Mock up Documentary Scene

Mock up Documentary Scene

Me and Steven have made our 7 second recreation of a scene from the Channel 4 documentary 'Educating Yorkshire: Crunch Time'. We have decided to do this and ask one of the teachers that work within the school if she could help us out with doing a scene for our mock up documentary.

Here is the mock up documentary scene that me and Steven have made.

The teacher that works at Bitterne Park Secondary School (Mrs Chilcott Coombes) was happy enough to help me and Steven out with making our short scene recreation from 'Educating Yorkshire' during her lesson. But it was hard at some point because the class that she was teaching at the time did not want to be filmed so we had to shorten the clip.  

The equipment that we used was; the camera and the tripod. Me and Steven both have to improve our skills with setting up the camera as, it did take up a lot of the time and we would want to have more time filming and less time trying to set up the camera.

During the editing, we did have some problems as, the logo that we was going to use did not want to work so we had to go without. However, I would like to know how to do it before we have to edit our actual documentary.

The soundtrack that we used was made by Olexandr Ignatov called 'Inspirational Piano'. Me and Steven both decided that this was the closet soundtrack to the one that they used on 'Educating Yorkshire' was this one and it worked well within your short scene.

Soundtrack used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB4SvxKgpAU 

We did plan all the shots that we was going to do by doing a storyboard, but because none of the students in the teachers class wanted to be a part of the scene we had to shorten it to only the first two scenes from the storyboard we have done.

Storyboard

Limitations

We have some limitation that me and Steven had during the making of our short recreation of the documentary is that, the students did not want to be on the screen putting there hand up. We also had trouble trying to put our logo that we made into the top left hand corner (8V - 8 View). However, having these limitations would make be more aware of what we would have to do.

Me and Steven from having the students not want to be filmed, we have thought of what age group we should have on camera such as, year 7 and 8's would want to be filmed unlike college or year 11's who would not want to be filmed. Me and Steven have both cam up with an idea that we would hand out sweets to the children that are in our documentary to try and persuade them to be in it. 

Summary

From me and Steven making this recreation scene from 'Educating Yorkshire'. We can know who what we would have to do to make a professional looking documentary. This would help us when we make our actual documentary because we would know how we would have to film and roughly how long it takes and what problems may occur and how we would over come them. From this short scene, we would want the audience to have a preferred response (Stuart Hall's Theory) that the school is a nice and calm place and this is seen through the music that we use.

However, in the future I believe that are many ways in which me and Steven could improve the way that we film our documentary and we will look at how we can improve doing that. We would also have to ask the teacher that we would want to have in our documentary roughly about 2 weeks before we film so we can play what we would have to do.