My Illegal Music Downloading Documentary

Evaluation Part 4

Gervaise Constraints

My Analysis in relation to other texts

Analysis in Relation to Other Texts2

Evaluation of Production Practise and Management Skills

Evaluation of Production MS SEVEN

Evaluation of My Finished Product

Evaluation of My Finished Product

Illegal Music Downloading Documentary

Production Log Week 12: Graphics

Graphics

2 out of 8 scenes were graphics in my documentary so I spent most of this week constructing my graphics in iMovie. The first graphical features were to do with the history of illegal music downloading. I managed to run a voiceover over this scene By gathering together images such as download software, facts and figures and logos.




The second graphical scene featured a quiz. To entertain my audience I made a scene using Microsoft PowerPoint and designed graphics that were exactly the same to "Who wants to be a millionaire". I made up an interactive quiz that asked the audience questions about certain facts and figures to do with illegal music downloading. I also ran a voiceover on this scene as I could ask the audience the questions with the graphics responding to my answers. Arranging the graphics were really difficult, when I tried to move them in certain locations of my documentary, they all ended up in different places.



I also used some graphics in the cutaways that I edited in the last scene. This included changing the colour of the interviews to black and white to make them look more effective, speeding them up and running a voiceover to make it sound as though I was summarizing my documentary.

March Production Schedule

Gervaise Mar Prod Schedule

Production Log Week 11: Editing

Editing

Now that I have received some feedback on the rough edit of my documentary, I could now put together the full version of other things that I have not included yet such as cutaways. I decided to feature cutaways in the interviews of my documentary. I chose to have them in my interviews because it helped with the pace of my documentary and made it look more relevant for the visual of my topic. The main advantage was that I had filmed the radio one presenter's awards and other props in his studio. This indicated to me that I could use these as cutaways to introduce him or even when he explains a certain topic.

As I have three interviews contributing in my documentary, I did not have to record a voiceover to ask the questions to my interviewee. However I added a voiceover to the remaining two of my interviews. This was simply because I did not ask my interviewee the questions when the camera was framed on them. Instead I asked my interviewee the question with the camera focused on me. To save time I ended up cutting myself out of myself in the interview to save time.

Production Log Week 10: Presentation

Presentation

Throughout this week I have been editing my documentary. However this was only a rough edited version of my documentary so that I could show my class and teacher what I had put together so far. The class was responsible for writing down what their opinion was on my documentary and after it was finished give feedback. I received some feedback that consisted of negative and positive points. The negative side was based on the fact that I did not have much in make my documentary interactive to my audience. The audience felt that this would have made my documentary much more engaging. Another point was that there was not a lot of exposition in my documentary making this very unsecure.

However on the plus side my audience thought my documentary had a humorous mode of address at the start which would have made them feel welcome to the documentary. They also thought it was well structured in terms of conventions such as the interviews. My interviewees gave me a lot of useful information that my audience enjoyed listening to and the fact that I managed to get hold of real people with real opinions made my documentary about illegal music downloading more genuine.

Overall this has taught me that I need to mention more facts and figures as well as something more fun to make my documentary more engaging to the audience. The fact that the topic I chose was about illegal music downloading meant that everyone from any gender, ethnicity or even religion can be involved by expressing their views on the topic.

My February Production Schedule

Gervaise Feb Prod Schedule

Production Log Week 9: Voxpops (Refilmed)

Vox-pops

This week I spent my time asking teenagers aged 16-18 what their opinion is on illegal music downloading. I decided to film in Romford South Street because this was a really busy place where I was sure to find teenagers of all genders and ethnicity's. At first I found it hard to find a place where it looked suitable to film and place where I wouldn't get in anyone way. I also found it hard to ask random people to give their opinion on illegal music downloading as a majority of them were either too busy or did not want to appear on camera.

I ended up getting 9 vox-pops all together. This boosted my confidence as I managed to use someone that gained a lot of attention toward the area I was filming in. The fact that I managed to gather contributors that were of both genders and ethnicity's made my documentary a lot more balanced and made this documentary aimed towards everyone and not just one specific target audience. All of the teenagers that contributed gave qualitative and quantitative answers that would give my audience that I am trying to educate a better understanding of how a group of 16-18 year olds truthfully feel about illegal music downloading

Production Log Week 8: Closing sequence and interview

Closing sequence and Radio one interview

I spent this week filming the closing sequence of my documentary. This involved the presenter filming at his house. I reason why I decided to use a living room was because it is a place that is quite informal and is a place where 16-18 year olds live with their parents. At the end of my documentary the presenter concludes what he has found out for his audience and then sit on a sofa and relaxes. I used a dolly to track backwards as the presenter walks towards the camera, this is to make the documentary more active rather than static. I also did this as the presenter is meant to turn on his DVD player by the TV and relax.

I also managed to set up an interview with a radio 1 DJ. To prove he was genuine, I filmed lots of creditials and awards that he has won and various other things in the studio including a banner, computer and DJ decks. I planned to have a voiceover followed by quick cutaways of the awards and props to introduce my interviewee. The radio one DJ produced a lot of useful information that would educate my audience about statistics and facts about the music industry. The shots were very well framed and looked professional which was ideal when I came to edit it.

