Questionnaire
1. Gender?
Male Female
2. Age?
15-20 21-25 26-30 31-40 41 +
3. How long does it take you to get ready?
5-15 minutes 15-30 minutes 30 minutes – 1hour 1 hour or more
4. How long do you spend on your hair?
5- 10 minutes 10- 15 minutes 15-30 minutes 1 hour or more
5. How often do you go the hairdressers?
Every week Every other week Monthly Every other month
Every 6 months
6. What length is your hair?
Short Long Mid Length
7. What colour is your hair?
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8. How many times do you look in the mirror to fix your hair?
Every time you see a mirror Occasionally Most of the time Never
9. Do you wear your hair the same every day?
Yes No
10. How would you describe your image? (Indie, Punk, Unusual)
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11. How important is your hair to you? ( 1 being very- 5 not at all)
1 2 3 4 5
12. Do you dye your hair?
Yes No
13. Which celebs hair do you admire?
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14. How much do you spend on getting your hair done?
£3- £10 £11 £25 £25- £50 £51- £75 £76- £100 More
15. What would the limit be for you to pay to get your hair done?
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Initial Ideas
Hair:
- Time line of hair styles - Victorian times, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s.
- Hairdressers - For older people, For younger people.
- High end hairdressers.
- Punks.
- Chavs.
- Cheaper hair cuts.
- Hair accessories - Clips, Clamps, Bobbles.
- Different hair types - Ethnic hair.
- Natural hair - Never been dyed.
- Hair colours - Brown, Blond, Purple, Red, Ginger.
- Hair Extensions - Natural, Fake, Prices.
- Different hair styles - Bouffants, Pony tails, Buns, Braids, Plats, Perms.
- Cost of hair cuts.
- Crazy Hair cuts - Spiky, Cover over.
- Hair cuts - Bobs, Trim, Shave.
- Boys Hair - Short, Long.
- Time line of boys hair - 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s.
- Wigs - Victorian, Barrister.
Brainstorming
Documentaries Possibilities
- Movies - Genre
- Music - Singers, dancers, Bands
- Food - Cooks
- Fashion
- Chocolate
- Pets
- Stereotypes
- Hair
- Kittens
- Bracelets
- Library's
- Media - Journalists, Teachers, Technicians
- School - Teachers, Students
Scheduling
The schedule for each day can be broken down into clear segments. These segments are:
Daytime
Evening
Post-watershed
The target audience for these segments is as follows:
Daytime:
BBC1 - older target audience, e.g. cash in the Attic
BBC2 - Both young children and adults e.g. CBeebies for young children and Open Gardens for adults
ITV1 - Housewives/women, e.g. Loose Women
Channel 4 - Young adults, e.g. Friends
Channel 5 - Both adults and children, e.g. Milkshake for children and House Doctor for adults.
Evening and Post Watershed:
BBC1 - Young/older adults e.g. Eastenders
BBC2 - Adults e.g. Culture Show Special
ITV1 - Adults e.g Emmerdale
Channel 4 - Young adults e.g. The Simpsons
Channel 5 - Adults e.g. RoboCop 2 targeted at adults because it contains violence
The target audiences for each of the terrestrial channels:
BBC1 - Adults e.g. The One Show
BBC2 - Mixture e.g CBBC and Mock The Week
ITV1 - Adults with more of an aim to women e.g. 60 Minute Makeover
Channel 4 - Younger Adults e.g. The Simpsons and Friends
Channel 5 -Mixture e.g Home and Away and swordfish
The estimated percentage of each channel's shedules which are taken up with repeats:
BBC1 - 12%
BBC2 - 10%
ITV1 - 5%
Channel 4 - 10%
Channel 5 - 15%
There is a small percentage of repeats on each of the channels which may be done in order to make more people watch the specific programme's at that set time, leading to a bigger audience.
Channels 4 and 5 have more imported programmes in their schedules. On Channel 4 there is Desperate Housewives and on Channel 5 there is Neighbours, Home and Away and CSI Miami.
