2.2 Storyboard Draft 1

Storyboard Draft 1 

This is the Original Storyboard we made for the production. It provides the documentary the pillars in which the documentary will be built on. 

Scene 1 – Interview clip (Hook)

This will be a short clip of an interview with local MP of Tamworth, Christopher Pincher. We will ask him open questions about the topic of the HS2 and if it will have any effect on the local area. We will use a bit of the interview to make the audience watch until that scene as it is convention of a documentary.

Shots – We will be using 2 types of shot for this interview. A Two Shot, which will capture the interview and Christopher Pincher in the same shot and we are using a shot reverse shot, so that when either CP or the interviewer are talking, the camera can be on them.

Scene 2 – Introduction Graphic

The introduction graphic will consist of a 3D graphic of the UK and the HS2 smashing through houses with bags of money flying out. This introduction is a representation of what other people think of the idea of the HS2.  This will be created using the After Affects software.

Shots – For this graphic to work we will need a long shot of a bridge so the train will be able to go across it using green screen and after affects.

Scene 3 – Intro To the HS2

This will be a selection of different facts about the HS2 and will keep resorting back to the theme of Local and how the HS2 will effect Tamworth.

Shots – ( Mainly establishing shots of Tamworth.) mainly the castle, the shopping centre And the houses as the hs2 will be destroying houses.

Scene 4 – Voxpop section

This will be with different people of the local area as we want a varied opinion of the HS2. We will ask a range of different people who even aren't are target audience.

Shots- these shots would normally consist of two shots mainly with the interviewer and the interviewee.

Extra – We will also be using a mini microphone so in case the sound quality is not all that great we have a backup.  

Scene 5 – The route graphic

We are interested in looking at what route the HS2 will take a showing our audience where it will go in the area near Tamworth. Or we will show where it will go in the UK.

Edit – We will make this graphic on Adobe after affects

Furthermore, add what businesses will be affected

Scene 6

This will be a focus on the local area and what the HS2 will do and how it will change the area, More jobs less jobs, More houses, less houses etc..

Shots – this will include techniques like focus pulls, so that the audience can focus on the problems that the hs2 might bring to houses  so that means the focus pull can empathise that.

Scene 7– Ending graphic – After the break

This will include a scene showing the rest of the interview with Christopher Pincher before the break.

Also add archive footage of old trains, interviews of PM about HS2 and where HS2 intersects the Tamworth area.

Although we know there are many improvements to be made we believe that this is a good start to the production gives us a plan and an idea of what to film or start planing to film

2.1 Schedules and Deadlines

Schedules and Deadlines

Before setting off on the journey to make a documentary film we need a time line and a schedule so that we knew what to do and when to do it. 

Research and Planning 

Our First Item that was on the schedule was the Research and Planning. This section included things like, researching different documentaries to gain inspiration for what we going to create and deciding what topics to focus on in our documentary. Another key thing we had to do within the planning element was to decide what our target audience is as this is what the whole documentary will be shaped around. As maybe a kid friendly documentary wont be appropriate for a much older person watching a documentary. We also decided to spend as much time as we could on the section of the schedule as without enough planning and research you would go into filming with not enough knowledge and not film the correct things. This means you could waste a lot of time filming rather than editing the film or starting the print products, 

In the planning stage of the research and planning we need to plan, what type of documentary we were going to do, what types of shot we are going to film, and how we can follow, change or ignore the codes and conventions of a documentary. It also included going to different locations to find out what we are filming there and even if it was suitable for filming. 

Filming / Re-shoots

In the filming stage its quite self explanatory. We had to decide the best time to go and film our product, one that would give us the best shots, for example consistent weather and busy streets to film on. Also we needed enough time so we though that the October half term would be a perfect time to go and film as it would be busy and that me and Dan both had a lot of time off to go and film. Now the reason that i have also put November to film in is because of re-shoots, because we went going to get it perfect first time, and i think if it only takes one day to film it shows you've either been lazy and not shot enough or that the shots are bad. 

Editing / Re-shoots

The editing stage is a hard one to predict time wise, because you don't know how much time your going to spend editing your film because you don't know how much your going to film or how many clips your going to cut down or get rid of. But editing is where you gather all your footage from the filming and put it all together and simply review it. Before you even start editing look for gaps, that is why i have "Re-shoots" in December as i feel that this can be the last time we wold be able to film, and be able to edit the film with the new footage, as if we filmed in January lets say, the film wouldn't be finished on time. 

