Sunday, 31 January 2016

Production log week two

What progress did you make since your previous entry?
From the initial entry in which i had created i have made a large amount of progress in terms of my pre and post production work  which i had  begun last week in terms of documentary safety factors and elements put in place to reduce the amount of risk. Within this week of pre and post production work i have managed to finally complete the risk assessment in which i had begun last week adding a larger range of additional risks and elements which may occur during the filming element of my production as well as the elements put in place in order to reduce the likelihood of them occurring and happening during filming within the locations. From my previous entry i had managed to gain further interviews for my documentary in the form of a head of year of a sixth form in order to gain perspective of  what the youth do for themselves to gain employment in terms of the courses they choose and the increase in the numbers of those students who choose to stay on for additional education as apposed to leaving school in order to add another element and side to the documentary to show no bias but an equal balance of both the side of the government and the youths attempt in helping reduce the amount of youth unemployment.  within this I ensured that I had gained a wide range of shots and cutaway pans of the locations in which we are filming in written down within the pre production paper work. I am looking to gain another interview with an individual during the next following week as well as this I am to gain a range of vox pops from members of the public which may relate to my topic in terms of their age and status.







final contact list

Final contact List 


1) Head of year from school Miss Myford 
This candidate has agreed to allow me to film them for an interview, within the interview I will be looking to gain perspective of the youths attempts on gaining employment, the information will show me what the youth are doing and will show me figures of students staying on for further education allowing the audience to see their attempts adding another vantage point and point of view for the audience. 

2) Manager of Adecco (Viddy) 
For this interview I have managed to gain permission from a manager of a local recruitment agency who aim to get people into work, within this interview this interviewee has agreed to give me information on what they do as a business in terms of what they aim to do and how they operate in helping out with the rate of unemployment. This gives me the perspective of what is being done from a point of view of the government allowing for a more accurate source of information within my documentary. 

3) Darren Singh
For this interview I will be using his story and perspective of finding employment in order to get a side from a youths perspective of unemployment, having this perspective will show me as well as the audience what they youth go through as well as being shown how successful the options in which the government offer are and what affect they have had. This interview I hope will give sides to both the Youth and the government showing what he has done and what help he has gained from the government. 





Emails to contacts feedback

THESE ARE THE EMAILS IN WHICH I HAD SENT AND ALSO RECEIVED BACK IN TERMS OF GAINING INTERVIEWS WITH THEM SOME WERE SUCCESSFUL AND SOME WERE NOT WHICH CAUSED ME TO CHECK AND GAIN PERMISSION FROM OTHER SOURCES.




Narrative arc

Section One 
Content/ convention: Sequence of youth unemployment archive footage newspaper snippets

where Location: N/A

What (purpose of section):  From the start it must grab the audience and appeal to their interests and give them a brief introduction on what it is going to be about.

Who (Contributors/ presenter): N/A

Duration: 25 seconds

Section Two 
Content/ convention: Small piece to the camera, Question Youth unemployment, youth vs the government is enough being done?

where Location: Outside the job center walking towards the camera

What (purpose of section): short, engages the audience poses a debatable question

Who (Contributors/ presenter): Presenter

Duration: 10 seconds

Section Three
Content/ convention:Graphics exposition facts and figures of youth unemployment, how it has increased, how much by difference in unemployment among the older and younger generation.

Where Location: N/A

What (purpose of section): To give audience the background the increase over years information to educate and interest them

Who (Contributors/ presenter): N/A

Duration: 20 seconds

Section Four
Content/ convention: Vox pops to members of the public asking their opinion on the facts and figures and their opinion of who is to blame.

Where Location: Romford station and shopping center

What (purpose of section) Introduces the documentary and gives a small insight and a small amount of information and opinion. interesting way to start the documentary.

Who (Contributors/ presenter): Members of the public

Duration: 50 seconds

Section Five
Content/ convention: Shot of me on the bus, voice over "Youth unemployment a figure on the rise but why and what is really being done to combat it join me on my journey to find out"

Where Location: Bus towards Romford

What (purpose of section): The bus gives the documentary a feel of a journey for the audience

Who (Contributors/ presenter): N/A

Duration: 30 seconds

Section six 
Content/ Convention: cut away shot of panning shot of the location which is stated surroundings and different locations. Voice over "My journey has brought me here Romford South gate.

Where Location: Romford south gate near Romford Station

What  (purpose of section): Sets the location for the audience

Who (Contributors/ presenter): N/A

Duration: 15 Seconds

Section seven 
Content/ Convention: Zoom into 2 street signs cutaway of south gate first angle and second angle

Where Location: Romford South Gate

What  (purpose of section): Street Signs set location for the audience

Who (Contributors/ presenter): N/A

Duration 10 seconds

Section Eight
Content/ Convention:  Voice over "I'm here at a local recruitment agency to gain some perspective on the governments attempts of reducing youth unemployment.