The term Watershed is the name given to television programmes which are shown after 9 O'clock because the programmes that are shown arent suitable for younger people. For example on ITV1 Grandma's House is shown at 10 O'clock which is after the watershed showing it may contain bad images or contain adult humour.
Sheduling Theory
• TV companies want to reach the right audience for a particular programme.
• Inheritance - scheduling a programme after a popular programme in order to inherit some of it's audience.
• Pre-echo - Scheduling a programme before a popular programme, hoping viewers will tune in early and enjoy the previous programme.
• Hammocking - a programme is scheduled inbetween two popular programmes. Remote controls have an imact on this. Satellite, cable and freeview audiences have a much more active role in their television experience then they used to, can create their own TV schedules. Also with Sky+ audiences can pause live TV.
• Watershed - The watershed is after 9 O'clock, after which programmes contain stronger language, sexual scenes, violence, drugs and alcohol.
• Narrowcasting - this is another example of scheduling, it gives the audience specific choice and stops them using their remote control. Examples of TV programmes which do this are The Disney Channel, Wedding TV, Nickelodeon, Living and many more
TV companies want to reach the right audience for a particular programme.
Watershed after 9 - sex,drugs, violence
Narrowcasting - specific target audience - e.g. disney channel, discovery channels, Nickelodeon, LivingTV, Dave.
Daytime
Evening
Post-watershed
The target audience for these segments is as follows:
Daytime:
BBC1 - older target audience, e.g. cash in the Attic
BBC2 - Both young children and adults e.g. CBeebies for young children and Open Gardens for adults
ITV1 - Housewives/women, e.g. Loose Women
Channel 4 - Young adults, e.g. Friends
Channel 5 - Both adults and children, e.g. Milkshake for children and House Doctor for adults.
Evening and Post Watershed:
BBC1 - Young/older adults e.g. Eastenders
BBC2 - Adults e.g. Culture Show Special
ITV1 - Adults e.g Emmerdale
Channel 4 - Young adults e.g. The Simpsons
Channel 5 - Adults e.g. RoboCop 2 targeted at adults because it contains violence
The target audiences for each of the terrestrial channels:
BBC1 - Adults e.g. The One Show
BBC2 - Mixture e.g CBBC and Mock The Week
ITV1 - Adults with more of an aim to women e.g. 60 Minute Makeover
Channel 4 - Younger Adults e.g. The Simpsons and Friends
Channel 5 -Mixture e.g Home and Away and swordfish
The estimated percentage of each channel's shedules which are taken up with repeats:
BBC1 - 12%
BBC2 - 10%
ITV1 - 5%
Channel 4 - 10%
Channel 5 - 15%
There is a small percentage of repeats on each of the channels which may be done in order to make more people watch the specific programme's at that set time, leading to a bigger audience.
Channels 4 and 5 have more imported programmes in their schedules. On Channel 4 there is Desperate Housewives and on Channel 5 there is Neighbours, Home and Away and CSI Miami.
The term Watershed is the name given to television programmes which are shown after 9 O'clock because the programmes that are shown arent suitable for younger people. For example on ITV1 Grandma's House is shown at 10 O'clock which is after the watershed showing it may contain bad images or contain adult humour.
Sheduling Theory
• TV companies want to reach the right audience for a particular programme.
• Inheritance - scheduling a programme after a popular programme in order to inherit some of it's audience.
• Pre-echo - Scheduling a programme before a popular programme, hoping viewers will tune in early and enjoy the previous programme.
• Hammocking - a programme is scheduled inbetween two popular programmes. Remote controls have an imact on this. Satellite, cable and freeview audiences have a much more active role in their television experience then they used to, can create their own TV schedules. Also with Sky+ audiences can pause live TV.
• Watershed - The watershed is after 9 O'clock, after which programmes contain stronger language, sexual scenes, violence, drugs and alcohol.
