Edit Decision List

 This is the Edit Decision List that my group made. It tells us the number of ech video so that we know where to find certain things and we also wrote down the times that we need from each video. The Edit Decision List will help us to carry on our editing, especially if someone in the group is off.

Logging Sheet

 These are pictures of the logging sheet that we did. It tells us the names of the files, what each shot is of, and whether the shot it good or not. The logging sheet helped us when we were editing because we knew the numbers of the files that we needed.

Filming

These are the pictures of my group filming and editing. A few issues occured during the filming like not having the correct props to film for cutaways.

 

 

Planning

In todays lesson,we created a tite storyboard that will help us when we are creating our title sequence. We drew the frames for the interviews that we were going to do and included the positioning, the eye-line and the mise-en-scene in them so we knew what to do when we got to the interviews and we also created a list of questions for each of the interviews that we had.

Planning from JessikahBaard

Running Order

Running Order

Documentary: Push the Button

Channel: Channel 4

Scheduling: Thursday 9:30pm

Duration: 27 minutes (12 minutes then 3 minute adverts break them another 12 minutes)

Voxpops of people telling us what their favourite video game is	20seconds
Opening Titles	20seconds
Tracking shot of people playing video games in the gaming cafe. Voice over introduces the topic of video games and how they have developed	30seconds
Interview with Level up talking about the change in gaming consoles, Archive Material of people playing video games in the 1980’s	1 minute
Tracking shot of video games in HMV. Voice over of how video games have become popular	20seconds
Interview with the video game repair about video games and how much they make from video game repairs	40seconds
Cutaway panning shot of the gaming cafe. Voice over about addiction of video games	10seconds
Interview with the gaming cafe with a cutaway of merchandise	1 minute
Interview with 3 people about their views of video games and why they play them	30seconds
5 MINUTES
Cutaway of people playing video games with voice-over of start of interview	20seconds
Interview with HMV	1 minute
Cutaway of people buying merchandise of Lara Croft with voice-over of sexualisation being introduced	20seconds
Interview with video gamer about the sexualisation of females within video games, archive Material of Lara Croft video game with voice-over of interviewee	2 minutes
Cutaway of GTA 5 with voice over introducing the next topic morality of video games	20seconds
Interview with sociologists about morality of games going in to archive material of reviews morality of video games	2 minutes 20seconds
Trail of what’s coming up after the break including sneak peeks of the footage and cutaways	30seconds
Close up of video games while the programme title is on the screen	10seconds
ADVERT BREAK	3 minutes
Close up of video games while the programme title is on the screen	10seconds
Replay of what has happened in the first half of the documentary and a trail of what is coming up now	40minute
Interview with old people talking about their childhood contrasted with young people talking about childhood with cutaways and archive material linking to the people being interviewed	2minutes
Cutaway of teenagers sat playing video games with a voice-over introducing gaming culture	30seconds
Interview with gaming cafe	1 minute 30seconds
Montage of archive material showing physical issues with voice-over talking about health issues	30seconds
Interview with doctor talking about the changing state of teenagers health	2 minutes
Archive material of the concept of mental health issues with a voice-over introducing the concept of mental health issues	30seconds
Cutaways of people saying how they think playing video games can affect people	30seconds
Interview with psychologist	2 minutes
Montage of images of different video games with archive material of footage of the video games with the voice-over concluding narrative	40seconds
Closing credits over the video games in the background	30seconds
Close up of video games whilst the programme title is on the screen	10seconds
TOTAL TIME	27minutes

Research for documentary

We conducted both primary and secondary research for the documentary that covered what interviews that we can get, what ones we do have and what archive material that we can include in our documentary.
 

Research for the documentary

Video games

Primary Research:

We looked into getting interviews with a variety of people such as;

·         Game

·         HMV

·         A and J’s Retro Gaming Cafe

·         Psychologist

·         Doctor

·         Parents

·         Quiggins Level Up Retro gaming store

·         Grainger Game

·         Gamestation

·         Scythe and Teacup gamer cafe

·         Power Play

Interviews

Interview with Quiggins Level Up Retro Gaming store

Interview with A and J’s gaming Cafe

Interview with Scythe and Teacup gamer Cafe

Interview with Parent

Interview with video game players

Locations to film when looking for our locations we had to look into what was relevant to the subject and making sure it fitted with the documentary, so we looked at filming in Liscard, Birkenhead and Liverpool outside Video game shops such as outside HMV, Game, A and J’s gaming cafe as these are all relevant to the documentary as the mise-en-scene needs to link in with the documentary and make sure that it is relevant so doing it outside games shops is perfect.

