What gets our audience interested?

We though magazine front covers, to draw them in on the first page. Our advertisement would need to attract mainly the younger generation. So would it be something as cramped as the Top of the Pops front cover?:

Or as simple as this Indie magazine cover?:

Either one would work well, I think. Due to the fact that there are so many ways you could make something stand out that was on a simple page, just having an eye catching  colour, or outrageous title, could draw lots of attention. However, something as crazy as the Top of the Pops one would appeal to what we are trying to get across. The fact that everyone is addicted to everything; the notion that having many things happening at once, makes for a crazy and cramped mind. For example; having your phone next to you whilst on the laptop, whilst listening to music and watching the TV. That may be a little over the top, but its what some people do. Creating a lively front cover or poster would help to outline everything in one place, with the colour, images, font, title, description etc.

Video games addiction research

Possible titles

My Kid is Addicted

The Curious Case of the Addicted Child

The Kid and the Drugs

My Kid Loves Drugs/All Our Kids Are On Drugs

Our Kids Love Drugs

These titles are just to make me and the group think about possible titles for our documentary. Something that reflects the documentary and something that can attracted the audience with a shocking title, like; My Kid Loves Drugs! 

Font styles

I think that this font would go well with our documentary theme because its quite intriguing to the audience. Although it is kind of "movie like", which wasn't what we wanted because we are making a documentary; rather than a movie that could be something quite scary...looking at the name and style of the font. 

This is the type of style me and my group like the best out of the three we've chosen; this is because its simple but its not like your everyday font; which is what our documentary wants to get across; as our documentary isn't something that has been talked about on TV before. However, addiction has, but the unseen font will allow the audience to see that this will be something original. 

This is another font that I really like, just because its not seen in many documentaries on TV, its quite unusual. Even the fact that its not filled in with black, could reflect the fact that the audience are going to look into our documentary rather than just watch it and not understand or look deeper. It will be something that is clear to everyone, which is emphasised by this font. 

Whats next?

What's next? on Prezi

Examples of traffic shots

To be able to get the affect of traffic transitions I would need to take a series of pictures on the camera with the 'shutter speed' element to take photos. This element of the camera doesn't work when recording, because we are un able to get the light blurring in cars and buildings.

We would like to use this technique in our documentary to use during transitions as it shows our audience the journey of discovery of Dopamine and the journey that we have taken to get that conclusion.

Ali's shooting day Friday-Sunday

Friday- "Was all about setting up the different locations of where he was going to shoot... For example in his house, putting the camera in the right places, getting his nephew in the right places at the right time. In order to observe him properly. I watched Kyreece play games and watch TV, and did running shots, to discover what I needed to find out."

Saturday- "Next I got Kyreece (aged 5) ready to go to the park to watch him play around with a football or on the swings, showed him acting his age. Until I had problems with the camera again, which is when I decided to go home and get some more shots of him playing with the laptop, phone and watching TV. I started researching everything about the camera, trying to find out what was going on with it, so that next time I will be able to overcome this problem. I found so much whilst doing this..."



During Ali's research he found many different techniques to use in out documentary to show the addiction to gaming and TV. For example the 'Packman' one, which makes the lights in the shot to become that shape, which will emphasise the fact that we all see what we addicted to all the time. The fact that it makes it looks like it's in the sub-conscience, so always thinking about it, even in your sleep.

The music tone in the background is particularly interesting to us; the piano is a soft under tone to the quite eye catching colours. We would like to use this kind of music in our documentary, so that it doesn't take away meaning from the actual shots but allows something to keep the audience interested whilst they are watching- to allow something to fill the space when we are taking transition or establishing shots.

This might be something that the audience can watch whilst the narrator is talking, so that the audience can view watch the narrator is trying to illustrate- explaining what they are looking at, or explaining the next transition.

Shooting Day 4 Friday- Sunday

On this shooting day, Ali-director, will be filming his nephew and oberseving him as he watches his favourite programm and plays his favourite game. The rest of the crew is thinking that this will go really well; because Kyreece will be at his house most of the time, which gives him great oppotunities to get some good footage. Me as the camera woman, I'm kind of missing out, as I am too busy for these dates. Ali will show us the footage on Tuesday for out next meeting, hopefully it looks good and has the kind of effects I'm hoping it to have.

