Stereotypes (working title)

1. Stereotypes (working title) Josh Wells Holly Brabbins Phil Mundy

2. One of us will be the voice over in our group and through this, we hope to create a better understanding of the stereotypes of younger people by expressing both biased and unbiased opinions. Once all filming has been done, we will then be able to filter through all the footage and select certain clips/images that help to make the viewer aware of the narrator’s explanation and give a better understanding. This ultimately makes a more persuasive documentary. Using a variety of camera angles will create emphasis on the explanation that the voice-over will be giving. Such camera angles can help express the opinions of people, so it is important that the we use a range when filming the interview’s and anything else that will be deemed important for our documentary. We will try to capture as many images as possible for our documentary and some of them may not be crucial for our documentary. However, by using the computer software Imovie we can edit these images into montage sequences to help keep our audience entertained and interested. But filming and taking photo’s in local places we are helping emphasise the actuality of our documentary and this also helps the viewers relate to it as truthful and more believable. This will also be done using interview footage that we ourselves have filmed. We will occasionally use archival footage in order to help get our point across to the audience and will be used as extra evidence for our documentary. We will organised interviews which involve people of different ages and their opinions on young people. To do this we will go to a variety of places, for example; town centre, our school, local parks, local villages etc. A montage sequence at the beginning will help the exposition of our documentary, as it will include interesting footage and photography that will hopefully catch our audiences’ attention and inform them what our documentary is about.

3. There will be a large amount of montage clips in our production with voice over's been played over them. We feel that this will give the audience the decision that they want to believe and follow. This is going to be a documentary on the stereotypes of young people and we want the audience to take other’s opinions into consideration and this will be incorporated to support this in our documentary. “Young people today are lazy, ignorant and do not think deeply about things. Do you believe this is an accurate description of adolescents and young people? Or do you believe these are stereotypes endlessly repeated by adults and media?” – (http://voicesofyouth.org/sections/beyond-the-stereotypes) This statement proves that there is clearly a biased opinion about young people and that we are constantly being stereotyped for our behaviour and appearance. We are aiming to try and change these opinions through our documentary and to make our viewers aware of what young people are actually like and not portrayed as.

5. Our visual and sound style will be slightly different than other documentaries on topics similar. There will not be a presenter on camera in the whole of the production. We feel that by having a presenter on camera the audience will believe what they are saying and agree with what they say, however we want the audience to have a neutral decision on the subject matter. Even the interviews will only feature the interviewee and not the presenter because this helps it to be more realistic for the viewer.

6. Throughout our filming it is likely that no props will be included, however this does all depend on the scenery of our frame. It could be that some kind of prop is already there and will therefore have to be included in our documentary. We will be using various settings for our filming; town, local villages/parks, schools etc. to get as many views and opinions as possible, which in turn allows us to gain a range of evidence to explain our subject matter. Similar to the clothing, the facial expressions and body language of the characters tells the audience most how they feel and act, and by using the appropriate camera shots we are able to help make their view persuasive. As our topic is stereotypes there is going to be a variety of clothing within our filming and interviewing so it is important to pay particular attention to this as it helps to identity the character to the audience. The lighting of our documentary primarily depends on our setting and as this will regularly change, so will the lighting. On the other hand, by using colours/shades/light that promote goodness will inevitably be crucial as it will help create a better impression of young people which is how we want the audience to feel. We will want most of our characters to be in groups to allow us to represent them as a whole, however, the interviews will mostly be individual and will be set in the location of where the character is being interviewed – this will help emphasise why the character has the opinion that they have and the audience should hopefully have a better understanding.

8. Influenced by the nature documentary in the way the smoothly change between subjects within subjects, how they take one animal and link it to another, we will be taking one stereotype and linking to another. Although we will be using the voice of god and be using video montage and we will make the documentary fast paced as our audience is a younger generation therefore we will be using fast video and photographic montage.

9. When thinking about how we would advertise our documentary in a double page spread we considered how we could appeal to the young audiences and their stereotypes, so we would use a very unique font where the letters are big bold and personalised with different items which create these stereotypes, then we would consider what else this audience would be interested in on a double page spread such as a fact box and a splash. There will a large photograph of different stereotypes mixing.

10. Instead of advertising our documentary in a newspaper article, we would use such billboards in locations where these stereotypes frequently visit, such as a shopping centre. If we were to advertise it in a newspaper it would be in a paper such as ‘The metro’ which is a free newspaper collected at train and bus stations therefore it will be advertised to a massive demographic which will incorporate word of mouth.

11. Editing and Sound Josh will be editing the production at the end of the process and once all filmed pieces have been produced. He will also be in charge of collecting the sound pieces produced and importing them over montages. We will be using Imovie to edit our production. Director Holly will be in charge of the whole production. She will be organising interviews, and keeping the team on track. She will also be the spokesperson when producing the voice over's for the montages. Filming Phil will be filming the entire documentary; he will be in charge of the camera angles and viewpoints. It will be his goal to stick to all of the filming rules. He will also be in charge of the microphone placement etc.