Tuesday 8 November 2011
Planning- Frames *************
Below are the frames that we plan to use for our interviews:
This is the framing for The Bid Cod interview:
This is the framing for Kit Chans interview, who cooks chinese food at home:
This is the framing for the nelson interview:
This is the framing for The Bid Cod interview:
This is the framing for the interview with Mark, the owner of the seaside cafe:
This is the framing for the asda interview:
Planning-Storyboard
Below are images of our storyboard for our title sequence. Each box has a description of how long the shot is, what type of shot it is , what is happening in the shot, the sound in the shot and the shot number. The final image is a full image of the full completed storyboard.
Running Order
Below is our running order, the highlighted section is where our five minute documentary will end.
| Running order Jess, Beth and Christie | |
| Opening sequence | 19 Secs |
| Speed ramped shots of hand held camera buying takeaway foods from Asda- Voiceover with facts and figures | 26 Secs |
| Voxpops of peoples favourite takeaway ending on Indian | 8 Secs |
| Interview with Asda buyer- Gill Webb, talking about Asda food ending on Indian | 47 Secs |
| Archive footage of Gavin and Stacey ordering takeaway | 6 Secs |
| Voiceover saying how there are many other types of convenience food with images of takeaway menu’s | 15 Secs |
| Interview with The Big Cod talking about them selling Fish and Chips | 34 Secs |
| Interview with Mark about his location on the seaside and how his seaside cafe does not sell fish and chips | 58 Secs |
| Voiceover of how Chinese takeaway sell Fish and chips Voiceover about how easy it is to get Chinese food with shots from Asda on Chinese takeaway bag | 20 Secs |
| Interview with Kit Chan about Chinese food and takeaway | 57 Secs |
| Shots of food packets with a voiceover saying that takeaway is here to stay | 10 Secs |
| Back to interview with Asda Buyer about their takeaway bags | 30 Secs |
| Montage of fast food boxes, shots of ready meals, with a voiceover about how it’s never been easier to get convenience food | 15 Secs |
| Voiceover filming chip pans and voiceover of grease and fats | 20 Secs |
| Interview with a nutritionist about how unhealthy it is- cutaways to relevant shots | 1 Min 40 Secs |
| Close up of Pizza box | 5 Secs |
| Advert Break | 3 Minutes |
| Big close up of pizza box-At Your Convenience | 5 Secs |
| Voiceover explaining how takeaway has changed over the years with archive material of old fashioned takeaways, and black and white pictures | 30 Secs |
| Interview with an OAP explaining what takeaway used to be like when they were younger to what it is now | 1 Min 20 Secs |
| Switch to interview with a 14 year old who buys takeaway regularly and what it is like for him | 1 Min 10 Secs |
| Contrasting clips from the 2 interviews of the young person and the old person talking about the same topics | 30 Secs |
| Voiceover talks about pizza and kebabs with shots of people entering a kebab house after a night out | 30 Secs |
| Voxpops of people saying their favourite pizza/kebab | 30 Secs |
| Interview with a pizza shop owner | 1 Min |
| Voiceover about the cost of takeaway | 20 Secs |
| Back to the interview of the older person saying about how the cost has changed | 10 Secs |
| Interview with a parent saying how it is cheaper to buy a takeaway than cook a full meal | 30 Secs |
| Voiceover saying how it’s not only the cost that people are buying more takeaway, it is also more publicised and shots of billboard adverts and some TV adverts | 30 Secs |
| Archive material of the ‘fast food rockers’ pop song | 20 Secs |
| Dominoes advert | 20 Secs |
| Voiceover of how different cultural food at our convenience with clips of shops advertising more versatile takeaway e.g. Sushi | 30 Secs |
| Interview back to Kit Chan about what she cooks at home- How it is different from takeaway | 1 Min 30 Secs |
| Voiceover of Chinese New Year with clips of China Town and archive material of Chinese New Years | 30 Secs |
| Interview with council member who plans Liverpool’s Chinese New Year Events throughout the city | 40 Secs |
| Conclusion of takeaway with a voiceover and shot of food being packed away and being taken out of the shop | 30 Secs |
| Closing Credits | 20 Secs |
Research for Documentary- Primary
We have e-mails that we recieved and sent from setting up the ASDA interview, with Gill Webb, a buyer for ASDA, who works In Leeds House. The e-mails are displayed in the images below:
Formal Proposal for Documentary
Topic- Fast Food
Type of documentary- Mixed; interviews, voiceover, archive material, voxpops
Style of documentary- Formal, informative
Channel and scheduling- Channel 4, 8:30-9, Thursday
Target Audience- Age 16+ males and females
Primary Research Needed:
· Arranging interviews
· Contacting interviewees
· Finding locations for filming
· Finding locations for interviews
· Finding locations for voxpops
· Finding props for interviews
· Thinking of some interview questions
Secondary Research Needed:
· Extracts from documentaries or films (Supersize Me or similar)
· Extracts from TV programmes (Gavin and Stacey)
· Still photos of fast food packets
· Takeaway food menus
· Music to use (Fast Food Rockers)
· News reports on takeaway
· Radio footage
· E-Menus
· News paper cuttings of takeaway news
· Magazine articles
Narrative Structure- Open so the audience can make their own conclusion at the end of the documentary, multi stranded so although it is all on fast food there are many different aspects including; the history of takeaway, good points, bad points, cost etc.
Outline of content:
· History of takeaway,
· Good points
· Bad points
· Cost of takeaway
· Ease of takeaway
· Popularity of takeaway
· Nutritional information on takeaway
Resource requirements:
· Camera, tripod, microphone, DV lead
· Adobe Premier Pro editing software
· Interviewees
· Props for interviews
· Props for cutaways
· Actors to create reconstructions for title sequence
· Food
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