When you just see something amazing...

Just thought it was something nice to look at...

Evaluation of Shooting Day 3

Evaluation of Shooting Day 2

Evaluation of shooting day 1

Today was the day where we went to Liverpool street to shoot establishing shots and get some interviews from random people. This was a difficult process to start off with because my team were a little shy to start talking to people. It was also cold and getting dark very quickly so isn't wasn't going too well, in order for us to get some good interviews we needed to just work with the public.

This might not have been the best time for us to starrt recording as it was rush hour and no one could really talk to us because they needed to catch a train. Despite the fact that we had numorous problems with the camera, resulting in us having to ask people with cameras what was going on, we also tried the internet at the point; where we got this from Youtube:



However, despite the fact that we had a few shooting and confidence trouble at the beginning; we decided that it was time for us to start talking to people, so that we could just go home, becuase it was so freezing. We started to have fun after that, more and more people started to come and talk to us and give us the answers we wanted.

After understanding the camera a bit more, we had decided to try and shoot some establishing shots; although this was quite tricky beacuse we want to go in the middle of the road and shoot on coming traffic, coming from both ways. We found this quite difficult because we couldn't get the tripod to stand properly, nor would the camera stay on it, so the frame was shaky and we couldnt get a clear shot. Eventually; it was a matter of getting as many people to interview as we could. Which we did and got some really interesting answers.

Shooting Schedule Table
Shooting Schedule 13th

Moving Forward

We've had to more a lot of the timing forward for the shooting schedule because we had a few problems with the cameras and finding the right people at the right time. Although this isn't too much of a problem, we are still behind on shooting, which means we will need to get through the next few days very quickly...

Shooting Schedule

Our times, dates and locations for each shooting; unfortunately I wasn't present on this date, so I was unable to find out whether they have done the first interview. However, I will be in touch with the rest of my group to find out whether they have and if they need anymore help.

Shot List

 We wanted to establish exactly what we were shooting, where, how long each of the shots would be so we coudl get an idea of what our documentary is going to look like.

Unfortunately we are still unsure of how we are going to end our documentary, we are hoping to talk to our teacher, who was also a little worried, about a possible ending.

2nd Draft of Storyboard

More detailed and with pictures to help visualise what we want it to look like...

9/11 Archive Footage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8Mz0_x7313I

We would like some archive footage in the documentary and I thought something like this? The idea of it being on a mobile phone or amature recording, would create the 'real' affect for the audience. However, our doumentary is about today and archive footage about this might be a little 'out of date', we will need contempory opinions and stats, to help with discovering Dopamine...Although, it does have the best effect on audiences, making them believe more.

Inspiration for scientific explaination

http://www.youtube.com/embed/90cj4NX87Yk 

My group and I, particularly liked the part that shows Dopamine effecting the brain cells, this will hopefully give the audience a visual effect of how the drug travels. Also, it will illistrate how and where is sreads, with a voice over telling the audience what is happening.

Quick Change

This isn't really a problem, but it will impact our final documentary. Kyreece, the child that will be the subject in the documentary has changed his addiction, he is now focusing a lot of his time on Temple Run, which he plays constantly when he comes home from school. However, this is something we can get around because we are going to film him watching his favourite TV program and then show the audience that his addiction has changed because Dopamine is making him move on to something different.

This of course, could have been as a result of the excitment of new technology, but we will come to the conclusion that it is because of Dopamine.

Permission

A forwarded e-mail was sent to us from a 'teacher expert' that we needed to interview:

Drafted questions for a target audience

1	Do you watch documentaries?
2	What kind of documentary do you watch?
3	How many times a week would you say you watch them?
4	Do you think that we could all learn from some documentaries?
5	Would you watch a fun and factual documentary on the brain and neuroscience?

These question are pretty vague, but I will come up with some more that will answer the question properly. Also I think that I should do more yes/ no questions just to make the statistics easier to read.

Characters!

Narrator: Ali Cornwall
Child addicted: Kyreece Cornwall
Teacher experts: Miss Lewis and Mr Mccally
Random people at Stratford Centre

Ali as the narrator will help the audience of our documentary to understand what it is all about, which will broarden our documentaries, getting more people interested and educated. Kyreece is the nephew of Ali, which will allow more connection between them making filming a lot easier. We will observe 5 year old  Kyreece and find out what we are looking for...an answer!

