Ideas for our Documentary

First Idea

Drugs, smoking, drinking -> teenage behaviour

• Underage drinking - pubs - Interview bar staff about underage drinkers, and teenagers who drink.
• Drugs - Interview teenagers who have done drugs and give opinion about this.
• Smoking - Interview teenagers about this.
• Interview a range of people of different ages to give their opinion of drinking/drugs/smoking, and how it might be different from when they were young.

Smoking: why? How do they get hold of them? How do you afford them? Enjoy it? Influenced by friends/family members?
Drugs: why? How do you get hold of it? How do you know its safe? Why put yourself at risk? Pressured into it by other people? Pressure other people? Enjoy it? Any side effects or worries afterwards or during?
Drinking: Why? How do you get it? Why do it? Enjoy it? Any worries while doing it? Thought about the risks?

This was one of our ideas, we thought about other things too on our mind maps in case we could think of anything better that would maybe stand out more than the 'Teenage Behaviour' because we thought this might be quite a popular topic for the teenagers because they can get hold of all of the interviewees easily.

Second Idea

Liposuction, Face Lifts, Sunbeds -> Beauty



• Liposuction
• Face lifts
• Sun Beds
• Make up
• Make up tattooed
• Boob jobs

Interview people who have had this done.

Why do any of this? Risks not scare you off.. worth the risks? Famous people influence you? Can go wrong? Worth the pain?

Can go very well.. interview people that its gone O.K. for.
The surgery can go wrong.. interview someone who its gone wrong for.
Examples of people its gone wrong for or they've took it too far:

• Pete Burns
• Pamela Anderson
• Jocelyn Wildenstein
• Janice Dickinson
• Megan Ryan
• Michel Jackson
• Janet Jackson
• Joan Rivers
• Dolly Parton
• Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff twins

Use these people in our documentary and show their before and after pictures to show the dramatic difference.

Cops on Camera

Themes

• Cars
• Speeding
• Police
• Speed Cameras
• Interviews with police

Narrative Structure

• Police interviewing people
• Catching people speeding
• Small cameras used to catch people

Camera work

• Cameras from police cars
• Shots of the police men driving
• Cameras used in police cars
• Helecopters - birds eye view
• Handheld

Mise-en-scene

• All the times of the day

Sound

• Narration over the filming
• Cars begind while their talking
• Drums music

Editing

• Showing footage from the police car
• Faces blurred out
• Interviews with police officer after the offence telling us his point of view.

Archieve Material

Graphics

• Headings
• Sub headings

16 And Pregnant

Type of Documentary

Themes

• Parental views
• Teenagers
• Babies
• Adoption
• Linear

Narrative Structure

• Open with background of them
• Different girls in the same situation
• Talking in normal places E.G. bedroom, car, kitchen.
• Views from friends
• Showing all the things she goes through.
• Skips through time with narration talking about whats happend

Camera Work

• Shots of where their from
• Close ups in serious situations
• Shots of the area
• Handheld
• Shots of parents and their views
• Following while in laybour

Mise-en-scene

• Talking in normal places - not set up.
• Filmed in their house.
• Outside shots - day and night

Sound

• Calming music
• No lyrics in music
• Pulse music while in laybour
• Slow songs

Editing

• Drawings of the people
• Book used throughout to show the story in this way too.
• Cuts of each person while their talking.
• Cutting time down from pregnacy

Archive Material

Graphics

• "2 weeks pregnant" - headings used to show how far in she is.
• Narration from the 16 year old girl
• Heading while having conversations
• Sub titles on some conversations that are hard to hear.

Crystal Meth

Type of Documentary
Poetic Documentary
Themes

• Drugs.
• Police.
• Medicine.
• Communities.
• Destruction of people.
• Children in homes.

Narrative Structure

• Investigating Crystal Meth.
• Linear Structure.
• Viewing from the police point of view.
• Some interviews of people who have done the drug.
• Children taken and put into homes because of their parents on the drug.

Camera Work

• Shots of the drugs in bags.
• Pan of the area.
• Handheld - real footage.

Mise-en-scene

• See the change in people.

Sound

• Tunes in the background while pictures are being showed - no lyrics.
• Rock music used.

