This is the final cut of the film opening, i acted on feedback and here is the end result.
Question 1
The Script I followed in answering in the video
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our film, Tatted Generation, is a documentary for this we needed to research a few different films so we knew how to actually make a documentary film opening.
First we researched the codes and conventions of documentaries :
Narration - This is a common convention of the documentary genre with voice overs in a clear distinctive voice helping the narrative of the film and encouraging the watcher to listen and think.
Real Footage is another - All of our footage is "real footage" none of it is acted or re created for the film. Interviews and real places are really filmed they are not fictionally made up will be included which is a must with most documentaries.
We used archive footage ( so footage that is not ours maybe old maybe from our time) we used this for things we couldn’t get like catwalks of models and old film footage.
Interview exerts were used to provide thought provoking opinion and information. And really a documentary doesn’t feel like a documentary without interviews.
We used non-diegetic sound (so music) throughout the whole of the opening, maybe taken away for interview exerts, to add an ambience and atmosphere to the opening.
Visual Coding - the Mise en Scene of the whole opening sequence will add to the realness, hint at narrative and go along with narration. For example in the interviews the person being interviewed will maybe have tattoos or piercings or in the background there might be tattoo art on the walls etc.
These are codes and conventions commonly found in documentaries so we made sure have them in mind when planning and filming. We also looked at two films. McCullin and Ed Hardy : Tattoo the world. McCullin gave us an idea of using music to build the tension of the narrative and then also an idea of the titles, how they come inand the order. Ed Hardy gave us an idea of real footage that is used, archive footage and interview exerts with the shots and angles etc but also a way of showing the story in a cinematic way that is pleasing to the eye.
To go through how these conventions and films influenced our end product I will go through 9 main shots/parts of the opening sequence.
1. The music starts whilst on a blank screen before any visuals so tension is being built, the music is easy to listen to and work very well in the background.
2. The narration begins at this point with the first few shots of our real footage
3. Then going into archive footage of old film and catwalk shots used to display our narration points.
4. Back to real footage, we filmed all over to get different shots for displaying the narrative of the documentary.
5. We used visual coding with what the viewer is seeing and what they are hearing like when we were talking about artists and creative we showed some art being painted and paint being mixed.
6. We dropped the complete narrative after enigma was created showing what the main question of the doc was about but still not being transparent about the full way of expression being about tattoos.
7. The cinematic shots of the tattoo parlor, using this mise en scene added more to the enigma and the narrative by the viewer maybe putting the pieces together by the doc being about expression through tattoos.
8. The simple title coming up, like most small documentaries have like that of Harry Hitchens Gay Sex Apps and more documentary fro Channel four.
9. Lastly the interview exert of a tattoo artist that we interviewed along with its cut away shots that kept interest in the interview by displaying different visuals to the watcher. As seen in Ed Hardy : Tattoo the world in their interviews.
Through using these conventions I feel like we hit the criteria of making a documentary like any other, conventionally speaking, using these classic traits made it easily recognizable as a doc and made it feel professional in the outcome, especially with the good quality image that we got from using my dslr that I am filming this on but we also challenged classic documentaries and made our different. This is a media task after all and commonly documentaries aren’t done so we had to make ours as much like film as it is a documentary. What I mean by this is in docs you normally know straight away what is happening and what they are about but in films there is a certain amount of enigma about what is happening. As having enigma was part of the criteria of marking we needed it so we had to in our opening style it like a doc using conventions but also create enigma we did this by not specifically saying the word tattoo till the interviews but linking to expression and culture and then mise en scene helped, commonly documentaries would not do this and through this I fell like our opening is like a blend of documentary and cinematic film.
Our film, Tatted Generation, is a documentary for this we needed to research a few different films so we knew how to actually make a documentary film opening.
First we researched the codes and conventions of documentaries :
Narration - This is a common convention of the documentary genre with voice overs in a clear distinctive voice helping the narrative of the film and encouraging the watcher to listen and think.
Real Footage is another - All of our footage is "real footage" none of it is acted or re created for the film. Interviews and real places are really filmed they are not fictionally made up will be included which is a must with most documentaries.
We used archive footage ( so footage that is not ours maybe old maybe from our time) we used this for things we couldn’t get like catwalks of models and old film footage.
Interview exerts were used to provide thought provoking opinion and information. And really a documentary doesn’t feel like a documentary without interviews.
We used non-diegetic sound (so music) throughout the whole of the opening, maybe taken away for interview exerts, to add an ambience and atmosphere to the opening.
Visual Coding - the Mise en Scene of the whole opening sequence will add to the realness, hint at narrative and go along with narration. For example in the interviews the person being interviewed will maybe have tattoos or piercings or in the background there might be tattoo art on the walls etc.
These are codes and conventions commonly found in documentaries so we made sure have them in mind when planning and filming. We also looked at two films. McCullin and Ed Hardy : Tattoo the world. McCullin gave us an idea of using music to build the tension of the narrative and then also an idea of the titles, how they come inand the order. Ed Hardy gave us an idea of real footage that is used, archive footage and interview exerts with the shots and angles etc but also a way of showing the story in a cinematic way that is pleasing to the eye.
To go through how these conventions and films influenced our end product I will go through 9 main shots/parts of the opening sequence.
1. The music starts whilst on a blank screen before any visuals so tension is being built, the music is easy to listen to and work very well in the background.
2. The narration begins at this point with the first few shots of our real footage
3. Then going into archive footage of old film and catwalk shots used to display our narration points.
4. Back to real footage, we filmed all over to get different shots for displaying the narrative of the documentary.
5. We used visual coding with what the viewer is seeing and what they are hearing like when we were talking about artists and creative we showed some art being painted and paint being mixed.
6. We dropped the complete narrative after enigma was created showing what the main question of the doc was about but still not being transparent about the full way of expression being about tattoos.
7. The cinematic shots of the tattoo parlor, using this mise en scene added more to the enigma and the narrative by the viewer maybe putting the pieces together by the doc being about expression through tattoos.
8. The simple title coming up, like most small documentaries have like that of Harry Hitchens Gay Sex Apps and more documentary fro Channel four.
9. Lastly the interview exert of a tattoo artist that we interviewed along with its cut away shots that kept interest in the interview by displaying different visuals to the watcher. As seen in Ed Hardy : Tattoo the world in their interviews.
Through using these conventions I feel like we hit the criteria of making a documentary like any other, conventionally speaking, using these classic traits made it easily recognizable as a doc and made it feel professional in the outcome, especially with the good quality image that we got from using my dslr that I am filming this on but we also challenged classic documentaries and made our different. This is a media task after all and commonly documentaries aren’t done so we had to make ours as much like film as it is a documentary. What I mean by this is in docs you normally know straight away what is happening and what they are about but in films there is a certain amount of enigma about what is happening. As having enigma was part of the criteria of marking we needed it so we had to in our opening style it like a doc using conventions but also create enigma we did this by not specifically saying the word tattoo till the interviews but linking to expression and culture and then mise en scene helped, commonly documentaries would not do this and through this I fell like our opening is like a blend of documentary and cinematic film.
