Thursday, 29 January 2015
Monday, 26 January 2015
Narrative Script
For our documentary we are looking at having a narrative over the top so that we can explain what is going on at the beginning and introduce characters with the voice over.
We are going to start with some facts and then we are going to introduce the characters one by one, We will then describe the student whilst showing their clips.
In the introduction we are going to add some facts and some information about the school and how it relates to the students we are following.
At the beginning of our documentary we are going to start with a clip at the gate, following through to the Sixth Form common room then through to the media block following Jade, we will then transition to Olly and lastly we will show clips of Tyler. With these clips we have blocked out the sound so that we can focus mainly on the voice over.
Narrator: Ravens Wood School in Bromley has about 1400 students, and we're going to look at the day in the life of three of our sixth formers.
Narrator: We followed Jade, a typical outgoing, sociable, hard working student.
Olly, doesn't enjoy school but gets his work done so he can enjoy his out of school activities.
And lastly Tyler, The schools Head Boy, sociable, passionate enthusiast, willing to help anyone.
(Inbetween names show a clip of each of those students around school.)
The narrative will only be used once at the beginning, this leaves us with the rest of the documentary to go with the interviews with the students where you will be able to hear clearly their answers.
We are going to ask their questions but going to show the questions at the bottom of the screen so that the viewer has an understanding on what the interviewee has just been asked.
We are going to start with some facts and then we are going to introduce the characters one by one, We will then describe the student whilst showing their clips.
In the introduction we are going to add some facts and some information about the school and how it relates to the students we are following.
At the beginning of our documentary we are going to start with a clip at the gate, following through to the Sixth Form common room then through to the media block following Jade, we will then transition to Olly and lastly we will show clips of Tyler. With these clips we have blocked out the sound so that we can focus mainly on the voice over.
Narrator: Ravens Wood School in Bromley has about 1400 students, and we're going to look at the day in the life of three of our sixth formers.
Narrator: We followed Jade, a typical outgoing, sociable, hard working student.
Olly, doesn't enjoy school but gets his work done so he can enjoy his out of school activities.
And lastly Tyler, The schools Head Boy, sociable, passionate enthusiast, willing to help anyone.
(Inbetween names show a clip of each of those students around school.)
The narrative will only be used once at the beginning, this leaves us with the rest of the documentary to go with the interviews with the students where you will be able to hear clearly their answers.
We are going to ask their questions but going to show the questions at the bottom of the screen so that the viewer has an understanding on what the interviewee has just been asked.
Documentary Diary Log
10th October 2014
My original plan for my documentary was to use the schools head girl to base my documentary on, as Estelle (head girl) on how joining the school affected her and how she managed to find a way to make a impact on the school for her to become head girl. Unfortunately when asking Estelle she did not want to take part so I will go back to thinking of doing a life as a sixth former to see if there is any way of doing that.
20th October 2014
Today I showed my documentary idea to one of the other media teachers just to get their opinion on my documentary, I was told that adjusting the idea would be best or change the idea completely. I felt that because I had planned the documentary so much it would be a shame to chuck it all away and start all over again so I have stuck with the idea of "Life As A Sixth Former".
11th November 2014
Over the half term I have been looking at different ideas for my documentary. Originally I was working on my own as of today I have had Tom and Kieran join my group for extra help and ideas. I am now definitely stuck with the idea of doing life of a sixth former, this is going to involve watching a sixth former and how they are in the environment, how they work and how they interact with their friends throughout school. When interviewing them we will do it in the common room when it isn't busy and so you can have a good distinctive sound from the students and set the scene of where they are.
25th November 2014
The last week we have been getting all of our footage together so that we can edit our documentary properly so that with all the footage we have captured we can make our documentary into something interesting and something people want to watch.
2nd December 2014
Today we started editing our documentary and because we are starting to edit we need to make sure we have all the right clips that we need in order to be able to make the documentary as good as we can make it. Currently the documentary has potential but we need to make it as good as we can so that when we make our final adjustments we will be able to know exactly what we want to do so that it won't take as much time and it will be much easier.
15th December 2014
Today we filmed a bit more of Jade and Ollie because we felt we needed more following on them so that we could have more footage so that we would have more than enough clips to choose from for our editing.
