Logging Sheet

Throughout the making of the documentary, we filled in a logging sheet to show the filming process of our documentary.

Newspaper Advertisement Production

In class, we looked at a website that shows us a range of professional adverts to help us to get an idea of what we need to do and use when making our advert as professional looking as possible.
http://www.4creative.co.uk/flash/#/print/press_and_poster/

Codes and Conventions of Newspaper advertisements

Here are the codes and conventions of newspaper adverts:

• The advert has the logo of the channel the programme is being shown on, normally on the right hand side
• The title of the documentary is clearly shown
• The text has a box behind in a diffrent colour to make it stand out more and clearer
• There is a main image which relates to the documentary that creates a narrative an fills the whole page
• The scheduling is shown on the advert
• There is a slogan that anchors the show which is catchy and short

Storyboard for Opening Title Sequence

Today in the lesson we done a storyboard for our documentary. This consists of montages of people sleeping and waking up and getting out of bed or falling out of bed, lights being swithed off and contains our production name being '40 winks'.

Our title sequence will start with a light switch being turned off and lead in to a montage of people asleep in a range of different places with a snoring sound effect behind the first shot of someone sleeping. Then it will change in to a lullaby as the background music for the rest of the sequence.

Mise en scene for interviews

In the lesson today we drawn pictures of the mise en scene for the interviews. They show the positioning of the person being interviewed, where they are being interviewed and who the person being interviewed is.

Chris Ison- Nightshift worker and Nertowk Rail.
We interviewed Chris and placed him on the left hand side of the screen positioned quite high up so that we could clearly see his uniform with the company logo across it and the background was plain.

Julia Ferebe- New Mother
We positioned Julia on the right hand side of the screen eyes level in the top third. The background was generally plain as the interview took place at her work place which is a classroom as she is a part time teacher.

Mr Vincent- New Father

We also interviewed a new dad, Mark Vincent who is also a teacher at Weatehrhead High School so the background was also quite plain with a display board. We sat him in the right hand side of the camera with eyes in the top third.

Primary Research

 

This is an email that we sent to a Sleep Laboratory in Arrowe Park hospital to ask if it was possible for an interview to take place, due to a lack of available time they had to be fair to others and decline our request.

We were able to contact Liverpool John Moores University and speak with Lynn Sutcliffe and was able to refer us to the Director of Natural Science and Psychology, Professor Andy Tattersall

Secondary Research

Secondary Research on Prezi

Formal Proposal

Topic - Sleep

Type of documentary – Mixed

Style of documentary – Informal and informative, fully narrated

Channel and scheduling – Channel 4 – 8:00 Wednesday night

Target Audience- young adults/teenagers 15-20/educated audience

Primary research needed -

· Shift Workers and Air hostesses

· Psychology Teacher

· Vox Pop, Where is the strangest place you have ever slept or woken up? Filming their weird and wonderful answers.

· Sleep Clinic?

· Locations for filming – airport, bedrooms, train stations, public shopping areas

· Interview with Mums and Dads on experiencing sleeping habits around a newborn baby

Secondary research needed –

· Archive footage: clips of babies crying, music relevant to topic, TV news extracts, Documentaries on dangerous dreams, YouTube clips of people and animals dreaming.

· Dangers of sleeping, narcotics, sleepwalkers, insomnia 

Narrative structure – Single strand, Linear, Open

Outline of content-

Different peoples and different careers sleeping habits and how sleep affects our day to day performance in life

Dreams and the mysteries of them, why do we dream, does cheese make us dream

Strangest places people can fall asleep

Remedies that keep the human body fighting off sleep or help sleep

Sleep clinic and interview with person who runs it

Relieve stress

VOXPOP – the joys of sleep and favourite thing about sleep

Interview with psychologist/psychology teacher

Interview with Shift worker/Airhostess

Interview with new mums n dads

Footage of people yawning

How sleep affects people emotionally, mentally and physically

How sleep can affect lives

Resource requirements –

· Digital video camera

· Microphone

· Tripod

· PC with adobe premier pro software

· Tape

Brainstorm Content

Once deciding what the topic of the documentary was going to be about 'sleep', who the target audience is going to be and the scheduling of the programm, my group needed to brainstorm all the possible content that could be included in the first 5 minutes of the documentary and also the rest of the programme.