We asked a local tattoo artist if he would please be interviewed for our documentary, however, he said he was camera shy and wouldn't be able to do so.
We are now moving on to new ideas for where we can film.....
Monday, 11 November 2013
Some questions we could ask a possible tattoo artist when interviewing. Kim Potter, Candidate number 8180
Questions for Tattoo Artist
Do you get many young people
coming in for tattoos?
If yes, do you get a lot of underage people coming in trying to get them?
What is the most common designs you are asked to do on males? And females?
Do many people come in with their own designs?
Do you ever refuse to do certain tattoos?
What is the strangest design you've been asked to do? And the strangest place someone has asked for a tattoo?
What is your opinion on the recent rise in popularity of tattoos?
If you coud give any advice to a young person thinking about getting a tattoo, what would it be?
Consent Letter - Jamie Ellis, Candidate Number 9150
November 2013-11-08
This is
to confirm that Caitlyn Parkinson, Jamie Ellis and Kim Potter are currently
interviewing members of the public as part of their OCR A Level Media course.
They are
producing a 5 minute documentary for their Advanced Production.
This
product will be published on the students blog and be sent to OCR for marking.
It may also be published on youtube for audience feedback.
Please
indicate to the students if you give your consent for them to use your comment.
Miss S King
Head of Media
Here is our consent letter to show people the authenticity of our on the spot interviews.
Here is our consent letter to show people the authenticity of our on the spot interviews.
Lost our Interviewer - Jamie Ellis, Candidate Number 9150
We've lost our interviewer!!!
The candidate we asked to be our interviewer, who we've been told would've been perfect for our role, has declined!!! He told us it's "Just not his style".
Going to have to source a new interviewer now. Great!
Fingers crossed we do...
The candidate we asked to be our interviewer, who we've been told would've been perfect for our role, has declined!!! He told us it's "Just not his style".
Going to have to source a new interviewer now. Great!
Fingers crossed we do...
Friday, 8 November 2013
To Do List- Kate Parkinson and Jamie Ellis
1)
Props costume art department sheet finished - In progress, Jamie Ellis
2)
Research on voice overs.
3)
Choose actor for voice over - Done
4)
Draft the voice over
5)
Write the questions we’d ask different people.
Location and Age = different questions
6)
A consent sheet for interviewing people in Brigg - Done
7)
Letter from miss stating that we are doing this
for coursework - Done
8)
Basic schedule, breakdown of the documentary - Done 15th Nov, Jamie Ellis
9)
Research into title slides
10)
Draft our own title slides
11)
Production breakdown for Thursday filming in
Brigg, plus “storyboard” for the day out in Brigg
Here's a "To Do" list that Kate and I have created it. we're going to be working on these 11 tasks over the next couple of days - Jamie Ellis
Group Discussion - Kate Parkinson, Candidate Number 9204 and Jamie Ellis, Candidate Number 9150
Today, Kate and I were discussing the layout of our documentary, who we'd like for the voice over and I wrote up a letter to an interviewee and a strong candidate for our presenter.
We discussed it's structure, coming up with multiple ideas about it and deciding that we'd like to start at the beginning. This would allow us to show off our our skills in making an opening sequence which will be in the style of a typical montage of clips. We wanted to include a number of interviews of differently aged people of both genders. We wanted this variety of people as this would give our documentary the widest possible amount of opinions. It should give us a wider range of opinions that our presenter could tie together in a final speech.
We would like our presenter to be a male either in his 20's or late teens. We've written to a possible candidate who we've been told would suit our role of presenter quite well. We have discussed what we'd like from the presenter. We'd like him to be heard during interviews, we'd like to have him in shots where he'd be strolling/walking along a street whilst talking about either the history tattoos, some facts about tattoos or something similar.
We've decided on the days we'd like to hold our interviews and where we will go to get the largest amount of people. This will give us the greatest amount of variety in the answers we should get, as there will be such a large amount of people in the area to interview. We'll be going into the local town on market day to get this vast amount of people for interviewing.
- Jamie Ellis
We discussed it's structure, coming up with multiple ideas about it and deciding that we'd like to start at the beginning. This would allow us to show off our our skills in making an opening sequence which will be in the style of a typical montage of clips. We wanted to include a number of interviews of differently aged people of both genders. We wanted this variety of people as this would give our documentary the widest possible amount of opinions. It should give us a wider range of opinions that our presenter could tie together in a final speech.
We would like our presenter to be a male either in his 20's or late teens. We've written to a possible candidate who we've been told would suit our role of presenter quite well. We have discussed what we'd like from the presenter. We'd like him to be heard during interviews, we'd like to have him in shots where he'd be strolling/walking along a street whilst talking about either the history tattoos, some facts about tattoos or something similar.
We've decided on the days we'd like to hold our interviews and where we will go to get the largest amount of people. This will give us the greatest amount of variety in the answers we should get, as there will be such a large amount of people in the area to interview. We'll be going into the local town on market day to get this vast amount of people for interviewing.
