copy right email screen grabs

These are emails that me and my group sent out asking for permission to use certain artists songs in our music bed for the documentary.

Edit desicion lists

Edl Vox Pops EDL x2

Logging sheets

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Print advert sketch

Pictures of my group and i filming

re-filming archive material

Today we re-filmed the archive material of the hairstyles from over the years because the camera movement we decided to use was too much for the small edits we needed and the shots didn't look right in the documentary as the movements were different speeds.  The footage we filmed is much better and  it will definatly be good enough to put in our documentary.

Archive material filming

Today we filmed the archive material for the ginger headlines which will feature in the documentary. The filming went really good and the footage will definatly be used in our documentary. The archive material was headlines of discrimination against people with ginger hair and news stories about ginger hair.

Archive material filming

Today we filmed the still images for our achive material the footage will have to be viewed to see if it is usable for the documentary. The archive footage was of hairstyles throughout the years and it is shown through celebrity and iconic hairstyles.

re-shoot of the three ginger interviews

Today we had to interview the people with ginger hair again because the mise-en-scene and the framing wasn't good enough.

We asked the same questions;

Ginger questions;

1. Have you always had your natural ginger hair (Have you ever died your hair before)?

2. Do you feel comfortable with your current hair colour?

(why/why not)

3. Would you ever consider dying your hair?

(why/why not)

4. Have you ever been teased or bullied because of your hair colour?

(If yes, tell me a bit about that experience)

5. Tell me about your views on bullying people because of their hair colour?

6. What are your views on the word ‘ginger’ and the connotations that surrounds it?

7. What are your views on sperm banks stopping ginger people from donating sperm?

This is the framing of the interview

Ginger by choice questions;

1. Why did you choose to dye your hair ginger?

2. Do you feel people treat you differently now that you have ginger hair/

3. Were you unhappy with your natural hair colour?

4. What other colours have you dyed it?

5. What are your views on the word 'ginger' and the connotations that surround it?


This is the framing for the interview;

re-shoot common room interviews

Today, we had to re-film the interviews with the students in the common room because the framing wasn't good enough for the footage to be put into our documentary. I wasnt present in the first shoot that the team done however this time round i was there. The interview went much better.

We asked the same questions;

1. How important is your hair to you?

(If yes why?)

2. What are your views on the theory that a person’s hair gives them individuality?

3. Tell me about how important it is to you to keep your hair healthy and on trend?

4. What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

5. Do you think you can tell a lot about a person from their hairstyle?

6. Do you think people’s hair has an impact on their mood?

This is the framing for the interview

Contacting Andrew Collinge

In the preparation for our documentary, we also tried to contact Andrew Collinge who is also a local, famous hairdresser. We contacted him through his official e-mail account but again, we did not get an answer which we new was likely. This is the e-mail we sent;

Contacting Marcus Collins

At the begining of our documentary we contacted Marcus Collins as he is a local, famous hairdresser and would feature well in our documentary. We contacted him through Twitter and were not expecting a reply and we didn't get one. This is the tweet that we sent to him;

Chris interview Alopecia sufferer

Today we interviewed Chris who is a sufferer of alopecia. This is a re-shoot as it wasn't framed correctly the first time it was filmed. I wasn't present for the first time of filming and neither was our other team member Adam.



This is the framing for the interview;

This is photo evidence that we conducted the interview;

Paige interview (ginger)

We interviewd Paige who is a ginger by choice and we asked her about why she dies her hair ginger. These are questions we asked her;

1. Why did you choose to dye your hair ginger?
2. Do you feel people treat you differently now that you have ginger hair?
3. Were you unhappy with your natural hair colour?
4. What other colours have you dyed it?
5. What are your views on the word 'ginger' and the connotations that surround it?



This is the framing we used:

Alex interview (ginger)

After Vox Pops we interviewed Alex, another natural ginger.

These are the questions we asked;

1. Have you always had your natural ginger hair (Have you ever died your hair before)?

2. Do you feel comfortable with your current hair colour?

(why/why not)

3. Would you ever consider dying your hair?

(why/why not)

4. Have you ever been teased or bullied because of your hair colour?

(If yes, tell me a bit about that experience)

5. Tell me about your views on bullying people because of their hair colour?

6. What are your views on the word ‘ginger’ and the connotations that surrounds it?

7. What are your views on sperm banks stopping ginger people from donating sperm?

This is the framing of the interview

vox pops

Todayafter interviewing amy me and my team tried for our third time at vox pops. We decided to go to liscard shopping center on our frees in school. This time round it went graet. We got alot a relly good answers and planty of people stopped.