Secondary Research

For our secondary research we looked at a variety of things for our archive material as things such as footage if video games, articles of the history of video games, facts and figures of video games.

Footage of video games:
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/GTA-5-Leaked-Footage-Confirms-Current-Gen-Console-Limitations-59092.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/fans-turns-grand-theft-auto-v-footage-stunning-time-lapse-8C11336455

YouTube videos of video games;

GTA- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzP6TQwPQjY, http://www.gtav.net/facts/, http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/23/gta-5-sales-records_n_3974476.html

COD- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1veB1CILok

Sims- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5JbnCtEvA

History of COD- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDwzS-InvY

History of GTA- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcu_d62jn0w

GTA documentary- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhY9LSGbNk

History of general video games- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_videogames.htm

History of video game consoles- http://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html

Why do people play video games? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvrqHpJlkXQ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdvJlIiNcyM

Formal Proposal

We created a formal proposal in lesson  which covered everything from the type and style of the documentary to what equipment that we would need.

Formal Proposal

Topic: Video Games

Type of Documentary:

 Mixed – contains interviews, narration and observation

Style of Documentary:

 Entertaining but includes information

Voice over which will be a young male/no presenter

Channel Scheduling:

Channel 4

9:30pm

Thursday 23rd January 2014

Target Audience:

16 to 35 core audience

16-50 target audience

Female and Male

Primary Research:

Research into potential interviews. For example we want to interview people who play video games in Liverpool One and Liscard.

Possible locations for filming.

Secondary Research:

Research into the history of video games, archive material, magazine articles and newspaper articles

Research into how popular video games are and the health issues

Narrative Structure:

Single Strand

Non-Linear

Open

Outline of Content:

Background of Video games

People’s health within Video games

Interviews with shop owners, parents, people who repair video games, game companies, game designers, gamers, addicts.

Possible places to film would be Liverpool One, Liscard, and Shops that sell video games

Cutaways- people playing video games, people in game shops, game console, and merchandise

Resource Requirements:

HD Digital Camera & memory card

Computers

Brainstorm of content for the documentary

In today's lesson we brainstormed what content we could perhaps put into our documentary.

Questionnaire results

Questionnaire Analysis

After tallying up our results from the questionnaire, I produced a questionnaire analysis, using charts.

Questionnaire analysis from JessikahBaard

Audios for questionnaire

These are the audio's for my questionnaire.

Target Audience Research

In today's lesson, we discussed what questions we should put on a questionnaire concerning the subject of video games and documentaries. Once we conducted the questionnaire, we handed them out to people in our target range.

 1. What gender are you?
     Male       [  ]
     Female    [  ]

2. How old are you?
     [   ]

3. What TV channel do you watch the most?
                                                                                               

4. Do you watch documentaries?
    Yes  [  ]
    No   [  ]

5. What type of documentaries do you watch?
                                                                                              

6. How often do you watch documentaries?
    Everyday             [  ]
    Once a week        [  ]
    Once a fortnight  [  ]
    Once a month      [  ]
    Never
    Other                                                                                   

7. Do you play video games?
    Yes   [  ]
    No    [  ]

8. What video games do you play? (genre)
                                                                                                

9. What is your favourite video game?
                                                                                                
 
10.  How often do you play video games?
                                                                                                

11. How long do you play video games for?
      30 minutes    [  ]
        1 hour         [  ]
        2 hours       [  ]
        3 hours       [  ]
        4 hours       [  ]
       other                                                                                   

12. What are your thoughts on video games?
                                                                                                 

13. What is the most you have paid for a video game?
                                                                                                 

14. Do people buy you video games?
      Yes  [  ]
      No   [  ]

If yes, why?
                                                                                                

15. Have you ever bought anyone else a video game?
      Yes   [  ]
       No   [  ]

If yes, why?
                                                                                                

16. Where do you buy video games from?
                                                                                                

17. Do you think that the age rating on video games is correct?
      Yes   [  ]
      No    [  ]

Why?