Radio Stations

Demographics:  16-25 young adults. Male (roadshow). C2DE White British.

Psychographics: Rap, R'n'B music. Niché market. Gigs/Concerts. Celebrity interviews.

Demographics: Male teens. Sport interviews.

Psychographics: Big sports fans.

Demographics: Asian Community. Niché market. Interactive 20+

Psychographics: Asiam Culture. Bollywood. Mainly chat.

Demographics: Morning - younger. Afternoon - older, 'stay at home'. Broad.

Psychographics: 1980's mid morning. Mainstream. 50/50 music and chat. 

Demographics: Middle aged. Drama. Office workers. 

Psychographics: Sense of humour. 

Demographics: 22-44 Music Fans. 

Psychographics: Heavy music fans. 

Demographics: Broad, Worldwide. 100% talk. Interviews. Real-life situations.

Psychographics: Current affairs. Intellectual. 

Critical Approaches

Geo-demographics - Where you live. Profiling people based no where they live. Estimate the probable characteristics of people based on the pooled profile of all people living in a small area near a particular address. 

ACORN is the segmentation of the UK's population (postcodes and neighbourhoods) into 6 categories, 18 groups and 62 types, 3 of which are not private households. By analysing significant social factors and population behaviour, it provides precise information and in-depth understanding of the different types of people. 

Practice Filming...

      Today in our Documentary Group we did a short practice on filming, to get a feel for it. It really came in handy to go over how to set everything up and get a feel for filming in a small space, fitting all the equipment in and getting good shots. Overall it took about 45 minutes just to set up, after checking all the sound was right, setting up the tripods and both camera's and wiring it all up. 

      A few things we took from today is to always turn up an hour prior to filming time just to set up, so if we tell whoever we are filming a 3, let them know we will be arriving at 2 just to set up and run through everything! Also, when interviewing more than one person, always shoot the first person from the left when in the frame. 

      This will make the whole documentary flow better if the interview runs from left to right as it is natural because we humans read from left to right. Also, take a spare battery or 2 for the sound box...! We had to learn this the hard way sadly when we previously went out filming on The Pier and it ran out of charge. 

Contacting Tattooists...

      Yesterday I sent a Facebook message to someone I know in College who is a Tattooist at a local Tattoo/Piercing shop in Weston-super-Mare called 'The Painted Dharma'. I got a reply from him today, sadly saying that he no longer worked there, but thought that the owner would be more than happy to help. So, I contacted him and the same night received a really positive reply. I've let Mike and Emma know about this and they were pretty excited! So we shall talk about it a little more tomorrow and carry on with our Pitch. 

Message I sent to Nikon, the guy I know from College.

Conversation with Brett Jenkin, Owner at The Painted Dharma who we hope to interview. 

We also contacted a mutual friends sister who has a fair few tattoos of her own and has agreed to be interviewed for us. So far we have told her we will be in contact after half term (Early November)

Message we sent to Tom's sister (a mutual friend)  who has a few tattoo's and is willing to be

 interviewed for our Documentary :)

Addicted to the Needle.

      I'm just on YouTube, looking around for various videos related to our tattoo and piercing documentary and I came across this - Addicted to the Needle

      What I really liked about this video was the intro, the first 40 seconds or so where various people talk about their love and their addiction for tattoos. This has become something that they need, as it often takes over a former love, or to create a memory. One person talks about the pain - "I've had 2 kids and in comparison, it's a walk in the park to get a tattoo", and another talks of the sound of the needle "The tattoo gun is definitely addictive, you hear it, you want it." These quotes are just amazing in showing how people get addicted to tattoos and how they believe that it's their body and they should be able to do what they like without fuss. 

Location Recce

      This week for our Documentary Homework we were asked to go out and do a location recce in preparation for filming our own documentary. Today I went to Bristol and thought of various places to do this homework. I really wanted to go somewhere where I had to talk to someone, to arrange permission for access into the building. As we were walking through the city centre, I remembered a little chapel I visited some 7 years ago and went inside for another look. I spoke to various people from guides, to caretakers, to those helping run it and got a lot of information on how possible it would be to do any filming there. Here is the sheet I filled out and hand in to my Tutor tomorrow. 

THE REMOTE SURVEY (RECCE)

LOCATION VISIT SHEET

Production title: Chapel amongst the Chaos
Production team: Miss President
Producer: Jules Newton
Client: Weston College
Date of survey: Saturday, 5th October 2013          Proposed filming date: 3rd November
Location: John Wesley's Chapel, The New Room, Brisol. (Oldest Methodist Building in the world)

Permission needed: (contact details)

Spoke to the caretaker about access. Some rooms are being re-furbished so there was limited access. Also spoke to the guides and the various people who are involved in running it.

Traffic problems:(how will you deal with sound/visuals from passing cars)

None.

Local conditions: (could the weather affect your filming in any way?)

Only if filming outside were to go ahead. Rooms are small, yet fairly light despite only one small window per. 

Intrusions: (passers-by, music, aeroplanes/trains, general interruptions to filming and audio)

Windows are old and single glazed which results in some outside noise coming from the town. Visitors would also have to be put off during filming. 