Where: Shot of Adecco shop front panning shot  coming in from the side

What  (purpose of section): Establishes the location and gives the audience a small insight of which side on information they are going to receive in terms of it being either the youth point of view or the point of view of the government.

Who (Contributors/ presenter): N/A

Duration: 20 seconds

Section Nine
Content/ Convention: Zoom into Adecco logo

Where Location: Outside door upon me entering shot of me opening the door over shoulder

what Purpose of this section:


Who (Contributors/ presenter): presenter

Duration: 20 Seconds

Section Ten
Content/ Convention: Reception room (Waiting room) close up shot of the logo on the wall next to posters

Where: Reception room (Waiting room)

What purpose of the section: N/A

Who (Contributors/ presenter): N/A

Duration: 10 seconds


Section Eleven:
Content/ Convention: Panning shot of staff working (receptionist)

Where: Reception waiting room of Adecco

What (purpose of section) Establishes the location and the setting

Who contributors N/A

Duration 15 seconds

section Twelve 
Content/ convention Jump shot to within viddy's office camera set at viddy doing work on the computer

Where Location: Managers office

Duration 10 seconds

Section Thirteen:|

Content/ convention small piece to camera from viddy briefly talking about the subject introducing and starting the interview.

What purpose of this section: Introduces the audience straight to the point, gives them main facts they need and maintains their interest.

contributors: Viddy

Duration: 50 seconds

section Fourteen:
Content/ convention camera on me asking follow up question

Where location: Adecco office

what purpose of section: allows me to ask the questions which I feel the audience need or want to know maintains their interest.

duration: 15 seconds

Section Fifteen:

Content/ convention camera between the two of us in the middle

what purpose of this section: allows the audience to see her body language and interpretation of the question in which I have asked,

who contributors: me and the presenter

duration: 40 seconds

Section Sixteen:
Content/ convention piece to camera as i'm walking from the side tracking camera shot, "that interview has helped me gain a better perspective on the governments attempts but i'm looking to delve further into what is being done from either side

Where location: walking to the bus shelter as bus approaches

what purpose of this section portrays a journey like form of story and creates interest for the audience.

who contributors: presenter (Me)

Duration 20 seconds

section Seventeen
Content/ convention  cut shot of the next location School to talk with head of year about what the students are doing to gain more chance of employment.

where location: hall ways of school outside of the room in which the interview is taking place.

what purposes of section: shows the setting of next location and establishes it for the audience

who contributors: N/A

Duration 10 seconds

Section Eighteen

Content/ convention: cut to interviewee doing work on computer Voice over "I'm here with the head of year of a local sixth form college to find out what the students are doing for themselves.

where location: within the classroom of the head of year

duration: 20 seconds

section Nineteen

Content/ convention head of year talking on camera giving her point of view as well as providing facts and information showing what the youth are doing to help themselves altogether.

Where location: within the classroom of head of year of the school

what purpose of this section: this section shows all of the opinions of themselves whilst also providing facts and information on the topic about the youths attempts.

who contributors: Miss Myford head of year

Duration 1:30

section twenty:

Content/ convention: Graphics on screen short summary of both sides and their attempts to give a short round up of information.

where location: N/A

what purpose of section: small summary of information from both sides before the final interview of the documentary

duration: 20 seconds.

Section twenty one:

Content/ Convention: cut to pan of the last interview with candidate who has been unemployed for a number of years who has been through the government scheme. going to try and talk about both sides of the story. brief talk about the subject to start

Where location: N/A

What purpose of this section: gives audience a real life story as well as allowing them to see and hear from both sides the answers will not be one sided and will round up the documentary showing both of the sides leaving the audience to come to their own conclusion.

Who contributors: Interviewee

duration 30 seconds

Section twenty two:
content/ convention: 2 follow up questions to allow them to elaborate on their points and provide more information final question "do you think the youth have the same fair opportunities as the older generation.

where location:N/A.

who contributor; interviewee

what purpose of this: allows the audience to gain both sides of the story allows the audience to be left to make their own judgment

duration 50 seconds

Section twenty three

Content/ convention: final piece to the camera "so who really is to blame for the increase in the youth unemployment thanks for watching I've been ravinder and ill see you next time.










