Jessikah Baard

Monday, 4 November 2013

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

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Questionnaire Analysis

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

Questionnaire analysis from JessikahBaard

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Audios for questionnaire

These are the audio's for my questionnaire.

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

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?