interview with amy (ginger)

Today we interviewed Amy who is natural ginger and we asked her qusetions about the prejudice surrounding gingerism

These are the questions we asked her;

1. Have you always had your natural ginger hair (Have you ever died your hair before)?

2. Do you feel comfortable with your current hair colour?

(why/why not)

3. Would you ever consider dying your hair?

(why/why not)

4. Have you ever been teased or bullied because of your hair colour?

(If yes, tell me a bit about that experience)

5. Tell me about your views on bullying people because of their hair colour?

6. What are your views on the word ‘ginger’ and the connotations that surrounds it?

7. What are your views on sperm banks stopping ginger people from donating sperm?

This is the framing for the interview

 

 

title sequence

Today we filmed our title sequence and we used the crane/jib for this. We used hair to spell out the letters for our documentary 'Cutting Edge' and we feel the filming went well. We also filmed the hair falling down which will be edited into slow motion to be edited to cross cut with the words being spelled out.

Vox Pops

Today me and my team went to Birkenhead shopping center after we finished our interiews in Wirral Metropolitan college for a second attempt at vox pops, however we where unsuccessful again.

Wirral metropolitan college second visit

Today me and the other team members went back to Wirral metropolitan college to finally get our interviews done. We only ended up being able to inetrview a tutor as none of the trainee's where willing. We also got some good shots of the salon and equipment that will be used for cut aways in the interview.

Here are the interview questiones we used:

When did you decide to become a lecturer?

Is your hair important to you? Why?

What’s your favourite celebrity hairstyle?

Which celeb has the worst hair?

What are your views on a person’s hairstyle and whether or not it gives them individuality?

What’s the best thing about being a lecturer?

And what’s the worst thing?

What is the worst thing that people do to their hair?

What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

What’s the latest trend in hairstyles?

What are your views on how male hairstyles have changed over the years?

How do you train people to become hairdressers?

What are the skills needed to be a hairdresser?

What makes a good hairdresser?

What’s the worst thing a trainee has done?

Do you enter any competitions?

Any winners?

How has hairdressing changed (if at all) over the years?

Who do you think is the best hairdresser around?

What qualities make a good hairdresser?

Do you find you have to be a confident and sociable person to be a hairdresser?

Why?

 

 

 

Common room second visit

Today we went back to film in the common room with the crane and the track again as last time the footage was not good enough to be used and alot of people where looking at the camera. However this time round  it went alot more successfull.

Vox Pops

Today me and my team tried to film the vox pops in Liscard shopping centre, however we where not successful. We will have to try a different location next time.

Visit to the babrbers - 'Blow your Top'

My team have visited this barbers before however i wasnt able to attend. Today we had to go back to the babrbers to re shoot because the
framing wasnt correct. This time round the teamed used the same framing and mis en scen that we had planned for the first time.



This was the framing used for the interview.

These are the questions we used in the interview :

Why did you decide to become a barber?

How long have you been a barber for?

Tell me about the craziest hairstyle you’ve ever done for someone?

 Is your hair important to you? Why?

What’s the average amount people spend on their hair?

Have you always wanted to be a barber?

What’s your favourite celebrity hairstyle?

Which celeb has the worst hair?

What are your views on a person’s hairstyle and whether it gives them individuality?

What’s the most popular hairstyle you do in the shop for men?

What’s a typical customer of yours?

What’s the best thing about being a barber?

What’s the worst thing about being a barber?

What happens to all the hair that you cut off?

What is the worst thing that people do to their hair?

What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

What’s the latest trend in hairstyles?

How do you think men’s hairstyles have changed over the years?

What/who do you think has influenced this change?

Wirral Metropolitan college

Today my team and i traveled to Wirral Meropolitan college to interview hairdressing tutors and trainee's however we found that the college was off on on half term so we had to re arrange for another day to do the interview. We did get some shots of the space and equipment that might be useable.

Common Room Filming

Today my team and i set up the crane and the track in our school common room to get some establishing shots. The footage was to be used as cut aways for the interview we have yet to do with students. This was our first time using the equipment and where we excited to see what we could get. However after viewing the footage it wasnt very good, so we have planned to re-do the filming again.

Visit to 'Passion hair salon'

Today we interviewed a hairdresser from 'Passion. These are the questiones we asked:

Why did you decide to become a hairdresser?

How long have you been a hairdresser for?

Tell me about the craziest hairstyle you’ve ever done for someone?

Is your hair important to you? Why?

What’s the average amount people spend on their hair?

Have you always wanted to be a hairdresser?

What’s your favourite celebrity hairstyle?

Which celeb has the worst hair?

