MEDIA PRODUCTION A2
A short 5 minute Documentary
On university life
by Molisa Muyembe
INTRODUCTION
For my media project I Molisa Muyembe will be
working solo. I am going to conduct a documentary
on uni life, this will also act as a step to step guide
helping others to prepare and cope with campus life,
lectures, budgeting, and living in halls. Please enjoy
this short presentation I have put together which will
inform you of my plans for a short 5 minute
documentary.
WHAT IS A DOCUMENTARY
Documentary films constitute a broad category of non fictional motion
pictures intended to document an aspect of reality. For the purposes
of instruction or maintaining a historical record. Aspects I will be
including are;Educational
Informative
Narrative
Entertaining
Real life
Structured
For and Against argument
SUMMARY
My vision is to take an ordinary country girl who has never lived a day
away from the comfort of her big city home and place her in a box room
located at halls in the big city of London to study law. I plan to show how
she copes with everyday life budgeting, relationships and living alone the
pressure may well just be the emotional journey that sends this princess
home to mummy and daddy, or the very kick she needs to be independent.
LOCATION : KINGSTON UNIVERCITY, London
CANDIDATE NAME: TENAY EDWARDS
AGE AND QUALIFICATION: 18, STUDYING LAW
INSPRATION
I have researched American style of documentation. I have found 2 styles one which I am fond of and
one which I am not too keen on.
One being reality TV style of documentation where the characters narrate their own emotions and
views on a subject issue as their everyday life is being filmed. This is a point of view style of filming
which I have decided to go down the path of, as I find it more interesting to show expressions of the
character
And the other being what I call the lab rat experiment were there is one narrator and he/she will
document what is happening and use voice over to explained a theory they have. This is a sort of
surreal feeling which does not allow the audience to engage with characters.
I have been inspired by the following reality documentations
SUPER SIZE ME -American- Morgan Spurlock documents the dangers of fast food over 30
days
THE FAMILY -British- narrated by Chanel 4, families on goings are documented
over the summer. Purpose to entertain, audience certification family friendly.
MY PLAN
The following shall be documented
Life in halls
Food shopping and other necessities
Relationships/friendships
Coping with work and lectures
Being without family
Having to make you're own rules based
on morals that you have been brought up
with
I will start with basic shots of her country home in comparison with the shots of her uni accommodation then I will introduce my character with a montage of clips of her routine through the week while I narrate over this introducing my documentary and its purpose I will also have shots of her discussing her own thoughts.
SCHEDULE
Monday- shots of the country house and family, family goodbyes as
Tenay leaves off for uni
Tuesday- arrival at uni footage round campus as she meet new people
Wednesday- settling in footage of food shopping and making room
homely
Thursday – Lectures, hanging with friends and first fresher's rave.
Friday- morning after and footage of Tenays summary on uni life
Saturday- visit back home, mums summary of having daughter away
Sunday- Editing
Weeks plan for filming
T H I N G S I W I L L N E E D E Q U I P M E N T W I S E A N D F U N D S
I will need a camera to document the everyday goings of my
subject person
A tripod for steady camera shots i.e, tracking
A travel card so I am able to travel to Kingston university in
order to document.
TARGET AUDIENCEAND INSTITUTIONS
Suitable
classifications
Students
families
Considered
institutions
Channel 4
E4
BBC three
My target audience will be based on the content of my footage as my subject is an over 18 some content may be deemed as unsuitable for a younger audience under 12, but my goal is to receive a wider target audience so I might be able to edit out some of the content so I can lower the classification also I'm thinking of showing my documentary at 9 on channel 4 the reason for this is as my documentary is about education and will be entertaining It suitable for Chanel 4s code and conventions of showing mature documentaries at that time.
I W O U L D L I K E T O P O I N T O U T T H AT T H I S P R E S E N T AT I O N I S A P R O D U C T O F M E D I A
C O N V E N T I O N A S I U S E D S M A R T P H O N E T O P R O D U C E T H I S S L I D E S H O W
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