We have also chosen to use "the motorbike song" as the music for our radio advert. We found this fitting as it was indie, upbeat music, which we found fit in with the tone of our documentary.
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Monday, 7 December 2009
Radio Advertisement
We intend for our radio advert to be broadcast on XFM at 16:15pm. We have chosen this time as this is when our target audience will be on their way home from school or are already home, this will mean that they will be most likely to hear the podcast. We also chose this time slot as this is during 'Dave Berry's' broadcasting time, this particular presenter is quite young and he is the most likely presenter to attract a youth audience. He tends to include things which would attract younger people, and hence our target audience, such as celebrity gossip and new music. XFMs 'rock and roll' reputation means that it would appeal more to younger people who are interested in non-conformist sports and activities such as skateboarding - unlike radio stations such as 'kiss fm' or 'heart' as they tend to appeal to a more mainstream audience, and for this reason, we have decided that XFM would be the ideal station for our podcast.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Podcast and recent decisions and progress.
In todays lesson, we experimented with using Garage Band, which is the program which we will be using to create a radio advertisement for our documentary. We also came to decisions based on our target audience about which radio station would broadcast our documentary and at what time of the day. We decided that it should be broadcast on XFM at 4:30 during the drive time radio slot, as this is the time of day when our target audience may be coming home from school in the car. XFM is a suitable radio channel as it caters for young music tastes, and their target audience is quite compatible to our own. XFM also has various podcasts for documentaries, making it one of the only radio channels which does this, and making it even more of an ideal channel on which to broadcast our advert. We also decided that we will use a voice over to place over the clip of James playing the XBOX skater game and disable the audio on this clip, we thought that this would be a very appropriate place to put the voice over as we will not loose out on any speech as their is none in this clip, and the audience will have something to watch while the voice over speaks. We have now cut all of our footage and are currently in the process of complying it all together.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Genre of our documentary
A documentary can be defined as a text which presents social, political or theoretical issues in a mainly factually based manner. Some can be very biased where as others give the audience the opportunity to form their own opinions on the subject in question. Over the years documentaries have evolved and sub-genres such as docu-dramas and mockumentaries have emerged although it is debated whether or not these count as true documentaries or mere entertainment.
Our documentary fits into the subgenre of an expository documentary, as we intend to expose some of authorities and/or the publics true opinions and schemas of skateboarders.
Documentaries which have inspired us are "Scratch" as the style in which it was filmed was incredibly interesting and very visually based, as our documentary shall be. Our main inspiration for this documentary has been "Hot Chocolate", a half documentary, half skateboarding video. It focuses on similar issues as we plan to and has set a standard for us to hopefully be able to achieve. This documentary has given us a world of insight into what we intend to make of our documentary. We have also researched documentaries which are not directly related to our topic of choice, but are from the expository documentary genre which we will be attempting to follow conventions of. One such documentary is "An Inconvinient Truth", which uses logical argument to present opinions and perspectives and makes a strong case against global warming. Some conventions of the expository documentary genre which we have noticed are a voice over, an attempt to convince the audience of a certain point of view usually using logic and reason and images used to support the voice over's comments. The expository genre of documentary is very widely used and conventions of it are followed throughout most documentaries and many television programmes. Although traditional conventions are quite dated, they are still very relevant and over-arch into use in genres other than the documentary genre such as the news and even some "reality" television shows.
Sorcha ; Shona.
Our documentary fits into the subgenre of an expository documentary, as we intend to expose some of authorities and/or the publics true opinions and schemas of skateboarders.
Documentaries which have inspired us are "Scratch" as the style in which it was filmed was incredibly interesting and very visually based, as our documentary shall be. Our main inspiration for this documentary has been "Hot Chocolate", a half documentary, half skateboarding video. It focuses on similar issues as we plan to and has set a standard for us to hopefully be able to achieve. This documentary has given us a world of insight into what we intend to make of our documentary. We have also researched documentaries which are not directly related to our topic of choice, but are from the expository documentary genre which we will be attempting to follow conventions of. One such documentary is "An Inconvinient Truth", which uses logical argument to present opinions and perspectives and makes a strong case against global warming. Some conventions of the expository documentary genre which we have noticed are a voice over, an attempt to convince the audience of a certain point of view usually using logic and reason and images used to support the voice over's comments. The expository genre of documentary is very widely used and conventions of it are followed throughout most documentaries and many television programmes. Although traditional conventions are quite dated, they are still very relevant and over-arch into use in genres other than the documentary genre such as the news and even some "reality" television shows.
Sorcha ; Shona.
Monday, 28 September 2009
PITCH
What is your USP?
Our idea is interesting and it isn’t a topic people usually focus on, making it unique. Also our documentary has a positive message, which is unusual since most documentaries have negative tones.
Our idea is interesting and it isn’t a topic people usually focus on, making it unique. Also our documentary has a positive message, which is unusual since most documentaries have negative tones.
What type of documentary is it?
Expository: We are attempting to expose the truth about skateboarders and to stop the negative stereotypes they are often unfairly labelled with.