What are your views on a person’s hairstyle gives them individuality?

What’s the most popular hairstyle you do in the salon?

What’s a typical customer of yours?

What’s the best thing about being a hairdresser?

What’s the worst thing about being a hairdresser?

What happens to all the hair that you cut off?

What is the worst thing that people do to their hair?

What advice would you give people about looking after their hair?

Why do old women have a blue rinse?

What’s the latest trend in hairstyles?

Do you cut men’s hair?

Do you find more men coming to you instead of going to the barbers?

 

 

Here is a sketch of the framing that we used.

running order

Running Order

TV Scheduling

Tv scheduling from chelseadawson

formal proposal

Formal Proposal Documentary (1)

target audience research

Target audience 'hair questions'

The Hair Questionnaire

Initail plans

Ou documentary will be based on the topic of hair. The documentary will be shown on channel 4 9pm on a thursday night. However these plans may change when we have carried out are target audience research.

Brainstorm

This is a breif brain storm we did in class for ideas for thecontent of our documentary. 

Brain storm

This is a breif brainstorm we did in class for all the topics of a documentary.
 

Phones for thought evaluation

In lesson me and my two other group members where set a preliminary task to interview a person around school on mobile phones with the questiones that we had been given. We also had to take all the cutaways and then, in another full lesson edit the whole documentary adding a title and music. The video 'Phones for thoughts' that you can see below is my groups documentary. The main strengths in our documentary is that the narrative was still there even when we had finished editing, we framed to one side (right) in a close up and the interviewee was looking in the right dorection towards the interviewer.
 However somethink we need to work on and didnt quite get right was the mise en scene, as ours was distracting with people in the background and it should be the interviewee who is the main point. Our pauses also needed to be edited shorter to make it flow better and some of the camera work was abit shakey and out of focus.
  Concidering this was our first attempt at making a documentary i think we done ok and we have now learnt from are mistakes after going through and analysing it and afetr learning the codes and conventions of an interview.

phones for thoughts-documentary

Simpsons documentary analysis

Simpsons 20th annavirsarie interview on Prezi

Simpsons 20th annavirsarie interview

Jaws- analysis

In the teeth of jaws on Prezi

In the teeth of jaws- interview

Codes and Conventions of interviews

Inside 9/11 zero hour

The girl who became three boys

The girl who became three boys on Prezi

Codes and Conventions

Documentary analysis the marketing of meatloaf a2 from chelseadawson

Lara Croft-That Thing

Lara Croft- That Thing on Prezi

Theory

The purpose of a documentary is to 'document' ie report, with evidence something that has actually happened. It can show this by using acuality footage or a reconstructions of footage. Actuality footage is something actualy happening where as a reconstruction is something real that is then acted out by actors. It can use a narrators voice over to anchor the meaning or rely on the participants theemselves with the accasionl interjection by an unseen narrator.

According to John Corner from The University Of Liverpool, there are 5 central elements to a documentary.

1)Observation- the camera just observes whats going on and participants do not acknowledge it. Thid places the viewer in thr role of an eye witness, just asif you where there.

2)Interview- which obviously rely on real and good quality interviews to make up the documentary.

3)Dramatisation- a sense of drama though the observational element.

4)Mise En Scene- a careful composition of shots is used to show the audience certain things the maker wants them to see.

5)Exposition- This is the most important point. This is the main point of the documentary, what it is saying and what point it is trying to get across.

Types of documentary

• Fully narrated documentary- the voice over is used to make sense of the visuals and dominates there meaning. This type of documentary is most commonly used in natural history documentarys, however some of the animal sound you wll here are fake.
• Fly on the wall documentary- influenced by cinemaverite. It offers a 'true/real' picture of events. However quotation marks are used because some people beleive that it is not real as the participants are aware of the camera's. 
•  Mixed documentary- using a combination of interview, observation and narritive.
•  Self reflexive documentarys- participants acknowledge the presense of the camera and often speak directly to the documentary maker.
•  Docusoaps- following the daily lives of particular individuals.

There are various types of narrative structure in a documentary. For example;

• Open documentary and closed documentary. Open means that questions are left unanswered, this usually occurs in cliff hangers where then all of the questions are anwered in the next episode.
• Linear a nd non linear documentaries. Linear is when the documentary follows a chronilgical order and non linear is when it doesnt. For example it has flash backs or flash forwards. These are mostly used in film and drama not soaps and not documentaries.
• Single strand and multi strand. Single strand is where there is only one narrative thread ( one story) and multi strand is where there is more than one narrative thread, these will converge throughout the documentary. For example television soaps, where more than one stories are shown.

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