Print Artefacts 

Each specific type of media you can create for A2 media has slightly different print artefacts. For a documentary you needed to have a Double page spread and a advert from a magazine. We decided that if we would finish the film by December, January would be enough time to get both print artefacts finished as there is two of us. However if we overrun with the film we are going to start the print artefacts earlier as one of us focuses on the film and one on the print artefacts.


Also We made a production Table which is more in depth and also specifies who is doing what job over the next couple of months: 

Date	Who is cameraperson?	What scene are we filming?	How will we film?	What equipment will we need?
06/10/2017	Tayte	Dan Interviewing MP Scene 2,4,9	Two-shot	HD Camera, Tripod, microphone
08/10/2017	Dan & Tayte	Filming at Train station for Scene 1,3,5	Pans, close ups, long shots	HD Camera, Phone Camera, Tripod
14/10/2017	Dan & Tayte	Filming around Tamworth and local area for Scene 6,8	Close up, medium, long establishing shots	HD Camera, Phone Camera, Tripod
17/10/2017	Tayte	Creating graphic for scene 7	N/A	Adobe Premiere Pro
17/10/2017	Dan	Voice-over for the whole documentary	Audio recorder	Microphone
21/10/2017	Dan & Tayte	If needed for re-shoots	N/A	HD Camera, Tripod, Phone Camera
22/10/2017	Dan & Tayte	If needed for re-shoots	N/A	HD Camera, Tripod, Phone Camera

1.7 Topic Research

Topic Research 

As we have now decided that we are going to make a political documentary about HS2, we needed to find out some more information about our topic to make sure we know enough to make a 5 min introduction to the documentary.

As the HS2 is a fairly decisive topic we decided that the documentary needed to be biased, also this followed the conventions of a expository documentary. So this meant we needed pros and cons of the HS2 to make it biased.

To find the information we decided to use the internet and certain websites. The first website we came across was "Economicshelp.org" which had a list of the pros and cons of the HS2. But we didn't want to copy them all so we took a few of the ideas for example:

• Work on the first phase is scheduled to begin in 2017, reaching Birmingham by 2026, Crewe on the left leg by 2027, and fully completed by 2033.
• Butterflies, bats and birds. The Wildlife Trusts say both phases directly affect nature reserves and wildlife sites which could lead to a net loss in biodiversity.

We also used local newspaper / Web , Birmingham Mail , to find out if the HS2 was affecting the local area. After a long search we eventually found a article on the closure of Packington Moor Farm.

Packington Moor Farm was based near Lichfield and as you can see from this picture the HS2 is going to cut straight through Packington moor farm.  So as we found this we imagined there could be more of a local impact. 

We found out via Tamworth Informed that the HS2 will be running parallel to the A5 which is right by houses near Wilnecote, which just happens to be 5 mins from my house. So we all this information we thought about not just focuses on the HS2 as a whole, but maybe adding a more local element into the film, basing the film on what Tamworth think and how the HS2 will effect Tamworth. 

We also used YouTube as a source too, i found a good source of one of the Stop HS2 groups videos which showed us how much people do not want the HS2:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LCqXLVSKqQ 

However the HS2 is not all bad according to the Government, as we found these positive points:

• The line will be used intensively with 15 trains per hour travelling to and from Euston.
• The initial plan is for a new railway line between London and the West Midlands carrying 400m-long trains with as many as 1,100 seats per train.
• They would operate at speeds of up to 250mph - faster than any current operating speed in Europe - and would run as often as 14 times per hour in each direction.
• The first phase of the £56bn railway is due to open in December 2026, with trains to travel at high speed between London and Birmingham before continuing on the existing West Coast Main Line
• The Department for Transport says the project will cut Birmingham-London journey times from 1hr 21min to 49min
• HS2 will create around 25,000 jobs and fuel economic benefits worth over £103 billion to the UK.

