Radio Trailor

What do you call a scouser in a suit?

A successful business man from the North West.

Over the years scousers have been portrayed as thieves, curly haired chavs and Liverpool is seen as somewhere that police sirens are heard just as often as the Beatles.

Comedian Interview

But in fact liverpudlians are renowned for their love of their hometown and the people in it

“we’re most friendly in the country....” Bekkas friend

Known for their sense of humour,

“Born this way, natural comedians” old women

their massive music scene and their iconic accent.

Sound as a Pound is taking you on a journey up the Mersey to discover the reality of the place affectionately known as “the pool” and the scousers who live there.

Calm down, calm down it’s only a documentary.

Sound as a Pound

Wednesday 8PM

BBC 1

Codes and Conventions of Print Advert

• A4 Landscape - Versitile

• One Main Image - striking and sum up programme

• Text - slogan, title, scheduling

• TV Channel Logo

Codes and Conventions of a Radio Trailer

• Scheduling information - Title, Date and Time then channel. - usually at the end of the trailor

• Voiceover - to outline narrative - sometimes they pose questions

• Direct Address - 'you'

• Intrigues The Audience - makes them want to watch it

• Extracts From The Documentary - Vox Pops Etc

• Sound effects and music bed

• Slogan

• Usually about 30 seconds

• Sound effects link to what is being said.

• Mans voice - Voiceover then a Womans voice giving schedule Information. Channel said last.

Email for Permission

Hello,
I am an A2 student at Weatherhead Media Arts College and as part of my media coursework, I am making a documentary on scousers and I was wondering if I could have permission to use some extracts of The Beatles songs in the documentary.
The songs i wish to use are;
Yellow Submarine
Penny Lane
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Twist and Shout

Yours Sincerely,
Lisa Waine.

Hello,
I am an A2 Student at Weathearhead Media Arts College and as part of my Media Coursework I am making a documentary on scousers. I am emailing you to ask permission to use an extract of Harry Enfield in the documentary which we have found on youtube.
Yours Sincerely,
Lisa Waine

Mobile Phone Documentary

As a group, we we're given 2 lessons in  which to film and edit a short documentary on mobile phones and this is the finished product.

Logging Sheets and Editing

Shots of Liverpool

Running Order

Documentary: Sound as a Pound

Channel: BBC One

Scheduling: Wednesday January 25^th 8.00-8:30pm

Vox pop of why people think Liverpool is great	20 seconds
Opening Titles	20 seconds
Montague of iconic buildings with voiceover	30 seconds
Scousers telling jokes (Vox pop)	30 seconds
Why people think Scousers are funny	30 Seconds
Interview with Scouse comedians	1 Minute
Harry Enfield archive material, introducing the stereotype of a Scouser	10 seconds
Vox Pop of what people think the stereotype of a scouser is	10 seconds
Interview with a socio-linguistic	1 Minute
Voiceover of the History of the scouse accent,	30 seconds
Voiceover introducing music scene showing shots of the Beatles,Wombats,Zutons Etc	30 seconds
Interview with someone who works in the Beatles museum	1 minute
Interview with Paul McCartney	2 minutes 30 seconds
Montague of archive material of beatles performing with a voiceover telling of there successes and the legacy they’ve left	30 seconds
Vox pop on what people think of Liverpool music	30 seconds
Interview with The Wombats	2 Minutes 30 seconds
Interviews with various up and coming bands	2 minutes
Tracking shots introducing Scouse glamour of Liverpool One, and archive material of Scouse glamour icons Eg Colleen Rooney	40 seconds
Vox pop on peoples opinions of Scouse glamour, and who they’d associate with Scousers	20 Seconds
Interview with a Scouse Hairdresser	1 Minute
Interview with Colleen Rooney on Scouse glamour and the association of Liverpool Wags, also opinions of the passion of Football in Liverpool which leads into the next topic	2 Minutes
Voiceover and montague of shots around Goodison and Anfield, and includes montague of Everton and Liverpool goals and fans chanting at football matches	30 Seconds
Vox pop asking the general public the Football teams they support	20 Seconds
Interviews with Steven Gerrard and Tony Hibbert linking into each other, also includes the pair being asked questions for a quiz on the Scouse History and culture	3 Minutes
Interviews of people who work in official Liverpool and Everton shops about how passionate Liverpool and Everton fans are linking in to each other	1 minutes 40 seconds
Interview with Kenny Dalglish on the passionate football fans in Liverpool, and opinions of how outsiders see Scousers which links into the next topic	1 minute
Various Interview on how outsiders see Scousers	1 Minute 20 Seconds
Closing credits superimposed over montage of famous buildings in liverpool	40 seconds

 

Wednesday 2nd November

We went on the ferry over to Liverpool and filmed more iconic shots from various places and we also got more vox pops from around the city.

