Filming - More Vox Pops

Today Jess and I filmed some more Vox Pops to include in our documentary. We asked various people what their favorite and worst smell, taste, sound, sight and touch was. 

Filming - Interview with Penny Williams

Today Jess and I went to The Guide Dog Association to film our interview with Penny Williams. For our mise en scen we were unable to use the training center as a background as we were unable to visit the larger training center we therefore set up the interview so that there was a Guide Dog Association banner in the back ground. 

Afterwards, we filmed stock footage which can be used as cut aways during our interview. Some of this footage includes shots of guide dogs at work and also in training. 

 

Moreover, Penny gave us some leaflets which we can use as secondary research to help us with our documentary. 

Filming - Margret Ross's Second Interview

Today, Jess and I re-filmed the interview with Margret Ross. This time we framed Mrs. Ross in a close up so that her eyes were more prominent in the shot. We also re-shot some stock footage as we felt this would be beneficial. 

Below are some pictures of us filming.

 

Also, after finishing the interview with Margret Ross we visited three different opticians and inquired about the possibility of an interview with an optician about how the appointments are structured.   

Filming - Shots For The Beggining Sequence & Capturing

Today Jess, Ashleigh and I filmed and captured more footage which we needed for our beginning sequence. This included shots such as a close up of hands and a mid shot of someone sneezing.

Bellow are some pictures we took during the filming process. 

 

Filming - Capturing Beginning Sequence Footage

Today we captured the footage that Jess and I filmed yesterday. Because of technical difficulties some of the shots were slightly blurred as the focus on the camera was set to manual. This means that we will have to film some of the shots again. 

Filming - Shots For The Main Sequence

Today, Jess and I filmed shots to include in our main sequence, we filmed things such as someone listening to music, a close up of eyes and someone sneezing etc. 

We also received a reply from penny Williams and replied informing her of the type of questions she will be asked.

Filming - Capturing The Title Sequence

Ashleigh, Jess and I captured the footage we filmed yesterday for the title sequence as we believe that we will be able to use the footage in our documentary.

Filming - Title Sequence

Today Ashleigh, Jess and I took the camera around school and filmed some of our cutaways for our beginning sequence. We filmed shots such as extreme close up of eyes and close up of ear. 

Filming - Capturing Previous Footage

Jess and Ashleigh captured the footage from our previous day's filming. I was unable to attend however, the footage was good and will be used in our documentary.

Filming - Capturing Margret Ross & Jim Ross's interview

We captured the footage from Margret and Jim Ross's interview. On watching the footage we discovered that the framing of the interview was not suitable as the main feature of the interview should have been her eyes where as the mise en scen was distracting us from them.

We have rescheduled our interview for another time.

Filming - Vox pops

Jess and I went to two shopping centers and filmed some vox pops. We asked many people what their favorite and worst smell, taste, sound, sight and feelings were and filmed their answers.

We also filmed for our beginning sequence where the camera is hand held and walking down a street. We took two different shots to see which one we preferred.

Filming - Margret Ross and Jim Ross

Jess and I went to Margret Ross's interview at her home. Ashleigh was unable to attend as she was ill. We encountered no problems with the filming of the interview and also asked Jim Ross (Margret's husband) some additional questions while we were there. I have attached a copy of them bellow.

1) How has it affected your life since Margret lost her sight?

2) Do you find it hard to keep on top of housework and activities in your daily life?

3) How is your eye site?

4) Tell me about the help and support you would like to further receive?

Moreover, we also filmed one of the cutaways for our beginning sequence - a hand stroking a dog.

Planning - Music Bed Copy Right

In order to use MGMT's song 'Electric Feel' as out music bed we had to email the record company which owns the song to ask permission to use it in our documentary.