What documentaries inspired you?
Scratch: the way the documentary mixed the narration with the images of people performing their music. We want to use a similar technique, overlaying the skateboarder’s stories with their skating, to emphasise the creative side of skateboarding.
Is it viable? Prove it. How will it be managed/filmed?
It is viable. The members of our group are interested in our topic and Luke has access to skateboarders who are willing to talk to us and the rest of the group also have people we can interview about this issue. We will be mostly filming outside so we will have a lot of access to our chosen locations. Also we will be filming during weekends which will be easier to organise.
What locations will you use? Who have you approached for interviews? What other interviews remain?
We will be filming mostly in skate parks and locations familiar and comfortable to the interviewee, this will create a sense of intimacy between the audience and the interviewee. We have approached several skaters for our documentary, since we don’t know whether they will be able to do the interview, we have several back ups including some casual skaters and those who only skate for a hobby rather than a lifestyle. We have some people who, because of their dislike for the skater community, could showcase a different perspective and make our documentary one free from bias. We also have access to members of authority to which we could pose the question: “are skaters really anti-establishment?”
What further research will be required in order to be well informed?
We will have to look on news websites to see if there have been any incidents involving skaters or any violent attacks on people because they are skateboarders. We will also make and distribute a survey asking the reader about their opinions of skaters, which, when collaborated, we may use in our documentary.
How will the five minute extract fit into a longer whole?
It could be a segment on a documentary focussing on the positive side of modern youths, dispelling common misconceptions, not only about skaters, but also hoodies, chavs, groups of young people who could be seen as a gang. Showing the creative and overall good side of the youth which is often hidden beneath all the negative stereotypes.
Who is your target audience? Include initial audience research?
People who may be ignorant about skateboarding: making it accessible to people who otherwise wouldn’t have had any knowledge on skateboarding before, hopefully educating them on the entertaining side of skateboarding. We will need to do a survey seeing which age groups are more interested in skateboarding, although we can assume that the younger generation will be most interested in skateboarding.
Why would C4 or another channel want to commission this documentary? Is there a global market for your documentary?
We think that our topic would be commissioned for television, mainly because our idea is unique and it is celebrating the good side of the youth, in a time where most documentaries about the youth show that they are dangerous and violent. There may not be a global market because skateboarding is more prominent in different countries and also has a different emphasis, so in some countries skateboarding is seen as a healthy sport and in some countries it’s seen as a form of rebellion.
Sorcha and Shona.
Expository: We are attempting to expose the truth about skateboarders and to stop the negative stereotypes they are often unfairly labelled with.
What documentaries inspired you?
Scratch: the way the documentary mixed the narration with the images of people performing their music. We want to use a similar technique, overlaying the skateboarder’s stories with their skating, to emphasise the creative side of skateboarding.
Is it viable? Prove it. How will it be managed/filmed?
It is viable. The members of our group are interested in our topic and Luke has access to skateboarders who are willing to talk to us and the rest of the group also have people we can interview about this issue. We will be mostly filming outside so we will have a lot of access to our chosen locations. Also we will be filming during weekends which will be easier to organise.
What locations will you use? Who have you approached for interviews? What other interviews remain?
We will be filming mostly in skate parks and locations familiar and comfortable to the interviewee, this will create a sense of intimacy between the audience and the interviewee. We have approached several skaters for our documentary, since we don’t know whether they will be able to do the interview, we have several back ups including some casual skaters and those who only skate for a hobby rather than a lifestyle. We have some people who, because of their dislike for the skater community, could showcase a different perspective and make our documentary one free from bias. We also have access to members of authority to which we could pose the question: “are skaters really anti-establishment?”
What further research will be required in order to be well informed?
We will have to look on news websites to see if there have been any incidents involving skaters or any violent attacks on people because they are skateboarders. We will also make and distribute a survey asking the reader about their opinions of skaters, which, when collaborated, we may use in our documentary.
How will the five minute extract fit into a longer whole?
It could be a segment on a documentary focussing on the positive side of modern youths, dispelling common misconceptions, not only about skaters, but also hoodies, chavs, groups of young people who could be seen as a gang. Showing the creative and overall good side of the youth which is often hidden beneath all the negative stereotypes.
Who is your target audience? Include initial audience research?
People who may be ignorant about skateboarding: making it accessible to people who otherwise wouldn’t have had any knowledge on skateboarding before, hopefully educating them on the entertaining side of skateboarding. We will need to do a survey seeing which age groups are more interested in skateboarding, although we can assume that the younger generation will be most interested in skateboarding.
Why would C4 or another channel want to commission this documentary? Is there a global market for your documentary?
We think that our topic would be commissioned for television, mainly because our idea is unique and it is celebrating the good side of the youth, in a time where most documentaries about the youth show that they are dangerous and violent. There may not be a global market because skateboarding is more prominent in different countries and also has a different emphasis, so in some countries skateboarding is seen as a healthy sport and in some countries it’s seen as a form of rebellion.
Sorcha and Shona.
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