Question 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
Our target audience are intellectuals and like to watch documentaries so they would be use to having to listen along with visuals and in our case this is very poignant. Our visuals go along in an almost montage like state with the narration giving an intense blast to the senses of your eyes whilst you also listen to the narration going along with it. The visuals mise en scene go along with it very well: When in the narration it says the "latest glamour model" you see a model walking down a catwalk. the mise en scene linking to what is said in the narration. This carries on throughout the opening.
I think this constant change of scene will address our target audience because it is always changing, within the opening at least, and so it is working there intellectual minds. Making them think over and over, processing all these different images and settings.
A few of the beginning shots from the opening sequence, showing the change in visuals that the watcher gets in the first c.15seconds.
3. Did you feel it created enigma around the topic of individualism
and expression?
4. The problem we had was it was a documentary but we had to
create enigma like a film opening would, do you feel that we did this
effectively?
5. Ultimately, would you go and watch it?
Narrative theory
Our target audience are intellectuals and like to watch documentaries so they would be use to having to listen along with visuals and in our case this is very poignant. Our visuals go along in an almost montage like state with the narration giving an intense blast to the senses of your eyes whilst you also listen to the narration going along with it. The visuals mise en scene go along with it very well: When in the narration it says the "latest glamour model" you see a model walking down a catwalk. the mise en scene linking to what is said in the narration. This carries on throughout the opening.
I think this constant change of scene will address our target audience because it is always changing, within the opening at least, and so it is working there intellectual minds. Making them think over and over, processing all these different images and settings.
A few of the beginning shots from the opening sequence, showing the change in visuals that the watcher gets in the first c.15seconds.
Audience Viewing
We did a viewing of our opeing sequence to a small audience
within our age range and recorded the answers to questions we asked them after
they watched it, which is what is quoted below.
1. So before we entered the tattoo parlour, what did you
think the documentary was about?
Matt - "Life and clothes."
Asel - "Culture and individuality."
2. And then when we entered the tattoo parlour and you
started seeing all the mise-on-scene, did you make the connection, that it was
about culture and expression through tattoos?
George - "Yeah, I saw it as a another way to express
yourself, and individuality through tattoos."
Asel - "I definitely thought it was about culture and
expression, with the tattoo artist and the parlour, but it took a while to get
there, but that created good enigma."
Toby - "Yeah, I thought it was quite good in that way,
because it made me think 'What's going to come next?'"
Asel - "Yes, because you gave a little background to
the individualism and didn't give too much away which kept me wanting to
watch."
Toby -
"Definitely because it felt like a documentary when watching, and included
lots of documentary-esque shots, but also kept me hooked and didn't give too
much away, just like an enigmatic movie opening."
George - "I would definitely be interested in watching
it, I feel that the movie appeals to people of our age, 16-17, and therefore
reaches your target audience effectively."
Martyn - "I feel your marketing campaign would be very
effective for people of our age, and like Matt said, this shows your film
opening is effective at hitting your target audience. I would be interested in
watching the film."
Audience we interviewed ---
Audience we interviewed ---
Narrative theory
We used Barthes enigma codes to make our opening scene enigmatic, so it was not just like all documentaries telling you straight away what it was about but more like a film actually creating enigma, this caused the audience to ask question and try and make links with what they are seeing and hearing.
We used Levi Strauss in a sense of old opinion on tattoos vs the new opinion of tattoos. So not the classic way of Strauss (Good vs Evil etc) but still two things which are apparent and explored in the documentary.
We did not use Todorov because even though we had aspects like a film in the documentary it was not a film in every sense of the word so it did not have Equilibrium, Disruption of equilibrium, Restoration of Equilibrium, New Equilibrium. It just sifted through the idea, the question presented at the beginning of the doc.
We used Propp but not in the classic Hero, villain, dispatcher etc type of characters. Instead we would have the normal characters of a documentary the interviewer and the person being interviewed.
Question 7
The angles and image quality improvement ::
Juno Task - Not many different angles and image quality is not good at all.
Prelim Task - Many more interesting angles in the short video, high angle low angle, looking up from the ground, over the shoulder and long shots etc and the image quality is improved greatly by the fact that I used my Camera a Nikon D3300 with 24megapixels compared tot he school 8.9megapixel camcorders.
Opening Sequence - Tatted Generation - Many more separate shots, with different shot types and angles. With the opening sequence it had to be at least 2 minutes long so we had to use many different angles and shots to keep the visuals interesting. With the opening sequence there were many different locations for the shots which adds to the visual diversity as well as the ability to play with the lighting within the shots. The use of manual settings on my Nikon DSLR (same camera I used on my Prelim) meant i could work in different lights and make things look better than before. Also the use of the DSLR increased the image quality.
Institutions for our Film
The Distributor company we chose was Soda Pictures (a Thunderbird Company) because they support indie cinema and they had been a part of many good documentaries which we used as research for our opening sequences such as Teenage (Dir. Matt Wolf).
Soda Pictures is an Anglo-Canadian film distributor of art house, independent and world cinema.
Furthermore Soda Pictures has been known to work with indie producers so they will fit well with our company of 'The Documentary Producers' they believe in the three E's...Experience. Expertise. Excellence. They believe in first time filmmakers and documenting major parts of history, this is why I feel this would work for our doc because ours is about a culture shift of generations to do with tattoos.
Film Poster
This is our film poster that would tie into the Marketing campaign, using this poster on social media to appeal to our target audience.
I feel this poster is good because it includes the companies we worked with, tells you whose film it is and then the title is big and bold so people know what the film is and by the title they can maybe guess that it is a documentary (if not they will notice the producers) and lastly the still behind is included in the film, I thought the close up on a persons eye catches peoples attention and maybe provokes thoughts of looking into that persons eye and knowing the story of the film.
I got feedback on the poster above from my teacher Mrs Brookes, she said that the image in the poster didn't have enough to do with tattoos and made it look more like an indie arts film or something not tattoos so I must try and make the image behind more artsy, this meant i remade the poster on Photoshop with a screen cap from one of the clips from filming in the tattoo parlour. The shot was a reflection on a class cabinet which contained tattoo ink and I pulled focus to focus on its reflection and luckily in line with the cabinet was a tattoo artist tattooing a woman. So in the image you can see little bottles of ink, tattoo supplies, an artist, tattooing being done and all the posters of tattoos on walls. I think this portrays that the film Tatted Generation is definitely about tattoos.
This is my remake of the poster :
New Script
After the feedback from Mrs Field that had one point that our script focused too much on that every one conformed to the norm and that we weren't really presenting that the documentary was about expression within society and that sometimes the use of big words can become pretentious and bore the watcher/listener. There fore we re wrote the script, keeping it simple and with the key values of the documentary in mind.
