Proposal/Treatment.
Our London Bombings documentary starts off with text spread across three individual ‘fade in fade out’ sequences which it then introduces the subject of the documentary, ‘On the 7th of July 2005...’ ‘London was the main attraction...’ ‘When 4 bombs exploded around the heart of the city’.
I found some other BBC footage on YouTube announcing a bomb had just exploded at Liverpool Street Station and was advising everyone to stay at home. Lauryn and I were planning on using the audio to place on top of the text.
We then used some archive footage taken from YouTube we used a 3 minute clip of news reports from different countries, for us to emphasise to the audience how much of a widely spread issue it was.
We then added more text because we were moving onto the next date ‘21st July’ which is what the majority of our documentary is about, we felt like we couldn’t reflect on the 21st July bombings without mentioning the 7th which is when the bombs went off 2 weeks before the failed explosives were found. The next section of text is spread over another three individual ‘fade in fade out’ sequences, again, introducing the 21st July. ‘...But what many people often forget is...’ ‘Another attack was attempted, just 2 weeks after...’ ‘On the 21st…’.
This text sequence then fades into the interview we have with Mark Maybanks who had the failed explosive on his bus on the 21st July. For the shooting of this interview a tripod was used for a steady mid-shot from a side angle.
We had Mark speak about his day and how he acted when he heard the explosive. We had used Final Cut Pro to edit the interview, we didn’t want to have just an interview so in some parts we had picked out just the audio, this is because there was also a reenactment that went along with when he was explaining his daily routine.
We then added on to extra parts of the documentary, for example, we used a reenactment from a Chinese news report, from when he was explaining how he found the bomb and describing what it looked like. We also included images from the internet of the bomb itself, which then helped to match Marks descriptions of the bombs.
We then plan to add a map showing where the terrorists started their journey and which terrorist was where, showing in depth detail of the situation, on top of this we were going to add a voiceover because it will help the audience follow what’s going on, it will just be a short narration explaining what’s going on in the pictures.
The rest of the documentary isn’t finished yet, so what is left will be cut and swapped around with some other pieces, for example, we have filmed a lot of footage from the locations of where the bombs went off for the 7th July for us to show the audience how much London has changed and how people get on with these things as they don’t feel they’re an issue at the moment, when filming this we used many different shots and movements, for example, long shots, close ups and panning, these varied shots helped us to be able to shoot different areas.
I found some other BBC footage on YouTube announcing a bomb had just exploded at Liverpool Street Station and was advising everyone to stay at home. Lauryn and I were planning on using the audio to place on top of the text.
We then used some archive footage taken from YouTube we used a 3 minute clip of news reports from different countries, for us to emphasise to the audience how much of a widely spread issue it was.
We then added more text because we were moving onto the next date ‘21st July’ which is what the majority of our documentary is about, we felt like we couldn’t reflect on the 21st July bombings without mentioning the 7th which is when the bombs went off 2 weeks before the failed explosives were found. The next section of text is spread over another three individual ‘fade in fade out’ sequences, again, introducing the 21st July. ‘...But what many people often forget is...’ ‘Another attack was attempted, just 2 weeks after...’ ‘On the 21st…’.
This text sequence then fades into the interview we have with Mark Maybanks who had the failed explosive on his bus on the 21st July. For the shooting of this interview a tripod was used for a steady mid-shot from a side angle.
We had Mark speak about his day and how he acted when he heard the explosive. We had used Final Cut Pro to edit the interview, we didn’t want to have just an interview so in some parts we had picked out just the audio, this is because there was also a reenactment that went along with when he was explaining his daily routine.
We then added on to extra parts of the documentary, for example, we used a reenactment from a Chinese news report, from when he was explaining how he found the bomb and describing what it looked like. We also included images from the internet of the bomb itself, which then helped to match Marks descriptions of the bombs.
We then plan to add a map showing where the terrorists started their journey and which terrorist was where, showing in depth detail of the situation, on top of this we were going to add a voiceover because it will help the audience follow what’s going on, it will just be a short narration explaining what’s going on in the pictures.
The rest of the documentary isn’t finished yet, so what is left will be cut and swapped around with some other pieces, for example, we have filmed a lot of footage from the locations of where the bombs went off for the 7th July for us to show the audience how much London has changed and how people get on with these things as they don’t feel they’re an issue at the moment, when filming this we used many different shots and movements, for example, long shots, close ups and panning, these varied shots helped us to be able to shoot different areas.
- Newspaper reports and official letters/other resources - From Ellie's dad (Mark Maybanks).
- Questionnaire analysis report
- Documentary compare and contrast report
- Ellie's home research report (Mark Maybanks interview).
Throughout the research process my group collected sources of information and put them into several reports, we used a range of documentary research methods such as secondary research (newspapers, letters), primary research (questionnaires, surveys, reports), quantitative (analysis report of the questionnaire) and qualitative (the documentary comparison report).
We were better off with using our own primary research because it's a lot more reliable based on the fact that we had gathered the information ourselves.
The secondary research were helpful resources because it helped to back up primary research, it also informed us on what happened within the incident. Although we don't know if the news reports are accurate because each newspaper is different and each article is written in a slightly different way, so we mainly pick up on the facts that come up most within the news reports.
Quantative research (analysis report of the questionnaire) was a useful source of information for us to be able to identify our target audience, it also gave us an idea into what our target audience want to see within the documentary. For example, in our questionnaire one of the questions were 'Do you like to watch documentaries? If so what mode?' This was a vital question for us to be able to identify our demographic, and to see if a specific age or gender would like our documentary mode.
Qualitative research wasn't the most important part of our research, as we only used it for ideas on how to improve our own documentary.
Qualitative research wasn't the most important part of our research, as we only used it for ideas on how to improve our own documentary.