• Narrowcasting - this is another example of scheduling, it gives the audience specific choice and stops them using their remote control. Examples of TV programmes which do this are The Disney Channel, Wedding TV, Nickelodeon, Living and many more
TV companies want to reach the right audience for a particular programme.
- Inheritance - scheduling a programme after a popular one to try and 'inherit' their audience.
- Pre-echo - scheduling a programme before a popular programme that viewers will tune in early.
- Hammocking - between two popular programmes
Remote controls have had an impact, satellite/cable/freeview - makes audience active (sky+)
Watershed after 9 - sex,drugs, violence
Narrowcasting - specific target audience - e.g. disney channel, discovery channels, Nickelodeon, LivingTV, Dave.
summary of codes and convections
- Interviewee not central.
- Opposite side of the screen.
- Cutaways.
- Caption of name and job title.
- Voice over - with images.
- Archive material used.
- Hand held camera work.
- Images used to relate/ illustrate voiceover.
- Narrator/ presenter/ voice of god.
- Interviewee looks at camera with a space next to them (looking space).
- Documentary type matches TV channel and audience.
- Non diegetic matches genre and audience.
- Talking head interviews.
- Narrative structure.
- Mise en scene signifies something.
- Factual and imformative.
- 'Vox pop' interviews.
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Documentary analysis 5 documenteries
Documentary 1
Title of programme: The devil made me do it.
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. Channel 4
Narrative structure: enigma code, 2 little stories both set up enigma code, Marilin Manson Becomes connected, enigma code starts to be connected. wide range of people interviewed, different sections to the story.
Camera work: hand held camera, looking off camera, establishing shot to show the start of a new section, make it more realistic. establishing shot to show the start of a new section. make it more realistic.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, people placed in front of relevant, creating drama, shows importance because he is dressed in his uniform, grave yard, formal interviews-to not so important shows negative representation.
Sound: voice over in English-translator, non digetic sound and digetic sound, music , church singing, heart beating, church bells. help explain, men talking makes it more serious.
Editing: interviews with cutaways, the images related to what he is talking about, filming of the dark images.
Archive material: Marilin Manson- concert and press
Graphics: Black background, stereotypical, peoples names at the bottom, same throughout.
Documentary 2 -This documentary didn't grab much attention because of the subject it was based on.
Title of programme: The music biz- market meatloaf
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. BBC2, educational, making music is all about making money. being told what to think.
Narrative structure: sets the scene at the beginning at the Brit awards, then goes to the main story about meatloaf. shows a campaign and then shows its success.
Camera work: hand held camera as you look at the red carpet, makes it more exiting as if you are there. point of view shot as the camera walks through the door puts the audience in the press.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, cutaways during the interviews. interviews with meatloaf, fade in fade out interview.
Sound: voice over male to show authority, music builds up the question
Editing: creating a pace/ excitement, going to interviews with meatloaf
Archive material: performances, still images and videos
Graphics: interview made to look like its in a magazine, making images behind the person talkings head, quotes on the screen.
Documentary 3
Title of programme: That thing lara croft
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god
Narrative structure: starts with the game then how lara is a sex symbol then how she has become an icon then about the film.
Camera work: still camera, relevent cutaways.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, interviews filmed in font of the game
Sound: voice over is male to match the target audience, 'rave, upbeat' music played also to match the target audience.
Editing: Peoples names, pased pased, filmed heads over a blue/green screen.
Archive material: None
Graphics: Lara croft game.
Documentary 4
Title of programme: Jail Date
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. Channel 4
female voice
Narrative structure: straight forward structure
women in jail
voice over tells the names
follows four men dating women in prison
Camera work: static camera
looking off camera
establishing shot
follows the peoples lives
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot
Sound: voice over, non digetic sound and digetic sound, music- soft.
Editing: interviews with cutaways, the images related to what she is talking about
Archive material:
Graphics: Black background with white writing
Documentary 5
Title of programme: Children in care
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. Channel 4
Narrative structure: story line to do with chilren and how being in care effects them.