Editing

• Before and after photos of people on the drug.
• Shows evidence of what the narrator is talking about.
• Interviewees on the right of the screen.
• Pictures of the man they are talking about - showing a time line of pictures of him gradually through the time in which he's taken the drug.

Archive Material

• Investigator finding out about Crystal Meth.
• Very big in America.
• Getting more and more addicts in American, spreading through-out.

Graphics

• Sub heading on interviews.

Similarities in Documentaries

Similaries between:
'The Devil Made Me Do It'
'The Music Bizz: Meatloaf'
'Lara Croft'

1. All the interviews have an image to do with the documentary behind them.
2. Music links in with the theme of the documentary.
3. Rule of thirds used in the interviews.
4. Cutaways are used throughout an interview to give visual evidence to go with the speach.
5. All about fame in these 3 documentaries - all have fans.
6. Links with money; Maralyn Manson, Meatloaf and Lara Croft.
7. All three involve a famous person.
8. Headings when people are being interviewed.
9. Include the medias involvement at some point through-out.
10. Establishing shots of where things have happend.

Lara Croft

Type of Documentary
Expository Documentary
Themes

• Violence.
• Representation of women.
• Feminism.
• Gaming.

Narrative Structure

• Lara Croft within a game and also a real life film too.
• Talking about her developing.

Camerawork

• Canted angle.
• Extreme close up of interviewees face.
• Medium close up.
• Shows game footage + zooms out to show the person playing the game.

Mise-en-scene

• Background in interviews is footage from the Lara Croft game.
• Computers and computer mise.
• Dark, dull lighting in the game.

Sound

• Music from the game.
• Lara Crofts voice.
• Male voice over.
• Sound effects.
• Game play footage; audio.

Editing

Archive Material

• Footage from game.
• Lara Croft interviews.
• Chat rooms.

Graphics

• Quick moving camerawork... sped up.
• Match on action.
• Blue screen used.
• Straight cuts, no black outs.

The Music Bizz - Meatloaf

Type of Documentary
Observational Documentary
Themes

• Fame.
• Fourtune.
• Music.
• Popularity.

Narrative Structure

• Meatloaf starring in a film.
• Performing - everyone cheering; He's well known and liked.

Camera Work

• Shot of meatloaf performing.
• Shots of the film he starred in (Beauty and the Beast) for the length of time that they talk about.
• Establishing shot of the place the brit awards are held.
• Shots of headlines about meatloaf.
• Filming at the shoot of Beauty and the Beast, shows the film throughout this.

Mise-en-scene

• Big lights outside the brit awards.
• Meatloaf keeps in character even when hes not performing.
• CD linked with him character 'Rock and Roll', includes bats, motorbikes and dragons to symbolise Rock and Roll.

Sound

• Meatloafs music playing in the background of the interviews.
• Other Rock and Roll music used for the back grounds of the interviews.

Editing

• Zooms in and out on pictures and text from newspapers.
• Pictures of meatloaf and text behind people when they are getting interviewed.

Archive Material

• What ever the narrator says there is an image to back that up.
• Became one and a showed shots of this on websites and in shops.

Graphics

The Devil Made Me Do It

Type of documentary
Reflective Documentary
Themes

• good vs evil.
• crime.
• punishment.
• religion.
• violence.
• roll models.
• youth.
• music - the influence of it.

Narrative Structure

• Maralyn Manson being a bad influence to young people.
• Linear - follows a time line.
• epic narrative -> jumps from place to place

Types of Documentary

Poetic Documentary
Created in 1920's, used to tell the audience by showing the documentary in a different way. Not in order like other documentaries.

Expository Documentary
Speak directly to the viewer, mostly in the form of commentary and using voice overs and titles. Its a strong argument and point of view. Rhetorical and try and persaude the audienc. (Male voice over used)

Observational Documentary
1960's lightweight camera technologies came in. Observation of life. Fly on the wall effect.

Participatory Documentary
Begins in a expository condition and the film maker gets involved and participates.

Reflective Documentary
Abstract concept, questions reality, post modern concept.
Performative Documentary
Reflecting on your life and making a documentary on whats happend to you.