Planning our documentary.

Now that I have studied the ins and outs of documentary, I'm a lot more aware of the styles and types which work well together. Me and my group (Consisting of Zoe and Calum) have now decided to start early planning for our documentary. By doing this we started off brainstorming quick ideas of what we wanted in our documentary, to see if we had some good suggestions!

Me, Zoe and Calum

As we had a lot of ideas collected together, our first solid task we set ourselves was to produce mini documentaries which will we have their own forms and types. So far our plan is to produce a Mockumentary which would be Observational and Poetic. A reality documentary which would go along the lines of a more serious approach, filmed in a Expository/Poetic way. These mini productions would hopefully help us give an insight in what we may think works well and what doesn't, ultimately helping us choose what we may produce for our final piece.



Although we planned the mini documentaries, we also came up with what we thought could be a really strong idea. We chose a topic which we would be interested in doing. This topic was specifically on global warming and the ever changing climate we live in. From this basic idea, we then thought, how could we make this into a documentary? We ending up listing several general techniques we could use. We thought of ways in which we could be relevant to this topic. Our final idea was to create a documentary on Antarctica. With the documentary being limited to around 3 minutes long, we had to have a well constructed plan. It was as follows:

- As an intro? News flash headlines, showing how the climate is effecting people around the world. Having recent archives would be important for this.
- Us training for the Antarctica, getting fit, and having the right equipment.
- Voice overs of natural disasters occuring (Poetic approach)
- Using a green screen to show a background of Antarctica like we are there. (short clip, i.e Coming up... then us in Antarctica)
- Filming from inside a plane as we are about to take off (We thought about contacting a local museum who have planes etc)