Sunday, 24 January 2016

call sheets first and second call sheets

crew list

Location Reccie

Production log week one

Production log week one
This week in terms of production and any form of work is my first initial week in gaining and beginning pre production work for the documentary, within this week i myself have aimed to have completed and have completed a range of tasks which have thus allowed me to move forward further in terms of any pre production and post production work in terms of the filming element. Within this first initial week i have managed to complete the risk assessment sheet for the filming and the locations of which I am going to be filming near or within and have worked in order to minimize the amount of risk which may be caused within the different situations, i have input elements and forms of prevention's on top of the risks in order to reduce the likelihood of them occurring when out filming in the public. to ensure maximum safety and reductions of risk. Along side this during the week i have also worked on and finished the crew list in which I am constructing in order to use for my production documentary, with regards to filming this week I had managed to gain my first initial interview with that of the manager of Adecco in terms of what they do as a business and organisaiton in order to prevent and reduce the factor of youth unemployment, within this form of filming i made sure that i obtained a large amount of either pan away shots of the location as well as cut away pans of the location in which i will be filming in, in this case i would mostly be filming within the Adecco business premises within the office of Viddy the manager of the business at the time of filming. This has allowed me to progress within the process of creating my documentary for my project.

Risk assessment sheet

Thursday, 21 January 2016

Questions for interviews and vox pops

Questions for Teacher of school (What are the youth doing in order to gain employment) 

1)In your opinion what would you say is the main cause is for the rise in youth unemployment? 

2)Do you believe the younger generation are doing enough to gain employment in terms of additional education? 

3) has the figure of students staying on for additional education in your opinion increased or decreased?

4) As an alternative to further education do you believe that there enough government made options for the youth? 



Questions for recruitment agencies manager (what is the government in order to reduce youth unemployment) 

1) what would you say your main aim is in terms of the rate of unemployment among the youth?

2) Do you think it is harder for the youth to find employment?

3 In your opinion would you say the youth gain the same opportunities in employment than the  older generation?  

4) How do you aim to combat youth unemployment? 


5) in your opinion are the youth doing enough within their power to make themselves more employable?


Question for vox pops 


1) Do you think it is harder for the youth to gain employment 


2) do you think their are the same opportunities for the youth that the older generation gain in terms of employment 


3) Do you believe the youth are doing enough to gain employment


4) Do you believe the government are doing enough to provide employment.


Questions for person who has been unemployed. 


1) How long have you been unemployed for 


2) During this time have you found any helpful government schemes 


3) Do you believe there are enough appropriate methods for the youth to gain employment 


4) Have then government schemes which you have found been successful in terms of gaining experience 









Saturday, 9 January 2016

FINAL PROPOSAL blog

Aims: 
The aim of my documentary is to clearly show both sides of youth unemployment, how it has changed and what is being done to combat the problem. I will be conducting interviews with various experts and individuals and will aim to give my full knowledge of the subject whilst maintaining impartial with the subject ensuring my bias and opinion does not affect the factual nature of the documentary.

Content:
Within my documentary the content will include a large amount of factual information regarding the subject whilst also having a range of opinions from both ends of the spectrum with the subject I will be documenting. I will be looking to gain interviews from a range of resources, an interview with the job center (a company aimed at helping and getting people into work who have been unemployed) a recruitment agency as well as a school head teacher for the perspective of who is to blame for the increase in youth unemployment. At the end of the documentary I will sum up everything which I have learnt and will provide a small segment of how to make themselves more employable as a final summary. 
Target audience: 
The desired target audience is both males and females within the 16-24 year old age category, appealing to every ethnicity being as it is a subject which can be interpreted by everyone. Although my topic is quite mainstream I will make the documentary mostly educational allowing the audience to learn more about the current state of unemployment and what is being done from both perspectives, as it is a informative educational topic I will ensure that I maintain impartial throughout allowing for a fair perspective of both sides allowing the audience to draw their own conclusions. 

Format:
The format which I will be using throughout my documentary will be performative, ensuring that I have a visible presenter throughout, the cameras will be following the presenter on the journey. As well as this I will be incorporating a small amount of expository throughout for example when explaining the increase in the rate of youth unemployment in the introduction as well as at the end when I will be summarizing with a range of background images. Having this presenter will give the documentary more validity as the camera is following the presenter directly as opposed to having a documentary based on shots done by a third party. 
Genre:
The genre which I will be using will be that of a documentary with the nature and intent of being both factual and engaging for the audience. I will ensure that the layout and structure of my filming will resemble and remain that of a factual and informative documentary with a range of interviews, opinions, images and videos from third party sources all the information will be straight to the point to keep the feel of a documentary. The expert knowledge will enhance the educationmal and informative edge whilst also providing interesting information for example tips on how to gain employment, how to make yourselves more employable and how you can stand out from the crowd within interviews for jobs and careers. 

