Evalutaion: what technology did i use?

Evaluation: What Technology did i use?



Evaluation Interview

Evaluation: Interview

Storyboard

Here is my finished storyboard which i followed when filming as i had an ideas of what shots i needed...

Finished Double Page spread Final

Final Double page spread

Evaluation: Podcast

Podcast for Evaluation- What Conventions did i use, Challange and Develop

Evaluation Scripts

Evaluation Scripts

The first one i am going to talk to the camera... The second one is going to be a podcast, The third one will be an interview and the last one will be someone following me with a camera showing you the technqiues...

Here is my Evaluation Scripts i went by when filming my evaluation...

Voice over Script

Voice over Script

I got my friend Caitlin to record the voiceover for me because she had a much clearer voice and was a lot more fluent.

My Double-Page spread Rough

Double Page Spread Rough

Radio Times

Then I went onto look at a magazine which would most likeley feature my double page spread, The radio times, Here is a another double page spread in the radio times on a documentary called Frozen Planet.

We can clearly see it is an eye catching double page spread with a very large picture of ice, a polar bear and a camera crew spread over the two pages, The article is titled ‘Lure of the pie’ a catchy slogan explaining how they got so close to the polar bears ‘Lurring’ the polar bears in for ‘Pie’ , above the slogan is a caption ‘ the bigger picture’ in red resembling the big picture over the two pages but also saying that this documentary shows you it up close. The text starts with the title of the documentary and when it is been shown BBC 1 at 9.00pm, The two columns are explaining what the documentary is about giving quotes from the frozem planet team and explaining what they did in the artic to get up close and personal with the polar bears and what really happened behind the scenes giving real stories to the readers as that is what they want to hear the 'action' and the funny stories. In the right hand corner of they put an image within an image putting it smaller in the right hand corner as it is not as important as the larger image that cover the two pages, with the image ontop of the image it comes with a caption don’t feed the bears, catchy and fun for the audience to read bringing humour to the page. On the right hand page on the right hand side is a column, a column advertiseing what other programmes are on bbc and what is most talked about, I could use this is my double page spread to advertise other tv programmes on channel 4.

Double Page spread 'Empire'

Awkward Sex and the City 'Empire'

Here I looked at Another double page spread has the same layout as taken in ways, with an interesting colour scheme of orange black and white, the use of arrows to break up the page, and one big picture, But they have used the right hand page to advertise other programmes at the right hand side of the page in a column which also breaks up the page.

Taken 2 Double page Spread

Taken 2 Double page spread

I then went onto look at some examples of double page spreads looking at the layout of them what they consist of and seeing what I liked best about each double page spread. Here I have looked at a double page spread on Taken 2.

This was taken from the Magazine 'Empire' I can instantly see that the page is well layed out looking simple and sophisticated with three columns of text, one large picture of liam neason who is a well known actor  in the middle of the page to catch the readers eye as liam neason is famous for taken 1. The double page spread uses blue arrows to break up the page making it more attractive to the eye. Another reason why the double page spread is neat and clear is because is uses a colour scheme of black white and blue making it looks classy and not muddled up. As all articles do it has a big bold title at the left hand side of the double spread making it noticable and simple of what the article is about. At the start of the double page spread it starts off with some key facts of when the film was released, the cast, the director and plot making it simple for people to read, also widening its audience as even if someone hasn’t watched the film they can still read the double page spread and understand it. Other key facts are at the right hand side of the page to the left of the picture with a title of ‘Look closer’ giving key backstage facts.

What Magazine would my Double Page spread Feature in? (unfinished)

Sky Sports Newspaper Advertisment

Sky Sports Newspaper Advertisment

Because i want to make another Newspaper advertisment i decided to do some research into other newspaper advertisments other than Channel 4's here is an example of another newspaper advertisement for sky sports advertiseing the rider cup.

