Thursday, 26 November 2015

Shot List

Shot list:

Shot 1 - 6 will be a short montage of a 'hustle and bustle' of people walking, a cashier, buses. This could vary depending on shots which could be 1 second instead of 0.5 seconds.

Shot 7 - This shot will last 4 seconds and it will focus on a young and old person at a bus stop, this will be a still long shot.

Shot 8 - 11 will include 4 shots that last 2 seconds each which will show a catwalk clip, someone reading a celeb magazine, a girl looking at herself in the mirror and a extreme close up with a blurred background.

Shot 12 - 18 will include a shot beginning at a extreme close up on someone typing on a keyboard then transitioning to a mouse, then a fast zoom out to a high right angle facing down, then to a mid shot over the right shoulder slowly going closer to the computer then to a POV shot of looking at YouTube and Instagram.

Shot 19 - 23 will begin at a foot and then slowly go upwards from the shoe to the person looking through a camera, we have done this to present the creativity of our generation. Then there is a transition which is from zooming into the camera and transitioning to someone grabbing a pencil presenting our generation is artistic, then zooming out to present the person drawing.

Shot 24 - 25 will be someone drinking from a Starbucks cup then quick cuts back and forth from a Starbucks cup and a Costa cup to show similarity.

Shot 26 will be a long shot of a group of people and all dressed very similar.

Shot 27 will be a series of images showing hipsters to fill up screen with a collage.

Shot 28 this is where our film opening will tell the audience our film opening is about tattoos as this will be an interview about tattoos and this will be presented in a mid shot and we have chosen tell the audience this late is so enigma is created throughout the film opening.

Shot 29 This is where the title will appear and the title will be surrounded in tattoo related images.

Shot 30 (possibility) We could have a final clip after the title scene but this will be to create enigma and we are not sure what it will include.

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Marketing Research

Marketing Research

Our target audience is 16-24 year olds. Therefore our marketing will be based on what influences people of these ages. We believe that most people young people who would be influenced by a tattoo documentary usually use all kinds of social media. Therefore we will advertise our film on the most popular social media sites. Such as:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Reddit
  • Imgur


Another idea for our marketing is to use YouTube, as many teens frequently use YouTube. We could use a trailer of our film as an advert on YouTube to advertise our film. We could also chose to only include the advert on tattoo related videos as the people watching these videos are most likely to watch our film.


We would also create a website for our Documentary as a way of finding us. Our website would include such things as :


Home page - short introduction of the documentary.
Newsletter about the production of the documentary.
Links to our social media
Trailer Tabs
The team portfolio
Diagram Plan of website :::

Friday, 20 November 2015

Email to Tattoo Parlours

Dear Sir or Madam,

We are Year 12 Media students from Great Baddow High School and a part of our coursework is to create a film opening. We are filming a documentary about the rise of a tattoo culture within our generation.

Would it be possible at all for us to visit your parlour at a weekend or a weekday evening to interview you about a variety of subjects surrounding tattoos - the process of preparing the equipment necessary and maybe film someone getting a tattoo.

We would ensure to not interfere with any of the customers in the vicinity. The final production will only be viewed by fellow media students, teachers and the exam board. It would not be used for anything apart from for educational purposes but of course we would be promoting your parlour in a positive manner to our generation, who may be interested in getting tattoos in the near future.

We are excited to get started within the next week and would love to use your parlour as our setting. We wouldn’t be there any longer than 1-2 hours, ensuring we do not interfere with any of your customers and we are more than happy to work around you within the times you provide us.

Looking forward to your reply with any questions or queries.

Yours sincerely,
Ben Griffiths
Mobile (07921 426393)
Email (bengriffiths102@gmail.com)
cc. (hentonmedia@gmail.com)
cc. Mobile (07443 336743)

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Risk Assessment


Title Ideas

I've looked at many documentaries online about tattoos and all seem to have feature words to do with skin, ink and tattoos. However we wanted to create enigma for our documentary, so we decided not to add any words like that.

Titles I feel we could use:
Living Canvas
Living Ink
Tatted Generation
Painted People

We were also thinking of the fonts we could use for our title. We used the title 'Tatted Generation' as an example but it is still currently a working title. These are the fonts we decided we could:

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Music Research

For our music research we decided to look for YouTube supported, royalty free music. This means we face no copyright issues and are allowed to use the music in our film opening. We looked through many different tabs, to change genre and mood, to find the best song/s for our opening. We have found two songs that we feel best fit the mood and enigma we wish to create in our opening. We have chosen a dramatic/ambient song with a deep baseline to create enigma and a dramatic mood. And we also chose a happy upbeat piece to create a positive vibe about our documentary.

Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Title Research - for Documentaries

Title Research 

We researched the films McCullin and Ed Hardy : Tattoo the World
  • Production team (This is always first and usually has 'In association with' before it.)
  • Who filmed the documentary (Usually saying 'A Film by...')
  • Cinematographers (Usually with 'Cinematography....')
  • Music (Who created the music for the documentary, usually with 'Music...)
  • Who edited the film (Usually with 'Film Editors...')
  • Who produced the documentary (Usually with 'Executive Producers...')
  • With interviews the names and their role in the documentary comes up as they are interviewed

Order of appearance in the opening scene:
  • Soda Pictures (With logo, on a black screen)
  • A Group production logo 
  • A film by Nathan Henton
  • Cinematography, Aaron Hunt
  • Music, from the YouTube Bands (Names included)
  • Film Editors, Nathan Henton & Ben Griffiths
  • Producer, Ben Griffiths
  • Title of the film (Tatted Generation)