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.