Similar product research by Kate Parkinson. Candidate number - 9204

Skin deep - Tattoo Documentary

Mise-en-scene
Mostly set in the tattoo parlor of the main characters.
Inside the tattoo place there are designs for tattoos all over the wall.
There is a little room in side full of equipment for doing tattoos.
In the opening scene they show the owner doing a tattoo for a young woman.
They also do interviews with the owner inside the shop.
Only do Christians tattoos, eg. Crucifixes, Angels, Hands in the prayer position.
The tattooist is big, bald and covered in tattoos.
Interviews customers that have had tattoos in that shop.

Camera Shots, Angles and Movements
Establishing shot of the tattoo shop.
Long shot of who you presume to be the owner mopping the floor.
Pan of the whole shop where you see the designs all over the walls.
Close ups of the designs on the wall.
Close ups then zoom outs of the equipment used.
Close up of a tattoo being done.
Panning across the designs, close ups of the designs.
Close ups of his tattoos.
Close ups of the other people being interviewed.

Audience
The target audience for this documentary will be people between 18 - 40, these are the people most likely to get a tattoo or be thinking about getting a tattoo. Nowadays both men and woman are interested in tattoos and getting them so the gender audience will be mixed. Not all cultures and ethnic groups believe in getting tattoos therefore only certain groups will watch it, as the specific tattoo parlor used in the documentary specializes in doing Christianity tattoos perhaps they will be the groups that watches it most.

Mode
Using Bill Nichols modes of documentary you can see that they use the expository mode for this documentary as it informs and educates the audience about tattoos and interest in tattoos, interviews with people who have had tattoos informs of peoples reasoning and why people may get tattoos in the first place. The camera crew stay behind the camera and do not get involved. They have original footage of the people getting interviewed and of the shop itself.

How this will help me make my documentary
This documentary has developed my ideas further, I already had the idea of doing a close up video of someone getting a tattoo done but after seeing how affective it looked in this documentary I defiantly want to use that idea now. For our documentary I would like to find a tattoo shop that will let us look round and take close up video's of designs and equipment used in the shop as in this documentary it looks personal and effective and works really well.