Progress so far

Due to the inconvenience of the snow we havent started on our production yet. However we have completed all our pre production tasks such as the advertising poster in a newspaper, all our research and our target audience feedback. We are currently starting on our  radio trailer research and decided to include footage from our recording into the narrative of the voiceover in the radio.

Presenters Profile

Our Presenter is Georgina Johnson is quirky and a fashion icon. We wanted her to resemble the likes of Alexa Chung, who is a fashion icon and a great TV presenter. Georgina Johnson resembles the like of Alexa Chung she was born and raised in london and went to a normal state school and left to persue her ambition for fashion when she was spotted by Murray Ferguson (producer of Misfits)who gave her her forst brak through with presenting 'Out of The Dark' for the BBC 3.

Production Meeting - Reviewing our Plan

What we want from our production...?
--> Variety of shots 
--> Interesting transactions
--> Interactive and funky
--> Fashionable and stylish
--> Realist as possible (especially the actors and the situation we are trying to show)
--> We don't want it to look like a PSHE project!

What could go wrong...?
--> Shots without tripods look awful and unprofessional.
--> Not filming enough Footage to edit.
--> Over reliance on captions e.g [11.05]
--> Failure to have range of shots, especially for documentaries.
--> Listings
--> Subject and Objective mix

Marking Criteria...
Aiming for a Level 3
*Holding shots steady
*Framing a shot
*Variety of shots
*Selecting Mise -en-scene
*Editing so meaning is appropriate.
*Using Varied Transitions
*Using sound with a images and editing appropriately for the tasks

Production Meeting/Postmodernism

We had a production meeting today to discuss the prospect of our documentary script. We planned and scripted a rough outline of possible lines and drew a rough storyboard. We also chose to show the opening extract of our documentary (which will involve a lot of editing) and is about 5 mins.

 Postmodernism is sceptical about absolute truths, artistic, scientific, historical or political, so a secure sense o time and place is becoming more difficult to sustain. So we thought instead of promoting a morale free, careless, live for the moment attitude. We want to raise awareness and promote maturity, understanding and care about sex life. However we want to include artistic elements of postmodernism in our documentary. such as having fast paced images to illustrate a story or use as a additional part of the documentary to break the code and conventions of documentaries.

Target Audience Feed Back

Pre Production of Plenary Task

Documentary Poster Research

• Documentaries also need additional advertising. They are usually in the form of posters or radio trailers. In order to decide what sort of poster to go to or what type of a radio trailer. We need to undergo a series of research, composition ideas, and layout.

Plenary task

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Target Audience...

Concept of our Poster:

On our poster we would like to have our presenter (Georgina Johnson) in a well lit mid-shot (or full shot) on the left hand side of the poster. while in the background we have silhouette of couples who are in the dark and not well lit. As the documentary series is called 'out of the dark' we want the main body to be 'Out of The Dark' so this follows the concept of the documentary. We want our documentary poster to connote the message of the presenter being in 'The Know' and therefore 'Ot of the dark' when it comes to sexual health quires, issues etc...Therefore she has the knowledge and power to share her knowledge to out viewers.

A rough sketch to show the concept of our poster.

                                                                                          

After taking the photos of the silhouette it helped us to determine the composition of our poster. We used Photoshop to edit the photos. Illustrator as well as Indesign to make the poster.                                             

Amendments to our pre production

Pre Production is almost over just need a little tweaks with out title sequences and introduction to the documentary.

Progress so far

We have completed the majority of our Pre Production Plan ...

Film noir

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Treatment and planning [automatisch opgeslagen]

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Production Meeting

Today we had a production meeting to discuss where we would locate our documentary and narrow down our story.
We came up with a few possibilities and created a short story to follow.


* First Possible Story...
        -one of the stories is called 'A day in a teen mum', where we follow a real teenage mother coping with looking after a child at such a young age and what she could advise out viewers on.

* Second Possible Story...
        - We could follow a young teen, going to get their test results back for , while this is showing we intend to show facts on the screen, have experts talk etc...

*Third Possible story...

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We specifically chose this documentary because its a BB3 documentary and I wanted to research a range of documentaries from different channels. The similarities between 'The Sex Education Show' (Channel 4) and 'First Date - Autistic Me' BBC3 are that they both followed the codes and conventions of a documentary, which include having a:

- Theme soundtrack (to set the atmosphere)

- Voice over

- Sound bridges

- Diagetic sound (create a sense of verisimilitude)

- Portrayal of 'real footage' even though most of it is directed and edited to convey a meaning.

In our documentary we will implement these codes and conventions and to develop them in order to suit our documentary.

