Planning Storyboards

These are the storyboards for the opening title sequence

Mobile Phone Documentary

This is our preliminary task on mobile phones

These are some of the pictures we took whilst filming our preliminary task.

Here are our storyboarded ideas of what our cutaways, interview and opening credits were going to look like.

    For the task we had to come up with an idea for a documentary based on mobile phones. To plan we used an A3 sheet of paper and wrote down ideas such as the title and what is going to be in it. After we had come up with these we had to draw storyboards for the opening titles, cutaways and interview. Once these were done we started to film. As we had to interview a member of our group we chose Nicola, Amy filmed and I was in charge of the microphone. We then filmed our opening titles by getting different phones in a circle and filming around them. For our cutaways we got pictures and edited them on photoshop.

    I feel the interview worked well as this was the first time we had filmed one and we got the codes and conventions for an interview almost perfect such as positioning of the interviewee. I also feel the music worked well as we chose 'Call on Me' by Eric Prydz which relates to the topic of mobile phones. One thing I think didn't work as well is the opening titles as it took us a while to get the shot right due to the fact it was hard to film. When watching it back on the computer we found the footage was still very shaky so decided to speed it up so that it looked like it was meant to be like this.

    From doing this preliminary task I have learnt the importance of mise-en-scene and in the real documentary I will try and make sure it is done very cleverly and there is a clear link between interviewee and mise-en-scene. Also I have learned how to use Adobe Premiere Pro as before this I have never used it so when it come to the real thing I will feel confident in using it. My confidence with the recording equipment has also increased as I know understand how to use them to my advantage and how to set them all up. I will take this knowledge and use it in the real thing. I have also learned not to try and film something to demanding and hard and to know when an idea is not working and to look for alternative ways of getting my groups ideas across.

Running Order

Research

These are all screen shots of the research we did on Twitter into getting people relevant to the topic to let us interview them. We sent pictures and videos in our tweets to try and get our ideas across better.

Formal Proposal

Topic - Social networking
Type of Documentary - Mixed, open narrative, non biased
Style of Documentary - Informative and educational

Channel & Scheduling - We have chosen channel 4 due to it fitting in perfectly with out target audience. Also we are going to schedule it around 8pm due to receiving our questionnaire results back as 8pm being the most popular.

Target Audience - Males & females aged 16-35

Primary - Police Officer, Miss Smith, Elliot, Jamal Edwards, The Guardians

Secondary - Clips from 'The Social Network'
                    Jamal Edwards Google Chrome Advert
                    Newspaper articles
                    Tweets & Status'

Narrative Structure: Non-linear

Outline of Content - Changing faces of communications
                                  Phone call interviews
                                  Video Interviews
                                  Voxpops 

Resources Required: Cameras
                                   Voice Recorders
                                   Microphones
                                   Tri-Pods
                                   Telephones