Planning - Cut Aways We Need To Film

Margeret Ross interview

Magnifying glass
Card
Writing aid
Hearing aid
Glasses
Talking watch
Audio books
Stick
Signature card
Family photos

Guide Dog trainers

Guide dogs training
Equipment
Toys
Treats
Kennels
Posters
Leaflets

Planning - Title

This is a plan of how we want our title to look like:

Planning - Story Board

This is an image of the story board we drew (for the opening sequence of our documentary)

Running Order

Running order
Vox pop – ask questions about senses (only show the answers)
20 SECONDS

5 questions about the 5 sense (white writing) Zoom into the 5 senses as the questions appear
20 SECONDS (each sense 4 seconds)

Black background and creative text with features of purple which was the most popular colour & how much do we depend on our senses?
5 SECONDS

Close up of a lot of hands (touch) Voice over introducing topic
4 SECONDS

Medium close up of someone sneezing
4 SECONDS

Extreme close up of eyes (eyes and glasses) track along multiple eyes
4 SECONDS

POV of food
4 SECONDS

Mid shot of someone putting in a hearing
4 SECONDS

POV down street – looking around surroundings, goes black, keep street sound & the interviewee voice
30 SECONDS

Interview with Margret where she tells where she tells us about being blind
1 MINUTE

Blind fold someone showing them getting around a room. Margret’s interview over it telling us how hard it is to be blind and how hard it is to get around.
1 MINUTE

Interview with Lennie and Lyn talking about training guide dogs
2 MINUTE

Guide dog stories in the papers piling on top of each other. Birds eye view. Have a dog come in and sniff the paper.
30 SECONDS

Vox pop of favourite and worst taste
15 SECONDS

Cut to an interview about curry and cut between pictures of the curry as he says it.
1 MINUTE 30 SECONDS

Clip of big brother chilli tasting with voice over about dangers of eating chilli’s and how to cool the taste.
1 MINUTE

Chilli on a chopping board – cutting between chilli being cut until it disappears.
15 SECONDS

The king is dead clip of Dappy unable to use his hands
30 SECONDS

Statistic of “9 out of 30 people said they could live without touch”
4 SECONDS

Blind game with different angles and count down tune
30 SECONDS

Cut between answers
10 SECONDS

Questioning of each person about how hard they found it
2 MINUTES (30 seconds for each person)

Vox pop of sound (favourite or worst)
15 SECONDS

Interview with a drummer
1 MINUTE

Concert footage
15 SECONDS

Film ipods with voice over including statistics (“The most frequent volume of an mp3 player is 75%”). Information about headphones.
30 SECONDS

Close up of hearing aid changing settings
10 SECONDS

Interview with a hearing dog trainer
1 MINUTE

Clip of a hearing dog working with a voice over
1 MINUTE

Vox pop of favourite and worst smell
15 SECONDS

Interview with somebody who works in a sensory garden
1 MINUTE

POV hand held showing sensory garden
1 MINUTE

Guess the smell and interview about game
2 MINUTE

Statistics over the picture of the smell
30 SECONDS

Black background with creative writing
20 SEONCDS

Establishing sensory images with credits over
20 SEONCDS

Research For Documentary - Primary: Planning of the Margret Ross Interview

Here is a sketch of the framing of Margret Ross' interview

Research For Documentary - Opticians

Today i received a phone call from the manager of Specsavers Options informing me that none of their opticians were willing to take part in our documentary.

Research For Documentary - Primary: Planning of Penny Williams Interview

Below is a sketch of our interview with Penny Williams

Research For Documentary - Secondary: Facts & Figures On Being Blind

Here is the secondary research i have conducted which we may use in our documentary in the section about sight:

• Worldwide, about 314 million people are visually impaired. Of these, approximately 14% (45 million) are blind.

• Most people (87%) who are visually impaired live in developing countries. In developing countries, cataracts (a cloudy area that forms in the lens of the eye) are responsible for most cases of blindness (48%).

• With the right treatment, about 85% of visual impairment cases are avoidable, and approximately 75% of all blindness can be treated or prevented.

• Due to improved public health, the number of people who become blind after having an infectious disease has fallen over recent years. However, age-related visual impairment is increasing.

• Visual impairment usually affects older people. Globally, women are more at risk than men.

(http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Visual-impairment/Pages/Introduction.aspx)

• The guide dog service costs the guide dog owner a nominal fee of just 50 pence to ensure equality for all in the UK

• There are currently 4,500 working guide dog partnerships in the UK

• The full lifetime cost of a guide dog from birth to retirement is £48,500

(http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/)

Here are some stories in the news about guide dogs which we could use:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7835357/Guide-dogs-being-attacked-by-fighting-pitbull-types.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2539859/Blind-man-refused-guide-dog-because-he-walks-too-slowly.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5897234/Blind-border-collie-gets-his-own-guide-dog.html

Here is some useful information about visual impairment and some examples which we could use:

http://www.kent.gov.uk/adult_social_services/your_social_services/services_and_support/sensory_disabilities/deafblind_information/types_of_visual_impairment.aspx

Here are some examples of images we could use to show visual impairments.

