Queens

The camera is hand held as it follows a girl as she walks through a shop, the camera keeps at her height a- this lets the audience experience things from her point of view and her perspective so this is also using low angled shots. Long shots are used too as are establishing shots of who's being interviewed's house. Talking head shots are seen too in extreme close ups. 

Interviews with the children involved and some adults are shown through cutaways and cutaways to the long shots of them on stage. 

Mise en scene can be shown differently and is shown with the mum talking and the background (the living room) is blurred/out of focus. When the mum and daughter are in the shop looking through the clothes section and beauty section whilst they talk about those subjects and test the products. When the Dad is interviewed it is in the home environment as he cooks the tea as his daughter helps. 

There is a voice over which is a female narrator and most of the time their is constant background noise. In the opening sequence when the title appeared, a noise to match was put in the action which happened that looked like fairy dust being thrown.

Themes seen are beauty, family, pageants. 

The Lost World Of Lake Vostok

This documentary is about a lake which was discovered underneath ice in the Antarctica. Believed to be over millions of years old, experts talk about its discovery and possible existence of life down there.

Camera:
- animated earth rotating in space
                            and what work scientists did
- archaic - data
               - newspapers
               - film (black and white)
- extreme close -ups of face- eyes
                                             - machinery

Editing:

- Faded images to footage
- lots of fading

Mise En Scene:

- Interview in library
- rule of thirds
- office interviews
- space - planets in background of shot - job
- guy interviewed in science lab as background

Sound:

- Narrator - voice of God
- wind sounds
- godly like music

Themes:

- Science
- Geology
- Geography
- Space- planets
- Life- microbes