Filming in Hawes

I took a video camera to Hawes in North Yourkshire. I filmed some cut-aways of local sandwich shops. These can be used between interviews and vox-pops etc.

Filming the Opening Titles

We filmed the title sequence for our documentary as stop-animation of a sandwich making itself. We did it using a stills camera and taking photos every time we moved a piece. However, when we looked at the images on the computer they were all differently exposed and some looked bright and othesr dull.
We refilmed it using a high definition web-cam which worked much better and they looked perfect. We then edited the photos ogether using a stop-animation package called...............and then added the music to it in Adobe Premiere.

Filming Vox Pops take 2

We went back to Liscard to film Vox Pops again the following Wednesday and this time we asked more people and got much more answers. We also made sure that the framing was right on each one we did and we positioned ourselves away from sandwich shops so people wern't tempted just to name sandwiches from the shop we were outside of. The footage was good and we will be using it as the opening in our five minuets.

Sandwich Shop Owner Interview

The next part of our documentary we had to film was an interview with an independant sandwich shop owner. Fortunately we knew someone who owned a sandwich shop called Veronica's. We went to their shop on a Saturdy morning and filmed and interview there. Our first take was unusable because the interviewees phone rang. During the second take, a customer came in and we had to stop the interview. Our third take was perfect and we will be using it in out final five minuets. We also go establishing shots of the shop and various cutaways of a sandwich being made to use in the interview.

1. What is your favourite sandwich?

2. Do you consider a sandwich a healthy option?

3. What made you want to run a sandwich shop?

4. Tell me about a typical day here?

5. Why do you think people like sandwiches? What’s the appeal?

6. Tell me about your sandwich range, most expensive, cheapest......?

7. What do you say to the criticism that sandwiches are unhealthy?

8. What would you consider the perfect lunch?

9. How do you come up with new fillings to put in the sandwiches and do you test them first or just put them on sale?

10. Do you have regulars and if so, do they always get the same?

11. What do you think the appeal is of sandwiches?

12. Do you do requests and if so, what was the most unusual?

13. What are the most and least popular sandwiches bought?

The majority of the interview went well apart from the interviewees phone went off part way through one of his answers.

Filming Vox Pops

At first, we tried to film Vox Pops in Liscard town centre on a Wednesday afternoon. We found that there were not a lot of people who were willing to answer our question. When we got back and captured the footage we saw that the framing of the Vox Pops wa quite poor and the sound did not work when it was captured onto the computer. We decided we would go out and do it again.

Planning Part 2

Sandwich Shop Owner
We filmed an interview with a sandwich shop owner in their shop by Moreton Cross, the questions were:

1. What is your favourite sandwich?

2. Do you consider a sandwich a healthy option?

3. What made you want to run a sandwich shop?

4. Tell me about a typical day here?

5. Why do you think people like sandwiches? What’s the appeal?

6. Tell me about your sandwich range, most expensive, cheapest etc?

7. What do you say to the criticism that sandwiches are unhealthy?

8. What would you consider the perfect lunch?

9. How do you come up with new fillings to put in the sandwiches and do you test them first or just put them on sale?

10. Do you have regulars and if so, do they always get the same?

11. What do you think the appeal is of sandwiches?

12. Do you do requests and if so, what was the most unusual?

13. What are the most and least popular sandwiches bought?

This interview was successful and we are using most of the questions in our documentary. While there we had to film the start of the interview twice as the owner looked at the camera while we were filming the interview, he kept moving and he also didnt answer the question with the question we asked. So we then told him and interviewed him again.

We also filmed cutaways after the interview and made sure they were relevant to the questions we asked and the answers we were given.


Dinner Lady
We also filmed an interview with a dinner lady. We based this interview in the cafeteria and filmed it in mid shot. The questions we asked in this interview were:

1. School dinners have had a lot of criticism over the years, why do you think this is?

2. How have school dinners changed over the years?

3. Tell me about the guidelines you have to follow when preparing school dinners

4. What do you consider to be the perfect lunch and why?

5. What do students prefer to buy, hot meals or sandwiches and why do you think they are popular?
6. Do you think sandwiches are healthy? Explain?

7. What do you think are more healthy school meals or packed lunches and why?

8. What do you do to attract students to healthier options?

9. What is your favourite sandwich?

This interview was also successful and the answers she gave were very detailed. We also explained the codes and conventions of the interview before she started so that we wouldn't have to film it twice.

During the filming of this interview we filmed cutaways relevant to the interview with the dinner lady and the interview with the school nurse. Both the interview and cutaways were successful and both will be used in our documentary.


School Nurse
For the healthy eating subject in our documentary we got an interview with the school nurse about healthy eating and the healthy eating of school dinners. We originally waned a dietician to interview but after numerous calls to the doctors, gym and hospital none were available for an person to person interview but some were available for an interview over the phone which could not be used in our documentary.
The questions for this interview were as follows:



This interview came out very successful. We filmed the interview in the nurses office in front of some healthy eating posters so the miss en scene represented the subject matter.

We filmed cutaways for this interview at lunchtimes while children were eating there lunch in the canteen.


Food Tech Teacher
We filmed an interview with a food tech techer at Weatherhead about the cooking skils the pupils have when they join the school, healthy eating and sandwiches. These are the questions we asked:

1. Why do you think young people are choosing to make sandwiches instead of cooking a meal?

2. Do you think that sandwiches are a healthier option for lunch and why?

3. What are peoples cooking skills like when they come to this school?

4. Tell me about the sandwich project you teach in year 7?

5. Why do you teach it?

6. Whats your perfect lunch and why?

7. Do you think pupils should be taught healthy cooking from an earlier age and why?

8. Whats your favourite sandwich?

This interview was succesful and will be used in our documentary. We also filmed cutaways in a food tech lesson of year 9's making starters for a food project. These cutaways will be used in the interview.