Camera work: hand held camera, looking off camera, establishing shot to show the start of a new section, make it more realistic. establishing shot to show the start of a new section.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, people placed in front of relevant,
Sound: voice over , non digetic sound and digetic sound, music ,
Editing: interviews with cutaways, the images related to what he is talking about.
Archive material:
Graphics: Black background.
Title of programme: The devil made me do it.
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. Channel 4
Narrative structure: enigma code, 2 little stories both set up enigma code, Marilin Manson Becomes connected, enigma code starts to be connected. wide range of people interviewed, different sections to the story.
Camera work: hand held camera, looking off camera, establishing shot to show the start of a new section, make it more realistic. establishing shot to show the start of a new section. make it more realistic.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, people placed in front of relevant, creating drama, shows importance because he is dressed in his uniform, grave yard, formal interviews-to not so important shows negative representation.
Sound: voice over in English-translator, non digetic sound and digetic sound, music , church singing, heart beating, church bells. help explain, men talking makes it more serious.
Editing: interviews with cutaways, the images related to what he is talking about, filming of the dark images.
Archive material: Marilin Manson- concert and press
Graphics: Black background, stereotypical, peoples names at the bottom, same throughout.
Documentary 2 -This documentary didn't grab much attention because of the subject it was based on.
Title of programme: The music biz- market meatloaf
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. BBC2, educational, making music is all about making money. being told what to think.
Narrative structure: sets the scene at the beginning at the Brit awards, then goes to the main story about meatloaf. shows a campaign and then shows its success.
Camera work: hand held camera as you look at the red carpet, makes it more exiting as if you are there. point of view shot as the camera walks through the door puts the audience in the press.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, cutaways during the interviews. interviews with meatloaf, fade in fade out interview.
Sound: voice over male to show authority, music builds up the question
Editing: creating a pace/ excitement, going to interviews with meatloaf
Archive material: performances, still images and videos
Graphics: interview made to look like its in a magazine, making images behind the person talkings head, quotes on the screen.
Documentary 3
Title of programme: That thing lara croft
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god
Narrative structure: starts with the game then how lara is a sex symbol then how she has become an icon then about the film.
Camera work: still camera, relevent cutaways.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, interviews filmed in font of the game
Sound: voice over is male to match the target audience, 'rave, upbeat' music played also to match the target audience.
Editing: Peoples names, pased pased, filmed heads over a blue/green screen.
Archive material: None
Graphics: Lara croft game.
Documentary 4
Title of programme: Jail Date
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. Channel 4
female voice
Narrative structure: straight forward structure
women in jail
voice over tells the names
follows four men dating women in prison
Camera work: static camera
looking off camera
establishing shot
follows the peoples lives
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot
Sound: voice over, non digetic sound and digetic sound, music- soft.
Editing: interviews with cutaways, the images related to what she is talking about
Archive material:
Graphics: Black background with white writing
Documentary 5
Title of programme: Children in care
Type of documentary: expository, voice of god, images to go with the voice and story. Channel 4
Narrative structure: story line to do with chilren and how being in care effects them.
Camera work: hand held camera, looking off camera, establishing shot to show the start of a new section, make it more realistic. establishing shot to show the start of a new section.
Mise-En-Scene: head and shoulder shot, people placed in front of relevant,
Sound: voice over , non digetic sound and digetic sound, music ,
Editing: interviews with cutaways, the images related to what he is talking about.
Archive material:
Graphics: Black background.
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Documentary Genres/style analysis
Expository
Im possible to create a genuine 'window on the world', focus on personal issues means many are superficial and apolitical, they are edited like other documentaries so they are full of bias and subjectivity.
Docusoaps
'dramadoc' - a documentary reconstruction of the actaul events using techniques taken from fiction cinema e.g. Historical documentaries.
Current affairs
- Style created by a 'voice-of-god' - narration which is directly addresses the viewer.