1.6 Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas 

Sport and Food

Sport - 

In this section we thought about the ideas of Food and Sport as they were both things we admired and loved. In the sport section we focused on Drug use in sport and history's greatest sporting achievements.  We tried to think of things that were modern and would fit our target audience which was an audience of mainly young people like us so we thought of modern athletes breaking records like Usain Bolt and his world record for the 100m sprint or Lewis Hamilton breaking records with his pole positions in F1.  But overall we never touched on the sporting idea as really there was nothing local to talk about in the film.

Food - 

However one idea we both loved was the idea of Unhealthy food vs Healthy food. This topic actually matter to us as we feel that healthy food is way more expensive than unhealthy food. So we wanted exploit this problem and show it to our audience to see if they agree with are views.  We also wanted to do about how vegans are destroying the planet, This isn’t in a literal sense, but we wanted to show are audience why eating too healthy can be bad.

Social Media and Tech

Tech - 

So with being in the theme of being modern we decided to draft a few ideas on tech. During this time apple were just announcing the iPhone 10 (or X) and it got us thinking how technology is now so expensive and people just buy it because its new. But what people don’t know and what we would tell the audience is that the technology used in the phones are pretty much outdated form day 1. Another topic we were interested in was technology in education. This would explaining the benefits and limitations of technology in education and another idea we had was if library's were needed anymore in schools. Because it could just be replaced with a computer right?. 

Social media – 

Social is a big topic for our target audience as most if not all teenagers use some sort of social media to connect with friends or to look at things on the world wide web. So we narrowed down a few minor topics to talk about in this bigger topic. Bullying was one of the first topics that came to are minds as over 41% of teens and kids get bullied online. So this would be a great topic to tell are audience about. However we decided against it in the end as it would be to conventional as so many people have used this topic before. However are other topic was “ Are we becoming more or less social”. This meant that even though that social media has brought the whole world together, at the same time has it stopped people from socialising. As now everyone looks at a screen in a dark room people don’t go out anymore especially kids and teens. This is defiantly something that me and Dan were interested in researching.

Politics 

During our discussion of what topics to have in a documentary politics was a very vast a big option. Not just because it happens all over the world, but the fact that it was very big at the time when coming up for ideas as we had just had a general election and had a record of students and young people voting, so surly with are age demographic interested, why not make a documentary in the political world.

So we had quite a few ideas in this topics the main subjects for this were: World politics – so not just British politics, Brexit – as it was still current, and finally the HS2 which we liked as it was affect our local area.

World Events.

For the world events idea we mostly focused on the conflict between North Korea and America. Our idea for North Korea would be to focus on what its drive was to have/use nuclear weapons against 

the world and why it would start a third world war. The next topic we liked was focusing on what America is like now with Donald trump as the president. We would ask a range of different people from a range of different backgrounds on what they thought of Donald trump before he was president. We could also link the two ideas together and figure out why NK and A are at each others throats. However the problem with both of these ideas would be that we wouldn't have enough resources or people that knew a lot about both of these topics, which is a shame as both of these topics would have made great documentary's its just that we also have to be optimistic. 

British Politics

Our next topic is British politics which is a little more down to earth. We wanted to teach our audience a little more about politics so with that in mind we chose topics that we could understand and that were also important to the future of the country. The first of these 2 topics was Brexit. Its been over a year since Brexit happened and it is still a topic quite a few people are talking about. If I'm honest I really don’t know much about Brexit but if I didn’t know I feel like many other teens my age would know either so the main reason this topic was chosen is to show the audience what Brexit is and it is also to benefit myself in learning what Brexit actually means for the UK.  Its also a similar story about the Hs2, But in addition to that, we thought that it would be more fitting for our local area as the HS2 is affecting Tamworth is quite a big way in the next few years. We would also ask local residents, that if the HS2 is a good or a bad idea.

Our Final Ideas 

So, we knew we wanted to do a documentary but we had a few ideas of what we wanted to do. As you can see we had a range of topics from Food to Politics. Our top 3 ideas from this pool was

1- Unhealthy Vs Healthy

2- Social Media

3- HS2

Overall we chose to do the HS2 idea. As we thought that the topic is still current and popular and that it is affecting our local area, so this means it is easier to film and get genuine views from our Voxpops. This also means that we as filmmakers can also learn new things from researching about the topic and give that new information to are target audience who want to learn about the HS2