Peer Feedback
This is feedback from the media classes on my First draft of my opening sequence for media
Holding Shot steady where appropriate
Everyone said this was excellent, that all my shots were steady where appropriate, that the camerawork was excellent.
Framing a Shot
All the framing of the shots was said to be excellent including everything that was relevant and appropriate.
Using a Variety of shots & Distances
I used all the shot types (extreme close up, close up, mid, long shot, extreme lone shot) and did so at different angels (high &low). I used the shots appropriately keeping interest through the montage but apparently there were too many close ups, I will look at a way of taking out some of the close up although some said that the close up were like-able.
Using Titles Appropriatly
Titles were seen to vary from Proficient to excellent, they were known to be appropriate in style, font and colour, the simplicity of them shows how it is a high budget film and goes along with the documentary feel of the film but it was thought the spacing of the titles needed to be looked at.
Mise en Scene
The mise en scene of the tattoo parlour helped with giving to the topic of Tattoos being focus very clearly. The colours overall of the films were apparently very nice, it wasn't all the same colour throughout making it nice to look at but some people said the constant light to dark changes of the shots was not very good.
Editing so that the meaning is apparent
My editing was applauded and appropriate for the genre of a documentary. It was said that the opening starts more generally around the subject and then gets to the point, that the shots are in a good order. The interview is a bit too long though because it feels like it is the end of a film.
Shot transitions and other effects
Shots cut a lot because there are no real transition effects on the narration montages but apparently this goes well because it goes along with the narration and what the narrative that is trying to be put across and because of this it flows well. Also because of the transitioning from shot to shot being fast it gave the film pace which is what I wanted I wanted the fast pace top replicate the craziness of society and then to slow down once the complete narrative had been dropped.
Using sound with Images and editing
The music is really good and sets the atmosphere but sometimes the narrations. The tattoo parlour sound is loud and what is being said can barely be heard, something needs to be done here to improve. Subtitles could be used during the interviews.
Holding Shot steady where appropriate
Everyone said this was excellent, that all my shots were steady where appropriate, that the camerawork was excellent.
Framing a Shot
All the framing of the shots was said to be excellent including everything that was relevant and appropriate.
Using a Variety of shots & Distances
I used all the shot types (extreme close up, close up, mid, long shot, extreme lone shot) and did so at different angels (high &low). I used the shots appropriately keeping interest through the montage but apparently there were too many close ups, I will look at a way of taking out some of the close up although some said that the close up were like-able.
Using Titles Appropriatly
Titles were seen to vary from Proficient to excellent, they were known to be appropriate in style, font and colour, the simplicity of them shows how it is a high budget film and goes along with the documentary feel of the film but it was thought the spacing of the titles needed to be looked at.
Mise en Scene
The mise en scene of the tattoo parlour helped with giving to the topic of Tattoos being focus very clearly. The colours overall of the films were apparently very nice, it wasn't all the same colour throughout making it nice to look at but some people said the constant light to dark changes of the shots was not very good.
Editing so that the meaning is apparent
My editing was applauded and appropriate for the genre of a documentary. It was said that the opening starts more generally around the subject and then gets to the point, that the shots are in a good order. The interview is a bit too long though because it feels like it is the end of a film.
Shot transitions and other effects
Shots cut a lot because there are no real transition effects on the narration montages but apparently this goes well because it goes along with the narration and what the narrative that is trying to be put across and because of this it flows well. Also because of the transitioning from shot to shot being fast it gave the film pace which is what I wanted I wanted the fast pace top replicate the craziness of society and then to slow down once the complete narrative had been dropped.
Using sound with Images and editing
The music is really good and sets the atmosphere but sometimes the narrations. The tattoo parlour sound is loud and what is being said can barely be heard, something needs to be done here to improve. Subtitles could be used during the interviews.
Teacher Feedback on First Draft
Mrs Brookes
WWW - Camera shots, Editing and Mise En Scene.
EBI - link between intro and tattoo where is that? Voice over a little to complex maybe shorter and shorter. When you walk into the parlour, you need intro. Job title needed. Lower tattooing sound. Cut out "yeah". Need more tattoo scenes.
Mrs Field
WWW - Shots are very well done. Editing is good.
EBI - Need to simplify the narration at the beginning of the film opening. Improve sound of the tattoo noise. Job titles should be added. Need to remove the constant "yeah".
Mr Amato
Really like the titles but can be positioned better.
Feels TV Documentary rather than a film, this could be because of the instant voice over. More instant talking and change the font that you use as it goes on and on and I do not like the late titles. Subject matter hands you some potentially beautiful shots that wait really evident.
Improvements from Feedback
It is clear we need to make the link between the montage and the tattoo parlour footage more obvious or apparent. Mrs Bond as said we could do this by focusing on the script of the narration, to simplify it maybe so it doesn't get lost in the big pretentious words that we used. It is also clear that we must remove the "yeah" responses from the video because they constantly come up and maybe distract from what is being said by the person being interviewed; this is easily done through using the background noise recorded in different shots to fill the space where the "yeah" used to be. I am afraid there is not much to be done with the background noise in the interviews, we can lower the sound but then we do not want the dialogue to be lost so we are going to put subtitles onto the interviews, this may play in our favour making the piece look more like a documentary.
Title Timeline
This is a timeline of the titles as they show up in the final cut of the opening sequence of Tatted Generation.
First Draft
This is our first draft of the film opening for our documentary Tatted Generation. We will get feedback on this first draft and act accordingly to improve.
Audience - Primary and Secondary
This is who we want our audiences for the film to be.
Primary
Primary
- People who typically watch documentaries; uni students, intellectuals etc
- 16 - 25 year olds because that is the generation that is changing and shifting with the tide of tattoos.
- Interested in new ideas, opinions and learning.
Secondary
- People that hear about how good the doc is.
- People not necessarily interested in tattoos or are part of the generation shift.
Evidence of Filming
This is photographic evidence of filming of the opening piece...
Filming the art student for the creatives scene.
Filming time lapses in town of hustle and bustle, we also filmed a few shots in stores in town.
Filming inside the tattoo parlour where we filmed filler shots and interviews.
Marketing Campaign (Improve)
Our target audience is 16-24 year olds but obviously anyone could watch the film. Therefore our marketing will be based on what influences the people of these ages. We believe that most young people who would be influenced or interested by a tattoo documentary usually use all kinds of social media. Therefore we will advertise our film on the most popular social media sites that these ages would constantly use. Such as:
- Tumblr
- Imgur
We would most likely advertyise through banners, film posters or pictures or short clips of video from the documentary on these social media sites and then on YouTube we would advertise a short trailer or the opening sequence to the audience to gauge interest on a another format.
We would also create a website for our Documentary as a way of finding us. Our website would include such things as :
- Home page - short introduction of the documentary.
- Newsletter about the production of the documentary.
- Links to our social media
- Trailer Tabs
- The team portfolio
Diagram Plan of website :::
Letter of Permition
This is the permission letter that our teacher wrote for us in case we got stopped at any point and someone would need information but when we were filming we were either in the tattoo parlour where we had permission from the owner and customers to shoot or we were on the highstreet of town, a public space where it is completely legal to film. We ran into no problems.
