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.