- Jamie Ellis
Results of the target audience research by Kate Parkinson. Candidate number 9204.
Different views on tattoos:
Different views on documentaries:
Most people said they enjoyed watching channel 4 documentaries which is good as I did my institutional research on them as I believe they are the best channel for one of documentaries. Most people say that the best documentaries are interesting ones that teach you something, this is helpful as we were going to make the documentary as interesting as possible anyway but now we can put facts in that the audience can learn from. A couple of people said the most interesting topic of documentary for them are social issues which is helpful to know as we planned for our documentary to take a look at how people think of documentaries socially.
From these results we can take that people enjoy interesting documentaries that are not necessarily centred around one person/situation. They also like tattoos but wouldn't get one if their parents disapproved. Nearly all thought societies views on tattoos have changed over the years. We can take all this information and put it into our planning for the filming and how we will aim it at our target audience.
There was a mix of opinions on whether parents have different views on tattoos than children do, however, most people said they did have different views. There was a real spilt in answers for whether people would still get a tattoo even if their parents advised them not to. This has made me think we need to make sure in the documentary we don't make it to encouraging for other kids to go out and get one. Everyone said in their opinions views on tattoos have changed over the years and they are more accepted now. This information will be helpful for reaching out to our target audience as we now know that we can't make it too encouraging to younger kids and also that people are now more accepting of tattoo's therefore more people may be interested in watching it.
Different views on documentaries:
Most people said they enjoyed watching channel 4 documentaries which is good as I did my institutional research on them as I believe they are the best channel for one of documentaries. Most people say that the best documentaries are interesting ones that teach you something, this is helpful as we were going to make the documentary as interesting as possible anyway but now we can put facts in that the audience can learn from. A couple of people said the most interesting topic of documentary for them are social issues which is helpful to know as we planned for our documentary to take a look at how people think of documentaries socially.
From these results we can take that people enjoy interesting documentaries that are not necessarily centred around one person/situation. They also like tattoos but wouldn't get one if their parents disapproved. Nearly all thought societies views on tattoos have changed over the years. We can take all this information and put it into our planning for the filming and how we will aim it at our target audience.
Target audience research by Kate Parkinson. Candidate number 9204.
I created two small questionnaires to discover what people thought about tattoo's and how people's views have changed, I also did one to find out how people felt about documentaries and what would make them watch one.
This was my first questionnaire about people views on tattoo's:
Gender: Male/Female
Age:
Do you think Parents opinions on tattoos are different to yours?
Would you get a tattoo even if your parents advised you not to?
Do your parents have any tattoos?
Do you think people's attitudes towards tattoos have changed over the years?
This was my second questionnaire about people's views on documentaries:
Gender: Male/Female
Age:
Do you watch any channel 4 documentaries?
What makes a documentary enjoyable for you?
What subjects of documentaries are interesting to you?
Do you like documentaries to be centred around one person/situation?
I handed these out to a range of younger people in the hope that it would give me some direction as to how i should approach a target with my documentary.
This was my first questionnaire about people views on tattoo's:
Gender: Male/Female
Age:
Do you think Parents opinions on tattoos are different to yours?
Would you get a tattoo even if your parents advised you not to?
Do your parents have any tattoos?
Do you think people's attitudes towards tattoos have changed over the years?
This was my second questionnaire about people's views on documentaries:
Gender: Male/Female
Age:
Do you watch any channel 4 documentaries?
What makes a documentary enjoyable for you?
What subjects of documentaries are interesting to you?
Do you like documentaries to be centred around one person/situation?
I handed these out to a range of younger people in the hope that it would give me some direction as to how i should approach a target with my documentary.
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Script/Plan for Institutional Research VLOG - Jamie Ellis, Candidate Number 9150
Institutions research
When I was researching various institutions, one that struck
me the most as being professional and has a very upstanding reputation with
documentaries was the History Channel. It has a very long list of successful
documentaries such as America’s Book of Secrets, How to Command a Nuclear Sub
and Marked.
Through reading their list of documentaries, they have a
great variety in terms of topics of their documentaries and the fact they’ve
already created a documentary series about tattoos shows me that they would
have no problem about airing our documentary.
Looking through their list of documentaries, they have a lot
of titles that would come across as being controversial to some people and
there are some that shed light on certain subjects. This is what I imagine our documentary
will be classed as. It’s controversial as tattoos are generally a subject
that’s not looked on too favourably in the public eye. Some people believe that
tattoos aren’t something to be proud of, that they’re not supposed to be on our
bodies and this is what would be controversial about our documentary. But our
documentary isn’t heavily controversial. It’s not a documentary that caters to
the idea of black and white, one or the other. There are no set two sides to
tattoos as it is a subject that has so many opinions and ideas inside it that
it is impossible for one mind to define.
And that’s the goal of our tattoo, to show people the world of tattoos
and that they’re not something to be feared or shunned.
