Diary

18/11/10
Today we began filming for our documentary. We first went to the antique shop where we interviewed Derek Hall an antique dealer. We asked him about the customers that come in his shop and the varying levels of obsession and money spent. We also filmed cutaways of the antiques in the shop.
We then went to the staff room at Rode Island Cafe and interviewed Jess Hayden a girl who is obsessed with Xena the princess warrior. We asked her about her obsession, how it affects her life, how much money she spends on it and how it affects the lives of others.

 

19/11/10
Today in lesson we finished some work for the blog and started logging the footage of the interviews with Derek and Jess. 

20/11/10
Today we continued logging the footage and we also started story boarding our title 

18^th October 2011
Today started to film our documentary, we went to the antique shop where we were going to interview Derek Hall who owns the shop and he is also an antique dealer. We asked him about the customers who buy things from the shop and the money and the kinds of things they buy. We then filmed some of the products there to use as cut away. We then went to the Rode Island coffee shop and interviewed Jess Hayden a girl who is obsessed with Xena the warrior princess. We again asked her about her obsession and how it affected other people.

19^th October 2011
Today in the lesson we finished our blogs and I started to log the footage of the interviews of Derek and Jess.

 
20^th October 2011.
Today we continued to logging the footage and then also started to storyboard our opening title sequence.

21^st October 2011
In today’s lesson we did all the location sheets for where we were filming and added then scanned title sequence and the single frame story boards to the blog. When I got home I also added the logging sheets in which I had done to the blog.

28th October 2011
Today we went to town and filmed voxpops, we asked 10 people near the market what there obsession was, whilst doing this we tried to bear in mind the gender and age so that we could vary them. We then asked another 10 people the same question but near Bridge Street. Once all the vox pops were done we then went to Millennium comics and interviewed the owner Daniel Nash about the kind of customers her get and are any of them obsessed?

31^st October 2011
in todays lesson we got a date when we could go and film the physiology teacher Gemma Williams. As a group we also decided what dates we were going to do what. We have decided that the next thing we need to do is film the opening sequence.

1^st November 2011
Today we started putting the archive footage and still pictures on to the documentary which would be used a cutaways or something for the voice over to talk over. After college we went to Dans house to interview him about his obsession of Oasis.
2^nd November 2011
In the lesson we started to capture all the footage of Dan and then went to interview two of dans friends where we used the blue screen. Once we had done that we went to capture the footage of dans friends. I am going to take the camera home tonight to film Danielle about her obsession with football.

3^rd November 2011
Today we went to interview the phycology teacher Jemma Williams then we captures the footage of Danielle.

 

4^th November 2011
Now that we have got the footage of Gemma Williams we started the opening title sequence where we are going to use jump cuts so it will look like all the items will be appearing.

7^th November 2011
Today we captured the footage of Angela which is Danielle’s mum which I filmed the same night as Danielle. Once we had captured that we then went on to the footage of the opening sequence. We then started to make a rough cut of the vox pops.

9^th November 2011
today we started to put more footage on the timeline so we could make a rough cut.

11^th November 2011
By the end of today’s lesson we had put most of our footage on to the timeline which was going to be the rough cut and then we started to think of what kind of music would fit to the documentary taking into consideration the audience research questionnaire.

15^th November 2011
Today we started to use keying on premier pro so that we could change the background to make the mise en scene relevant for Dan’s friend Seb.

18^th November 2011
Today we started to make the rough cut final to make the it run more smoothly and stared to add music to the opening.

30^th November 2011
today we started to insert some pictures in the vox pops to some of the things which people mentioned. And made the vox pops really snappy.

6^th December 2011
we had thought of a better idea for the opening title sequence and started to refilm, the other one we found out wasn’t good enough.

7^th December 2011
today we captured the new title sequence and started to put that on tp the documentary timeline.

9^th December 2011
In the lesson today we continued to put the rest of the music on the documentary. We left spaces for the voice over to go.

12^th December 2011
Today we recorded the voice over and the radio advert for the documentary and began putting them on to the timeline.

13^th December 2011
We started off by making a plan for our print advert and then went out to try and take a picture for the advert. The whole of the documentary was too long and needed to cut some, we cut some of the interview with Gemma Williams.

14^th December 2011
Today we finished out documentary and so we started to work on the print advert.

15^th December 2011
Today we started to think of what order we were going to have our radio advert and carried on working on the print advert.

16^th December 2011

Today we finished the radio advert we just need it all checking then we can move on to our evaluations.

Radio Advert Script

Radio Advert Script

00:00-00:02 – Music Starts
00:02-00:06 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:06 – 00:08 MVO – ‘Can’t stop thinking about it?’
00:08-00:12 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:12 – 00:14 MVO – ‘Never off your mind?’
00:14-00:18 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:18 – 00:20 MVO – ‘Taking over your life?’
00:20 – 00:22 – Music
00:22- 00:28 – ‘Obsession. Ground breaking documentary, Friday, Channel 4, half past 8’
00:28 – 00:30 – ‘What’s yours?’

Voice Over Script

Voice Over
11 secs (18 secs in)
Obsession is something that affects everybody- directly or indirectly, from the reasonable to the completely bizarre. We take a look at obsession, fixation and addiction and how it affects people’s lives and the lives of people around them.

