An Apple a day... What is your film going to be about? And is there a secondary meaning, or deeper focus? A 'Damn Nice Caff' was about the New Piccadilly and its closure, but also explored the life-story of the unnamed narrator. The film will explore the development of apple from tree to product. Also exploring how the apple can be used to create a contrast of products, ours being Cider and Apple Crumble, two completely different products in context to generation, usage and age range. The documentary will also include a deeper meaning, using a British product which everyone some day in their life will come across and shows how different generations interrupt the apple ranging from the social use (alcohol) to a more domestic use (food). What is it that makes you personally interested in the subject? It is my home town and current location's main fruit and product which is made in North Somerset, living directly near to a apple orchard and Thatchers cider company, it is a great interest of ours to explore the meaning and usage of something so local to us, giving us the knowledge and location for this type of documentary. What sort of logistical hurdles will you have to overcome? Such things as weather conditions will play a big part of the documentary. Being in the month of November now, one day it could be hammering it down with rain and the next it could be clear sky, or even snowing. This continuity error could play a big part in keeping the film in sync and making it flow, if the weather changes or doesn't look the same of the camera's screen then this could stand out the fact that each scene was not filmed on the same day. Advertising is also a part that could be a challenging hurdle whilst making this film. This is due to the fact that one of our main areas of filming will be of the Thatchers companies surrounding, we will have to make sure no advertising of any sort of the companies name is including in any shot, as we do not have the legal rights to contain the 'Thatchers' name in the documentary. The opening hours of different locations needed for the documentary could effect the time of day we can film different sequences and we will have to keep in mind which scene is coming before which, this is so the day light doesn't suddenly go from daylight to getting dark, back to bright daylight. This will have to be considered when writing up the shooting schedule. Your documentary is part of a longer programme - how long will it be? what is the specific segment? what will come immediately before and after? Our documentary will last around 5 minutes long, this is because it will only be a section of a longer documentary. In reality, if we were able to create the full documentary then the running time will be much longer and around 35 minutes long. The specific segment of choice will be taken from near the end of the film and is part of a continuous conclusion to the film. Scenes before the extract will include similar locations and carry out the rest of the understanding and different relations of an apple. What channel is your documentary going to go out on? Is it part of a strand (i.e story ville, cutting edge) or a standalone film? What other documentaries will it resemble? What time of day will it be shown? This film is suited for more of a educated adult audience, who would have a general interest in this film and the meaning behind it. Therefore we see this documentary being on either Channel 2 or a documentary themed channel like BBC 4. Whether the film is a stand a long film or part of a strand, that is a whole other conversation between the other member's of my team. At this point in time we are undecided as there are many other possibilities to make it part of a strand but whether the film had interest from viewers and whether there would be a chance to produce more. Although this is our thoughts, at the moment i would see this to be a stand alone film as the subject of apples is limited for discussion, and we feel that the documentary would include all of this. I think this documentary will resemble nature programs such as A Damn Nice Caff, where it explores the tradition of Britain. The middle of the day when adults have arrived back from work, will be the perfect time to present our documentary to the public on television. Will your film be reflective, classical, experimental? Is it a film about a process (glass eye), or a journey (My new brain), or a discovery, or more observational (a damn nice caff)? Our film will be mainly observational being reflective to the film a damn nice caff, but it could and might have elements of a journey documentary as the film takes you through the journey about an apple and the different process' of an apple, what you can make it into, how they are produced, who eats these products and so on. I think the film will be following the apple like a person. Who is your target audience? Be as precise as possible. Our target audience will be adults, male and females, ranging from 40 years to 60 years, mainly focusing on adults who have time to spare and who have had kids, which have now grown up. This is because they will have more time to appreciate the British Apple and would be more interested in our documentary compared to a 20 year old.
Storyboard:
Below is our storyboard which was the first planning session we had to do with our final documentary product. The storyboard was sketched out and added with detailed discription of the shots and content which we can imagine will be in each scene. After constructing the first storyboard we felt we needed to add some colour and a wider discription to the text below each scene, this is why we came up with a new set of storyboards where the text is detailed, colour is added and some scenes changed, as our imagination began to broaden with ideas.
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