Friday, 29 October 2010

Bob duncans interview

Questions with Bob Duncan

1. When you were younger what typical thing would make you happy?
2. Today what typical things make you happy?
3. What is happiness to you?
4. How do you think happiness effects people?
5. What three words come into your mind when said happiness?
6. What time of the day are you most happy and why?
7. Do you think that money can make you happier?
8. What has been the happiest day of your life so far?

Here are some photos of us doing the interview











































Thursday, 28 October 2010

Interview with natasha

Question with Natasha

1. What types of things make you happy?
2. What do you think will make you happy when your older?
3. what do you want to be when your older?
4. Do you think that it will make you happy?
5. Do you think money makes you happy?
6.What songs put you in a good mood?
7. What time of the day are you most happy and why?
8. Do you think what makes you happy now will be the same in 5 years time?
9. What is the happiest day of you life so far?

Here are some photos of doing the interview





























Monday, 11 October 2010

Planning

Here are are planning and storyboards of the opening sequence and the interviews that will be shown in the first five minutes.














Here is the story broad for the interview on Natasha Lopez. This will be in her bedroom as we then have mise en scene.

















This is the storyboard for the interview with Rochelle. The mise-en-scene in this scene will be used by the park and her friends in the background.















Here is the interview with Bob Duncan. This interview will be in his house in his front room. By a table with pictures so see some of his happy memories.
















This is the interview with a vicar






















This is the storyboard for the opening sequence. This will be filmed in a local shopping center to get the mise-en-scene of everyday life.

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Running order

Opening

Cutaways of people on transport, walking through the street, people eating fast food, people shopping. Long shots
10 seconds

Voxpops of what is happiness to you? Head shots
5 seconds

Bus with opening title drives past, Tilt frame Low to High
10 seconds

Narrator begins to define happiness. Onscreen panning of definitions in the dictionary. Cutaways of plastic surgery
20 seconds

Bob Duncan interview – Mid shot
1 minute

Natasha Lopez interview – Mid shot
1 minute

Cutaways – Narration, Newspaper cuttings - panning
20 seconds

Images of Hitler – Narration to introduce topic then digetic sound of Hitler’s speech in background zooms into archive material of Hitler at his most famous speech saying “German people are Happy”
1 minute

Interview with Psychologist; Mr De expressing a psychological perspective of happiness- mid shot
1 minute

Voxpop
20 seconds

Interview with Rochelle Noble – mid shot
1 minute

Archive footage of Britney Spears with Narration
2 minutes

Videos and images of people on a night out – Happiness amongst the youth
30 seconds

Interview with Natasha Lopez
1 minute

Interview with Bob Duncan
1 minute

Interview with philosophy teacher – Philosophical point of view
1 minute

Voxpops in local shopping centre
30 seconds

ADVERT 3 minutes

Interview with priest in Church about the views about happiness
1 minute

Interview with Rochelle Noble
1 minute

Narrations introducing Alan Sugar – does money make people happy?
20 seconds

Interview with Alan Sugar – With cutaways and archive material from his youth
2 minutes 30 seconds

Narrative voice introducing Hitler again
20 seconds

Clips and archive material of Hitler
30 seconds

Voxpops – Picture shown to the public questioning whether they though Hitler was happy?
30 seconds

Interview with Danielle Lloyd and archive material – Does money make people happy?
1 minute 30 seconds

Science of happiness – Narration – fast motion around the laboratory
1 minute

Talk about mother Theresa bringing happiness and kindness
1 minute

Narration – what makes people happy? With cutaways
1 minute

Narration concluding documentary with montage of images
1 minute
Closing credits
30 seconds

Friday, 1 October 2010

Formal proposal for documentary

Topic:
Happiness- Pursuit of Happiness

Type of documentary:
Mixed
The reason out documentary is going to be mixed is because it will contain voxpops and voice over’s.

Style of documentary:
Informal

Channel scheduling:
Channel 4 8pm Tuesday - The reason for this is that channel 4 shows docusoaps 8pm until 9pm, we could be shown at 8pm to 8:30pm with another show on afterwards, we also inherit the audience from the channel 4 news.

Target Audience:
Families as we are showing are documentary prewatershed

Primary research needed:
• Bob Duncan
Location will be at his house in his backroom.
Mise-en-scene used will be photos of him when he was younger in the background.
Props will be him drinking tea to make him look more relaxed and at home.

• Mr De
Location will be in a school psychology room in a school.
Mise-en-scene used will be books and posters and the smart board will be on.
Props that will be used is a fake brain, pen, books and he will also be wearing formal attire.

• Mr Hart
Location will be a re room in a school.
Mise-en-scene will be Books, posters and smartborad.
Props- Bible, Pen, will also be wearing smart attire.

• Vicar
Location will be in a church.
The mise-en-scene that will be used will be on the stage also set candle out.
Props will be Candles and vicar attire.

• Natasha Lopez
Location will be in Natasha bedroom
Mise on scene will be created by the TV on in the background, her teddies .around and the way the room had been decorated.
Props that will be used are laptop, TV, iPod, teddies.

• Rochelle Noble
The location will be at the park.
Therefore the mise-en-scene can be created by the trees and the swings.
Props will be the swing.

Secondary Research:
• Archive material
• Hitler’s speech
• Pictures of Bob Duncan when he was younger
• Alan Sugar
• Danielle Lloyd
• Britney spears when she was in crossroads and younger and now
• Mother Theresa
• Quote from radio from when it is a happy day
• Music such as walking on sunshine, don’t worry be happy, Happy days, Pack up.
• Newspaper article about happiness or recession.
• Dictionary
• Happy definitions.

Narrative Structure:
Liner
Multi strand

Outline of content :















Recourse:
• Camera
• Video camera
• Tape recorder
• Tripod
• Mica phone
• Newspapers
• Internet
• Computer
• Books
• Definitions
• Adobe premier

Questionnaire analysis

Here is my questionnaire alalysis


Here are the audios that I took of people answering my questionnaire