Location Recce
These are picture and descriptions of a few specific places from places that we plan to shoot in.
This is the tattoo parlour which has agreed to let us interview inside and film the surrounding shop area.
This is a main road which is great for a time-lapse or shots of hustle and bustle that are at the beginning of the storyboard.
This is where we will shoot the tracking shot of someone taking a picture, for the creative part of the montage and narration. It works two ways with the graffiti art in the background and someone taking a picture - two creative things.
This is another place where we will film the montage shots of hustle and bustle, it is a busy high-street on weekend (when we plan to shoot) so it will be perfect.
Script for Narration
Here is the script I wrote for the narration of the beginning of the opening sequence. As you can see there are annotations put on there splitting up different montage/scenes of the opening sequence, what shots to get, there timings etc.
Props Research
There were no specific props we would have to get for the story/opening scene, most things used in the shots/scenes we get would just part of the mise en for example ::::
So for this shot we were trying to show how we are creatively inspired from the online world so we needed a computer and pc in shot; it wasn't a prop but part of the scene that was needed.
This is the same throughout the opening, just look at the storyboard and you can what parts made up scene sand this is what my team and I discussed when creating our shots. More examples are the tattoo needles in the tattoo parlour, art equipment in the artists scene etc etc.
This is the same throughout the opening, just look at the storyboard and you can what parts made up scene sand this is what my team and I discussed when creating our shots. More examples are the tattoo needles in the tattoo parlour, art equipment in the artists scene etc etc.
Music Research
For our music research we decided to look for YouTube supported, royalty free music. This means we face no copyright issues and are allowed to use the music in our film opening. We looked through many different tabs, to change genre and mood, to find the best song(s) for our opening. We have found two songs that we feel best fit the mood and enigma we wish to create in our opening. We have chosen a dramatic/ambient song with a deep baseline to create enigma and a dramatic mood. And we also chose a happy upbeat piece to create a positive vibe about our documentary.
Fonts & Title Ideas
Titles I feel we could use:
Living Canvas
Living Ink
Tatted Generation
Painted People
We were also thinking of the fonts we could use for our title. We used the title 'Tatted Generation' as an example but it is still currently a working title. These are the fonts we decided we could:
Title Research for Documentaries
Title Research
We researched the films McCullin and Ed Hardy : Tattoo the World
In my research I have discovered that titles come in this order:
Production team (This is always first and usually has 'In association with' before it.)
Who filmed the documentary (Usually saying 'A Film by...')
Cinematographers (Usually with 'Cinematography....')
Music (Who created the music for the documentary, usually with 'Music...)
Who edited the film (Usually with 'Film Editors...')
Who produced the documentary (Usually with 'Executive Producers...')
With interviews the names and their role in the documentary comes up as they are interviewed.
We used the above order researched from the documentaries to make our own title sequence.
Order of appearance in our opening scene:
Soda Pictures (With logo, on a black screen)
A Group production logo
A film by Nathan Henton
Cinematography, Aaron Hunt
Music, Octagon
Film Editors, Nathan Henton & Ben Griffiths
Producer, Poppy Johnson
We researched the films McCullin and Ed Hardy : Tattoo the World
In my research I have discovered that titles come in this order:
Production team (This is always first and usually has 'In association with' before it.)
Who filmed the documentary (Usually saying 'A Film by...')
Cinematographers (Usually with 'Cinematography....')
Music (Who created the music for the documentary, usually with 'Music...)
Who edited the film (Usually with 'Film Editors...')
Who produced the documentary (Usually with 'Executive Producers...')
With interviews the names and their role in the documentary comes up as they are interviewed.
We used the above order researched from the documentaries to make our own title sequence.
Order of appearance in our opening scene:
Soda Pictures (With logo, on a black screen)
A Group production logo
A film by Nathan Henton
Cinematography, Aaron Hunt
Music, Octagon
Film Editors, Nathan Henton & Ben Griffiths
Producer, Poppy Johnson
Evidence of Planning
Photos showing parts of the planning process with the group :::
This the beginning of creating the post it note storyboard, where we just drew shots or wrote down a description of shots we needed/wanted.
We then stuck the post it note together into different sections, going together into :
Interview shots
Filler Shots
Montage of Narration
Here you can see the layout of the shot groups more easily and how we started looking at the script and doing the storyboard properly using the shots we drew already and the script as a guide to what we were making.
This the beginning of creating the post it note storyboard, where we just drew shots or wrote down a description of shots we needed/wanted.
Interview shots
Filler Shots
Montage of Narration
Email to Tattoo Parlours
This is the email we sent initially to the tattoo parlours that had email addresses for. We also called a couple of them to see about arranging a meet up or coming in at the weekend to interview.
We then preeceeded to call them and set up that we would go in and film on the following Saturday.
Evidence of Genre Conventions
Evidence of Planned opening going with genre conventions :::
The conventions of documentaries were mentioned in the film pitch.
The conventions of documentaries were mentioned in the film pitch.
- In the narration video I mentioned a script, the script will be a piece of narration that goes over the top of the opening two minutes. This is a common convention of the documentary genre with voice overs in a clear distinctive voice helping the narrative of the film and encouraging the watcher to listen and think.
- All of our footage will be "real footage" none of it is acted or re created for the film. Interviews and real places that are not fictionally made will be included which is a must with most documentaries.
- We be using archive footage on two occasion, one is the video of the catwalk (which is shot 8) and the other is in the form of a photo collage (shot 27) of hipsters all looking the same which will be collected online.
- Interview exerts will be used to provide thought provoking opinion and information. Which is mentioned in the narration video right at the end of, it will be one of the last shots we get.
- We will have non-diegetic sound throughout the whole of the opening, maybe taken away for interview exerts, to add an ambience and atmosphere to the opening.
- Visual Coding - the Mise en Scene of the whole opening sequence will add to the realness, hint at narrative and go along with narration. For example in the interviews the person being interviewed will maybe have tattoos or piercings or in the background there might be tattoo art all in the background on walls etc.
Shot List
Shot List
Shot 1 - 6 will be a short montage of a 'hustle and bustle' of people walking, a cashier, buses. This could vary depending on shots which could be 1 second instead of 0.5 seconds.
Shot 7 - This shot will last 4 seconds and it will focus on a young and old person at a bus stop, this will be a still long shot.
Shot 8 - 11 will include 4 shots that last 2 seconds each which will show a catwalk clip, someone reading a celeb magazine, a girl looking at herself in the mirror and a extreme close up with a blurred background.
Shot 12 - 18 will include a shot beginning at a extreme close up on someone typing on a keyboard then transitioning to a mouse, then a fast zoom out to a high right angle facing down, then to a mid shot over the right shoulder slowly going closer to the computer then to a POV shot of looking at YouTube and Instagram.
