Documentary types
As a gropup me Joel and Brian discussed and decided as a group that it would be appropriate for all of us to do something interesting that we all would like. We eventually chose the subject of subcultures, as it involves varies of different of social groups in society, we all thought that it would be an interesting topic to do. We then wrote down a brainstorm with our ideas on what we would associate social groups with.
Social groups
Formal Proposal
FITTING IN
Topic- Subcultures
Type of Documentary- Mixed
Style of Documentary- Informal and Informative
Channel Scheduling- Channel 4, 8pm Wednesday
Target Audience- 14+
Primary Research Needed-
- An Interview with Callum McIness
- An Interview with a Sociology teacher
- An Interview with Josh Gilroy
-An Interview with Lee Farragher
- An Interview with Lisa Smeadley
-An Interview with Dean Carr
- Voiceover-male, uses Standard English, around teenage age-deep voice, holds narrative together
- Voxpop in Liverpool (Location)
- Playground (Location)
- School (Location)
- Bedroom of one of the people in one of the subculture groups (Location)
- Film normal pedestrians walking down a normal street (Location)
- Park with scallies drinking (Location)
- Mise-En-Scene for Interview with Callum Mciness- posters out of a magazine that he owns that relate to blood and violence, filmed in close-up.
Mise-En-Scene for Sociology teacher- books, computer, on his desk, shirt and tie has to be worn.
Mise-En-Scene for Lee Farragher- plain white background, chromakey effect going to be used.
Mise-En-Scene for Dean Carr- fosters can, Liverpool football top worn.
Mise-En-Scene for Lisa Smeadley- Varies of posters in background associating with her subculture
Secondary Research- Archive Material- Music Videos of: Sex Pistols (Punk Genre), Marilyn Manson (Gothic Genre), an MC (Scally), Oasis (Indie Genre), Eminem (Gangsta Genre)
Newspaper Articles: -Articles on ASBOS, -Articles on attacks from teenagers in the paper, -Articles on Groups in the news
Film Clips- This is England (Scallies), Quadrophenia (Rockers), Queen of the Damned (Goth)
Magazine Articles- Articles in ‘Real Life’ magazines, Music magazines of the genre of the subculture groups
DVD Clips- Lee Evans comedy stand-up show.
Surveys- Guardian website archive
Narrative Structure-Single Strand, Closed Narrative- none, Linear.
Outline of Content- Interviews with members of different groups, Interview with Sociology Teacher, Interviews with people who are stereotyped, Interview with people who don’t conform to any subculture, Film Clips linking to subculture group, Music Videos linking to subculture group, Newspaper Articles talking about groups, Magazine Articles talking about groups, Surveys giving us information about the groups.
Resource Requirements
-Digital Camera Recorder
-USB Lead for Camera
-Tripods
-Adobe Premiere Software
-Adobe Audition Software
-Microphone
-PC
RUNNING ORDER
Documentary : Fitting in
Channel : Channel 4
Scheduling : Wednesday November 25th 8.00-8.30pm
Duration : 30 Minutes (including advert break)
•Montage of clips and images from the programme, voice over says ‘Goths, Rockers, Scallies, Punks and Gangstas, all names given to groups of teenagers today, but what exactly is a subculture and what effects do they have on society?’10secs
•Opening Titles 10secs
•Voxpop of people in a town centre who are all asked “what do they think of teenagers today?”20 secs
•Interview with a sociology teacher who talks about peer pressure and why teenagers feel the need to conform to a group.1 min
•Video clips play of The Sex Pistols, Marilyn Manson and Eminem play as the voice over explains that perhaps people follow their idols and inspire to be just like them is what creates a subculture, this is followed by a clip of comedian Lee Evans who talks about teenagers in his show.20secs
•Interview with Callum McIness, someone who in the past has been stereotyped to be a Goth. 1min
•Interview with Dean Carr, someone who used to be associated with the scally group.50secs
•Interview with Lee Farragher, someone who is stereotyped as being associated with the scally group 50secs
•Interview with Lisa Smeadley, someone who purposely tries to be different and tries not to conform. 1min
•Cut to a slow zoom from extreme close up of the face image of Sean Mercer, the murderer of young boy Rhys Jones, explain what happened and the fact Mercer was in a gang, Voice over asks ‘did the peer pressure of having to fit in with a group force a young lad to murder?20secs
•Interview with Sean Mercer’s old headmaster, talking about what Sean was like in school and the type of people he hung round with.1min
•Montage of different clips of different groups of scally lads hanging round in parks, some shots of them drinking, this is whilst the voice over talks about the ‘ASBO’ culture that is effecting Britain and how the Scally social group stereotype is normally associated with it. 20secs
•Interview with Liverpool City Council representative on the subject of Liverpool’s ‘Yob Culture’ 1min
•Clips from the films ‘This Is England’ and ‘Quadrophenia’, the voice over talks about the representations of different social groups and the way they act, showing the violent scenes from ‘Quadrophenia’ and asking the question ‘Are teenagers influenced by peers?’40secs
•Cuts back to show more answers from the voxpop, with the third question being asked ‘What to you is peer pressure?’ 30secs
•Archive footage of Goths and heavy metalists at gigs whilst voice over talks about how teenagers might not just be influenced by peers but by an iconic figure of that social group, ‘step forward Marilyn Manson’. 30secs
•Images and music video clips of Marilyn Manson played; voice over explains who he is, how he is the main image of goth and rebellion, and how his actions have influenced fans in the past such as the murder of a nun in Italy and the Columbine high school shootings. 1min
•Cuts back to voxpop again, with people answering a fourth question ‘What do you think of Marilyn Manson?’ 40secs
•Images panning down of newspaper articles of Manson and in particular one about him being blamed and him denying the blame of influencing the actions of teenager killer Luke Mitchell who killed his girlfriend Jodi Jones in America in 2005. 1min
•Camera stops and zooms into close up of Manson and voice over asks the question ‘So if Marilyn Manson can influence the actions of one teenager, what else can subcultures influence?’ 20secs
•ADVERT BREAK 3mins
•Voice over says that subcultures may have a negative influence but they also have a positive influence on some aspects of our culture, such as the punks, their movement and revolution in the 60’s and 70’s influenced many, such as bands like Green Day, clips of music videos of Green Day play.30secs
•Voice over then goes on to explain what the punk movement was and that it gave society and people the idea of free speech and standing against the government, protesting, and the punks’ way of dressing has also had some effect, some of the ways people dress today have punk influences such as the erratic hairstyles people have. Clips of punks and punk lifestyle back then.30secs
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