Openings

Another idea we talked about today was to have different shots of CCTV cameras with a voice over explaining a bit about CCTV in Britian. We discussed whether we should use music over the voice over or just use the noise of the street.
We started to plan what would actually be in our documentary, and wrote a list of people we would want to interview, issues we wanted to discuss and shots we could use.

Experimenting with openings

We thought about different openings we could use, and I came up with the idea of making a 'Big Brother' (channel 4) style opening. This would include short shots of CCTV angles, cameras and CCTV screens. The original Big Brother opening features shots of people in the Big Brother house, and I thought we could instead include shots of the general public on the highstreet, zoom into our bedroom windows from the outside to show the real world under surveillance.

I experimented with different ways we could include our title into the opening shots, and made a short example video which we could use at the end of our opening sequence, just before we go into the actual documentary.

If we did use this idea we would have to write to the person who wrote the Big Brother theme tune to ask if we could use it in our opening sequence.

Researching

I started to do some research into the topic of CCTV cameras in Britain. I found that there was lots of information to look at, as it's a very controversial topic at the moment.

Here are some of the websites/articles that I think we could find beneficial:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-george-orwell-big-brother-is-watching-your-house.do

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/ukcrime1

Interview Technique Practice

We decided to experiment with different interview techniques:
-Anonymous
-Participatory
- Formal

We found that each of these techniques had a different effect, and made a big difference to the way the audience would recieve the information. The anonymous style was very personal, and makes the interviewee's reponse seem more honest and trustworthy than some of the other styles. The formal interview gave the impression that the interviewee has had time to maybe practise what they are going to say, so it seems a little more contrived. The participatory style makes it seem like the interview is on the spur of the moment, and it doesnt look like the interviewee has had time to prepare their answers so their response seems quite honest.

Documentary Ideas

Today we brainstormed some ideas for our documentary. We came up with a couple of ideas:

-'Big Brother' Britain (exploring the issue of CCTV cameras around Britain and their pros/cons)

- A documentary looking into how much teenagers are influenced by celebrities (airbrushing etc)

We made spider diagrams for both ideas:

Eventually we decided to use the CCTV idea as we thought this would be the most interesting and entertaining for the audience as it is a controversial and relevant issue.