It has a big bold statement picture as the background with the sky sports logo at the bottom right hand side of the page making it noticeable to the reader and as they say to make it pop out of the page, At the left hand side of the page is a faded blue banner down the side this is to make the text that is ontop of the banner stand out and also make it readable. At the top of the banner is a big bold slogan in capitals saying ‘its golf but not as you know it’ intruiging the audience and drawing them in making them watch to watch it. Underneath the big bold slogan is the Ryder cup logo so readers instantly know what it is advertising underneath the logo is information of when it is going to be viewing in smaller text Then again underneath that is some more text to tempt the reader into watching the golf making them believe that it will be ‘dramatic’. Underneath this is the Sky 3D logo, advertiseing sky 3d catching the viewers eye and also in text above the logo text which points out that it is ‘exclusivley live in 3D’ using the word exclusivley to make the viewer more tempted to watch the golf. At the bottom of the banner is some more text advertiseing sky itself, also getting the chance to tempt existing sky viewers into upgrading and purchasing sky sports to watch the Ryder cup as not all sky customers have sky sports in the package deal.

I believe this newspaper has too much text as I want my newspaper advertisement to be quick to read and eye catching but I do like the idea of the banner down the side of the page making the text stand out and not blend into the picture in the background.

My Channel 4 Advertisments

My Channel 4 Advertisments



Looking at all the channel 4 advertisements most of them have a simular layout with the contrasting colours with the big bold channel 4 logo and the font of the texts and also how the pictures are related to the programme overall and how it is kept very simple. Because I can see my documentary been on channel 4 I decided to base my advertisement around the channel 4 layout, picking out key features of the advertisements and putting it into mine but changing things around.

Here are my drafts formy newspaper advertisement…



As you can see my newspaper advertisements are very plain compared to other newspaper advertisements that are non Channel 4 many have faceboook links, hashtags for twitter, scan barcodes, websites ect, but because my documentary would shown on channel 4 I decided to stick with the channel 4 theme keeping it simple and not inclusing any facebook logos, hashtags ect

But I also wanted to look at other newspaper advertisments other than channel 4’s and make another newspaper advertisement for another programme to show what my newspaper advertisement would be like if It wasn’t showed on channel 4, including the facebook links, hashtags, barcodes ect

Channel 4 Advertisment: Non-Sense

Channel 4 Non-Sense

I then decided to look at another newspaper advertisement for channel 4 called Non-sense a programme about sight.

Looking at the advertisement you can see straight away it is about sight showing a clear simple picture again of a woman looking straight at the camera but with her eyes blurred clearly representing she is blind, keeping it simple and eye catching and easy to understand. The channel 4 logo again is in the middle of page in contrasting colours making it stand out to the audience again to show it is on channel 4. A difference is that this time it is not a big title at the top of the page it is a catchy slogan which is a rhetorical question 'What are you looking at?' Representing that the blind are always been stared at but they also cant see what people are looking at making the audience more interested in the programme as they want to find out what it is all about. Again at the bottom of the page is the general information about the show making it clear when the programme is, again this has a bold background and contrasting text to the background to make it stand out which most of channel 4 advertisements have.

Channel 4 Newspaper Advertisments

Channel 4 Newspaper advertisments



Now for creating my own newspaper advertisement I am going to look at some existing ones and see what qualities they have..

Here is a channel 4 newspaper advertisment for high on blow, about a man who follows storms..



Here they have used a Bold heading, they have made it bold by using black over white using contrasting colours to make it stand out also made the font bigger than the rest of the texts to show clearly that it is the name of the programme ‘High on blow’, they have titled it like this to suggest that the man is getting ‘High’ off the storms as ‘blow’ is another word for ‘cannabis and cocaine’ but here ‘blow’ is used to represent the storms. They have also put the logo of channel 4 in the middle of the page to catch the readers eye and to show clearly that this programme is shown on channel 4 again they have used contrasting colours by putting the white 4 logo over a dark background. In the right hand corner of the page they have put in small the logo of Volkswagen who sponsor this documentary. They have then put the slogan of the show ‘A very british storm junkie’ again suggesting that the man is addicted to the storms they do this by using the word ‘junkie’ which is associated with people who are ‘addicts’.Underneath the slogan is when it is giving the information to the audience, again using contrasting bold colours to make it stand out against the rest of the advertisement. For the picture They have used a simple clear picture for the background of the advertisement keeping it clear and eye catching but also explaining the show itself.

My Documentary: What Newspaper?

newspaper advertisements

For my next stage of research I am going to look at Newspaper advertisements looking at the layout, text and what the adverts consist of. Also going to look at where my Newspaper advertisement would be featured in what Newspaper on what page.