This is research we may use in our documentary in the section about taste: 

Here is some information which may be useful with things such as voice overs 

• Drink a cup of milk, holding the milk in your mouth for five second intervals. Milk, unlike cold water, has been known to actually subdue the effects of spicy food as opposed to covering up the symptoms for a short period of time.
• Place an ice cube in your mouth. An ice cube is much colder than the ice water people normally reach for when their mouth is hot but an ice cube is colder and lasts for a long time in your mouth.
• Eat a piece of bread. The bread will soak up the chemicals on your tongue that is causing the burning sensation.
• Swish ice water around in your mouth and repeatedly spit it out. The motion of the water on your tongue will help lift the chemicals that create the burning sensation in your mouth. When you spit the water out, you will also be eliminating the chemicals from your mouth.

(http://www.ehow.com/how_4525095_cool-mouth-after-eating-spicy.html)

This website (www.chilliworld.com) features a chilli heat scale (http://www.chilliworld.com/factfile/scoville-scale-of-hot-sauces.asp). There is also some other relevant information featured on the site such as the FAQ page which has many questions and answers about chilli's (http://www.chilliworld.com/factfile/chilli-peppers-FAQ.asp).

The following research is on sound and we may use some or all of it in our documentary:

http://www.hifiheadphones.co.uk/headphone-buying-guide-by-type.html

This website could give us information about the type of headphones available. 

http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/ - this is a website all about hearing dogs and includes things such as the history of the charity. 

Hear are some more useful links

http://bda.org.uk/

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Hearing-impairment/Pages/Causes.aspx

The following links will be useful in the section of our documentary about Touch:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/3020379.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2283609.stm

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Research For Documentary - Primary: Possible Interviews

Interviews we may do:

1. Margret Ross  who is partially blind and deaf. We will be interviewing her about what it is like being blind and how she manages.
   Margret will be interviewed in her house, sitting in 'her chair' in her living room. This is because this is where Margret is most comfortable.  
   
   
2. Lennie and Lyn who train guide dogs. We will be asking them questions such as what they do to train the dogs, how long they have them, how difficult/ rewarding it is. 
   We will also be interviewing Lennie and Lyn in their house - as this is where the training takes place. 
   (If they are training a dog at the point of the interview then we will film the training of the dogs to use as archive.)
   
   
3. Indian restaurant owner in his restaurant talking about which curry's people order most and which curry they prefer.
   
   
4. Sensory garden worker with the sensory garden as a back ground. We will ask them about what it is like to work in a sensory garden & what qualifications are needs. 
   
   
5. People who played the blind fold game at the table they played it on. We will ask them about the task and how they found it. 
   
   
6. Interview with Margret Wright about being deaf. The location of her interview will be in her home. 
   
   
7. Interview with a hearing dog trainer. We will interview them in the environment in which they train the dogs and will ask them about the dogs and how they train them. 
   

Research For Documentary - Primary: Penny Williams Interview

Today we emailed a guide dog association and asked them about a possible interview with them as we believe that this would be beneficial to our documentary. 

Bellow is a copy of the email we sent Penny Williams:

Research For Documentary - Primary: Margret Ross Questions

Margret Ross interview questions

· Tell me about how and when you lost your sight?

· How did you adjust to losing your sight?

· Are you happy with the amount of help & support you have received?

· What happens at your hospital check ups?

· How has it affected your daily life?

· How have you changed your surroundings to accommodate your loss of sight?

· Do you miss anything about being able to see? (if appropriate)

· What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

· Do you have any gadgets or technologies to make your life easier?

· What would make your life better/easier?

· Do you think that a guide dog would be beneficial?

· Are there any benefits to losing your sight?

· (Talking books?)

Some of these questions are closed questions, however we thought it would be necessary to gain the most information as possible.  

Research For Documentary - Primary: Emailing Penny Williams

As part of our research, we have been emailing Penny William's from a guide dogs association and we are currently discussing a suitable location for the interview.

Moreover, after looking on the website we used google maps to discover more about guide dogs and where the guide dogs association was located so that we would be able to travel there to film some footage of the dogs and possibly film the interview.