Last planning lesson

Task 1:
Complete your planning from last session and homework

Task 2:
a) Having downloaded the footage you need to introduce your segment, record your voiceover using the audio recording studio or on your phones.

b) Alternatively, use a camera to record direct address to camera piece each - remember you will need to introduce each of you individually so it makes sense to the audience.

Edit together your linked segment

Here is an example of the different approaches

Planning

Interview/Doc planning

Task 1: Preliminary Research

• Source archive and stock footage from youtube for montage
• Conduct research into what exiting opinions and investigations have been done into your topic (Vox Pops)
• Facts and stats

Conclusion - how will this affect the questions you ask?

Task 2: Background Research

Look into the credibility and background of your contributor, annotate how can you factor this into your questions

Task 3: Proposal & Questions

Having had your Interviews Format and Topic agreed complete your full proposal for your interviews ready to be signed off/agreed by the Commissioning Editor of Factual Programming (Me)

Include:

• Format of your production (doc, news, studio, panel)
• Outline of your interview proposal/question 
• Who your expert will be (name, job/role and contact details)
• What they will be able to contribute/opinion/expert or specialist knowledge & experience
• Locations that will establish the credibility/relevance of the contributor
• A summary of research into the subject matter - stats and facts, previous studies/docs etc
• 10 proposed questions based on your research for your contributor

Annotate your 10 questions into a structure and comment on why you will use open or closed

Task 4: Contact (Building Rapport, Courtesy email)

Contact your contributor by telephone (record this by playing the conversation on speakerphone and have another phone record the vocal memo or use the camera) This will go onto your portfolio

• Introduce your topic/format and student non-broadcast project
• Why you think they would be suitable
• Agree availability of time, date and place
• Follow up with courtesy email with your 10 questions & release form.
• If you get any resistance remind them that they will have the right of editorial (over final edit)

Lucy, Melissa, Michelle Preproduction Paperwork to produce 1 segment

*Producer  

+Director  

-D.O.P.

·    Journalist/production log Update the log showing changes you have made to your film and why.

·    +Script of your segment introduction (V/O), link to interview & wind up in correct format

·    - Detailed storyboard, including camera shots/angle/movement and editing/sound and lighting of your segment, including introduction and presentation for BBC3 doc-format.

·    *Produce an equipment list detailing which equipment you will need, where you will get it from etc (cameras, lighting, sound etc).

·    *Location information – carry out a recce on your planned locations. Include detailed information of this and add photos. This should include health and safety information and a risk assessment.

·    *Production schedule – this should include realistic deadlines and time scales of when all activities will take place.

·    *Call Sheets – produce for each day of filming.

·    +Contingency plans – produce back up plans which explain what will happen if your locations/actors etc are not available.

·    *Budgets Outline your finances and the cost of each item you will need to pay for.

·    +Personnel Outline the personnel you will need and their job roles – include your contributor’s background research and contact & release form

23.6.15 Planning the Doc Segment & Interview

Objective: To investigate, brainstorm & plan your documentary and interview
M/D To structure questions and evaluate reasons	·         Write reflective log explaining your intended style, use of questions and how you have structured the interview
P/M To apply research to interview script	·         Treatment for your interview, discussing intended presenting style, location and purpose (why you are interviewing this collaborator) ·         10 questions for your interview using open and closed, direct or indirect
M To investigate	·         Preliminary and background research into contributor ·         Location and Schedule ·         Telephone Contact ·         Courtesy email
P/M To know about and apply	·         Outline Ethics and editorial guidelines in dealing with contributors ·         Apply Guidelines to a given example ·         Brainstorm potential ideas for doc segment ·         Describe 3 different Documentary presenting Styles and discuss Purpose

Task 1: Know about

Doc presenting style (discuss how style matches purpose)

Case Study 1

Case Study 2

Case Study 3

Presentation Style & Documentary Techniques (setting up the interview and moving on the narrative - linking segments)	Louie Theroux	Stacey Dooley	Michael Moore	M Explain Effect/Purpose
1. Direct Address (to camera)
2. V/O with cut aways
3. Observational (Verite)
4. Other
Introduction to the documentary using BBC3 format	Montage of Soundbites Voiceover Introduction to the presenters Soundtrack and editing (choice of, pace of the editing) Title
Conclusions, sign off, resolution to the story

Ethics and Guidelines

• BBC Editorial Guidelines
• BBC Crossing the line 180 deg rule, eyeline match,...
• BBC Self Shooters
• BBC Casting Contributors
• BBC Interviewing in a contributors house
• BBC Academy Interviewing Contributors
• BBC Academy Consent
• BBC Academy Research
• BBC Academy Working with Contributors

Task 2: Apply to example

• BBC Editorial Guidelines

Task 3: Brainstorm & Treatment

Task 4: Research the Interview

Documentary Interview Case Study 3: Stacey Dooley

Documentary Presentation Case Study 2: Michael Moore

Documentary Presentation: Case Study 1: Louie Theroux

BBC Editorial Guidelines

Case Study 1: Jeremy Kyle Show

OFCOM 

Treatment of 17yr old contributor

6.2.1

We will be open, honest, straightforward and fair in our dealings with contributors and audiences unless there is a clear public interest in doing otherwise, or we need to consider important issues such as legal matters, safety, or confidentiality. 

6.2.2

Individuals should normally be appropriately informed about the planned nature and context of their contributions when they are asked to take part in BBC content and give their consent, unless there is an editorial justification for proceeding without their consent.

6.2.3

When our output contains allegations of wrongdoing, iniquity or incompetence or lays out a strong and damaging critique of an individual or organisation, those criticised should normally have a right of reply, unless there is an editorial justification to proceed without it. 

6.4.1

We should treat our contributors honestly and with respect.  Our commitment to fairness is normally achieved by ensuring that people provide 'informed consent' before they participate.  'Informed consent' means that contributors should be in possession of the knowledge that is necessary for a reasoned decision to take part in our content.

(See Section 3 Accuracy: 3.4.7 - 3.4.8)

Before they participate, contributors should normally know:

• why they are being asked to contribute to BBC content and where it will first appear
• the context of the content
• the nature of their involvement.

The more significant their contribution, the more detail we should provide.  However, we should normally expect to explain the following:

• The kind of contribution they are expected to make. We should tell them in advance about the range of views being represented in the specific content to which they are contributing and, wherever possible, the names of other likely contributors
• Whether their contribution will be live or recorded and/or edited. When recorded, we should not guarantee it will be broadcast
• We can only give a broad outline of question areas because the direction the interview takes will be dependent on what is said
• The final content will be a fair and truthful representation of what they say and do
• Their contribution may be used by other BBC outlets including reproduction and archiving online

6.4.8

Young people and vulnerable adults may not always be in a position to give informed consent, for example, people with learning difficulties or forms of dementia, the bereaved, and people who are sick or terminally ill.  In such cases, someone over 18 with primary responsibility for their care should normally give consent on their behalf, unless it is editorially justified to proceed without it.  In particular, we should avoid asking someone who is unable to give their own consent for views on matters likely to be beyond their capacity to answer properly without the consent of an adult with primary responsibility for their care.