Each teacher expert will be asked a series of question to help understand the importance of Dopamine and what is its scientific justification for its presents.

The random people in Stratford Centre will be just What is Dopamine? And they will hopefully come out with an answer that we can use to prove that we don't actually know what it is.

Storyboard- First Draft

We simply took our ideas and worked them into order of what event goes where. There will be a more visual storyboard in another post, to help clarify.

Combined Treatment

In a time where technology rules all, can we say that is not our obsession with technology but something psychological? Have you ever sometimes considered yourself to be an “addict” of some kind?

This film will be a full length documentary about the role of TV on young children. TV is something which is part of our everyday lives and as research suggests too much of it is bad for our children. However, our behaviour towards TV and internet is actually because of the largest drug that is released from our brain. We follow 5 year old Kyreece; and his behaviour towards his favourite TV show “Jake and the Netherland Pirates” From observing Kyreece this show is clearly the only thing he cares about in the whole entire world. This is 5 years of his life sat; glued to the TV screen. The documentary clearly stresses that his addiction to this show is a domestic problem and that any attempt to conceal him from it proves fatal.

The film then takes viewers on a journey, to see why Kyreece acts in this particular way. Some will say ‘Kids will be kids’ but maybe there is possibly a particular reason as to why he acts this way? To be addicted means to be addicted to a particular substance or a specified thing or activity. Can we suggest that Kyreece is perhaps “addicted” to this TV show?

 ­­­­______­­­­__ will show the viewer’s our search to find out why Kyreece is so addicted to TV. We are told information from experts such a psychologist and biologists who tell us that there is actually a psychological reason behind Kyreece’s unacceptable behaviour. We see them in their natural environment of a lab and a classroom to show that they are professionals. This is where Dopamine comes in, an internal drug released in the brain by our body helping fuel our desires. An animation breaks down what the expert has says and helps the viewer to understand the effects of the drug. We see a clear effect the drug has on humans discovering that there is a strong possibility that dopamine plays a part not only in his addiction to TV but ourselves.

So clearly not only is Kyreece addicted to TV but we are too! We then discover how not just Kyreece, but teenagers and adults are also affected by it. At this point we see what creates our desire to view more and more of something with observations of people on the internet and doing various other things. We are then left to question: “Are we really addicted?”

It’s crucial to inform the world of their unknown addiction to drugs. What’s your level of addiction?

'Everything is Incredible'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqZ56-RMbNc&feature=player_detailpage

This establishing shot, tells the story from the begining which is an inspiration to me, as it allows me to be drawn into the story. With the voice over coming in just as the person talking comes to the camera, showing the emotions and the man telling the audience the story we so want to hear, because of the beautiful set up. The dark clouds, moutains, falling rain; tells us this documentary won't be too happy, but about someting 'Icredible'.

My establishing shot example

I did this whilst on my journey back to London, everything is quite fast pace because i'm on the motor way. However, this was something me and my group decided upon, because we wanted to try and get passing traffic to make it look like time was passing, although it never got darker or lighter, things still moved quite quickly.

Example of a establishing shot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E595Y4FDZ-c

The establishing shot allows the audience to see where the actors will be placed and an overview of their surroundings. It helps the directors to set the scene, for any type of documentary of TV drama. This establishing shot tells the audience that the film could be set around mountains and nature or it could just be where some of the characters live, reflecting the way they like to live.

'The Human Mannequin'

The human mannequin analysis from Victoria_Johnson

However...

There was still TV!!!

I managed to watch a documentary that could relate to the documentary that I will work on...
'The Human Mannequin'- mainly about the facts of her illness and her life. This relates to my documentary because we will be discussing a drug that everyone has, we will be mainly talking about the drug itself- looking for facts and figures, but also looking at someone in particular, who uses it the most.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-human-mannequin/4od

Problems- Holiday!

The struggle to keep up with bogging!
On holiday, where there is NO internet and there had to just observe and take pictures and record some stuff, to make me feel better, after not being able to blog.

It wasnt all bad, the holiday wasn't bad, here are some snaps:

 Just as we were leaving, the sun decided to come out, so I quickly got a shot on the beach!








We were staying in these little cabin things, that were absolutely freezing, but still great fun.