My criticlal investigation topic is: "To what extent did the media coverage of the EU referendum affect the engagement of young people in politics?"
My linked production brief will be to create a Newsnight-esque report on the political engagement of young people in London and across the UK.
Research: detailed notes on at least THREE texts similar to what you are creating. What are the key conventions? What can you learn/borrow from the examples you have looked at?
Key Conventions
- One, two shots/cuts of interviewer and interviewee
- Tighter and closer shots of people when they are answering the questions
- At times the interviewer is not at all shown asking the questions
- Voice over narration, asking questions and providing details
- Host looking out in the distance in front of a visually appealing background
- Skylines, time lapses and establishing shots
- Camera follows host as he delivers lines and walks away
- Lower thirds
- B roll footage of people doing things with voice over, such as young people talking etc
- Vox pops?
- Statistics, data, research, reports. These are either challenged or reinforced. "50% of young people are lazy. Is this true? Let's find out etc"
- Background music
- Filler shots of interviewer and interviewee talking with voices drowned out with narration over it - SEE: Have we fallen out of love with experts? Ian Katz reports - BBC Newsnight
- Interviewer has notes, pen and paper - SEE ABOVE NEWSNIGHT
Project schedule: when will you shoot and edit this production? Make this a week-by-week schedule leading up to Easter. Key dates: we break up for Easter on Friday 31 March and the final deadline is Wednesday 19 April.
- Week 1 (27th Feb - 5th March)
- Organise the Shotlists, Storyboard, Script and overall structure of the documentary
- Email people that can be interviewed
- List of questions that can be asked in the interview
- Week 2 (6th March - 12th March)
- Film B roll
- Establishing shots
- Hyper and time lapse of Ealing/London/Tower Hamlets
- Week 3 (13th March - 19th March)
- Ealing Interviews
- Week 4 (20th March - 26th March)
- Tower Hamlets Interviews
- Week 5 (27th March - 2nd April)
- Post-production
- Week 6 (3rd April - 9th April)
- Editing, leave space for any improvements
- Leave space purposely for BYC residential filming
- Week 7 (10th April - 16th April)
- Edit and drop in BYC filming
- Week 8 (17th April - 19th April)
- Finalise the post production
Sketching and drafting - for video-based productions this means a storyboard - sheets available in DF07 or you can print out your own AQA storyboard sheet. For print productions, this means detailed sketches of all your pages.
Shot list - use Microsoft Word or a template like this to help you. Remember, you need a shot list whether you are filming or carrying out a print photoshoot - professional quality original images are essential if you want to reach the top level.
Mise-en-scene: casting/model details, costume and make-up, props, lighting, location scouting for video productions etc. Use photographs to document and plan your mise-en-scene - using your phone is acceptable for this.
Casting/Moswl
- Presenter/Host: Me
- Interviewees: Tejas Dattani, Pervin Kaur, Gemma Benton, Julian Bell, Steve Pound, Deng Yan San, Tower Hamlets Youth Council, Ealing Youth Council, British Youth Council
- Smart wear for host - Suit, tie, professional business attire
- Casual to smart for interviewees
Equipment
- Two cameras, with two collar mics
- Tripods, wheeled?
- Possibly in need of lighting to properly compose scenes
Locations
- Tower Hamlets, Mile End mural if possible that was used in BBC documentary (http://www.filmoffice.co.uk/umbraco/imageGen.ashx?image=/media/192514/Tower-Hamlets-Mile-End-Park-Legal-Grafitti-Wall-Film-Location-2.jpg&class=locationImageBig)
- Tower Hamlets Council
- Ealing Youth Council
- B Roll - Ealing, Tower Hamlets, Central London - Possible time lapse with skylines