Today we have our day of filming before the half term. We plan to get as much done as well as brainstorm ideas and plans for new filming after half term as we will have one week left. We feel like the progress we've made so far is very good and we have been well organised. We now just need to keep up with our timings and make sure that we can get all our initial filing done by the deadline! :)
Today we videoed some of our potential vox pop interviews, within the refectory in the sixth form college solihull. We hope to use these as well as other videos and interviews of which we wish to obtain over the coming weeks. We can add or change our questions now that we have used them and can improve them from person to person, with the feedback which they give/gave :)
Expert: Nick Waring (film/media teacher), Tom Krawec (psychology teacher), cineworld worker/manager, GAME worker
We are also planning on asking everyone/voxpops what their favourite genre is (horror, action, comedy, drama, romantic, scifi)
Nick Waring:
We think that Nick would be an excellent choice for a expert interview as he can help us to get what we want from our documentary as he is a media studies teacher. Also his opinion is valid when it comes to our documentary topic as he may be knowledgeable about the amount of violence in films and its effect.
We would like to ask him these questions:
1) Do you think that violence (action and horror) films are popular and why?
2) Do you like violence in films?
3) do you think they have a influence on people in society?
4) Explain why
HMV:
HMV would be a brilliant place to get our interviews from as they are obviously one of the largest UK stores to distribute films. They would be ideal for answering questions on the popularity ad the need for Action and Horror films, dependant on their sales and how common those kinds of DVD's are.
We would like to ask a member of staff these questions:
1) Do you know the sales for horror or action films?
2) Do you think they're rated inappropriately?
3) they're opinion on claims that films influences certain behaviour
Cineworld:
We think that cineworld would be, again, ideal for our documentary because they can offer information about how often action and horror films are showing in the cinema and how many people go to see them. Also we could possibly try and find out what kind of age groups go to see theses kind of films and their opinon on the age ratings on action and horror films.
We would like to ask a member of staff these questions:
1) Action and Horror films showing? rating?
2) have you heard of crimes influenced by action and horror films?
3) ????
Tom Krawec:
Tom is a psychology teacher at our college so he would be easier to get hold of to ask questions to. We would aim to question him about aggression and perhaps violence which could give us the more biological or psychological reasoning behind it. We could then relate this to films and how that may bring on certain types of behaviour.
We would like to ask Tom these questions:
1) Knowledge of influence of films?
2) are you against ratings of horror/action films?
3) Do you think that it makes a major impact on behaviour?
Is violence getting worse?
Vox Pop:
1) Favourite genre?
2) Do you think action/horror films have a influence on society?
3) Do you feel like you've been influenced?
4) do you think theres too much violence in films?
5) does it ever scare you?
We chose these questions because we believe that they can enable us to receive short-ish answers that we can cut down to make their responses snappy for our documentary.
Film Club:
Monday 12.45 - 2.45
following on from our recent Reflection, we feel as if the research we have carried out has helped us improve drastically as now we have an idea of how we want our documentary to look and the type of shots we want to include in our documentary. In addition to this we thinking of WHO we want as our expert interviews: film teacher, psychology teacher and members of public.
From all the research we have carried out, we have learnt, as a group, that most documentaries include expert interviews giving facts and statistics followed by important information to support an argument of some sort a raised in the documentary. An example of this is made apparent in Super Size Me for example. Spurlock interviewed experts relevant to his argument about the fast food industry and how McDonalds food is having a drastic impact on society and health in general. Therefore, by having the experts we are thinking of including in our documentary (at this stage) will be somewhat beneficial, as our target audience will be left feeling informed and entertained.
However, after doing research into previous documentaries it can be made clear that 'Super Size Me' is a different genre of documentary to what we want to do. We want to make a mixed documentary, as we feel this would not only be the easiest to make, but the most conventional. It allows us to be creative with the our film making but still include mostly all the features included in a documentary: interviews, voiceover, music, facts and stats, archival footage, recreational footage ect. Therefore making our work professional looking and interesting for our audience, as the target audience we wish to target, 17 years and over, get distracted and bored quite easily, this can be considered to be a challenge but we know this age group well as we are this age ourselves, so meeting this target should be quite straight forward.
Targets:
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