I started off by looking at national newspapers as they give a Great opportunity to reach a Wide audience  with 32.9 million people read a local newspaper every week, making it the most widely read print medium in Britain.

Many newspapers come with an additional ‘mini magazine’ inside known as an entertainment suppliment such as the times having ‘the Sunday time magazine’ which you could also advertise in.

With 71% of adults reading a local newspaper and Over 60% of people acting on the ads in local newspapers advertising is a big part of many newspapers

This is reflecting in the cost as per single column centimetre the cost of a classified advert is around £30 but in more popular newspapers it is likely to be higher to advertise on a double page spread in the times would cost around £34,000

Then I went onto look at Regional newspapers as they are much more affordable and also allows you select a specific audience but for my documentary that would be viewed on channel 4 it would want a much wider audience than just a regional newspaper

Final shot list

Here is my final shot list, which maybe added to as i edit my documentary as changes could be made.

Filming 19/09/12

I went to Beverley Racecourse to film on the 19th of september it was a lovley day so there was so weather problems apart from the wind that you can hear on the footage and interviews i got lots of variety of shots and had lots of help from staff to acces to parts of the racecourse. I was not allowed to film the horse racing itself but i managed to film the horses in the parade ring. Because i need to perfect my footage and get some more i am going to look at more race days i can go to.

Shooting Scheduale

Shooting Scheduale
Before I went to the racecourse I had to prepare a shooting schedule to know exactly when I was going to film and to prepare a date for when I could go and film again if my footage wasn’t good enough or I needed to add something. Here is my Shooting schedule…  

and here is the date that if I didn’t get all the footage in that one day I could go and film again.

 I found these dates by going onto the Beverly racecourse website where there is latest news and many more where you can find out about sponsorships for races and venue hire ect

Questions i may ask in interviews..

Questions i may ask

Another thing I had to prepare before I went to film was the questions I may ask the people I was going to possibly interview here are some of the questions I prepared…

I Had to think carefully what to ask each person I interviewed making sure they were not too personal and also making sure they fit my documentary and what it was about.

Risk assessment

Risk Assessment

Before I went to film I had to create a risk assessment to know what I needed to be aware of for my own safety, here is my risk assessment.

Shot list

Shot list

First of all for my planning I created a rough shot list with some of the variety of shots I needed Here is a picture of my rough shot list it is a rough shotlist as changes maybe made after i film as i may want to cut shots out, adds shots or change shots around.



Jennifer Saunders: Back in the Saddle, ITV1 CLIP

Another documentary came out recently that I decided to look at was called Jennifer Saunders: Back in the Saddle, ITV1 even though horse racing is not included in the documentary it is the type of documentary that I wish to achieve.  In the first of a two-part series, Jennifer Saunders sets out to re-engage the nation with the equestrian sports that she has always loved - eventing, showjumping and dressage talking to many different people about the horse industry from different backgrounds and different sports within horse riding, she tells the story of her life very well and how advanced the horse industry is and how it has changed over the years adding humour to the documentary to make it become more enganging for the audience wish I hope to do with my documentary.

 Here is a short clip from the documentary.

Seabiscuit: The lost documentary

Seabiscuit: The lost documentary

Seabisbuit : the lost documentary is another excisting documentary and also documentray film I am going to look at, it is an extraordinary piece of horse racing history. This ‘Lost’ original documentray was made in 1939 by SEABICUITS’s owner, Charles Howard, in honor of SEABISCUIT winning the coveted title of, ‘Horse-of-the-year’

In the documentary you see SEABISCUIT’s birth, his early life at the stables and SEABISCUIT’s first race where his fourth place finish earned him $50. You can also watch Charles Howard purchase SEABISCUIT after claimin race and trainer Tom Smith put SEABUISCUIR through workouts.

Expertly restored in the original black-and-white format, and explanded to include a vibrant colour version. The film stars Martin Mason, Doc Bond and Charles Howard directed by Manny Nathan Hahn and produced by Legend Films and distrubuted by Hart sharp video. This is a very popular movie/ documentary but again unlike my documentary this has a storyline and just focuses on one horse and focuses on the storyline bringing attachment to the audience, this film also contains a voice oevr which is unusual in most films but mainly because it is a documentary film having conventions of a documentray and a film. Also the film expandes over a massive time scale.