Style:
Within my documentary there will be a range of different styles with a range of locations which are necessary and required without overwhelming the audience. Within my documentary I will be using a range of interviews and potentially a small amount of vox pops from the public which the information would appeal to. In order to portray the factual nature of the documentary I will be using images, facts and third party footage in the back of my documentary as I speak over the top in order to provide a range of explanations and facts to, although a large majority of the documentary will contain me talking to the camera as a presenter, whilst having a large amount of third party footage over the back to enhance the information in which I am giving as it can help act as an visual aid for the audience watching. This will help to enhance the main aim of my documentary of being an informative factual type whilst also keeping it entertaining and grabbing in order to maintain the audiences attention as a whole. 






Sunday, 3 January 2016

Contact list

Saturday, 2 January 2016

Analysing the competition

video one: Educating Cardiff,
channel four, 
9:00pm 
1.5 million viewing figure 
Tuesday

video two: The boy who wants his leg cut off, 
BBC 3
9:00pm
790,000 viewing figure 
Monday 

Video three: How to get a council house 
channel four, 
10:00pm
840,000 viewing figure 
Tuesday 


The title of my first show in which i will be analyzing is "Educating Cardiff" this is a factual TV show which follows a school within Cardiff on a daily basis to show their lives and the schools methods in teaching, following the success of the school. This show was aired on "channel four" at 9:00pm on a Tuesday gaining a viewing figure of 1.5 million individuals for one episode on that particular day. The similarities with this show and my documentary is shown with the nature of the show, the nature of the show is about education and teaching the youth in order to leave qualified enough to gain employment. This links into my documentary as my documentary is on the topic of youth unemployment and whether or not the youth are doing enough to become qualified in an industry in order to gain employment, although this is only a minor similarity it is enough to become competition for the show, in order to avoid clashing with this particular documentary I will air the documentary at a time which is more prime time whereby the audience figure is at its highest on a show which has a high viewing figure for example BBC one just after a large soap for example Eastenders whereby the viewing figure is high, the viewing figure on BBC one is substantially higher than that of channel four thus allowing me to gain a higher viewing figure in terms of competitiveness allowing me to successfully gain a larger  viewing figure than that of Educating Cardiff.

The title of my second show which i will be analysing is "The boy who wants his leg cut off" this is a factual documentary following the life of a individual and their story and journey with a particular issue or problem in their life. This particular show was aired on "BBC 3" at "9:00pm" on a Monday evening gaining a large viewing figure of 790,000 members of the public for this one particular documentary created. The similarities with this particular documentary and my documentary is with the particular presence of the show in terms of having the nature of explaining why the individual wants his leg cut off, this is similar to my documentary in terms of the nature of my documentary being used to explain to the audience why the rate of youth unemployment has increased and how it has affected a certain demographic of audience in this case the youth in which it affects. Having this similarity will allow for my documentary to gain a form of competition for this documentary and will allow for it to gain a substantial amount of viewing figures against the rival documentary, as well as this the viewing figure in which the subject reaches is a mass audience as a large amount of people within the youth demographic will seek interest in this in hope of gaining information and tips on how to improve the likelihood of becoming employed, the relate able  context will act as competitive edge for my documentary allowing me to gain a higher amount of viewing figures to that of my rival documentary.

The third documentary in which I will be analyzing will be "how to get a council house" this is a factual and informative documentary which follows the presenter and the methods taken in order for an individual to gain housing from the council. The documentary aims to provide supportive and informative information in terms of gaining housing and sets out with the main objective of educating the audience whilst providing a certain degree of interest. This particular show was aired on "Channel four" at 10:00pm on a Tuesday evening gaining a viewing figure of 840,000 of the general public on that one particular evening. The similarities with this documentary and my documentary lay within the intent of the documentary with its main aim as a source of information, this documentary aims to "Show the audience how to gain a certain thing" this is similar to the intent of my documentary in terms of wanting to educate the audience on "how to gain employment and better increase their chances of becoming employed over other candidates"  This similarity although small is enough to  draw competitiveness from and allows my documentary to have a edge over competitor documentaries,  in order to ensure maximum  amounts of audience viewers to gain the highest competitiveness I will be airing my documentary on a different channel to "channel four" whereby the audience figure is higher for example ITV and or BBC one where the audience figure is high as well as this I will ensure to air it at a earlier more prime time around 8:00pm when the when everyone comes home from work ensuring the highest amount of viewing figures due to the higher amount of people who are up watching, this is more efficient than airing it at 10:00pm when the amount of people watching decreases substantially. This will allow my documentary to have a competitive edge over the other documentary allowing me to beat their viewing figures.