Ideas Page

Below is an ideas page of how I am going to go about filming the footage for my five to ten minute documentary film. 

Shooting Schedule:

Below is a schedule of what footage I need to capture when going out with Ray for the night. 

Questions Sheet

Question sheet from Charlie Hall

Shot List:

Shot Ideas: 

Various shots of the dairy. 
EG, 

• Shot of the dairy from the gates.
• Close up of the dairy products. Such as milk bottles, vans, milkman. 
• Shots of Ray loading up his milk float before we leave for the round. 
• Shots from the mounted camera in the van. 
• Get shots of Ray delivering goods when he stops. 
• Close ups of the bottles and other products with Ray picking them up.
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Production Planning:

Synopsis: 

My documentary will feature what goes on during the early hours of the night and morning when milk is being delivered on a milk round. I will be filming 'Ray Moonie' who works for a Suffolk Dairy named Moo Juice Ltd. There will also be information and facts about the dairy and interviews with the Director and other staff. 

Working title: 
'A Round with Ray' / 'What happens on the Milkround'

Log line - 
A night on the milk round with Suffolk Milkman Ray Moonie. 

What is a story?
A story is what the book, film or computer game is about. It has a beginning, middle and end. The beginning always addresses the issue at hand and it has to grab the audience. The middle of a story will have each event linked and it will keep the subject in tone with the film. When the end of the film arrives there is usually a resolution to the film. 

Closed Endings?
A closed ending in a film is when all the questions are answered and the audience go away knowing there end with closure. 

Open Endings?
In an open ended film there are still questions that need to be answered. Reasons of this could be that there is a sequel of the film to come afterwards. 

3 Act Narrative Structure:

The first act is usually used to establish the main characters, their relationships and they settings that they are in. Later in the first act something will occur to the main character. The character will attempt to deal with this incident which will lead to a dramatic situation. This raises dramatic questions that will be answered in the climax of the film. The second act typically refers to the attempt to resolve the problem. The characters develop and the viewer finds out more about them.The third act features the resolution of the story and its subplots. The climax is the scene or sequence in which the main tensions of the story are brought to their most intense point and the dramatic questions are answered.

5 Act Hollywood Structure: 

The Hollywood structure has 5 major parts. It has a 'Exposition, Development,Complication, Climax and Resolution to a story. The different parts are shown below:

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Linear and Non - Linear Narrative:

Linear narrative follows are straight line - it starts at the beginning, moves to the middle and then to the end of the story. In contrast, a non-linear narrative often can start at the middle of a story and then double back to the beginning. Also a non linear narrative can flash forward and back. This keeps the viewer alert as the story is being told.

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Contacting Relevant Interviewees: 

I have contacted the two people that I am going to interview for the documentary. I have spoken to them and they have agreed for me to interview them. I am going to go out with one of them during the night and film what goes on when they are on a delivery round. i am also going to speak to the director of the company and he is going to tell me some information about the dairy industry and what his company does. 

Locations:
I am going to film close ups of products and the milk floats at the dairy which is in Haverhill, Suffolk. 
I am also going to film on location with Ray. This will differ as there will be many different locations that we go to and pass through. 

The wider topic:
The dairy being a dying industry....

Ideas spider diagram:

Mind maps of documentary structure:

Draft log lines and pitch ideas:

6 Ideas for a Documentary Production:

A story from the local paper: Ely Bypass Proposal

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Southern-Ely-bypass-proposal-backed/story-22893629-detail/story.html

A person you know: Day to day life of Dayna Crawford. What Dayna's home life is like. What she does after college and where she goes. 

Something you are interested in: Cars and motorsport. Concentrate on karting or the pits at a raceway. 

A place: Central of Cambridge. With help form the Cambridgeshire archive for old historic video content. Include different shots of well-known locations.

An issue: Issue of bullying in primary and secondary schools. Get in contact with previous schools and ask for an interview with the person in charge of tackling bullying. Film the school life and see what happens. 

Autobiographical: An event in my life. Such as growing up. Including archive footage and images. 

Pictorial Representation of a Short Documentary:

Colin Furze: 

Pitch Notes

Pitch notes from Charlie Hall

Supersize Me (Morgan Spurlock), 2004)

Supersize Me:

Supersize Me is a great documentary. It is very informative and it uncovers the fast food industry's conspiracy, that it's not about the people they serve, but it's about the money we give them. They manufacture and process and process foods so that we HAVE to have more. ''You just cant eat one chip'' isn't very good marketing - they really do put stuff in the food we eat such as meat to make it more addictive. The food industry in general is just another self seeking money making idea. The film will hopefully help change the way the fast food thinks and how it operates. This will then expose the conspiracy. if nothing else, Supersize Me will inspire you to eat correctly. Or at least you will be motivated to eat better. The film is abit slow at times, considering the content. I would recommend this to anyone. As a result of watching the film it makes you not want to pick up a burger again. Anyone who cares about what is going on in the world should watch the documentary. I highly recommend this if you want to know what really goes on in the fast food retailers.  

Overall Story:

In Supersize Me Morgan Spurlock sets himself the challenge of eating McDonald's fast food solely for one month. The film shows the viewer how the food affects him and how he copes during the month. 

Techniques: 

The feature film has different elements to it. For example it has:

• Photos of maps with voice over.
• Still photos
• Animations 
• Talking heads
• Reconstructions of how people will have been by eating more and more. 
• Newspaper cuttings which have been highlighted
• Subtitles
• original Footage
• Interviews
• Music and Sounds
• Voice Overs