Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

For the documentary that I will be making with Steven Denham and we have both agreed that will want to make an documentary about what secondary school is like. The documentary style that we are trying to recreate the style of Channel 4 documentaries like 'Educating Cardiff' which is an observational genre (fly on the wall style) as we are planning to record around an Southampton secondary school and what it is like.

Me and Steven Denham have assigned each other certain roles that we will have when we are making this documentary. Steven is going to be focusing on the camerawork and mise-en-scene which will be focusing on what is within the filming and I will be looking at sound and editing which is when Steven is happy with the shots and the mise-en-scene, I will be editing and making sure that the sound is ok and fits the documentary.

Ideas     

Me and Steven has discussed the ideas about the documentary and this what we have come up with so far.

• We want to film in one classroom and see what we get from it
• We would want to have interviews with some teachers that work at the school
• Establishing shots of the school to show where we are filming
• We aim to make it an Channel 4 documentary style but with out putting the school in an negative light
• We want to have interviews with school children, to see their positive views on school
• We want an variety of camera shots
• During the documentary we want calming music to show the calming environment.
• We would want an voice over during the documentary which is what they using in most Channel 4 documentaries
• We want to provide an USP to the audience of the documentary

From talking to Steven about are initial ideas, we have both decide what we believe we should have within our documentary such as, an voice over during some of the scenes, establishing shots of the school and we would like some sort of interview with some of the teachers or maybe some students from the school.