The big difference I noticed was that 'The Sex Education Show' has a presenter who is visible to the audience unlike 'First Date - Autistic Me' where the presence of the presenter is evident although throughout that clip we hear the interview but there is no interaction between the presenter and the interviewee except for vocally. For our documentary we want our presenter to be shown to the audience. We intend on choosing someone with a lovable and charming personality, who is confident and approachable.

Scheduling Plan

Scheduling Plan-Pre Production

1. Record Audience feed back on the concept of our documentary.

2. Contact the people we need, to be involved in the documentary and get the go ahead. (Fri 17th Sep 2010)

3. Visit possible locations, film and take pictures (Sat 18th Sep 2010)

4. Ask for permission to take pictures and use the facilities Sexual health clinic. (Mon 20th Sep 2010)

5. Digital Storyboard.()

7. Script (

6. Produce a consent form ()

7. Filming ()

8. Compose music for intro and non diagetic music to be on going throughout the documentary.

Applying Feminist Mystique and the Male Gaze to our production

As we are doing a documentary it would be difficult to manipulate what the audience see, because of the reality the documentary offers. Our documentary is on sexual health awareness, so interviewing young people could show across the 'male gaze' as many young people dress provocatively. On the other hand the 'Feminine mystique' would be portrayed accidentally but we can choose to include who we show from the interviews. I think purposely we would choose to portray more the 'male gaze' as we all know 'sex sells' so we will be using attributes of that in order to attract more viewers of out target group.

However the theory of the 'Female Gaze' Could also be applicable as one of our presenters and experts for the show are Females. Ideally we would use her to attract more male audiences and even female audiences. As its a 'Sexual Health Awareness show' we are trying to reach a different variety of audiences to advise and teach. Although the males objectify woman in a different way then women do, the 'Male Gaze' and the 'Female Gaze' is going to be applicable in a manner we can't control.

Update Profile

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are making a few changes to the group as we have lost a member of our original group member Daniel. This will probably make our team communication much stronger as there is a greater need to contribute as much as we can with each other.

Initial Response to the brief

The Brief

Is to make a documentary on Sexual heath awareness Establish it as part of a series however only showing a five minutes extract of it.

Research and Planning

As we all know most young people are sexually active and unaware. We want to educate young people on Sex education covering all areas that young people are too embarrassed to ask. In Order to do this we watched a whole load of documentaries dedicated for young people to access information that adults are too embarrassed to talk about. To get a glimpse of the practicalities and the techniques used of the documentaries, and to see the typical target audience.

The Concept

In Our series we want each episode to cover a specific and different areas. So each episode of the series will cover an issue presented by a presenter wanting to present the issues we as a nation are concerned about, and we chose one to highlight sexual health awareness. So our concept is  to educate young people about safe sex and the options that are available to them. According to a recent article on the guardian 'Young people are increasingly likely to end up with sexually transmitted infections...those aged under 25 are most at risk because they are often vulnerable and lacking the confidence to negotiate relationships.



Audience Profile:

Name: Orrin Duhaney
Age: 18
Occupation: Student
Hobbies & Intrests: Plays football for the college team and listens to music and likes spending time with his girlfriend.
Social networking sites: He constantly updates his Facebook wall with photos of his days out. He also keeps in touch with friends and browses through videos and friend's pages.
He recons that he doesnt need to learn anymore about sexual health awarness, as documentary makers we are well aware that teenagers think they know everything. So its our job to find different ways to keep them engaged and learn  new things while they are watching the documentarty. Thats why we have chose Orrin to target as he is a representative of the majority of teenagers that think they know everything there is to know about sexual health awareness.

 
Name: Aziza Hassen
Age: 16
Occupation: Student
Hobbies & intrests: Likes going out with her friends and socialising. She likes to listen to music and compose her own music, and she constantly updates her Facebook wall with photos of  herdays out. she also keeps in touch with friends and browses through videos and friend's pages.
 Its also important for us to target audineces as young as Aziza as she quotes 'in this society many young people do everything now sexually at an even younger age'.  this is why it's important to target younger audiences too. 

Day 1-Intro

Hi my name Sara, am excited about starting an new media assignment. As me and my group (which is made up of Diana and Daniel) want to make a documentary about sexual awareness. We started off today by researching documentaries that are similar to that of ours. We found it particularly helpful looking at channel 4’s website as there was previous shows on issues to do with sexual health such as ‘Teenage Embarrassing bodies’ and ‘The sex education show vs. Pornography’. That looked at similar issues we as a group want to project to our target audience, which are teenagers aged 16+ up till early 20’s. We as a group brainstormed ideas for issues to tackle sexual health problems.
Here are some of the links to the resources we used to conduct our research.

http://sexperienceuk.channel4.com/
http://www.channel4embarrassingillnesses.com/teenage-bodies/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6932