Shot 19 - 23 will begin at a foot and then slowly go upwards from the shoe to the person looking through a camera, we have done this to present the creativity of our generation. Then there is a transition which is from zooming into the camera and transitioning to someone grabbing a pencil presenting our generation is artistic, then zooming out to present the person drawing.
Shot 24 - 25 will be someone drinking from a Starbucks cup then quick cuts back and forth from a Starbucks cup and a Costa cup to show similarity.
Shot 26 will be a long shot of a group of people and all dressed very similar.
Shot 27 will be a series of images showing hipsters to fill up screen with a collage.
Shot 28 this is where our film opening will tell the audience our film opening is about tattoos as this will be an interview about tattoos and this will be presented in a mid shot and we have chosen tell the audience this late is so enigma is created throughout the film opening.
Shot 29 This is where the title will appear and the title will be surrounded in tattoo related images.
Shot 30 (possibility) We could have a final clip after the title scene but this will be to create enigma and we are not sure what it will include.
Shot 1 - 6 will be a short montage of a 'hustle and bustle' of people walking, a cashier, buses. This could vary depending on shots which could be 1 second instead of 0.5 seconds.
Shot 7 - This shot will last 4 seconds and it will focus on a young and old person at a bus stop, this will be a still long shot.
Shot 8 - 11 will include 4 shots that last 2 seconds each which will show a catwalk clip, someone reading a celeb magazine, a girl looking at herself in the mirror and a extreme close up with a blurred background.
Shot 12 - 18 will include a shot beginning at a extreme close up on someone typing on a keyboard then transitioning to a mouse, then a fast zoom out to a high right angle facing down, then to a mid shot over the right shoulder slowly going closer to the computer then to a POV shot of looking at YouTube and Instagram.
Shot 19 - 23 will begin at a foot and then slowly go upwards from the shoe to the person looking through a camera, we have done this to present the creativity of our generation. Then there is a transition which is from zooming into the camera and transitioning to someone grabbing a pencil presenting our generation is artistic, then zooming out to present the person drawing.
Shot 24 - 25 will be someone drinking from a Starbucks cup then quick cuts back and forth from a Starbucks cup and a Costa cup to show similarity.
Shot 26 will be a long shot of a group of people and all dressed very similar.
Shot 27 will be a series of images showing hipsters to fill up screen with a collage.
Shot 28 this is where our film opening will tell the audience our film opening is about tattoos as this will be an interview about tattoos and this will be presented in a mid shot and we have chosen tell the audience this late is so enigma is created throughout the film opening.
Shot 29 This is where the title will appear and the title will be surrounded in tattoo related images.
Shot 30 (possibility) We could have a final clip after the title scene but this will be to create enigma and we are not sure what it will include.
Storyboard Narration
This is the talk through my story board of the film opening me and my group are doing.
This is the first page of our storyboard, consisting mainly of montage shots going along with the narration.
The 2nd page as more montage shots, which go along with the script that we wrote.
The last page finishes the montage going along with the narration and then go into the interviews scenes from the tattoo parlours.
This is the first page of our storyboard, consisting mainly of montage shots going along with the narration.
The 2nd page as more montage shots, which go along with the script that we wrote.
The last page finishes the montage going along with the narration and then go into the interviews scenes from the tattoo parlours.
Production Diary
Our group has decided to create a Tattoo Documentary and this is the production diary...
My Blog - http://gbhsasnathan.blogspot.co.uk/
Ben's Blog - http://gbhsasbengriffiths.blogspot.co.uk/
Aaron's Blog - http://gbhsasaaronhunt.blogspot.co.uk/
Production Diary
11/11/2015
First Meeting - We created and discussed our initial ideas together and we all assessed certain aspects of those ideas. We did this by viewing and introducing our initial ideas to the rest our group, we explained the main aspects of our idea, how we were going to make it into a good film pitch, how we will create enigma, how we would present the credits and we explained where the filming of each of our ideas will occur. We did this because when we come to a conclusion of whose idea to go with we will be able to incorporate ideas from each of our individual pieces this will allow our final film pitch to be original and interesting, this allowed us to accurately create our film pitch. We also presented where we got our initial ideas from for example Aaron was inspired by Tree Of Life, I was inspired from the many documentaries I have watched and Ben by culture drama like Top boy and we presented scenes of our evidence of these different ideas of films and this allowed us to be able to understand what we would need to incorporate into the final product and what to include into our final film pitch.
12/11/2015
Second Meeting - After analysing each of our initial ideas for a film pitch we chose to use my Tattoo Documentary idea as a base of our film pitch because this idea was original (no one does a documentary as their film opening) and challenging. Then we worked on trying to include all of the groups ideas into the final product. Building from my initial Tattoo Documentary idea and what needs to be included in a documentary, we added the use of artsy/cinematic shots from Aarons film idea to make the documentary a much nicer thing to visually look at and then Ben's idea of culture to be a focus of the documentary. We decided on the main focuses of the Documentary would be, how culture of today is affecting people into getting tattoos? is it inked celebs? Or is it a need for individualism within conformist culture/society? Or are they just easier to get? These questions were highlighted in the film pitch.
13/11/2015
Third Meeting - After discussing our final idea for our film pitch we discussed and researched evidence to assist on how to create a good and interesting documentary. We researched tattoo documentaries, filler shots and how a professional interview should be presented. We also researched a variety of angles and shots too keep our documentary interesting. We discussed how we would present that the documentary is based around tattoos but still be able to create enigma about the subject of the film. We chose to do this by not mentioning the word tattoo and only to hint around the idea of tattoos in the first parts of the opening and then we will drop the theme/narrative fully presenting the fact that our film opening is based around tattoos.
14/11/2015
Fourth Meeting - Aaron and myself focused on presenting research and the information we had collected for the documentary on our blogs. We made sure we had an idea of how to film our film opening and we discussed necessary equipment that will be needed to make our documentary, consisting of camera's and tripods etc. Then we discussed the costumes that could be used in our film openings and what costumes will be the most appropriate to use for different scenes such as interviews. Aaron and I discussed where to film our scenes and we found several tattoo parlors that we could potentially use to film our film opening. We thought that we should use more than one tattoo parlor so we have lots of different environments and people to shoot. We will interview those thinking about having a tattoo, people with some tattoos with meaning and people that are covered in tattoos and this will allow our film opening to be interesting because there will be a range of 'characters' in our documentary opening rather than the same 'characters' repeated throughout our film opening.
16/11/2015
Fifth Meeting - This meeting we began doing our storyboard but a relaxed storyboard, with post it notes we drew and wrote down the shots we thought we would want and need within the actual
Ben worked on the Mood board, this will present our inspiration films and shots we have looke dat to inspire the creation our film and this will show the films, genre and types of shots we used from different films to think of the shots we have thought to use and where we have chosen the shots from.
Aaron began to write up reviews from our film pitch which were written by other students in our Media class and our teachers, I gave advice on the answers to the questions asked that were :
How will you make it less like a T.V program?
What is the message of our film?