Some examples of the documentaries that would be
controversial to some people would be:
1) How
the Earth was made, which would be controversial to those who are creationists
and believe that a divine creator made our world. This episode is about the San Andreas Fault, a fault line that is the cause of many earthquakes in that region of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT27KdMD6HA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT27KdMD6HA
2) Chronicle
of the third Reich. People such as WW2 veterans and patriots of Britain would
find this documentary unsuitable and believe that something like that, that
they’ve fought against and defeated and believe it was evil, they may think
that we’re glorifying them by placing them on the TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0fqb8oe2M
The History Channel has already released and funded a series of documentaries about Tattoo's. The "Marked" series talks about tattoos in criminal culture and organisations. I'd like our documentary to follow a similar path in revealing tattoo meanings in the public.
Channel 4 is the next institution i've researched. They have released many documentaries throughout their channels life time. Most of these documentaries are controversial which makes them a viable candidate for my research and our documentary production.
Some of the documentaries they've produced include the recent "Skint" series, which followed around a family in scunthorpe that were poor, didn't work and tried to get money through any other means. They were shown to be rough people, with vulgar manners and behaviours.
-Require Clip of Skint-
They've also released a documentary based upon tattoo's, entitled "My Tattoo Addiction". It's a series that highlights people who go under the needle, an exploration of their motives, emotions and describes their experiences.
In my eyes, i feel that this is a reason why Channel 4 wouldn't make a suitable institution. Their documentary is too close to ours. They have practically the same objectives that they want to represent and they're simply too close together.
Our documentary wouldn't have to be aired past the water shed, due to the fact their is no bad language in it and no sexual content. I'd say around 7 would be an appropriate time for our documentary. It's a slightly controversial documentary but I'm not entirely sure we'd be given a prime time TV slot. It may be that we have to go with an earlier slot in late afternoon. It would certainly not be aired in the morning because people are out at work traditionally and our target audience would be at college/university or at work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0fqb8oe2M
The History Channel has already released and funded a series of documentaries about Tattoo's. The "Marked" series talks about tattoos in criminal culture and organisations. I'd like our documentary to follow a similar path in revealing tattoo meanings in the public.
Channel 4 is the next institution i've researched. They have released many documentaries throughout their channels life time. Most of these documentaries are controversial which makes them a viable candidate for my research and our documentary production.
Some of the documentaries they've produced include the recent "Skint" series, which followed around a family in scunthorpe that were poor, didn't work and tried to get money through any other means. They were shown to be rough people, with vulgar manners and behaviours.
-Require Clip of Skint-
They've also released a documentary based upon tattoo's, entitled "My Tattoo Addiction". It's a series that highlights people who go under the needle, an exploration of their motives, emotions and describes their experiences.
In my eyes, i feel that this is a reason why Channel 4 wouldn't make a suitable institution. Their documentary is too close to ours. They have practically the same objectives that they want to represent and they're simply too close together.
Our documentary wouldn't have to be aired past the water shed, due to the fact their is no bad language in it and no sexual content. I'd say around 7 would be an appropriate time for our documentary. It's a slightly controversial documentary but I'm not entirely sure we'd be given a prime time TV slot. It may be that we have to go with an earlier slot in late afternoon. It would certainly not be aired in the morning because people are out at work traditionally and our target audience would be at college/university or at work.
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Male Tattoo Photo Board - Jamie Ellis, Candidate Number 9150
The large image of the stereotypically attractive male is the main type of tattoo out there and this type of tattoo is to simply look good. It's there to impress and this type has glorified tattoos into being an attractive concept for both men and women, which was a concept in one of the earlier cultures i've mentioned in a previous post.
The next two, equally sized and in opposite corners, are the religious imagery (Holy and Satanic) as I believe these to be the next in the list as being the second most popular. People get these tattoos to show their own faith or to show off a certain passage line or holy idea to others.
These two pictures also represent the arguement between the ideals of Christianity on the subject of tattoos. The Bible says in Leviticus 19:28, "Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord." This line of text is mostly used to dis-courage people from getting tattoos. However, people take this scripture too seriously in my opinion. I believe that this scripture was used to separate god's followers from the pagan worship that was taking place and was meant to stop temptation from appearing to his followers.
My third choice here, is The bottom left tattoo, which depicts emotional connections, emotional meanings and simply a deeper meaning to tattoos that isn't religious. These tattoos are commonplace amongst most people, as it is a memorable way of showing you care about something or someone. If it's about a person, it's generally someone close to their hearts, or someone who's passed away and they wish to show their love for that person.
The 4th image represents fun, things you like and enjoy and want to show people your appreciation for it. This is a different reason than the first image, as the first image is about the attractiveness and shallowness of getting a tattoo to improve your attractiveness. This image is about showing appreciation for something you enjoy, possibly TV shows, music or an activity.
The 5th image in the top right hand corner represents the people who get tattoos, for the sake of it. This could be down to them liking the sensation of receiving one (pain and pleasure response) or the fact that they may be a tattoo addict or that they feel ugly or incomplete and will go to extreme lengths to get a tattoo, hence the reason why it's a tattoo covering the man'
s head.
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