Catch-up Montage - Several Locations
SHOT IDEAS (MONTAGE):
Main program title & theme.
Close-up of Main Character, establishing shot.
Medium shots of Beth, long shot of her father looking in from the window. Snippets of dialogue (unscripted) taken, to show the general gist of what has happened so far.
Show Main Character sat in undisclosed location with friends, close up of him, few friends faces and on alcohol he is drinking. PAN over scene before fade to black.
Program title shown: 'The Pregnant Guy'
SHOT IDEAS (FIRST SCENE):
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Audience Questionaire
Here is our audience questionnaire, we will then be asking a selection of people, and filming there answers.
Q1. What do you enjoy to watch on tv?
Q2. How often do you watvch tv?
Q3. Do you watch documentaries? and what type?
Q4. What attracts you to certain shows?
Q5. What time and days do you watch the most tv?
Q6. Do you often watch shows after the watershed?
Q7. Would you be interested in watching a documentaries about teenage pregnancy where the male is the central role in the documentary in comparison the the stereotypical female preferring role most other similar documentaries choose to take?
Q1. What do you enjoy to watch on tv?
Q2. How often do you watvch tv?
Q3. Do you watch documentaries? and what type?
Q4. What attracts you to certain shows?
Q5. What time and days do you watch the most tv?
Q6. Do you often watch shows after the watershed?
Q7. Would you be interested in watching a documentaries about teenage pregnancy where the male is the central role in the documentary in comparison the the stereotypical female preferring role most other similar documentaries choose to take?
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Character Profiles
1. Kevin Burrows:
Main character, a 17 year old student from Yorkshire, Lundwood. He is studying Construction, has the dream of being a master builder in the future and is the sole focus of the documentary. Irresponsible, unsure and generally not bothered about caring for the child at the beginning, Kevin goes through an epiphany in the segment shown where he feels he should take responsibility for his actions and his budding family. The development culminates in Kevin facing a major dilemma when Jason, Beth's father, tells him to leave the family alone and to stay out of his daughter's life.
Twitter: Kevb2k9
2. Beth Sullivan:
16 year old mother, soon to be starting college and is the youngest in the Sullivan family with two older sisters (remain unseen, possible cameo in the first segments?). After the one night stand with Kevin, she seemed very scared about becoming a mother so young, but is starting to come round to the idea and opts against having an abortion. She feels as though there is a future between her and Kevin if only he would become more responsible and try to make it work.
At the end of the segment she admires Kevin a lot more for wanting to take up his part in raising the child but distraught as her father is getting in the way of it working.
Twitter: xxBethBbyxx
3. The Expert:
A pediatrician and an expert on psychology, the expert gives insight into what teenage mothers and fathers go through pre-birth. In this segment, he gives a short interview on how teenage fathers usually abandon the mother and the child very early on in the relationship.
4. Jason Sullivan:
Jason is 40 years old and Beth's father. He is dismayed at his daughter for getting pregnant so young and is very protective of her. While the rest of the Sullivan's seem to like Kevin, Jason is fully against him being part of the family, claiming him to be an irresponsible layabout that will be a terrible father to the child.
He appears in the final part the segment, interrupting an interview with Kevin on what he plans to do now he has learned more about what his responsibilities to the child will be, telling him to leave the family alone and to not bother his daughter ever again.
5. Friends in flashbacks:
Appear in the reminder at the very start of the segment. Tell Kevin not to bother about the kid and to leave the mother with it. Shown as being laddish, crude and irresponsible.
Main character, a 17 year old student from Yorkshire, Lundwood. He is studying Construction, has the dream of being a master builder in the future and is the sole focus of the documentary. Irresponsible, unsure and generally not bothered about caring for the child at the beginning, Kevin goes through an epiphany in the segment shown where he feels he should take responsibility for his actions and his budding family. The development culminates in Kevin facing a major dilemma when Jason, Beth's father, tells him to leave the family alone and to stay out of his daughter's life.
Twitter: Kevb2k9
2. Beth Sullivan:
16 year old mother, soon to be starting college and is the youngest in the Sullivan family with two older sisters (remain unseen, possible cameo in the first segments?). After the one night stand with Kevin, she seemed very scared about becoming a mother so young, but is starting to come round to the idea and opts against having an abortion. She feels as though there is a future between her and Kevin if only he would become more responsible and try to make it work.
At the end of the segment she admires Kevin a lot more for wanting to take up his part in raising the child but distraught as her father is getting in the way of it working.
Twitter: xxBethBbyxx
3. The Expert:
A pediatrician and an expert on psychology, the expert gives insight into what teenage mothers and fathers go through pre-birth. In this segment, he gives a short interview on how teenage fathers usually abandon the mother and the child very early on in the relationship.