Here is a clip from the film...

The Little Horse That Could: The Connemara Stallion, Erin Go Bragh (CLIP)

The Little Horse That Could: The Connemara Stallion, Erin Go Bragh

Even Early Films did the same creating a film through a documentary for example.. The Little Horse That Could: The Connemara Stallion, Erin Go Bragh this is a documentary on a Connemara stallion eventing horse named Erin Go Bragh & his owner Carol Kozlowski. It details everything from daily care, to training to the unfolding of actual events. For horse lovers of all ages. Which was Published by Dreams Come True Productions on DVD. This is different to the diea od my documentray as mine would be seen on the one show and not made to be a DVD. Also it would include many different people in the documentray not focusing on one.

Here is the trailer for the movie...

Documentarys in films: The first Saturday in May.

Documentarys in films.

Recently documentray films are becoming increasingly popular, and there are many examples of this in the horse racing catogary. For example..

The first day in may released on the 18 April 2008 in the USA this film shows The Hennegan brothers following six trainers from varying parts of the country (Arkansas, Florida, New York, Kentucky) on their prime 2005 horses' journeys through various graded stakes to the Kentucky Derby. The film consists of both heartbreak and joy and close reltionships with the people within the film, making the audience form an attatchment with the charcters, make the documentray more effective. The directors of the film are Brad Hennegan and John Hennegan and also stars Frank Amonte, Barbaro and Peter Brette. The production company was the Hennegan Brothers.

Here is a clip to show you...

The diffrence between this industry is that in film documentarys they often have a storyline of a particular character or horse… making the film more personal and enjoyable to watch adding fiction to make the film more exciting. Turning facts into a story but with my documentary it would purley be the facts and maybe a little story on a particular persons experience in the racing industry.

Martin Clunes Horse Power

Martin Clunes Horse Power Documentary.

Following on from the Youtube documentary I reserached I went on to look at HorsePower by Martin Clunes He travels the world to unlock the secrets of man’s partnership with horses in Horsepower, a new documentary series for ITV1.  His journey takes him from remotest Mongolia to the deserts of Arabia; to see the enigmatic wild Mustangs in Nevada, and watch the thrills and spills of rodeo in Las Vegas. Martin is a special guest at the world’s most glamorous and lavish racing event in Dubai, and watches the colourful Palio horse race in Italy, which dates back to the 1200’s. Martin unravels the story of how man and horse first got together, what the horse has done for us through the ages, and what the horse still means to us today.

He says  “I  wanted to find out how this animal became so important to us.  How did we manage to tame such a huge, fearful prey animal and make it both our servant and our friend,”

The series is made for ITV1 by ITV Studios and Buffalo Pictures.

You can now also buy the series on DVD.

Here is the links to some youtube clips... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBatY-u8Y34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOo-HMpp0no&feature=related

Here is a clip of the documentary...

 

Comments on the documentary on Youtube

I decided to look at the comments and reviews about the documentary on you tube and pick up the bad and good points the audience thought about this documentary..

Here are the comments that people had made..

The film looks absolutely fantastic. Hope you can make a sale

Where can I watch the full documentary?

Hi, the documentary is currentlyy with broadcasters, waiting to see if it gets aired! Thanks for viewing

Very nicely shot, giving a good insight into what is an all embracing sport and the different characters it produces

Because there were only 4 comments that were not very useful on Youtube I decided to ask the whole of my class to view the documentary and comment on it describing the good and bad points of the documentary..

I did this by putting a link to the video on the U drive so that everybody could access the video.

These are the comments I got from my fellow piers about this video...

Comments on the Documentary on youtube.

Analysing mini documentary- Newmarket Horse Racing Documentary - A Sporting Chance

Newmarket Horse Racing Documentary - A Sporting Chance

To get an idea of what shots and how I am going to present my documentary I started looking at mini horse racing documentarys that are already out there and look how they are presented asking myself questions like have they just got a voiceover? Have they got a presenter? What shots are used? What are the positives and negatives about these documentarys?

At the very start of the video it shows a long shot, sunset in the background showing horses running also has a title: A film by Aric Averkiou with tense music as the background sound. This brings another question I have to ask myself do I want my titles at the beginning or the end of my documentary?