(These have both been answered on the film Film Pitch)
These are the two main questions asked by the students and this was expected. Documentary films can often be interpreted as a program in the pitch process, like a reality doc mix for example 24 hours in A&E.
In this meeting we also have discussed that we have a working title which is Tatted Generation and at the end of all of our filming we will create a final film title as this will be easier to do as we can base our title around a certain scene or a certain part of our film opening. We have chosen to use the title Tatted Generation for now as our generation will be the most tatted generation history (it is thought) and we have based our film documentary around this because there are several questions that can be asked through this topic therefore we can create enigma through this topic about tattoos.
17/11/2015
Sixth Meeting - In this meeting we considered which shots will be best to use and if there are any shots that we could add if our film opening is too short or not detailed enough and the more shots we have, the more detail that will be included in our film opening. We have also chosen to include shot angles in different sections of the shots will use in our film opening, "Interview Shot", "Filler Shots" and "Montage Shots"and this will include the type of shots we will use and how we will present these including sound, Mise en Scene, location, and brightness of the shot as we will be able to change and add effects to our shots to make our scenes as interesting as possible.
Ben researched how documentaries present credits and titles and the way and how long the titles last and we will be able to estimate how long our film opening could become by estimating how long each shot will last.
18/11/2015
Seventh Meeting - In our seventh meeting myself and Aaron used the script I written for the narration of the film and we put to use the shots we had created with the "Post it note storyboard" deciding on which shots we will use and how long each shot lasts for. We described the types of shots we were going to use and we drew how we would like every shot to look like. It was something I hadn't enough of on past tasks was the detail in the description of the storyboard, I made sure to cover all the aspects of the shot in the description this time so I knew exactly what to film.
Ben focused on several jobs that were necessary for the film opening; Music Research and Title Research.
19/11/2015
Eighth Meeting - In this meeting Ben covered the Risk Assessment about us filming throughout Chelmsford and the risks we could encounter. Ben is also carrying on more with Title ideas and the most effective font to use that will work for our tattoo documentary and we discussed as a group different ideas for a suitable and original idea for a tattoo documentary and we are deciding as a group the most suitable font to use. As a group we checked one another's blog to tell each other if there are blog posts missed or not in enough detail as they should be and this allows our group to stay on task and we will be doing a blog check every so often to make sure each job is being completed and not left unfinished. Aaron and myself checked the script and shot list and we ensured that the shots we have chosen are correct and we discussed how we will perfect our camera angles.
20/11/2015
Ninth Meeting - In this meeting Ben with the aid of me, focused on writing emails for every tattoo parlour shop that could be considered to visit to our film opening scene. The initial email can be seen on a separate blog post. After this Ben researched and found a variety of available tattoo parlours that we could email and access if the parlours accepted our request.
After this task I focused on editing the storyboard voice recording and the images of the storyboard to match the voice on Adobe Premiere. Aaron recorded me talking about the storyboard and the basic idea of our film opening then I focused on editing the images and storyboard to match what shot he is talking about and the image of the correct shot. Once this was completed I uploaded it to YouTube, it can be found on another separate blog post.
23/11/2015
Tenth Meeting - In this meeting I got Aaron to research a catwalk clip that we could use in our film as we would not be able to film this ourselves. Ben and I discussed which shots would be taken after school and during the weekend and which shots we are able to without a tattoo parlour and which shots we need to record throughout school or other places to record shots. We set up a list of where we will record each shot to be able to record in our houses and other locations. We also went to an art classroom where we asked permission of a student if we would be able to record her doing art work, this would allow us to complete a shot which we will film during our next media lesson. Ben and I then called a nearby tattoo parlour to see if we could stop by during the weekend to do some interviews and get some shots, we were told that we could stop by during the week to see them.
After school we went to my house to film a short clip of the online generation scene in our film opening which consists of someone looking online on a computer and on social media.
24/11/2015
Eleventh Meeting - In this meeting we discussed about marketing and distribution and Ben began making the blog post for that and the rest of us got on with out blog work. I also filmed someone in a art classroom doing her artwork, which was a shot we needed.
25/11/2015
Twelfth Meeting - In this meeting we tested a short recording of a tracking shot of Aaron taking a image and we will most likely record this in a different location than not at school as the atmosphere and surroundings can be more interesting than the surroundings at school.
Ben emailed another tattoo parlour that responded and are allowed to record we just need to find out when we are able to film.
26/11/2015
Thirteenth Meeting - In this meeting Aaron completed the shot list and uploaded it to his blog. Ben carried on researching the organisation and layout of the titles and how titles in documentary films should be presented. As a group we decided to use 'Tatted Generation' as a title and unless we think of a different and better title we are going to keep the title. We chose this title as our generation is supposed to be the most tatted generation as it is very easy and tattoos can be seen as a fashion sense in this generation. Also we just needed something to call it.
28/11/2015
Fourteenth Meeting/ First Day Filming- In this meeting we began filming and the tattoo parlour we went into is called 'Sacred Tattoo' (http://sacredtattoos.co.uk) we interviewed a tattoo artist called Alex and we asked interesting questions which had even more interesting answers and we have recorded the interviews and this went well more than expected and this resulted in good footage which we will begin editing in our next media lesson and there was a good amount of evidence of our day, I also shot a lot of filler footage of "random" things around the tattoo parlour and people getting tattoos. We asked the customers at Sacred Tattoo if we were able to interview and record and take images of the tattoos they were currently having and we are able to interview one customer and take recordings of the other customers. Then after that we filmed other footage that we could get whilst in town, all can be viewed on the shooting schedule.
30/11/2015
Fifteenth Meeting - In this meeting I began editing the beginning of the film opening after, importing the footage and getting it onto the timeline but there were many complications to editing on a mac so I went onto a windows computer and got all the footage on an external hardrive and then began editing but I couldn't really edit until the narration was recorded so it was a very frantic lesson of getting footage onto a usb ready to use for the editing process.
1/12/2015
Sixteenth Meeting - In this meeting I went to the music studio to record the narration script with their good quality mics and in a sound proofed environment, once this was done I took the narration and went back to Media to begin editing. The other guys needed something to do so I made them start subtitling the interviews which ultimately was not necessary. Nothing could be done till the edit was complete at least for first draft.
2/12/2015
Seventeenth Meeting - In this meeting Ben covered and reduced scenes that shake and parts of scenes that are not focused and edited the scenes to see whether the issue of a part of a scene can be solved. Aaron watched an interview we did with a cutomer getting a tattoo but we both decided that it was not worth using. I edited the opening.
After school I went to my friend Poppy' house to film a few shots that I needed of someone looking in a mirror and a close up of someones eye which goes along with the narration part "a way of looking, a way of thinking, a way of life".
3/12/2015
Eighteenth Meeting - In this meeting all my editing could not be found so I had to re start, I continued to edit late after school but I got the bare bones of my first draft done. Ben began adding subtitles to the first draft for our final draft so the interview could easily be understood. Aaron worked on the film poster but of course required a lot of help from me with fonts, and images to use and the distributor logos etc.