Continuity: (is anything about the location likely to change during the shoot or if you return to it to film more than once? E.g. roadworks in 1st shot/ gone in next,  poster on wall/gone in next shot)

None. Everything stays as it is due to visitors coming to look around.

Electricity/Lighting issues/Sound  (will you need an electricity supply and is there access to one? Is lighting adequate or does it need altering? What sort of sound equipment will you need?)

The Chapel is dark in some areas. The halls are small and the stairs a dark and steep. General lighting issues in an old building. However, electricity supplies are available, despite being limited. 

Set dressing: (does your set contain everything you want to show in your scene or will it need something else adding to it to have the impact you want?)

All there already. Possible alterations such as the removal of displays.

Welfare:(can your crew/talent get refreshments and use toilets, do they need to stay overnight near filming location?)

Located directly in the middle of town so ideal for staying close to location and any refreshments. Toilets are located on site.  

Parking/Public transport to location:

Would have to use either on-road parking or the NCP car park, located reasonably near to site. As for public transport, many buses run directly to Bristol, the bus stop is only a 10 minute walk away from the location. 

Possible dates for filming:

October half term (26th - 3rd November)

Draw a sketch/ take a photo of your location indicating possible positions for cameras and a route map to the location

'Wesley Place' above the doors of the back entrance

Plaque outside the front of the building

John Wesley's Chapel

Bust of John Wesley

Tattoo/Piercing Addiction Documentary

      For our Documentary, Emma, Mike and myself will be looking into Tattoo's and Piercings around the Bristol and Weston area. We aim to look into whether people find it simply a form of body art, or if they find it an addiction. Today we assigned our job roles; Director and Producer- Emma, Camera Operator - Mike and Editor - Myself.

This link, from 'Psychology Today' talks about the views of tattoos and piercings being a form of self harm. It is quite a deep, full on piece, but I do like the view and the argument she tries to enforce. 

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scarred-soul/200912/tattoos-and-piercings-self-injury

I also just watched the latest episode of 'My Tattoo Addiction'. Wow what an eye opener..!

My Tattoo Addiction is on TV this week ... 4seven 10:50pm Fri 4 Oct Season 1 Episode 2 of 3 The documentary hears from people whose love of body art has had a profound effect on the way they conduct their lives. Mark's many photo-realistic tattoos challenge accepted notions of taste, and Deke talks about his attempts to conceal one particular image from his girlfriend's parents. In Maguluf, reveller Liam tries to persuade other holiday-makers to brand themselves with his `burger nipple' design, while Joanne's tattoo of an ex-wife's name is a painful reminder of her previous life as a man See full details

Mike and I have been talking on Facebook about a few ideas we have gained from watching this. We aim to trigger emotion in our audience, in hope of finding someone with some sort of 'a story' behind their tattoos, so this means we must visit a variety of tattoo shops in various areas. I also mentioned the idea of the title for our documentary, something inspired by that of 'My Tattoo Addiction'. It is the 3 words of the title, 'tattooed' on 3 individual people. I guess I just like the irony.

Job Roles

Set Design

• Furnish a film set, excluding structural.
• Props: Action props, Pro props.
• Links to Pre-Production.

Key skills - attention to detail and historic knowledge for different set designs. Contacts for prop hire companies and warehouses.

Special Effects

• 2 types - Visual FX Editor and Special FX Co-ordinator. 
• VFX Editor - create special effects, animation and do visual clean-up for feature films and commercial.
• Special FX Co-ordinator - more hands on and used in higher budgeted films. Working with stunt-doubles or the actors doing their own acts and create the explosions, natural disasters, or general destruction that the Director wants.

Director

• Either commissions a script or writes one themselves.
• Always has a vision of the finished film.
• Pre-production rehearsals to check that the camera work is correct.
• High experience needed.

Camera Operator

• Told what to do by the Director.
• Begins at the end of Pre-Production.
• Decide where the best place is to position the camera for each shot.
• Start as a camera trainee/runner.
• Higher levels with a variety of cameras.

Storyboard Artist

• Put together a visual script for the Director and Camera crew.
• Translates screenplays or sequences into a series of illustrations.
• Create storyboards for the action and CGI scenes so that it is carefully planned.

Documentary

Editing

Key words

180' rule - The camera should remain one side of an imaginary line to enforce continuity.

Looking Space - The space in which a person (usually interviewee) is looking when talking to someone. It indicated the direction they are looking at another person, with shot reverse shot to show they are in conversation.

Real time - Streaming media the way it is.

Stretch time - Allows you to change the length of a selected piece of footage.

Compress time - Reduce the duration of time in a video.

Ellipsis - The removal, or shortening of elements of a narrative to speed up the action.

Cross cut - a type of moving image edit that involved a series of cutaways from one sequence of narrative to another taking place simultaneously.

Parallel editing - showing two or more scenes happening at the same time by cutting between them. 

Diegetic sound - sound generated within a film narrative.

Non-diegetic - outside the narrative.

Flashback - a scene which disrupts the chronological narrative by going backward in time to recall past events.

Sound bridge - When a scene begins with the carry-over sound from the previous scene before the new sound begins.

Montage - The process of selecting, editing and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole.

(http://www.slideshare.net/ecclestona/as-media-dictionary1)