Documentary Script

Documentary script 

The Documentary script will be based on a varied collections of scenes.

Scene 1

Opening visuals?

This will be the start of our documentary where we shall set the scene or the main purpose of our documentary. Something possibly shall be narrated at the start about how pop music has been in a constant change each year, has it been for better or for worse? This shall set our question or subject matter that we hope to explore and explain. We shall also show the different artists since the 1930s to the current day through a slideshow of images that shall flash upon the screen.

Scene 2 
Visuals

This section of the documentary will most likely have the interviews with bands and members of the public on our topic of pop music. We'll ask them what's their favourite aspect of the current music industry and maybe views on how music has changed. This section will embody the main/key information or factual nucleus of the documentary. Interviews will be put in place in order to express members of the publics views on certain questions we may ask. These will be conducted around RavensWood School, Hayes, Bromley and surrounding area of South-East London.

Scene 3
Key Questions you want to answer here...

Here we be exploring data on interviews we have conducted and help ourselves reach a conclusion to our exploration of the change in pop music over the time 'era's'. In this section of the documentary there will most likely be voice over from one of our group members explaining our own opinions on whether the change in pop music has had more variety in the past and present representation of pop music and culture. 

Equipment List for Documentary

What equipment we need for the, 'How pop music has changed?' Documentary...



Camera
We will obviously need a camera to film the documentary, preferably I would rather be using a smaller but still good quality camera as we will be moving from different locations as this will be of great assistance if we are lugging heavy equipment around. We are going to rent these from the media department at Ravens Wood School.

Microphone - Boom and handheld
We need a microphone to record audio for my documentary. When I
have organized interviews with bands and industry professionals, I will use a Boom microphone because I don't have to hold the mic in my hand and it will give a nice solid flow of audio throughout the interview because its in  the same position and we will most probably be inside so there will not be any wind noise and there is no need to use the sock.
Nevertheless the quick interviews that I'm going to do with random members of the public I will use a hand held microphone because this doesn't bring a lot of unwanted attention to us which you'd get with a big boom microphone and also just makes it easier to get a clear sound of the persons voice by holding it close to there mouth, through all the loud crowds in urban areas, this is defiantly a better choice. This will be rented from the media department at Ravens Wood School.


Paper and pens for questions for interviews for what questions
A notepad and pens are essential to take to the interview in order to take brief notes on what our interviewee replies to each of our questions. So this will help us evaluate each question. Spare pens will also be essential to bring as one may run out and prevent us from writing our notes.









Prepared Questions and other paper work
I will have pre-prepared questions for the interviews, I will do some of my own research on some different bands and industry professionals that I plan to interview. These are an essential piece of information to bring because this will ensure i have got a interesting interview not a vague boring one.










Tripod
This shall be rented from the media department, this will help us film a steady interview and prevent the camera from shaking, which will physically make the interview look very amateur and unprofessional, which we want to avoid and giving a polished and high grade final project. This shall also be included within the deposit from the media department at Ravens Wood School.

Small light (e.g. lamp)

Because I will be doing some interviewing on public streets, I will need someone to hold the camera whilst I ask questions, so I will need a teammate to do this for me.

Documentary Story Ideas

'Life'

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How Popular Music, 'Pop', has changed throughout time

This documentary idea is very interesting because it has changed a lot since the 40's and there a lot of factors within music to talk and debate about now. We can compare the past musical icons to the modern-day musical equivalents, E.G: Rolling Stones to The Black Keys. We would use archive footage of past events and get our own interviews with people that have something to say about music.