5 secs (1 min 36 secs in)
But how much money are people willing to spend on their obsession?

4/5 secs (3 mins 11 secs in)
Clearly obsession affects people’s lives…but how does it affect the people around them?

5 secs (4 mins 44 secs)
So how do psychologists view obsession and could there be a cure

Radio Advert Codes And Conventions

Radio Advert Codes And ConventionsThe same narrator is used for the documentary as the radio advert to make the connected.

Radio Adverts are usually simple which contain the title, description, strap line, broadcaster and scheduling

There are usually some voice clips and music which are used in the documentary to show the connection between them.

The music and voice over used are made to suit the target audience.

The average duration of a radio advert should be between 30 and 40 seconds

The music bed is supposed to be catchy so the audience will remember it and therefore they will remember the documentary.

Original Print Advert Image

Draft Print Advert

Print Advert Analysis

Print Advert Codes And Conventions

Print Advert Codes And Conventions

The channel 4 logo is always on the right hand side of the print advert this is so the audience will look for the logo and expect where it’s going to be.

The channel 4 logo will be a appropriate colour so it will be easily recognised

The title of the documentary Is always a slightly bigger font size that all the other text

The date and time are clearly displayed below the documentary title

All the font has a contrasting banner colour behind it

The photographs used have none or hardly any photo manipulation

Initial plan

Initial Plan

Topic: Obsession

Target audience: Young people, students, 16-24 year olds

Channel: Channel 4

Scheduling: 20:30

Title: Enfatuation

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Interview Questions

Interview Questions
Voxpops Question: What is your obsession? /What are you obsessed with?

Minor obsession 1 & 2 and Major obsession: What do you class as an obsession? Tell us about your obsession.

Minor obsession 1 & 2 and Major obsession: On average how much do you spend on you’re obsession a month?

Games Shop Worker & Antique shop worker: How much money do some of your customers spend on your products?

Psychology teacher: Why do people have obsessions?

What is obsessive compulsive disorder? (OCD)

Minor obsession 1 & 2 and Major obsession: how do you think you’re obsession effects the people who you live with?

Family members of Minor obsession 1 & 2 and Major obsession: How does this persons obsession effect you’re life?

Someone with OCD: What form of OCD do you have and how does it affect your life?

Questionaire Results

Running Order

Running Order.

Documentary:- Infatuation
Channel: - Channel 4
Scheduling: - Thursday 12^th January 2012
Duration:-Approximately 27 minutes

Voxpops of people saying their obsessions	20 seconds
Opening Titles	10 seconds
Voice over introducing the topic and talking about different types of obsessions being spoken over footage of people’s obsessions i.e. shopping, collecting, cleaning and so on.	20 seconds
Short interview with the people who have obsessions, about what they think classes as an obsession.	15 seconds
Voice over saying, what classes as an obsession over archive footage.	20 seconds
Interview with someone who has a minor obsession 1                      all these will	20 seconds
Interview with someone who has a minor obsession 2                 cut into each other	20 seconds
Interview with someone who has a major obsession                      10 seconds blocks	20 seconds
Voice over about how much money people spend on obsessions over jump cuts of a money pile going down.	5 seconds
Interview with the people about how much money they spend on there obsessions.	20 seconds
Footage of games workshop and antique shop	7 seconds
Interview with games workshop person                                                   both these will	15 seconds
Interview with antiques collector                                                             cut into each other	15 seconds
Voice over with the people who have the obsessions about how obsessions affect the people they live with.	3 seconds
Interview with the same people, about how they think the obsession affects the people who they live with cross cut with how the people they live with feel.	20 seconds
Reconstruction of people living with obsession eg. Excessive cleaning.	4 seconds
Voice over saying why do people become obsessed with things?	5 seconds
Archive footage of teacher teaching class	3 seconds
Interview with psychology teacher discussing why people have obsessions.	10 seconds
Sped up footage of person reading psychology books	5 seconds
Voice over about OCD over footage of someone with OCD	5 seconds
Interview with psychology teacher about OCD	15 seconds
Voice Over History of OCD and how people used to treat it	15 seconds
Interview with someone who has OCD	15 seconds
Voiceover about alcohol obsession	5 seconds
Alchoholic anonymous meeting fades into interview	3 seconds
Interview with Alchoholic anonymous leader	2 minutes
Interview with alchoholic anonymous member 1	2 minutes
Interview with alchoholic anonymous member 2	2 minutes
Voiceover about drug obsession	5 seconds
Interview with doctor about drug obsession	2 minutes
Voiceover with former drug addict	2 minutes
Voiceover about celebrity obsession leading into advert break	10 seconds
ADVERT BREAK	3 minutes
Voiceover about celebrity obsession	5 seconds
Clip from Two and a Half Men	10 seconds
Interview with Charlie Sheen about drink and drugs problems	3 minutes
Clip of David Beckham goal	10 seconds
Interview with David Beckham about his OCD	3 minutes
Voiceover about how obsessions can be healthy	10 seconds
Clip of The Beatles	20 seconds
Interview with Sir Paul Mcartney about his career in music	1 minute
Round up voiceover about healthy and unhealthy obsessions	1 minute