4/12/2015
Nineteenth Meeting - I finished the titles for the first draft on the edit, we created a poster that would be used to market the film. I exported the first draft of the opening. Ben carried on adding subtitles. Aaron finished of the film poster.
7/12/2015
Twentieth Meeting - In class we watched everyone's first drafts and got to hear a little bit of feedback.
8/12/2015
Twenty-first meeting - spent the lesson writing feedback for people. No improvement on edit. Had a talk with Mrs Field about what we can do to our opening.
9/12/2015
Twenty-second meeting - Ben and I re wrote the script, according to feedback, making it simpler and more positively aimed at our point of the documentary. While Aaron did blogwork with feedback and other things etc.
10/12/2015
Twenty-third meeting - Went to record narration in music but the software was broken so we rescheduled to record it on Tuesday. Ben and Aaron did their LAP Charts.
15/12/2015
Twenty-fourth meeting - Got the narration recorded in music whilst the others did blog work, edited along with the new narration getting everything in the right timing and alignment, final checks still needed.
18/12/2015
Twenty-fifth meeting - I finished the final cut and decided I would upload it at home with faster internet and post it on my blog. Then everyone can take the embed code and post it on there blogs along with a lot of other things from my blog.
My Blog - http://gbhsasnathan.blogspot.co.uk/
Ben's Blog - http://gbhsasbengriffiths.blogspot.co.uk/
Aaron's Blog - http://gbhsasaaronhunt.blogspot.co.uk/
Production Diary
11/11/2015
First Meeting - We created and discussed our initial ideas together and we all assessed certain aspects of those ideas. We did this by viewing and introducing our initial ideas to the rest our group, we explained the main aspects of our idea, how we were going to make it into a good film pitch, how we will create enigma, how we would present the credits and we explained where the filming of each of our ideas will occur. We did this because when we come to a conclusion of whose idea to go with we will be able to incorporate ideas from each of our individual pieces this will allow our final film pitch to be original and interesting, this allowed us to accurately create our film pitch. We also presented where we got our initial ideas from for example Aaron was inspired by Tree Of Life, I was inspired from the many documentaries I have watched and Ben by culture drama like Top boy and we presented scenes of our evidence of these different ideas of films and this allowed us to be able to understand what we would need to incorporate into the final product and what to include into our final film pitch.
12/11/2015
Second Meeting - After analysing each of our initial ideas for a film pitch we chose to use my Tattoo Documentary idea as a base of our film pitch because this idea was original (no one does a documentary as their film opening) and challenging. Then we worked on trying to include all of the groups ideas into the final product. Building from my initial Tattoo Documentary idea and what needs to be included in a documentary, we added the use of artsy/cinematic shots from Aarons film idea to make the documentary a much nicer thing to visually look at and then Ben's idea of culture to be a focus of the documentary. We decided on the main focuses of the Documentary would be, how culture of today is affecting people into getting tattoos? is it inked celebs? Or is it a need for individualism within conformist culture/society? Or are they just easier to get? These questions were highlighted in the film pitch.
13/11/2015
Third Meeting - After discussing our final idea for our film pitch we discussed and researched evidence to assist on how to create a good and interesting documentary. We researched tattoo documentaries, filler shots and how a professional interview should be presented. We also researched a variety of angles and shots too keep our documentary interesting. We discussed how we would present that the documentary is based around tattoos but still be able to create enigma about the subject of the film. We chose to do this by not mentioning the word tattoo and only to hint around the idea of tattoos in the first parts of the opening and then we will drop the theme/narrative fully presenting the fact that our film opening is based around tattoos.
14/11/2015
Fourth Meeting - Aaron and myself focused on presenting research and the information we had collected for the documentary on our blogs. We made sure we had an idea of how to film our film opening and we discussed necessary equipment that will be needed to make our documentary, consisting of camera's and tripods etc. Then we discussed the costumes that could be used in our film openings and what costumes will be the most appropriate to use for different scenes such as interviews. Aaron and I discussed where to film our scenes and we found several tattoo parlors that we could potentially use to film our film opening. We thought that we should use more than one tattoo parlor so we have lots of different environments and people to shoot. We will interview those thinking about having a tattoo, people with some tattoos with meaning and people that are covered in tattoos and this will allow our film opening to be interesting because there will be a range of 'characters' in our documentary opening rather than the same 'characters' repeated throughout our film opening.
16/11/2015
Fifth Meeting - This meeting we began doing our storyboard but a relaxed storyboard, with post it notes we drew and wrote down the shots we thought we would want and need within the actual
Ben worked on the Mood board, this will present our inspiration films and shots we have looke dat to inspire the creation our film and this will show the films, genre and types of shots we used from different films to think of the shots we have thought to use and where we have chosen the shots from.
Aaron began to write up reviews from our film pitch which were written by other students in our Media class and our teachers, I gave advice on the answers to the questions asked that were :
How will you make it less like a T.V program?
What is the message of our film?
(These have both been answered on the film Film Pitch)
These are the two main questions asked by the students and this was expected. Documentary films can often be interpreted as a program in the pitch process, like a reality doc mix for example 24 hours in A&E.
In this meeting we also have discussed that we have a working title which is Tatted Generation and at the end of all of our filming we will create a final film title as this will be easier to do as we can base our title around a certain scene or a certain part of our film opening. We have chosen to use the title Tatted Generation for now as our generation will be the most tatted generation history (it is thought) and we have based our film documentary around this because there are several questions that can be asked through this topic therefore we can create enigma through this topic about tattoos.
17/11/2015
Sixth Meeting - In this meeting we considered which shots will be best to use and if there are any shots that we could add if our film opening is too short or not detailed enough and the more shots we have, the more detail that will be included in our film opening. We have also chosen to include shot angles in different sections of the shots will use in our film opening, "Interview Shot", "Filler Shots" and "Montage Shots"and this will include the type of shots we will use and how we will present these including sound, Mise en Scene, location, and brightness of the shot as we will be able to change and add effects to our shots to make our scenes as interesting as possible.
Ben researched how documentaries present credits and titles and the way and how long the titles last and we will be able to estimate how long our film opening could become by estimating how long each shot will last.
18/11/2015
Seventh Meeting - In our seventh meeting myself and Aaron used the script I written for the narration of the film and we put to use the shots we had created with the "Post it note storyboard" deciding on which shots we will use and how long each shot lasts for. We described the types of shots we were going to use and we drew how we would like every shot to look like. It was something I hadn't enough of on past tasks was the detail in the description of the storyboard, I made sure to cover all the aspects of the shot in the description this time so I knew exactly what to film.
Ben focused on several jobs that were necessary for the film opening; Music Research and Title Research.
