Initial Technical Decisions.

Progress update 5

During this week, we have been getting our clips and creating a log sheet. To do this, we watched over each of a clips and cut them to find the parts of the clips are going to use in our documentary. From doing this, we have discovered that we need a more effective opening, and to do this we will need to re film people say the different stereotypes.Also, along side this, we created a story board to capture our vision for our documentary. After we did this, we started to note down ideas for our script that we would record a voice over for. Finally, we started to practice editing using 'Adobe Premier' to build our documentary.

Script for the Voice over in our documentary

Script

A stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things.These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality.

When asking students for the definition of individual social groups such as "Chav" or "popular" they all replied with similar stereotypical representations. For example, for "Chav" students described them as "rough people who only wear tracksuits" and for "popular" students described them as being "Stuck up" and often the "bullies of the school". 

Do these well known social stereotypes actually exist, or are they something that has been crafted by the media based on a subjective and negative opinion. We wanted to know why certain appearances and ideas have been linked to these social groups. 

To find this out we spoke to Students from Solihull 6^th Form who gave us their verdict on whether appearances affect what social group you belong to... 



We spoke to Julie Maitland about the affects of conforming to social groups and the impact that these stereotypes can have on students...


We also spoke to Nick Waring, about the influence the media has on the existence of stereotypes amongst society...

Stereotypes are usually judged upon appearances, but appearances are subjective and are easily changed, so why do (enter statistic) of the people we asked feel stereotyped due to their appearance? And why do society place labels upon people with such a lack of validity?

So, lets ask again, who are you?

Storyboard

On our storyboard we decided on a order for our clips in which to show the different stereotypical groups as best as possible throughout. There is variation though out between male and female voxpop interviews to highlight the different opinions between each gender, also there is the expert interviews which give detailed and accurate information about our topic. 

Video Log

Stereotype make over

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Editing Stages

Here is an example of how we are starting to edit our documentary. We dragged the clips that we cut from our 'Project' and dragged them onto the documentaries time line.

Here we are watching back footage, in order to use the 'razor tool' in order to cut and tighten up the clips, so that the main part that is needed is kept and the wasted part of the footage is deleted, so that our documentary can keep up with its fast pace editing.

Here we have looked at out achieve footage from the film 'Mean Girls' and cut the clip to the parts that we need. Then, to make the exchange of clips smoother, we used the video transition tool 'dissolve" so that the clip changes smoothly and isn't a jump cut. By doing this, we have improved the consistency of the documentary, by eliminating the harsh jump cuts.

Progress Update 4

During this weeks lessons we have been watching and selecting the footage we are going to use in our documentary and logging the timings of certain quotes we would like to include. However, unfortunately, during this process we found that some footage; archive footage in particular, was not recorded successfully and the camera was slanted. This has delayed our documentary as we are now having to re-record the footage. Overall, the footage we have collected is good with good quotes making the ideas we should share and discuss in our documentary extremely vivid.

Potential Background Music for 'Makeover' Footage

Common Opinions Shared by Interviewees

Progress update 3

This week we arranged our expert interviews with Julie Maitland, a student councillor and Nick Wareing a media teacher at the Sixth Form College Solihull. These interviews are going to be used in our documentary in order to back up our idea that stereotypes can affect the way that people see teenagers and young people in society. The media is a main way in which people are influenced into having these opinions due to the stereotypical cliques of people which are featured on the tv and the negative stories in the news. Julie spoke about the impact that negative  stereotypes can have on young people in the college and how it can lead to bullying within the students. 

Answers to the documentary questionnaire

Answers to topic questionnaire