Ancillary supporting plans-Newspaper article

These are the 3 plans we have created for our ancillary supporting piece for a newspaper article. We are planning to create a piece on an upcoming athelete for 2012 where we will interview him and write about how the Olympics will change and have an impact on London.

Supporting piece

Another aspect for our doccumentary is that we have to create a seperate piece of work to support our doccumentary. This is called a ansillary and can be in the form of a newspaper article, a poster or bilboard, a radio advert, reviws, advertising campaign etc...

We have decided that our ansillary piece will be a newspaper article on Sam Sturt, another newspaer article on the the positive and negative impacts of the Olympics which willbe more satrical, political and more informative towards our documentary. We will also be making a poster or bilboard explaining what our doccumentary will be about.

Olympic site filming

We have had a responce from the Olympic commitee regarding filming on the olympic site. They have said we are not allowed to film directly on the site due to safety reasons however we are allowed to go to a place called greenway where there is a good view of the the olympic building site where we will be allowed to film.

Progress Update

We have decided to do a visual diary of our planning and preparation for our documentary. We have recorded this in the media room where i discussed the current progress we have made.

Archive

Part of our production process will be using archive from other sources. We are planning to use this archive as it will give our work more depth and make the production more interesting as a whole.

The archive we are hoping to collect will be famous clips from Olympic moments such as Usain Bolt etc and possibly the building progress of the Olympic site. We are also trying to find a pice of archive footage of when London won the Olympic bid as a opening shot fot our documentary.

When using this archive we need to be careful not to use it too much, as our production will be marked on our filming techniques and not our ability to retrieve archive from other sources.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4657107.stm - London Olympic moment wining bid

http://www.london2012.com/plans/olympic-park/webcams/olympic-stadium-camera-1.php - Olympic stadium construction

http://www.london2012.com/plans/olympic-park/webcams/index.php - Web cams

Olympic site

As part of out filming process we are looking to film on the Olympic site where the new Olympic stadium is currently being built.

We have contacted the Olympic committee by e-mail in order to try and get permision to flim there. Once we get permision we will be hoping to film the site and possibly interview some of the construction workers there.

http://www.london2012.com/

Interview-Sam

As part of the interviewing process for out production we have to interview different people on their views of the 2012 Olympics.

Recently we have got an interview with Sam Sturt who is a potential 2012 Gymnast and is willing to answer some questions.

Firstly the Interview will invlove us filming a variety of shots of Sam taking part in Gymnastics, then we will be directing questions at him about the positive and negative impacts of the 2012 Olympics on London.

Documentary examples

I have recently been looking at examples of documentaries in order to help us with our project. I have been looking at a varity of documentaries such as Louis Theroux Weird Wekends so we can use some of his ideas for our production.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9eakb_louis-theroux-s-weird-weekends-ufo_shortfilms

I looked at the typical documentary forms such as The Observational Mode, Reflective Mode and more that were being used so that we could encorportae some of these ideas into our final production.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_mode

I Movie Storyboard

The next stage of the storyboard process is to use I Movie to help produce a more developed form of storyboard. Currently we are only using pictures from the Internet as a majority of our filming will be in London. Therefore shots around London that we are using are being taken off the Internet and archive shots are done in the same way too.

We have currently been expermenting with the software so that when we start using it we will be familar with the process of importing photos from the computer and cameras. We use the Kodak Zi6 which are hand heald cameras they can easily import photos onto the Apple Macs.

Interview letter

We recieved a e-mail form the London 2012 commitee confirming our e-mail. They told us to write a letter directly to the commitee asking them for an intervirew.

I have recently written the letter to the commitee explaining our situation and what we would like to achieve for the project. We are now waiting for a reply from them to see if we are able to have an interview sometime in the near future.

Interviews

As part of our interview process we are planning to get interviews from people in the London 2012 comittee. I have e-mailed various organisations acossiated with the Olympics including the Moyor of London and the London 2012 comittee.

Storyboard

Before we start the filming process of our documentary we had to write out our storyboard. This helped us write our ideas down on paper and when it come to the filming process we will have something to follow which will make the process much easier.

Our storyboard invovles pictures of the different shots that we will be having and below and explanation of what will happening happening in each of the shots.

Documentary Research

In order to decide what type of documentary our group wants to make we decided to research different modes of documentary. I found out that there are 4 different forms of documentaries.

Reflective this is where the film maker acknowlages their presence. Meaning sometimes in documentaries such as Louis Theroux the documenatry maker (Louis Theroux) is in presence within the shots of the documentary. Poetic is a for whereby an artistic naritive is constructed. Observational is being there as events unfold and Expository is an essay or exposition.

I also researched what documentaries try to achieve. Documentaries will either record, reveal or preserve. Persuade or promote. Analyse, interrogate or to express.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_mode

Planning

Before we start our main production we need to plan and decide how we will constuct our documentary. We have decided to do this through discussing ideas. Once we dicussed the ideas and thought of our main idea of the impact of the Olympic Games on London we had to begin storyboarding. This involved us taking still pictures of scenes that we will be using in the main production and then writing by the side what effects, music etc will be happening. This is important as it get ideas down on paper and when making our main production it is something to follow.

Interviews

In preparation for our documentary we have decided to makes some practice interviews. We had to make 3 types of interviews. The first one we made was handheld shot to create tension, the second was a steady shot which creates a sypatheic view and the last one was a presntpole mical view whcih is an opposition shot.

Creating the 3 typpes of the interviws was good preparation for when we start to make our main documentary as we know what the conventions of the different interviews will be. Creating this will also help improve on the mistakes we made in the practice interviws too.

Click the link to view the practice interviews:
http://karana2.blogspot.com/

Research

In preparation for our work on documentaries I have done some research on three well known documentary makers.

Louis Theroux
Louis Sebastian Theroux was born on the 20th of May 1970 in Singapore and is a British-American broadcaster best known for his television series Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.
Louis Theroux has made documentaries including Weird Weekends which is about how Louis followed marginal, mostly American subcultures like survivalists, Black nationalists, White supremacists and porn stars, often by living among or close to the people involved. Often, Theroux's documentary method subtly exposes the contradictions or farcical elements of some seriously-held beliefs.
He has also made a documentary called In When Louis met... in 2000-2002 where Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme as they went about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he did so.
He has also written a book called The call of the weird: Travels in American subcultures.
Louis Theroux has also won awards for the work he has done including 1996 Emmy Awards, British Academy Tlevision Awards in 2001 and British Academy Television Awards in 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux
Michael Moore
Michael Moore was born on the 23rd of April 1954 and is a director screenwriter, producer and actor.
Michael Moore has been involved within different directing roles in many films. These include Rogers and me, Canadian bacon, the big One, Sicko, Captain Mike across America and Fahrenheit.
Along with the documentaries he has directed he has also directed music videos, appeared in television shows and appeared on other film maker’s documentaries.
Michael Moore is also won an Academy Award and of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko are all three of the top five highest-grossing documentaries of all time.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore
Nick Broomfiled
Nick Broomfield was born on the 30th of January 1948 and is currently an English documentary film maker.
Nick Broomfield has made documentaries such as Proud to be British, behind the rent strike and recent documentaries such as Battle for Hadintha which is about an incident occurring 3 months after a battle in the Iraq war where 24 Iraqi civilians were killed supposedly by US Marines. His most recent film, As time comes is about the Kingsnorth six, the environmentalists who scaled a rower at a coal-fired power station in protest against pollution in 2007.
The film maker has also won many awards for the work he has done including a BAFTA and many more,
Other work that Broomfield has done is a series of 5 commercials for Volkswagen too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore