Poster Analysis:
The title is weightless, in "Tahoma" font this has been chosen because its easy to read, bold and serious. I tried to keep the layout simple and uncluttered so people wouldn’t have to spend to long reading it. I made some things bigger than others in value of their importance, so institutional references and the title I made the largest and the tag line I made smaller. The tag line is “4stone and fat” we chose this because the weight is shockingly low and no one who is 4 stone could possibly be fat, we felt it shows the psyche of eating disorder sufferers well and with great realism.
Poster drafting:
We wanted our poster to be shocking, to reflect the documentaries subject of eating disorders. we wanted it to make people stop, and think. The purpose of the poster was to surprise people and show them what an important issue eating disorders can be and then to hopeful interest people enough so they will watch the documentary.
Firstly we wanted our main image to be of a severely thin person to show people how serious eating disorders can be. Although we needed to take the picture and we didn’t know anyone who was that ill with a disorder. We then thought about photographing a delicious plate of food with a tag line saying is this scary… or something to that effect. We thought although it would be easy to do it wouldn’t be shocking enough to grab peoples attention.
Then I thought of photographing someone standing on scales, I photo shopped the number to make it really low. I chose black and white because I felt it made the poster more serious but kept it looking simplistic which I think is important for a poster. The main image was taken by me, and then photo shopped. I turned it black and white and changed the lighting and contrast to make the image more raw. And I lastly added typography saying the information we needed it to contain.
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| Original Photo taken by me. |
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| Image made black and white. |
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| With upped contrast and 4 logo. |
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| Tinted blue. |
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| Contrast upped and lighting altered. |
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| Lighting and contrast changed. |
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| More info added and image lengthened. |
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| Only the top part lengthened. |
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| Picture cropped and turned to landscape. |
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| Image lengthened clearly showing parts of high importance. |
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| This was going to be our final poster but then i improved it further. |
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| This is the final poster. with presenter centred and feet further down the page and intiuitional ref. made smaller. |
Location Pictures
We searched around for suitable locations to film our short film. we thought these places were the best for interviewing people, as it wasnt too distracting.
Characters
Characters
Joe is the central focus of the short film. We will be looking at him in depth about his eating disoder to educate the audience on the subject.
He will be wearing casual clothing, to make him more relatable and so the audince can focus on him rather than the costume, we want to avoid distractions. And to link back to the target age group, as this is the type of clothing that they would wear.
He will be wearing casual clothing, to make him more relatable and so the audince can focus on him rather than the costume, we want to avoid distractions. And to link back to the target age group, as this is the type of clothing that they would wear.
Kathleen is the presenter and will be interviewing joe, herself, and the mother. She is also present to infrom the audience about eating disorders and to set the scene, so the audince are aware of the subject we are focusing on. We chose to use a presenter to ensure that what we are trying to infrom about is clear, and to inform the viewers of who we are interviewing.
Dorothy is the mother in the documentary and she explains her expiriences on the subject. This gives a different viewpoint and the audiece can also relate to her if they are older.
Soundtrack
We used two different songs in our short film. The tone of both contrast with eachother, to represent different emotions. The first song is slow and is quite sad and the song features at the end of the film is upbeat and happy to represent the emotions of the people we interviewed. We ensured that we got permission to use the audio tracks, here is a copy of the e-mail we sent to record producing company.
stop frame animation
I decided to try and do a stop frame animation to see how good and succesfull i could make it look to see if i should consider using it in my short film. I soon relised that the process of taking this many pictures toke a very long time to do and it was difficult to redo a section if the first time went wrong which was very frustrating. Another thing that was hard was getting the times right between each picture so that it looked fluent and clear. By doing this small test of me walking i relised that i didnt want to do this in my short film as i didnt think it would look as good as filming.
This is the first draft story board, for my groups documentary on eating disorders:
Final Draft of Storyboard
First draft of storyboard, after developing our ideas. It was apparent that we had to create another draft of our storyboards to be accurate
Shooting Script
[Music Fades In]
[Establishing shot of narrator walking towards camera]
[MS of the narrator]
[Music fades out]
Narrator: In this documentary we are going to take a special look and view at the very relevant and serious issue of Eating Disorders. Let’s take a look at peoples various opinions on the matter...
[Music slowly fades in]
[Close-up shot of each member of the public]
[Music fades out]
Actors :( each actor gives a brief description individually answering the questions)
[Statistics appear on screen in front of an establishing shot of all the people that were interviewed]
Narrator: a shocking 1.1 million people in the UK alone are affected by an eating disorder, also that females are 10 times more likely than males to be affected by an eating disorder and that only 25% of women are happy with their weight. Pressures from the media endorse this as 91% felt it was bad that the media always portray so-called perfect women.
Narrator: Before we take a closer look, at [states names of patients] we decided to go and ask the public a few questions about the subject and see if we can get a few different views
[LS of narrator walking into town]
[Tracking the Narrator]
Narrator: Can you spare a few minutes to participate in our documentary?
Person 1: ?
Questions that the narrator is going to ask the public:
1. Do you have much knowledge on the subject of eating disorders?
2. Do you know anyone that has been affect by an eating disorder?
3. Do you have a view on eating disorders?
4. What do you think is the meaning of an eating disorder is?
5. What comes to mind when someone mentions an eating-disorder?
6. What do you think are the causes of an eating disorder?
[MS of narrator]
Narrator: Sums up findings of the public interviews
Questions to ask the patients
1. What was your lowest point?
2. What made you admit to yourself that you had a problem?
3. How is your relationship with food now?
4. What was your lowest weight?
5. When did you really start recovering?
6. How did it start?
7. What helped you through it, why didn’t you just give up?
8. How long have you been diagnosed for?
[LS of the patients walking away together]
Planning Frame
| Characters | Predominantly female, some male. Recovering eating disorder patients. Who will be in film, and purpose: Those who have experienced eating disorders will feature and tell of their journeys, what led to it, what got them through it etc. As to evoke emotion, inform audience of what’s behind eating disorders, and to show how the smaller things mean so much more. |
| Setting | Some filming would have to be done on the street to film those not affected by eating disorders to make it more casual. Filming of the E.D interviews could be in any room, as long as it had the same backdrop. It would be a bit impractical to film on the street so perhaps we could take the random interviewees into one of the rooms for a more practical filming location. |
| Events | The narrative will consist of a silent narrator and questions shall just appear on the screen, to make it seem more personal, or a one on one interview with the interviewer being behind the camera. The film will start on an introduction with random people being asked what does the word “it” mean to them, and then develop to what the word means to those affected by eating disorders. It will develop by showing how such a small thing taken for granted can mean and be so much more for another person. |
| Problem | Eating disorders and people who suffer with it. |
| Resolution | The ending will conclude on returning to ask other people what the word “it” means to them, and then contrast it with those who it does affect. |
| Conclusion | How they are now - what they expect of the future |
Synopsis
The narrative will consist of a silent narrator and questions will appear on the screen, to make the film seem more personal. At the beginning it sets up the documentary with the interviewer talking about eating disorders on a normal street surrounded by average people. Then it will lead on to random people being asked what does the word “it” (what sufferers refer to their eating disorder as) mean to them, and then develop to what the word means to those affected by eating disorders. It next develops by showing how such a small thing which most of us take for granted, e.g. eating can mean and be so much more to another person.Then they introduce the place where people go for help. They continue the exploration by talking to the people there and then sufferers who tell of their journeys. The Interviews are the most important events in the film. The ending will conclude on returning to ask other people what the word “it” means to them, and then contrast it with those who it does affect. To conclude the interviewer asks about their thoughts on life now and the future as they see it.
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Day 1:
Wednesday 27th October:
Location: Reading-Forbury Gardens-Location had nice scenery, much greenery and a public place. Reminiscent of the clinic grounds Marina stayed at.
Clothing Casual
Sainsbury’s in Reading, easy access to shots of food and magazines.
11am - Forbury gardens - panning shot of scenery (include water fountain in shot) (10 minuts maximum)
11.10am - Forbury gardens - interview between Joe and marina (40 minutes maximum)
12am - Sainsbury’s - panning shot of magazine stands, and film plan of various food products.
Day 2
Thursday 28th October
Location: Henley College - Rotherfield Benches - Nice scenery in background, common place for students to be having lunch, eating.
Easy access to students available for interviewing, creates a juxtoposition as they eat their lunch whilst talking about eating disorders.
12.10 - Set up equiptment.
12.15 - Film interviews of personal experiences, asking questions or letting participants ad-lib. (approx 30 minutes max)
Location: Henley college - Art courtyard - previously planned to be filmed near exam hall but wheather conditions created too much external sound. The courtyard creates an intimate atmosphere perfect for a personal interview.
13.30 - panning shot(s) of scenery.
13.35 - Re-set up equiptment and shot to avoid external sound interference.
13.40 - interview Olivia (E.D. patient). Approx 30 minutes maximum filming.
Day 3Friday 29th October
Location: Henley college - media studio 1 - the studio is very small and ideal for an intimate interview, the shot is lit by natural lighting. The set of the room helped provide an over-the-shoulder shot.
14.40 pm - set up over-shoulder shot and check that the shot is properly lit. (approx 5 minutes maximum).
14.45 - interview Kathleen about her knowledge of eating disorders. (20 minutes maximum).
15.05 - Extreme close up shots of Kathleen. (5minutes maximum).
Day 4 Monday 1st November
Location: media Room R115 - A casual student oriented backdrop to the shot, creating a casual interview atmosphere with the natural college environment.
10.35 - Arrange backdrop to scene and set up equipment. (10 minutes maximum).
10.50 - interview with Maggie about her friends suffering with eating disorders, and having her views/opinions. (include close up shots). (30 minutes maximum).
Location: Henley College - entrance corridor to media room R115 - the brick wall creates a different backdrop for this interview than in the other shots. First male interview, aiming to get a different perspective.
12.00 - set up equipment and shot. (5 minutes maximum).
12.05 - Jordan talking about his views and opinions on eating disorders. (maximum 20 minutes).
Shooting Schedule
Location | Date | Subject | Details |
Henley College | 18th October | Setting up equipment, doing a few test shots | |
Henley College Henley Town | 19th October | General public Students Narrator | Asking the public/students a few questions on the subject of our documentary, to get different perspectives |
Henley college Henley Town | 21st October | Students General public Narrator | Continue to film and ask questions |
Henley college Henley Town | 25th October | Background | Filming a few shots of the town/college to get a ‘establishing shot’ |
Henley College Classroom | 26th October | E.D patients Narrator | Start to film and interview the patients, in a quiet and private room. Interviewing them about their eating disorder |
Henley College Classroom | 1st November | E.D patients Narrator | Continue to film and interview them |
Henley College Classroom | 2nd November | E.D patients Narrator | Finish off our questions, and finish filming them |
Henley Town Sainsbury’s | 4th November | E.D patients | Film them from a distance and finish off any unfinished filming |
DEADLINE | 5th November | DEADLINE | DEADLINE |
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