Planning

Before beginning the production of our documentary my group and I planned out our title sequence, the framing for all six of our interviews and the questions to ask each interviewee:

Plannning

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Running Order

During today's lesson my group created our running order for a whole half an hour long documentary, however we will only be producing the first five minutes: 

Documentary: 40 winks
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Wednesday,8.30pm
Duration: 27 minutes (including advert breaks)

Secondary Research

Along with completing primary research my group has conducted secondary research, mostly on the internet, to find possible information, archive material and music for our documentary:

Secondary Research on Prezi

Primary Research

My group have recently contacted possible interviewees in order to find out whether it will be possible to conduct an interview with them for our documentary:

This is a screenshot of the email we received from the sleep laboratory in Arrowe Park Hospital; unfortunately we were not able to set up an interview with their sleep specialists as they do not have enough time to hold all interviews that are requested, so to be fair to everybody they had to decline.

These are screenshots of the emails sent between our production group and Liverpool John Moores University- we have been able to set up an interview with one of the psychologist lecturers working there to discuss sleeping patterns, whether or not remedies actually work, etc.

This is a screenshot of the email we sent to Andreea Doolan, the flight attendant we were initially going to interview; however due to her being called away on a long haul flight we lost contact and made arrangements to conduct an interview with a night shift worker as an alternative.

We additionally made phone calls to local doctors but were unable to set up any interviews due to their limited time.

Formal Proposal

Today my group came up with the formal proposal for our documentary production, outlining what type of documentary it will be, what content we will include and what research and resources we need, etc:

Topic - Sleep
Type of documentary – Mixed
Style of documentary – Informal and informative, fully narrated
Channel and scheduling – Channel 4 – 8:30pm, Wednesday night
Target Audience- young adults/teenagers 15-20/educated audience

Primary research needed:

·         Interview with a shift worker and/or an air hostess

·          Interview with Psychology teacher/ psychologist

·          Vox Pops: Where is the strangest place you have ever slept or woken up?, How do you feel when you don’t get enough sleep?, What keeps you awake/ distracted at night?

·         Interview with the sleep clinic?

·         Locations for filming – airport, bedrooms, train station, public shopping areas, school

·         Interview with new mums and dads on changes in sleeping patterns around a newborn baby

·         Interview with the wife of someone who snores

·         Props- coffee and cups, beds, etc. (for title sequence), remedies

Secondary research needed:

·         Archive footage: clips of babies crying, people snoring, people sleepwalking, etc. Music relevant to topic, TV news extracts, documentaries on dangerous dreams, YouTube clips of people dreaming. Photographs of babies for cutaways.

·         Dangers of sleeping, narcotics, sleepwalkers, insomnia 

Narrative structure: Single strand, Linear, Open

Outline of content:Different peoples sleeping habits, based around their family or their job, and how sleep affects our day to day performance in life
Dreams and the mysteries of them, why do we dream, does cheese make us dream
Strangest places people have fallen asleep
Remedies that keep the human body fighting off sleep or help sleep and whether they actually work
Sleep clinic and interview with someone who runs it
VOXPOP – the joys of sleep and favourite thing about sleep
Interview with psychologist/psychology teacher
Interview with Shift worker/Airhostess
Interview with new mums and dads
Footage of people yawning
How sleep affects people emotionally, mentally and physically
How sleep can affect lives Sleeping disorders
Interview with relative of a sleepwalker


Resource requirements:

·         Digital video camera

·         Microphone

·         Tripod

·         PC with Adobe Premier Pro software

·         Tape

·         Voice recorder