Similar product research by Kate Parkinson.Candidate number - 9204.

Living Canvas - Tattoo documentary

Mise-en-scene
Designs of tattoo's, there was all kinds of designs.
Equipment, e.g. the needle, water, paper.
Framed designs on the wall.
Bottles of ink sat on a shelf.
Designs all over the studio walls.
Interview with a body peircer.
Images of people getting tattooed.
Interviews with artists and students with tattoos with designs in the background.

Camera shot/Angles/Movements
Close ups of the designs on the walls.
Close ups of the tattoo artists doing tattoos.
Mid-shots of the characters being interviewed.
Close ups of the equipment used - this shows detail and we can use it in our documentary.
Pan around of all the bottles on the shelf.
Black in and out between shots.
Low angled shot of a guy getting interviewed - makes him look important and in control.
Quick cuts.
Zoom in on the main guys face tattoos.

Audience
The target audience for a documentary like this would be males and females between 16-40. It used to be that women that got tattoo's were stereotyped and seen as different, however, women have got more used to having tattoos now and it has been more excepted and nowadays women can be covered in tattoos. This would mean a wide variety of people would be interested in this documentary. People between 16-40 are most likely to be interested in or thinking about getting tattoo's. The edgy designs in the documentary will be appealing to a younger audience.

Mode
Using Bill Nichols theory you can see they have used the expository mode for this documentary as it educates and informs viewers about tattoos and peoples different views on them and that not everyone will feel the same about them. The camera is pointed at the people being interviewed and the crew never get involved in the action, this is what we will do in our documentary. They use original footage of the designs and people being interviewed and also use pre-recorded of people having their inking done.

How this will help produce our documentary
We will be using the idea of filming people getting their tattoo done as this looks effective and gives detail to people who have not had one done that may be thinking about it. We will also do close ups of designs to show the different taste people have in what they get inked on them. In our documentary we will also be filming but will not be getting involved in getting filmed, we will be solely the directors and producers, similar to this documentary.