Wednesday, December 16, 2020
NEA Revamped Website
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
NEA Second Draft
- Recorded and added Lawrence's voiceover
- Added background music to Jasmine and Gram Section
- Sorted out cropping of Lawrence section - talking about livestreams.
Monday, November 9, 2020
NEA First Draft Doc
Grassroots First Draft from Hannah Barrett on Vimeo.
Things needing to be added -
- Waiting on voiceover from Lawrence for title sequence / clip before title sequence.
- Background music and two more edited photos for Jasmine / Gram section.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Monday, September 28, 2020
Sunday, September 6, 2020
NEA Update
Over the summer holidays, I worked on my NEA by shooting all the footage I needed for the documentary. I have also finalised the design for the first two sections of the site:
https://vimeo.com/user122756179/review/455413881/5d54545162
https://vimeo.com/user122756179/review/455414520/84d9486336
Overall, I am very pleased with how it is turning out, and it fitting the vibrant, eclectic look I was aiming for.
I would like to shoot one more thing for my Easter egg, which will be of Ben talking through how he produces and thinks through his pieces of music. After this all of the content will be filmed and ready for editing.
Monday, June 15, 2020
NEA Final Statement of Intent Draft
Thursday, June 11, 2020
NEA Finalised Storyboard and Rough Scripts
I have also created brief scripts for the people I will feature in my documentary, in order to help them prepare and get a general idea of their role.
SCRIPT 1 - artist who introduces the documentary and establishes what it is about.
Monday, June 8, 2020
NEA Generic Research - BBC Three
HISTORY AS A TELEVISION CHANNEL
BBC Three was launched in February 2003. It had the same remit of 'innovative programming' as well as new British talent, and had the same target audience of 16-34 years old.
The channel featured around 70% original content, as this was part of the remit, and had a 90% British audience. This was very different from its competitors (e.g. ITV2 and E4), as they were commercial and attracted a more internationally diverse audience.
However, in March 2014 there was a budget cut of £100 million, meaning BBC Three was converted to an 'over-the-top Internet television' as we know it today. The channel had an almost 50% budget cut, which was met with a lot of backlash and gained over 300,000 signatures on a petition against it.
BBC THREE DOCUMENTARIES
The channel is highly acclaimed and well-known for its documentaries, and they fit in well with the 'intellectual content' section of its remit. Some have won BAFTAs such as 'Life & Death Row' and 'Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts'.
From this Stacey Dooley has become a very well-known explorative journalist, and often covers more serious topics such as sex work, terrorism and fascism in the USA. This shows that intellectual documentaries prove to be hugely successful on the channel.
COMMISSIONING
BBC Three states that 'tone is really important on the channel' due to the younger, more inquisitive audience. This leads them to look for current topics that would be interesting for the viewers to talk about and form their own opinions, but it also must be light-hearted or entertaining enough to watch.
It is also important for the content to be somewhat 'relevant to them and their lives' in order to encourage the audience to speak about it with their friends and actively consume the product.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
NEA Website First Ideas
Monday, May 18, 2020
NEA Statement of Intent Draft
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
NEA Planning - First Ideas
"The remit of BBC Three is to bring younger audiences to high quality public service broadcasting through a mixed-genre schedule of innovative UK content featuring new UK talent. The channel should use the full range of digital platforms to deliver its content and to build an interactive relationship with its audience. The channel’s target audience is 16-34 year olds."
I decided to make a mind map of the specific details I want to include in my documentary, based off of the points in the remit. (Enter fullscreen to see more clearly)
NEA Research - How to Make a Ken Loach Film
Therefore, it may be helpful to study the series of YouTube shorts entitled 'How to Make a Ken Loach Film' because the way he depicts reality and uses his actors shows a lot of parallels with the conventions of a documentary.
1 - 'Work with the actor's instincts'
In a lot of scenes directed by Loach, the actors react to the event as it happens in order to get the most naturalistic response. This will be very helpful to apply to my documentary, as it will be interesting to provide a general plan but allow the young musicians to explore what they think is most important to them personally. I will also have to be taking a lot of footage so that I can get some 'Behind-The-Scenes' material and also be prepared for unexpected content.
2 - 'Surprise is very important'
It will be good to give the people I will be filming with an idea of what I will be looking for. However, more realistic/innovative material will come from unexpected questions, prompts etc.
3 - 'Directing is about confidence'
When I make a mindmap or storyboard for my documentary I must know what I want the outcome of it to look like / what I want it to achieve. I might look over the remit of BBC Three again and set out what I want the audience to learn from my documentary. This will give me the confidence I need to ask the correct questions and get the correct shots.