19/11/2015
Eighth Meeting - In this meeting Ben covered the Risk Assessment about us filming throughout Chelmsford and the risks we could encounter. Ben is also carrying on more with Title ideas and the most effective font to use that will work for our tattoo documentary and we discussed as a group different ideas for a suitable and original idea for a tattoo documentary and we are deciding as a group the most suitable font to use. As a group we checked one another's blog to tell each other if there are blog posts missed or not in enough detail as they should be and this allows our group to stay on task and we will be doing a blog check every so often to make sure each job is being completed and not left unfinished. Aaron and myself checked the script and shot list and we ensured that the shots we have chosen are correct and we discussed how we will perfect our camera angles.
20/11/2015
Ninth Meeting - In this meeting Ben with the aid of me, focused on writing emails for every tattoo parlour shop that could be considered to visit to our film opening scene. The initial email can be seen on a separate blog post. After this Ben researched and found a variety of available tattoo parlours that we could email and access if the parlours accepted our request.
After this task I focused on editing the storyboard voice recording and the images of the storyboard to match the voice on Adobe Premiere. Aaron recorded me talking about the storyboard and the basic idea of our film opening then I focused on editing the images and storyboard to match what shot he is talking about and the image of the correct shot. Once this was completed I uploaded it to YouTube, it can be found on another separate blog post.
23/11/2015
Tenth Meeting - In this meeting I got Aaron to research a catwalk clip that we could use in our film as we would not be able to film this ourselves. Ben and I discussed which shots would be taken after school and during the weekend and which shots we are able to without a tattoo parlour and which shots we need to record throughout school or other places to record shots. We set up a list of where we will record each shot to be able to record in our houses and other locations. We also went to an art classroom where we asked permission of a student if we would be able to record her doing art work, this would allow us to complete a shot which we will film during our next media lesson. Ben and I then called a nearby tattoo parlour to see if we could stop by during the weekend to do some interviews and get some shots, we were told that we could stop by during the week to see them.
After school we went to my house to film a short clip of the online generation scene in our film opening which consists of someone looking online on a computer and on social media.
24/11/2015
Eleventh Meeting - In this meeting we discussed about marketing and distribution and Ben began making the blog post for that and the rest of us got on with out blog work. I also filmed someone in a art classroom doing her artwork, which was a shot we needed.
25/11/2015
Twelfth Meeting - In this meeting we tested a short recording of a tracking shot of Aaron taking a image and we will most likely record this in a different location than not at school as the atmosphere and surroundings can be more interesting than the surroundings at school.
Ben emailed another tattoo parlour that responded and are allowed to record we just need to find out when we are able to film.
26/11/2015
Thirteenth Meeting - In this meeting Aaron completed the shot list and uploaded it to his blog. Ben carried on researching the organisation and layout of the titles and how titles in documentary films should be presented. As a group we decided to use 'Tatted Generation' as a title and unless we think of a different and better title we are going to keep the title. We chose this title as our generation is supposed to be the most tatted generation as it is very easy and tattoos can be seen as a fashion sense in this generation. Also we just needed something to call it.
28/11/2015
Fourteenth Meeting/ First Day Filming- In this meeting we began filming and the tattoo parlour we went into is called 'Sacred Tattoo' (http://sacredtattoos.co.uk) we interviewed a tattoo artist called Alex and we asked interesting questions which had even more interesting answers and we have recorded the interviews and this went well more than expected and this resulted in good footage which we will begin editing in our next media lesson and there was a good amount of evidence of our day, I also shot a lot of filler footage of "random" things around the tattoo parlour and people getting tattoos. We asked the customers at Sacred Tattoo if we were able to interview and record and take images of the tattoos they were currently having and we are able to interview one customer and take recordings of the other customers. Then after that we filmed other footage that we could get whilst in town, all can be viewed on the shooting schedule.
30/11/2015
Fifteenth Meeting - In this meeting I began editing the beginning of the film opening after, importing the footage and getting it onto the timeline but there were many complications to editing on a mac so I went onto a windows computer and got all the footage on an external hardrive and then began editing but I couldn't really edit until the narration was recorded so it was a very frantic lesson of getting footage onto a usb ready to use for the editing process.
1/12/2015
Sixteenth Meeting - In this meeting I went to the music studio to record the narration script with their good quality mics and in a sound proofed environment, once this was done I took the narration and went back to Media to begin editing. The other guys needed something to do so I made them start subtitling the interviews which ultimately was not necessary. Nothing could be done till the edit was complete at least for first draft.
2/12/2015
Seventeenth Meeting - In this meeting Ben covered and reduced scenes that shake and parts of scenes that are not focused and edited the scenes to see whether the issue of a part of a scene can be solved. Aaron watched an interview we did with a cutomer getting a tattoo but we both decided that it was not worth using. I edited the opening.
After school I went to my friend Poppy' house to film a few shots that I needed of someone looking in a mirror and a close up of someones eye which goes along with the narration part "a way of looking, a way of thinking, a way of life".
3/12/2015
Eighteenth Meeting - In this meeting all my editing could not be found so I had to re start, I continued to edit late after school but I got the bare bones of my first draft done. Ben began adding subtitles to the first draft for our final draft so the interview could easily be understood. Aaron worked on the film poster but of course required a lot of help from me with fonts, and images to use and the distributor logos etc.
4/12/2015
Nineteenth Meeting - I finished the titles for the first draft on the edit, we created a poster that would be used to market the film. I exported the first draft of the opening. Ben carried on adding subtitles. Aaron finished of the film poster.
7/12/2015
Twentieth Meeting - In class we watched everyone's first drafts and got to hear a little bit of feedback.
8/12/2015
Twenty-first meeting - spent the lesson writing feedback for people. No improvement on edit. Had a talk with Mrs Field about what we can do to our opening.
9/12/2015
Twenty-second meeting - Ben and I re wrote the script, according to feedback, making it simpler and more positively aimed at our point of the documentary. While Aaron did blogwork with feedback and other things etc.
10/12/2015
Twenty-third meeting - Went to record narration in music but the software was broken so we rescheduled to record it on Tuesday. Ben and Aaron did their LAP Charts.
15/12/2015
Twenty-fourth meeting - Got the narration recorded in music whilst the others did blog work, edited along with the new narration getting everything in the right timing and alignment, final checks still needed.
18/12/2015
Twenty-fifth meeting - I finished the final cut and decided I would upload it at home with faster internet and post it on my blog. Then everyone can take the embed code and post it on there blogs along with a lot of other things from my blog.
Research Evidence
Provided the incentive and information of employment discrimination, that will be a focus of this documentary, and will be hinted at as a question to be answered in the opening sequence. i can use a quote like this to help with questions for interviews.
I used this documentary to get an idea of "real" shots that I can include in my documentary and how to maybe use archive footage. Also it gave an idea of having to use the production company first in the title sequence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t9vwc
This BBC Two documentary gave me the idea of questions that could be asked for getting tattoos that could be explored through the documentary and lead onto the "choice and consequence" reality of life or getting the tattoo and what it does for your future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27115348
This an article on other countries (there is more than what is shown in the image) views on tattoos and some jobs in Britain that dont allow tattoos in certain places or to be visible.
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