Our trip to London

On Wednesday the 10th of December we decided to go to London to film for parts of our documentary. As we live close to a train station it was easy to access London. We thought this would be a good place to film as there are people from different countries, cultures and have many different styles.

As we were passing through Liverpool Street we saw a camera crew and a celebrity who has inspired us a lot throughout making this documentary. We thought this was a perfect chance to actually get him to talk on our documentary. Gok Wan was filming his programme 'How to look Good Naked', which is where Gok Wan helps women get over their low self esteem and how to love their body. We tried to have a word with Gok Wan as we thought we could reach out to our target audience if we had a Celebrity like Gok Wan. Unfortunately he is a celebrity and his body guard wouldn't let us talk to him, even when we told him about our documentary on self esteem. Although we did manage to get footage of Gok Wan filming but could not carry on filming as we were told to turn it off by a member of the film crew.

After filming in Liverpool street our next stop was oxford street. We decided to film in London for the Miss-en-scene. Although it was kind of staged as we knew where we wanted to film there was spontaneity as we didn't know who was walking past, what they were going to where and most of all seeing Gok Wan. Also as London is the capital of fashion therefore there is variation of dress sense, and many shops for the target audience to relate to as they are well known and they shop in them.

In addition we planned to ask the public questions on the spot as it would be spontaneous and great footage for our documentary. Unfortunately we did not have the equipment at our school so we are planning to do the public questions at Enfield Town at a later date. This will then be added into our documentary as last minute filming.

Written by Chloe Kidd and Chloe Wall, Filmed by Chloe Kidd and Chloe Wall

notes:

This is the group working on uploading and editing the footage for our documentary.

At this point we were uploading footage of an interview with one of the teachers from school.

One of the troubles we had with filming is that the people we were filming for a documentary would go off topic into random tangents. The result of this is that there is plethora editing to get the segments of the interview relevant to our documentary.

Also with in the picture we can see Chloe wall browsing the website audio.lgfl here we were looking for uncopywrited music we could use in our documentary. 

Interviews

When planning for these interviews we had to be very careful with certain elements such as the Hawthorne effect as we did not want to convey interviewer bias. Therefore our outcome would not have been accurate and give a true representation of topic.

Interview one:

Conducted by Chloe Kidd and Chloe Wall.

The first interview conducted was with our schools art teacher who wishes for a level of amenity. The focus of this documentary was body confidence from an older woman's view. Also due to w

orking within a school envi

ronment in a creative department could give us a detailed and rounded view.

Questions asked:

- What do you think is the mai

n reason of low self-esteem?

- Do you think the media is to blame for women's low self-esteem?

- What do you think when you look in the mirror?

- What's your opinion on airbrushing?

- What celebrity do you think low sets a good role model for young women and why?

- Of what age do you think low self-es

teem has more impact?

- What do you think of this?

- If you cold give someone a confidence boost how would you do so?

We understand that there is a plethora of questions being asked and that we only have a five minute time slot to fill. Therefore even though the elements touched upon are relevant within the editing process we shall condense this interview do fill the criteria of the topic being discussed.

Positive:

From this interview we feel that we gained more than enough footage, even more information than was generally predicted in the first place. From this an in-depth analysis can be made in

interpret or begin to the focus of this documentary.

Negatives:

When conducting this interview we did not detect the light rays coming through the blinds.

This was only when we uploaded the footage we realised that the lighting wasn't as successful as we hoped. As we are only using a couple shots from this interview we didn't feel the need to shoot it again. This could also take away originality and give the interview a staged effect.

Actor annotation:

For this interview due to the formal surrounding of a school the conductors we dressed in formal artier. This showed and conveyed us as professional to our interviewee. Therefor the topic could be taken seriously.

Interview two:

Conducted by Chloe Kidd, Chloe Wall and Chrishelle Henderson

Interviewee - Francisca McCachrtha

This interview was aimed at finding a negative correlation between the media and self-esteem. Here we touched on the emotive issue of bulimia. This is relevant to our target audience because, even though a small

proportion of the population approximately 1-2 percent of UK women suffer from bulimia and there a

re as many as eighteen new cases of bulimia nervosa per 100,000 of the population per year, it may give a voice to the amount of people who do not speak out or give a sense of belonging (you are not alone and this is how you may reach out).

Questions:

Due to this being an unstructured interview there were only a couple of questions prepared. We acknowledged that with this interview type that the interview may go off into random tangents. But decided that this was the best method for a more convectional approach to create a friendly atmosphere. This also is a better way of reaching the interviewee due to her age as teenagers are generally more conversational and open in an unstructured surroundings.

Positives:

Due to us using the mis-en-scene of the interviewees house, there was a more relaxed feel to the interview. This impacted the interviewee feeling more at ease with answering our questions and as a result of this we feel that we got a genuine view and answers.

Negatives:

With this interview we found that due to her accent and low decibel of her voice that sound may be an issue with this segment. To combat this as a group we have decided that subtitles may be used if raising the volume of the clip distorts the sound.

Actor annotation:

Our artier for this was smart casual. We had sure that our body language was open, this was to insure that the interviewee did would not feel pressured by any questions or feel that anymore was passing judgement upon her.

Interview three:

Conducted by Chloe Kidd and Chloe Wall

Interviewee - Toby Langdon

This interview was important due to the fact that it is from a males point of view. The other interviews are all from a female view point, here we could get a rounded view and see if there is any correlation or consensus concerning the topic of media and self-esteem.

Questions:

- Do you think the media is to blame for men's and women's low self-esteem?

- What do you think when you look in the mirror?

- What's your opinion on airbrushing?

- What celebrity do you think low sets a good role model for young women and why?

- Of what age do you think low self-esteem has more impact?

- What do you think of this?

- If you cold give someone a confidence boost how would you do so?

Positives:

from this interview there was a brake way from how it make you feel to why it was done. The findings were that of product and image. Essentially what's being produced affecting the was a product is sold. What they produce not what they look like.

Negatives:

With this interview however there is a plethora of footage. Some of the footage is irrelevant or the interviewee felt need to constantly elaborate on points. This is a positive quality as we get a rounded view and understanding to evaluate and analysis however presents us negatives due to the fact that footage must be condensed and a lot of it may not even be used. This creates an ethical issue with our time concerning the editing.

Interview Four:

Interviewee - Charlotte Durber

Conducted by Chrishelle Henderson

This interview focused on the issue of weight in terms of self-esteem and the media effects.

Questions:

This was again an unstructured interview with in the interviewee's home. The same positives and negatives were acknowledged for this interview type however wanted to create a convectional open interview to get the most out of the interviewee.

Positives:

Information taken from the view of a plus size person who has body issues, this is giving a voice to somebody who may or may not be acknowledged with in society.

Negatives:

This is a sensitive issue therefore some of the questions and topics had to be quickly brushed passed.

Written by Chrishelle Henderson