Planning

This is the Mise-en-scene for the nurse interview:
















This is the Mise-en-scene for the sandwich shop owner interview:

This is our storyboard for the opening titles of out documentary:

Here is the Mise-en-scene for ou ionterview with the sandwich shop owner:

Running Order

Documentary: ‘The Perfect Lunch?’
Channel: Channel 4
Duration: 27 minutes

Primary and Secondary Research for Documentary

Primary Research:

• Interview with sandwich shop owner - Mise-en-scen of the shop and asking questions about the health of the sandwiches and which ones are popular etc.
• Vox Pops - Question: 'What's your favourite sandwich?' and picking the most interesting answers.
• Interview with nurse - Mise-en-scene of her office with poters about healthy foods and sandwiches in the background whcih we borrowed from our food tech department. Asking about the health of sandwiches on the market and health of school dinners and she gave us leaflets with information on the could be used for our voiceover.
• Interview with school dinner lady - Mise-en-scene of the kitchen in the background with other dinner ladies preparing the cafeteria. Questions about the health of school dinners and how they have changed over time.
• Interview with food tech teacher - Mise-en-scene of classroom in the background. Questions about what they teach students and the sandwich project in the year 7 and about the skills they have when first coming to the school.

Secodary Research:

• Archive footage from various TV shows
• Footage from 'Friends' - Ross' sandwich, Joey's sandwich in the police car, Pheobe trying meat.
• Footage from 'Scooby Doo'.
• Footage from 'The Simpsons'.
• Sandwich adverts - Subway, Hovis etc.

Formal Proposal

Topic: Sandwiches
Type of Documentary: Mixed
Style of Documentary: Informal
Channel: 8-30 pm - Wednesday
Scheduling: Channel 4
Target Audience: Teenagers/Young Adults

Primary Research:
Interviews
Vox Pop
Location for filming
Dietician/Nurse
Sandwich shops and owners

Secondary research:
Archive footage
Sandwich history
Internet Research
TV shows

Narrative structure: Open, Non-linear

Outline of content:
History of the sandwich
Vox pop – “What’s your favourite sandwich?”
Interview with shop owner
Interview dietician
Still images – most expensive sandwich
Cutaways - Sandwich getting eaten, making a sandwich
Childrens school dinners
Interview with a dinnerlady
Sandwich facts

Resource requirements:
Video camera
Still camera
Compute – adobe premier to edit
Voice recorder
Microphone
Studio

Brainstorm of Content for Documentary

Here is the brainstorm we had whilst deciding the conntent for our documentary:

Questionnaire Results (Voice Recordings)

Here are some voice clips of people answering questions from our questionnaire.

Questionnaire Results

What is your favourite colour?















This question will help us design the colour scheme of our documentary.

What is your favourite TV channel?













This will help us decide the channel that our documentary will air on.

What is your favourite genre of music?
















This will help us pick the music bed for our documentary.

At what time of day do you watch TV the most?















This will help us pick when to air our documentary.

How old are you?














We asked people who fall into the target audience range. This will help us create our documentary so it fits our target audience as best it can.

Are you male or female?















We asked twice as many women as we did men because, stereotyically, women will be more interested in a food programme than men.

What is your favourite sandwich?















The most popular sandwich turned out to be chicken, this will be used as a fact in our voice over.

Where is your favourite place to get a sandwich?













This shows that most people think 'Subway' is the best place to buy sandwiches from and this will aslo be used as a fact in our voiceover.

Why do you eat sandwiches?












This shows that most people eat sandwiches becuase of the taste, this will also be used as a fact in our voiceover.

Do you make your own sandwiches?













This shows half of the people in our survey make their own, this will be used in our voiceover.

Do you consider sandwiches to be a healthy option?













This shows most of the people we asked do consider sandwiches a healthy option.

What do you have with a sandwich?













These results show that crisps are the most popular thing to eat with sandwiches.

When do you usually have a sandwich?












This shows that most people eat sandwiches for lunch, this will be used in the voiceover.

How often do you eat sandwiches?














This will be used as information in our voiceover.

Questionnaire (Primary Research)

For our primary research we conducted a questionairre and gave it our to 30 people all aged within our target audience age group. The Questionairre incuded questions about peoples favourite sandwiches, and places to eat as well as their favourite colours and music so we know how to constuct our docmentary.
These are the questions featured on our questionnaire:

1. How old are you?
2. Are you male or female?
3. What is your favourite sandwich?
4. Where is your favourite place to buy a sandwich?
5. Do you make your own sandwiches? (Yes) (No) (Sometimes)
6. Why do you eat sandwiches?
7. Do you consider a sandwich a healthy option? (Yes) (No)
8. What do you usually eat with a sandwich?
9. What would you eat as an alternative to a sadwich?
10. What meal do you usually eat sandwiches for? (Breakfast) (Lunch) (Dinner) (Sanck)
11. How many times do you eat sandwiches a week? (Once) (A Few Times) (Almost Everyday) (Everyday)
12. What is your favourite colour?
13. What is your favourite TV channel?
14. What times do you usually watch TV? (Breakfast) (Daytime) (Evening) (Night)
15. What is your favourite genre of music?