Monday, May 11, 2020
NEA Generic Research - Language and Digital Convergence
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Monday, May 4, 2020
NEA Wesbite Generic Analysis 1 - Louis Theroux Website
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
NEA Revision of Pitch
- I will now look at young alternative musicians so that I can have a more distinguishable style, instead of just any genre of music.
- I also think that instead of a 'small focus on local venues', I will be able to unite the two topics by filming both in the musicians' homes and also in local venues and places where bands tend to form, e.g. colleges. This will make it much easier for me to link the two instead of focusing on two separated topics.
Monday, April 27, 2020
NEA Audience Summation
All of the four people in the group watched documentaries at least semi - regularly, ranging from about once a month to once a week. So, from this information I can tell my my documentary must be engaging and snappy, as they could easily just find another one to watch. This target audience will also be very familiar with the codes and conventions of a documentary, so I would want to make mine distinctive so that it is still interesting to the very culturally aware viewers.
Here were the group's favourite documentaries:
- Tiger King
- Parkway Drive: The Documentary
- Home Is For the Heartless
- FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
- Hip - Hop Evolution
- Louis Theroux documentaries
- Louis Theroux champions the 'Participatory Documentary' format in which the documentary focuses on his findings.
- 'Tiger King' is more observational in the way that everyone featured got to create the narrative.
NEA Generic Research Summation
COMMON CODES AND CONVENTIONS:
- A range of shot types that convey intimacy and allow the audience to see the people featured in a personal way; for example phone-filmed clips and mid shots of them in their homes.
- Included some digital / graphic design elements, such as statistics that come up on screen, and footage of their YouTube channels and social media accounts. This adds to the diversity of the narration, as it could potentially get boring with one narrator throughout the entire documentary.
- Narrative is usually driven by a journalist, and the documentary follows how they discover and perceive the subject. However, sometimes the documentaries adopt a citizen journalism - style narrative, in which the people featured also act as narrators.
- Extended mise-en-scène, where there are multiple shots of the surroundings in which the documentary is filmed. Helps to convey the mood and backgrounds of the people pictured. Again, makes the documentary more personal.
- I really liked the way 'Beauty Laid Bare' was filmed, as it seemed that the people in the documentary were given a lot of control over what they could say. There was a lot of footage from many different platforms, such as professionally filmed clips, social media videos and also phone-filmed footage. I think using this eclectic mix is a good reflection of the life of young people, and also allows a variety of view points, therefore raising the intellectual level of the series.
Bill Nichols - Has six modes of documentary:
- Poetic mode - Showing a narrative by means of 'associations', for example the extended mise-en-scènes that show the audience their background without explicitly saying it.
- Expository mode - 'Voice of God' narration, which is used lightly in the 'Beauty Laid Bare' documentary. I think this helps the documentary to have variety in its narrative, and is more naturalistic.
- Observational mode - attempt to film 'actuality'. This could be shown in my documentary by including footage of them performing / playing their instruments.
- Participatory documentaries - When the filmmaker participates in the documentary e.g. Louis Theroux or the journalist in 'The Fight for Women's Bodies'.
- Reflexive documentaries - acknowledges that the documentary is not purely objective e.g. a mockumentary. This will not link to my documentary as it is more serious, and it will also be clear that my documentary is from a subjective point of view.
- Performative documentaries - Puts emphasis on the filmmakers involvement with the subjects. This links to 'Beauty Laid Bare' and 'It Might Get Loud' as the narrative is carried by those that feature in the documentary. I like this style of documentary and might use it in mine, as it adds another layer of complexity rather than having a linear narrative with one journalist.
NEA Focus Group: Audience Behaviour and FG Questions
Kaan Salih, 18
Monday, April 20, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
NEA Audience Research: Feedback on Pitch
QUESTION 1: Do you think this is an achievable look for my documentary? Do you have ideas on how to improve it / techniques to achieve this look?
Out of the 16 responses, 15 thought this was an achievable look. The other person commented that the look of my moodboard was unclear, so I may look over it again and see whether it fits the brief more precisely. However, some other notable comments were:
- 'this is an achievable look because of the authenticity and naturalistic mise-en-scène'
- 'if you're talking to real musicians you can use the real spaces they use'
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Do you think this is an achievable look for my documentary? Do you have ideas on how to improve it / techniques to achieve this look?
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Does my pitch meet the brief / sound like a BBC Three production? If no, what could I do to improve it?
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Should I include more aspects to look at in my documentary or just go into more detail with what I already have?
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Any other feedback / improvements?