After today of filming we have uploaded the footage on to the computers so that we could continue to edit our final bits of footage.
6th January 2015
We have started to add different clips to our editing so that we could make the documentary more interesting and so that we could add more information to the clips. We have decided that at the beginning that we will have a voice over to describe what the documentary is briefly about in order for the audience to get an idea.
14th January 2015
We are in our final bits of editing, today we went to re-shoot our clip of the school sign so that it is a clearer shot, we chose today because it wasn't as bright outside we knew that there wouldn't be a glare on the school sign.
My original plan for my documentary was to use the schools head girl to base my documentary on, as Estelle (head girl) on how joining the school affected her and how she managed to find a way to make a impact on the school for her to become head girl. Unfortunately when asking Estelle she did not want to take part so I will go back to thinking of doing a life as a sixth former to see if there is any way of doing that.
20th October 2014
Today I showed my documentary idea to one of the other media teachers just to get their opinion on my documentary, I was told that adjusting the idea would be best or change the idea completely. I felt that because I had planned the documentary so much it would be a shame to chuck it all away and start all over again so I have stuck with the idea of "Life As A Sixth Former".
11th November 2014
Over the half term I have been looking at different ideas for my documentary. Originally I was working on my own as of today I have had Tom and Kieran join my group for extra help and ideas. I am now definitely stuck with the idea of doing life of a sixth former, this is going to involve watching a sixth former and how they are in the environment, how they work and how they interact with their friends throughout school. When interviewing them we will do it in the common room when it isn't busy and so you can have a good distinctive sound from the students and set the scene of where they are.
25th November 2014
The last week we have been getting all of our footage together so that we can edit our documentary properly so that with all the footage we have captured we can make our documentary into something interesting and something people want to watch.
2nd December 2014
Today we started editing our documentary and because we are starting to edit we need to make sure we have all the right clips that we need in order to be able to make the documentary as good as we can make it. Currently the documentary has potential but we need to make it as good as we can so that when we make our final adjustments we will be able to know exactly what we want to do so that it won't take as much time and it will be much easier.
15th December 2014
Today we filmed a bit more of Jade and Ollie because we felt we needed more following on them so that we could have more footage so that we would have more than enough clips to choose from for our editing.
After today of filming we have uploaded the footage on to the computers so that we could continue to edit our final bits of footage.
6th January 2015
We have started to add different clips to our editing so that we could make the documentary more interesting and so that we could add more information to the clips. We have decided that at the beginning that we will have a voice over to describe what the documentary is briefly about in order for the audience to get an idea.
14th January 2015
We are in our final bits of editing, today we went to re-shoot our clip of the school sign so that it is a clearer shot, we chose today because it wasn't as bright outside we knew that there wouldn't be a glare on the school sign.
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Narrative Theory
Narrative theory is how a film or story relates to each other, in the film Romeo and Juliette the theme was that there were rivalling families who are meant to hate each other but the two children fall in love. In Frozen the new Disney film, there is the point that Ana thinks that Hans is a hero, but it turns out he is a villain in the end. You have Olaf who is the magical snowman who risks his life to make sure that Ana doesn't freeze and die. The trolls are linked to the princess from when she needed there help from when she was younger.
Binary opposites are usually used in films to help the plots, they are also used in music videos as part of a narrative to reinforce song lyrics.
The above picture shows some class work that we did on Binary Oppositions. The idea is that you can base a narrative around things that are opposites. The examples i found above are that in Romeo and Juliet Love and Hate are two large opposites that create the narrative and in World War Z two of the major themes are death and life.
Propp - Seven Spheres of Action
Propp came up with the idea that in plays and literature that you would have 7 different character types. A clear example of this is from the film Frozen where they have used 7 different main characters:
Hans (False Hero & Villain), Rock Trolls (dispatcher), Olaf (Helper), Kristoff (Hero), Elsa (Princess), Ana (Princess), Sven (Donor for providing aid to the hero).
Tzvetan Todorov - 5 stages of action
At the beginning of Parent Trap the stat of equilibrium is that the twins are living separately with individual parents. The disruption to that is when they meet at camp. The state of disruption is when the twins try to get their parents back together. The resolution is when they come up with the holiday so they can get the parents back together. The new equilibrium is them all living together as one big family.
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