Documentary Project Notes

Unit 3 - Research Techniques - Research your doc
Unit 2 - Communication skills - Communicate the ideas for your doc 
Unit 1 - Pre Production - Plan your doc

• Write a blog post using headings

•  Understand the requirements for a specific media product through analyzing pre production different documentaries and applying the headings to the documentary you will make.

• You will have to create a blog post titles Unit 1 Assignment 1 using the following subheadings 

 Time

1. A Shooting schedule is a collection of each day's shooting for a film production.
2.  Sticking to a shooting schedule is important because it keeps cast and crew aware on whats going to happen on the day of shooting

Personnel 

1. Form a documentary/ies of your choice, look at the credits, research the crew members (cameras, sound, researchers etc) what have they worked on before, what qualifications/expierience do they have?
2. Its important to get the right crew so you no you have a crew with good standards and are actually capable of using a camera.

Finance

1. Where do you get money from to make a documentary? how did the documentary you have watched get funded?
2. How much is it to clear music or clips from other tv/film companies

Locations

1. Where was the documentary you have chosen filmed?
2. What did they have to do to get permission to film there?
3. Make sure you have commented about why you get permission.

Facilities 

1. From the same documentary, find out what equipment they might have used, any specialist kit that they needed.    
2. What camera, sound, editing equipment will you need to make your documentary, what are the technical specs of these
3. What are the costs of hiring
4. Why is having the right kit important   

Materials 

1. From a documentary you have seen what archive or materials from the other films/promgrammes have they used? who would they need to get the clearance from to use this footage?
2. Have they used popular music, who wiuld they have to get the clearance from?
3. what is a clearance/copyright, and who do you pay to get one?

Contributors

1. From a documentary of your choice, find out who the contributors were, who have they interviewed? were there any specialist advisors they needed to make the documentary