Production Log Week 7: Vox-pops

Vox-pops



I thought that Sunday would be a good day to film my Vox-pops as this was a day that a lot of teenagers would not be busy. I decided to interview at least 4 teenagers two of them girls and the other two boys. I made sure that I got a shot of the teenagers socialising and playing around. I did this by tracking the camera around the location in which they were in a full circle. When it came to the filming the teenagers they gave me answers that would give good advice toward my target audience. One of them shared her experience of illegal music downloading and told the audience the consequence of what happened when she illegally downloaded music.

My cameraman placed the camera on a dolly and tracked around the presenter so that you could see the whole of the location I was filming in. I did this to let my audience know where I was and to let the presenter explain where he was and why he was there. I initially wanted to film on the other side of the sports hall but the lighting of the camera turned up really light. If it wasnt for this, then I would have been able to film the presenter while having the teenagers socialising behind the presenter.

Production Log week 6: Presenting

Presenting

On Thursday this week, I started filming the beginning of my documentary. I decided to film it outside the Chadwell Heath School entrance as that is where I introduce myself as a presenter, and start to explain what my documentary is about (why is music downloading view so negatively by the music industry). The theme was to act like an agent and as I had to feature some entertainment in my documentary, I covered a range of different places within this location such as, the road in which the school was located to film me hiding behind cars, in the school car park for me to perform a cartwheel and the Chadwell Heath main entrance to indicate I was going to film inside.

On Friday I also filmed in the Chadwell Heath corridor as you would see a lot of teenagers walking down it to get to their classes. It was also long enough in order to get to the next location that I wanted to go to. In this location I went through the different hobbies that teenagers are interested in to make the audience that I am trying to entertain more engaging by something they do in their everyday life. The results that I received from my questionnaire helped me majorly as I could use the hobbies that they do most and put them into a percentage. I then educated my audience by introducing the hobbies and having some actors in the background to imitate what I was saying so that the audience could visualise the information I produced. I then added my secondary research in and informed the audience by letting them know that 95% of people download music illegally.

Production Log Week 5 Interviews

Interviews

Within this week, I have uploaded the interview that I have done with PRS. After watching it through carefully I have noticed that I have filmed the questions that I have asked the interviewee in a different angle from the interviewer. As a result of this the two contributors looked as though they were facing the same way when it came to reviewing it on a computer. This was a problem for me as it made my filming look sloppy and unprofessional. However my teacher told me that I can switch the angle of the shot through final cut pro so that I would look as though I was looking in the right direction.





I had arranged an interview to go to the illegal downloaders house in my documentary for thursday this week in Rainham. As I only had two lessons that day, one of them being music as my first lesson and the other being media during the middle of the day, I felt that this would be an ideal day to film as I was allowed to film during my media lesson. My contributor also finished college at 12:00pm which was when I was granted permisson to leave during school and I also had no more lessons at the time. Unfortunately my contributor had to go out somewhere and left me short notice of the fact that I might not be able to film the interview that day. However I have arranged to meet him on sunday as we are both free and can film on sunday afternoon.

Shooting script

GERVAISE Shooting Script

Contributor questions

Illegal downloader questions

So why do you use illegally download music?

What sites do you prefer to use?

Have these sites ever caused you any problems?

PRS questions

So tell us a bit about what your organisation does?

How does illegal music downloading affect the artists that you represent?

What are the PRS trying to do to overcome this problem?

What led up to the conflict between YouTube and the PRS?

Downloading music illegally is becoming more wide spread, where do you see this heading?

Radio 1 presenter questions

Have music downloading sites impacted on your listening figures very much?

Downloading music is becoming more of a widespread, where do you see this heading?

Well now that we see artists like say for example drake Or even tinchy strider set up their own record labels without the need for distributors have you seen a big change in the type of artists coming through?

Production schedule January

Gervaise Jan Prod Schedule

Contact list

Gervaise Contact List

Gervaise risk assesments

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 1

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 1.5

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 2

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 3

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 4

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 5

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 6

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 7

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 8

Gervaise Risk Assessment Form Scene 9

Gervaise call sheets

Gervaise Call Sheet OPENING

Gervaise Call Sheet OPENING 2

Gervaise Call Sheet History Od Downloading

Gervaise Call Sheet Illegal Down Loader

Gervaise Call Sheet LAKESIDE

Gervaise Call Sheet Interview Prs

Gervaise Call Sheet QUIZ

Gervaise Call Sheet Legal Downloading

Gervaise Call Sheet Interview Seani b

Gervaise Call Sheet CLOSING

Production log week 4 Evaluation

Production Log Pre Production Evaluation

This week, I have had to apply the finishing touches on pre production. I have made some final documents on the work that I had to do. These documents were as follows

Shooting script

Risk assesements

Voxpop questions

Contributor questions

Call sheets

Prduction schedule

Contact list

After having 4 weeks to get together my contributors, I have made a list of the contributors that said they would be happy to take part in my illegal music downloading documentary. However there were some people that could not contribute because my topic was out of their knowledge, this included a organisation called Apple. On the other hand contributors such as, Radio one presenter, illegal downloader and PRS are happy to help. I am sure that these three contributors would give me a lot of information to do with my topic as one of them is a consumer, while the other two are involved in the music industry making my question relevant to them.