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Maisie Radley
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Maybe just pin your favourite interviews and documentaries (vogue etc) and incorporate elements of how they do their documentaries. Can be referenced later as intertextuality or inspiration
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Yeah I can imagine that
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Perhaps focus more on the musicianship side to it and incorporate the social media stuff on the side?
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Use cool ‘aesthetic’ musicians feature their music to be original
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Victoria Casson
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Yes I think it is achievable. I think you might need a tighter focus- eg how can bands make money when they generally give away their music?
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Yes, suitable for that target audience who would be used to downloading music for free
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As its the opening you can say what would be coming up in the programme without actually having to do it and also consider aspects that you could include on the website
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have a variety of bands/artists
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Zoe Olawore
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I definitely think this is achievable. Maybe including a video of their performance would be nice to see
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I think it sounds like a BBC production if you make sure to focus on the social media aspect and how self-promotion has evolved. But I think you need to target it more to an upmarket audience, perhaps by choosing carefully which artists you talk about. I’m not very sure though :)
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Go into more detail, I think you’ve got a good range of topics
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Maybe try to include diverse representations or include how their identity e.g. class, race or sexuality has affected how they promote themselves. This could be upmarket as it becomes like more social/political
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Rebecca Argent
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Yes, I think this is an achievable look because of the authenticity and naturalistic mise-en-scene in the images that you have chosen.
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Yes i think so
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Just stick to one main aspect and go into detail otherwise you may lose purpose of the documentary if you try to fit different aspects in.
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Alice Short
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i love the idea and think its very relevant to the brief.
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perhaps use older people in interviews etc to make it more diverse/seem like bbc 3 production?
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go into more details - i like idea of using local venues etc
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no love it :)
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Anbar Ali
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I think this is a very good and achievable look for your documentary, it is a great and interesting topic too - use a range of mis-en-scene and camerawork similar to that of a documentary.
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Yes it sounds like something BBC three would produce
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Go into detail with what you already have, you can include a lot in three minutes.
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No it looks really good!
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Charlene Cheung
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Yes, possibly close up shots of certain instruments
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Yes, it does
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go into depth about the idea you already have
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Molly Thirlwall
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yeah it looks cool, i like the cheeky chins picture or at least i think it's chins if not i just look stupid. i think if you're talking to real musicians you can use the real spaces they use if you get me
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yes it does
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i think maybe have it a bit wider so you can fill the whole website like it's a series and this is one episode? as in like the whole thing is young musicians then you focus on like lgbt musicians or female musicians sort of thing
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nah looks fab xx
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Nkechinyere Enyinnaya
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Yeah I think that is a good premise for a documentary especially the dying businesses part. I think that will be good
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Yeah I believe that this is a good topic as it reaches that target audience but maybe consider the middle class to upmarket audience even though it should be fine but make sure u keep that in mind
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I think go more in detail to what you have already done as the maximum of the documentary is 3 mins at the end of the daY. Or maybe you can include more topics in the opening like sequence so it can be like a rundown on what to come u get me?
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nah x
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Amelie Meury-Cashman
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Yes it is
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Yes it does, it is suitable for the target demographic and the topics are similar to what you would expect in a BBC3 doc
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I think what you have listed is fine and I wouldn't look into more aspects because it might get too complex (and you only have 3 minutes). Just go into more detail in your current aspects.
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Cassi Macaulay
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It looks so good ngl
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Yes - it broadcasts new UK talent which is part of their PSB :)
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go with what you already have it looks swell
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carry on going this'll be really good :)
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Grace Ewing
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I definitely think it's achievable, I really like the idea of of including the information about local venues
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Yes definitely
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I think going into detail about what you have already would be most interesting as it's quite a niche topic
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Orla Price
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Yes
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Yes
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Go into more detail
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Aimee Butcher
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Yes
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Yes
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Broader could be interesting too - but what you have is good
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Phoebe Rigby
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From your moodboard the specific look is unclear - the two images from instagram story and youtube make a lot of sense with your links to technology and media convergence and how they can promote musicians. However, I don't understand the random images with dogs or the guy taking a photo as they don't link to this topic.
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i think it is a great idea and fits the brief well. I have re-read the brief given and it says for 16-25 year olds so I think your target audience may be slightly too large. I also think you should look at how this young audience will interact with BBC three as it is not a typical platform for this age range.
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I think you should focus more on one aspect of your idea - starting a career online using youtube or social media is very different to starting in small local venues.
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The documentary style of this will work really well and be a cool project. I think just clear up your ideas with your images.
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Jade Gemmill
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I really like how you have addressed a correct audience through your choice of talent.
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Yes it does definitely sound like a BBC3 production, and I like how it is something different too so is more engaging by being away from the audience.
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More detail with what you already have sounds good.
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