4. Jason Sullivan:
Jason is 40 years old and Beth's father. He is dismayed at his daughter for getting pregnant so young and is very protective of her. While the rest of the Sullivan's seem to like Kevin, Jason is fully against him being part of the family, claiming him to be an irresponsible layabout that will be a terrible father to the child.
He appears in the final part the segment, interrupting an interview with Kevin on what he plans to do now he has learned more about what his responsibilities to the child will be, telling him to leave the family alone and to not bother his daughter ever again.
5. Friends in flashbacks:
Appear in the reminder at the very start of the segment. Tell Kevin not to bother about the kid and to leave the mother with it. Shown as being laddish, crude and irresponsible.
Sunday, 19 September 2010
5 Minute Treatment
Style: 5 Minute Segment of a Documentary.
Programme: The Pregnant Guy (Working Title)
Audience: Ages 15-99. People who would enjoy this documentary are the people who would also enjoy looking ay other similar documentaries created on British television and are shown generally at 9pm at night.
Resume: The documentary would follow Kevin Burrows, a teenager from North England who is going to become a dad aged 16 from his girlfriend of three months. The documentary would detail some facts about teenage pregnancy throughout the five minutes as well as tackle the problems that teenage father's face, which many documentaries on the subject overlook.
The camera crew will follow Kevin in his everyday life leading up to his choice on whether to stay with the mother to help raise the child, or to leave and look towards his own future.
Suggested Elements:
* Voiceovers, in the form of a narrator that connects the interviews, segments and overall story the documentary is trying to portray.
* Interviews with different people (Both experts and the people involved: Kevin, the mother, their parents, friends etc)
* Dramatic themes and styles, such as black and white shots to show changes in mood.
* Still shots and quick cuts at the beginning in a montage-esque setup to sum up what has happened before this point in the documentary (eg. what had happened before the break)
Programme: The Pregnant Guy (Working Title)
Audience: Ages 15-99. People who would enjoy this documentary are the people who would also enjoy looking ay other similar documentaries created on British television and are shown generally at 9pm at night.
Resume: The documentary would follow Kevin Burrows, a teenager from North England who is going to become a dad aged 16 from his girlfriend of three months. The documentary would detail some facts about teenage pregnancy throughout the five minutes as well as tackle the problems that teenage father's face, which many documentaries on the subject overlook.
The camera crew will follow Kevin in his everyday life leading up to his choice on whether to stay with the mother to help raise the child, or to leave and look towards his own future.
Suggested Elements:
* Voiceovers, in the form of a narrator that connects the interviews, segments and overall story the documentary is trying to portray.
* Interviews with different people (Both experts and the people involved: Kevin, the mother, their parents, friends etc)
* Dramatic themes and styles, such as black and white shots to show changes in mood.
* Still shots and quick cuts at the beginning in a montage-esque setup to sum up what has happened before this point in the documentary (eg. what had happened before the break)
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Testing Equipment
We have been trying out different microphones including Boom Mic and Radio Mic to see what type of equipment we will be using for out filming.Research
We have been watching documentaries, recently, and many of them use a similar convention.
We first watched The World's Most Enhanced Woman and Me
They open with a narrative explaining what the documentary is about. This includes a short insight into what the documentary is featuring, it usualy features short interviews and narrative comments about what is being shown. After a small title sequence, the documentary opens on Mark Dolan explaining, who he is and what his goal is.
Unlike convention, Mark Dolan actualy physicaly appears on screen, wheres in most documentaries the narration is done via voiceover. Explaining what is happeneing and introducing new scenes. But Mark Dolan has a different approach to documenting, he physcaly meets the people hes intervewing and feautres in the shots. And as narrration, there is usualy a shot of him wlaking along some location.
Secondly we watched Extraordinary People: Season 3 - The Tiniest Girl in the World
Like the first documentary, this one opened with a small segemnt of the documentary. Breifing on what thje documnentary is about and a small insight into what is to come. Then their is a breif title sequence, which is generic through the entire series.
Tree Man - After Surgery
We first watched The World's Most Enhanced Woman and Me
They open with a narrative explaining what the documentary is about. This includes a short insight into what the documentary is featuring, it usualy features short interviews and narrative comments about what is being shown. After a small title sequence, the documentary opens on Mark Dolan explaining, who he is and what his goal is.
Unlike convention, Mark Dolan actualy physicaly appears on screen, wheres in most documentaries the narration is done via voiceover. Explaining what is happeneing and introducing new scenes. But Mark Dolan has a different approach to documenting, he physcaly meets the people hes intervewing and feautres in the shots. And as narrration, there is usualy a shot of him wlaking along some location.
Secondly we watched Extraordinary People: Season 3 - The Tiniest Girl in the World
Like the first documentary, this one opened with a small segemnt of the documentary. Breifing on what thje documnentary is about and a small insight into what is to come. Then their is a breif title sequence, which is generic through the entire series.
Tree Man - After Surgery
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