Then it goes on to show a shot of the horses walking round with the jockeys riding them at the stables. Then again it cuts to another shot of a close up of horses heading out their stable doors looking down the stables showing more than one horse which is a side shot.

Then more titling is shown with a black background and white writing asking ‘The Trainer, tough but fair or just tough?’ engaging the audience and also asking the audience a question bringing it into a debate showing the documentary is revealing something about the trainers and leaving it up to the audience to decide.

Then it cuts to a mid shot of what seems to be a trainer, with horses in the background with a voiceover of his voice but showing him talking to the jockeys. Which is clever as it shows the man who is the voiceover in action.

Then again it cuts to show a jockey untacking his horse in a mid-shot and then cuts again showing more horses in the stables and walking, with the voiceover stopped. Then it cuts again to text again with a black background and white text asking ‘The jockey lives for racing but can he make it?’ to create the same effect.

Again it cuts to another mid shot of a jockey walking and the voiceover is brought in again of the person who is on the screen and another cut is made to show someone picking out horses hooves  as a close up then cuts again showing a jockey mounting the horse and riding off showing the transition of the preparation of the horse to the riding of the horse then again another cut is made showing the jockey riding round with the other horses in the yard still with the tense music in the background then again a cut is made to show the horses walking and the voiceover is introduced again. Then it cuts to in a car with the trainer in the front of the car and the horses along side the car trotting to show this more closley it cuts to again a close up of the previous jockey and trainer we saw before trotting at a side view. Through the rest of the documentray it does the same cutting from close ups and mid shots of the trainer,  jockeys and horses. With changes of music when the horses pace gets quicker to add atmosphere showing the horses racing along side each other to create that adrenaline through the music. They use an effect when showing a close up of the faces horses running using slow motion to capture the face pace, using a lot fo panning shots when filming the horses racing. It also shows an interview with the trainer and jockey that we have seen throughout the mini documentary, diffrence betweeen the two interviews is that the jockey is grooming the horse when the interview is been taken place. This could be another thing to consider when creating my interviews with the jockeys and trainers in my documentary, how am I going position them, what will they be doing when I am asking them questions? Do I want it to look like a set up interview? Another interesting element in this mini documentary is to the end of the documentray there is an interview with attenders of the racecourse asking their views.

They end the documentary with a slow motion shot of the horses racing and the production company’s logo with the interviews ended  the fast pace music in the background fading out.

Here is link to the first documentary I decided to analyse called Newmarket Horse Racing Documentary - A Sporting Chance which I found on Youtube. It is a 5 minute 17 second video.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gzXBFVDbL8gzXBFVDbL8

Here is a clip..

Beverley Racecourse

BEVERELEY RACECOURSE

I am going to be filming at Beverley racecourse my local racecourse but before I decide on dates ect I need to look at the facilities they have and get permission off them to film.

I went onto sending an email to the events organiser of Beverley Racecourse and Beverley Racecourse itself and they replied by letter asking when I was going to go and film and more detail about the documentary here is a copy of the contact infomation..

I then looked at the upcoming race days to get an idea of when would be ideal to film..

link to Beverley racecourse website:
http://www.beverley-racecourse.co.uk/

Channel 4 documentaries shot

Screenshot of what some of the clip will show the video will scroll down this page on the website and show all the documentaires Channel 4 does...

Channel 4 Documentaries

Channel 4

I went onto look at the most popular choice on my survey, Channel 4 documentaires.

Here is a link to their website where all their documentaries are listed…

And here is the home page of Channel 4’s website

It looks a lot more sophisticated and serious than the One Show's Home website advertising a documentray called daredevils: life on the edge at 10 pm about people who do crazy wild things showing that channel 4 focuses on more documentarys than interviews and debates of politics which the one show does regulary and only features short clips of documentaires on mainly wildlife.

Looking at the documentarys they do they have a wide variety of documentarys ranging from Thelma’s Gypsy girls to the worlds largest snake channel 4 looking at many different genres of documentaires on a variety of things making more accessable for my documentary to be accepted and fit into that programme.

( In my overall research video i will have a shot of Channel 4's page of documentary scrolling down the page in slow motion to show all the documentaries channel 4 does)