Documentary: Consisting
of, supported by, contained in, or serving as a document or documents. Also
designating or of a film, TV program, etc. that dramatically shows or analyses
news events, social conditions, etc., with little or no
fictionalisation.
News Programme: A subject
that's reports on local recent
news.
Factual Programme: A subject that is full of information;
facts, statistics.
Finance: You have to think about the cost for equipment,
transport, talent, crew, materials, facility hire and
clearances.
Time: A deadline is the lasted date or time something has
to be completed by. Deadlines are important for documentaries, as you need the
current information on that topic, this is also important with the news as if
all the other news broadcasters have the story and you couldn't as you didn't
meet the deadline it will make a bad word for the news team. Availability of
equipment is also important for both news and documentaries, as for example in a
documentary you saw something that would really make a difference to the
documentary and you didn't have the right equipment you would miss out on a
opportunity, as well as in news if you didn't have the right equipment and a
bomb scare or something along those lines had happened you would also miss out
on the opportunity and people watching would change and watch another news
channel as you didn't have the
information.
The phrase "timescales for clearance" means waiting for
clearance from councils.
Personnel:
The Director - The main responsibility of the
Director is to come up with the overall vision for the documentary. This should
largely be decided at the pre-production stage. It then requires the director to
translate this vision into actual shot material. It is their job to ensure that
the material the director and his/her team shoot is technically and creatively
of a high standard, is truthful, fair, entertaining and is of interest in terms
of subject matter or narrative. [£65/hr
based on standard per day rate]
Camera Man- films or takes still photos £30 per
hour.
Accountant- keeps track of budget, costs.
£20per
hour.
Actor- performs in front of the camera. £15+
per
hour.
Audio Technician- records sound and edits it.
Musician- plays or chooses music to be used. £15 per
hour
Narrator- does voice over of content £10 per
hour.
Planner- develops production schedule, rents
equipment (if necessary).£30 per
hour.
Producer- oversees the whole process, procures
releases and handles copyright issues. £65 per
hour.
Product Editor- edits film, recordings, looks for
programming bugs, etc. £100 per
hour.
Publicist- creates press releases and the
announcement for the Premiere.
Site Coordinator- scopes out and coordinates
location(s) for filming, recording. £20 per
hour.
Writer- writes all content, scripts, presentations,
and accompanying documentation. £30 per
hour.
Facilities: Production kit needed is things such as cameras
as you will need them to film footage. Also tripods which are stands for the
camera helps to film a steady shot, by this I mean it stops a shot being wonky
and shaky. The Computer is used to edit the footage from the camera and edit the
audio from the tape recorder and then it is used to edit the whole production
and to bring it together.
As well as them two pieces of equipment you need
microphones to record non digenetic and digenetic sounds and things such as
background noises. Last of all editing studios and sound studios. Editing studio
are needed to edit footage and sound studios are needed to create sound to go
with footage they may record voice over’s, add music
etc.
The average size of a factual programme production team can
vary depending on how big the documentary is. The cost of an average production
team can also vary depending on the size and if its an independent or if it’s a
big production.
Materials: Original materials film material. Archive and
library material is live footage. Photo library materials pictures taken, sound
library is the music we use in our documentary. Script is what we say in our
documentary in order from start to finish. Interview is when we will talk to
people to see there personal opinion. Recorded music is music we recorded to go
in to our documentary.
Contributors: Specialists are people that specialise in a
certain area; experts are people that know a lot about a subject, example
doctors knew a lot about swine flu. Public is where the public have their own
opinion. These are all needed to make a documentary successful, its more
interesting to see a wide variety of views from different people then just one
group of the same views.
Locations: A Reece is where you go to the location and find
out whether it is suitable for your documentary. The limitations and risked of a
production are things such as access, distance, cost, weather these are risks as
if you needed to film a action packed car scene but the roads were really icy
that would be too dangerous to film. Distance is important you need to know
where you need to go to film what and if it’s a realistic idea. Cost, can you
afford to pay the cost?
Codes of practice and regulation: Its important to have
clearance before you show goes live because it makes sure everything is legal
and follows OFCOM regulations.
"Ofcom
officially the Office of Communications is the government-approved regulatory
authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United
Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act
2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003. Ofcom's
focus no longer includes some of the technical standards issues overseen by the
previous regulatory