I definately think that the contact list is the most important piece of work there is as it can clearly indicate who is willing to contribute willing information to my documentary, I also think that it makes my documentary so much more viable as I can now go out to various contributors in different locations and film them.

I also sent an email to one of my contributors to thank them for the interview that I did with them and they have replied back to me telling me that they were happy to contribute to my music downloading documentary and that they wish me all the best for my future production.

My Voxpop Question

What do you think of illegal music downloading?

Production Log Week 3 Interview with PRS

Production Log Reflection Week 3
Interview with PRS

I spent this week trying to get in contact with a contributor called PRS. PRS are a organisation that claims royalty for the music industries and artists everytime their music is advertised or used. I first recieved an email from the assistant manager of PR telling me that they would be happy to help. However she mentioned that this would be a phone interview to gather all the information that I would need. She also asked if I could do the interview this Thursday, this seemed like a problem as it was so short notice. She then asked me if I could send another email with the list of questions I wanted to ask.

Seeing as this interview would be the most important interview of my illegal music downolading documentary, I felt that an interview over the phone would not be enough and that I should first see if it was likely to have a face to face interview. The idea of this was that I would be able to see as well as hear the information I recieved. A face to face interview would be useful to switch from the presenter the the interviewee in a few cutaways to make my documentary more engaging. After arranging this interview, I then got an answer saying that I would be able to go to their office at 12:30 and interview the head of PR in Oxford Circus.

After showing the assistant manager the set of questions I wanted to ask the day before my interview, I recieved a reply that the interview that I wanted to do face to face is all set up and ready and that she would see me tomorrow.

Production Schedule

Gervaise Jan Prod Schedule

Shooting Script Evaluation

Script Evaluation 1st Draft

I have managed to finish creating my script this week. I first worked on the visual side of it mentioning the instructions of what the presenter and camera will do. Creating the visual side first helped me to structure the order in which I want my documentary to run. the visual script is very detailed in including some exposition, camera angles and shots as well as location and scene number.

On the other hand working on the audio side of my documentary was more successfull. unlike before, I now have a clear idea of what music and sound effects to feature in my documentary. I have also planned out what I want the presenter to say and where the music should come in with each scene. Even though I do not exactly no what my contributor will say, I have planned a script for them so that it could give me a rough idea of what to expect while presenting. This enchanced my research of what facts and figures I should mention in my documentary.








Making my script overall has been challenging as some of my contributors have not replyed back to when I last contacted them . This interferes with the making of my script as some of the contributors may not be able to participate in my documentary, it also applys pressure as I only have a certain time limit in terms of pre production. However One of my contributors that I phoned two weeks ago has phoned me and said that an interview is possible within BBCs radio 1 station. This is a huge relief to me because if one of my contributors cannot contribute toward my documentary. This leaves me with a contingency plan to fall back on.

My Production Log Week 1

Production Log Week 1

My key aims for this week were to to gather a contact list of all the people that will take part in my documentary. I had to do this via email or phone to arrange an interview in a set location. I have managed to contact all of the contributors to participate in my documentary and only 2 out of 6 contributors including vox-pops around Lakeside have replied.

Here are the contributors I have contacted from this week in each of my lessons

Tuesday: Lakeside shopping centre: REPLYED

Wednesday: Apple store Lakeside: NO REPLY

Thursday: Illegal downloader: REPLYED Dj: NO REPLY

Friday: PRS and Spotify: NO REPLY NO REPLY

I have come across some challenges this week as some of my contributors have not got back to me yet telling me if they want to take part or if it is possible for an interview. Another dilemma is that my illegal downloader does not want me to use his house to interview him but is fine with an interview somewhere else. Furthermore I did not want to use the apple store to host my interview about legal downloading.

In terms of contingency, I have sent another email to my Dj on Facebook to see what the latest new is on interviewing him in the radio 1 station. If I cannot film him in the radio 1 station, then I will film him at his house in his studio. I may have to reconsider filming the illegal downloader at my house in my front room with him holding a laptop to see what he is doing.

To add to the list I have decisively emailed an organization to interview called Spotify as appose to iTunes. This organization allows you to download music legally and I have this alternative just in case the apple store interview in lakeside is not possible. I have also found another website called PRS that collects royalty for the music industry and artists. This will be my greatest source as they would be able to produce information on how illegal downloading affects the music industry. However I have not had a reply from PRS, Spotify or My Dj or The Apple Store. I may have to phone Spotify, The Apple Store and PRS to arrange an interview and will again phone my Dj to see if this interview is practical.

Pre Production Log Contacts

Pre Production Log Contacts

My Production Log schedule

Production Log Schedule

My Documentary Treatment

My Documentary Treatment 4