- Voice over anchors the maining of the images being shown.
- Images illustrate what the narrator is saying.
- These documentaries are usually centered around a problem that needs solving.
- This style began with the 'direct cinema' techniques.
- Lightweight camera equipment allowed crews to film right where the action was.
- Creating dramatic excitement.
- Avoids voice oversor commentary.
- Camera is as unobstrusive as possible.
- Close to a 'window on the world' idea.
- The audience is allowed to see an unmediated reality.
- Indirect address to the audience.
- Diegetic sound.
- Relatively long takes, demonstrating nothing has been cut/edited out.
- Focus on a specific individual, during crisis or drama.
- Event offend unfold in front if the camera.
- Led to a greater interest in the personal and the intimate.
Im possible to create a genuine 'window on the world', focus on personal issues means many are superficial and apolitical, they are edited like other documentaries so they are full of bias and subjectivity.
Docusoaps
- Docusoaps are a hugely popular hybrid.
- Long-running documentary series.
- Fictional soap opera follows a group of characters chosen for their quirkiness and entertainment value.
- Docusoaps have been based in institutions.
- They were made possible by lightweight camers equipment.
- Have an episodic, soap-like structure.
- Several interviewing plot lines.
- There are a relationship between characters.
- If the characters play up to the camera, we know it is part of the style.
- Everyone accepts the breaking of the natuatlist illusion.
- The 'shallowness' of the genre has prompted criticism.
- The intrest of the genre is ordinary but they create and promote 'stars' because of the success.
- The genre doesnt tell us anything about society
- Sometimes the characters become nationally know personalities.
- Audience get to know the characters.
- nothing serious happens to the main characters so the genre remains toungue-in-cheek.
Reality TV
- Factual TV characterised by a high degree of hybridsation between different programmes.
- Referred to as 'infotainment'
- Combination of entertainment and the provision of useful information.
- Often in prime-time and re-and-post-watershed slots
- 'Reality TV' hs become used to describe the most high-impact of the new factual televsion.
- A mix of 'raw', 'authentic' material with the seriousness of an information programme.
Reality TV is characterised by:
Camcorder, surveillance or observational camera work; first-person or eye-witness testimony; studio or to-camera links and commentary from presenters.
- Popular term to describe programmes that use 'ordinary' people filmed in a first-person or confessional style.
- Unmediated and direct as possible
Interactive
- Acknowledges the presence of the camera crew.
- Generally in the form of a interview.
- The audience is constantly reminded of the exsistence of the multiple viewpoints.
- 'Voice of God'
- Seen as being more honest becuase there is no attempt to disguise the camera and crew.
- Manipulation of the audience.
- Interviewer sets the agenda by asking 'loaded' questions and choosing who to interview.
- Interactive mode is clearly as constructed as other genre of documentary.
Drama-documentary
- Reconstruction and re-enactments are as old as documentary itself.
- Reconstruction was done patly because of the technology avaible at the time.
- Gained new recognition in the 1990's.
- Use by television journalists.
- Arouse much debate , because they are evn more open to bias and interpretation than other documentaries.
- Factual programmes.
'dramadoc' - a documentary reconstruction of the actaul events using techniques taken from fiction cinema e.g. Historical documentaries.
Current affairs
- Journalist-led programmes whose aim is to addres the news and the political agenda in greater depth than news bulletins.
- Emphasis is on the investigatory and the political, seeking out atrocity and political scandal.
- Organised around journalistic report.
- Reporters frequently appear in vision but there may be a voiceover by the 'voice of the programme'.
- Documentary footage is rarely broadcast unedited and once they have given permission to film, documentary subjectss are in the film-maker's hands.
- Film-maker balances their resonsibility to those who appear in the programme with their legal obligations.
- The relationships between programme makers and their subjects varies; they can be reporting on their subjects, investigating them, or observing them; they could be interpeting what they do and have to say, or arguing their subject's cause.
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