Thursday 27th October

We went to Liverpool again and filmed more vox pops and shots of Liverpool.
We then went to University of Liverpool and interviewed Michael Pace-Sigge, an expert in sociolinguistics.

Tuesday 25th October

We got the ferry over to Liverpool at 8am and filmed various areas around liverpool before going to the Muncipal Buildings and interviewing Joe Anderson, Leader of Liverpool City Council.

We then filmed iconic buildings around liverpool and did several vox pops.

At 8pm we went to a comedy club and interviewed Sam Avery before watching his gig.

Codes and Conventions of Interviews

Camera Work

• interviewee is framed to the left or right of the frame
• close up or medium close up
• interviewee does not look into the camera but at the interviewer stood on the oppisite side of the camera to where they are sitting
• eyeline is about a third of the way down
• interviewee sits down so they can stay still

Lighting

• never film with the light source behind the interviewee

Mise En Scene

• Reinforces the content of the interview or its relevant to the interviewee and provides information on their occupation

Editing

• simple cut
• questions are edited out and cutaways are used where a question would be to avoid jump cuts
• interviews can be cut to create the narrative

Graphics

• first time is their name - bigger font
• second line anchors the relevance - smaller font

Interviews

For our documentary we wanted to get interviews with famous and iconic scousers, liverpool council members and a sociolinguistic specialist.

As a group we contacted

Paul McCartney
John Bishop
Liverpool football team members
Everton football team members
Pete Burns
Atmoic Kitten Members
Jennifer Ellison
Ken Dodd
Ricky Tomlinson
Sam Avery

and many more.

This is an email sent to Joe Anderson (Head of Liverpool City Council)
Hello,
I am Lisa Waine. I am an A Level Media student from Weatherhead High School, Wallasey. Myself and my group are making a documentary on scousers for our media coursework which has a big influence on our final A Level grade. We were wondering if we would be able to interview you for our documentary, this only take a short while and it will be a huge part of our documentary so we will be incredibly grateful if you could take the time out of your schedule for just a short while. The interview will be on the changes in liverpool over the years, scousers themselves, thier humour and liverpools infamous music life. The interview can be conducted anywhere of your choice, all our filming needs to be completed by the end of october so we hope to hear from you soon.

Thank You,
Lisa.

Formal proposal

Questionnaire Analyse

Questionnaire analyse

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Conclusions of Audience Research on Prezi

Questionnaire

As a group we constructed a questionnaire so we could find out what the audience would like to see in a documentary about scousers. This is the Questionnaire we made.

Questionnaire

Are you male or female?

Male       Female          

How old are you?

10 – 15       16 – 20      21 – 30     31 – 40      41 – 50     51 – 60     60 +

What things do you associate with scousers?

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What colours do you associate with Liverpool?

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Which football team do you support?

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What songs do you associate with Liverpool?

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Do you like the Beatles?

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How do you think outsiders see scousers?

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Who do you associate with Liverpool?

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Do you think the scouse humour is funny?

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Why do you think scousers have a good sense of humour?

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What is your favourite thing about Liverpool?

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Initial Plans

We were arranged into groups of 3. My group is Myself, Rebecca Mains and Joe Cooper.

We came up with 5 possible ideas for our documentary:
Stand-up Comedy
Scousers
Spice Boy Culture
Embarrassment
Conspiracy Theories

We then discussed which we would be most interested in and which we could provide enough content for such as interviews. We decided to make our documentary on Scousers.


Target Audeince - Family
Channel - BBC 1
Time - Wednesday 8pm

Ideas For Content

Stereotypes of Scousers
Interviews with scousers
Interviews with famous scousers
Scouse Accent
Opinions on scousers
Shots of Liverpool
History of the Scouse accent
Famous Scouse Sayings
Scouse Humour

TV Scheduling

Segments

Breakfast     - people getting ready for work                         

Daytime        - unemployed, housewives, students and elderly

Childrens      - children. Younger then older.

Prime Time   - families

Late night      - adults

Most Popular Genre     

Soap

Reality

Sitcoms

Game Show

Target Audience of terrestrial channels

BBC 1 - British public

BBC 2 - Educated Audiences

ITV 1 - British Public

Channel 4 - Younger Audienes ( Quirky Programmes )

Channel 5 - British Public

Channel 4 and Channel 5 have a lot of imported programmes from America and Australia because they can't afford to make all their own shows.

The Watershed is 9pm and this is when programmes can show more adult content.

Audeince Fragmentation causes narrowcasting wgich target niche audiences.

Examples of these are;

Dave - Men

QVC - Women

E4 - Teenagers

Disney Channel - Kids

Animal Channel - Animal Lovers

   

TV Scheduling

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Codes And Conventions of a documentary.

'Extraordiany Me, Small Teen, Bigger World' Analysis.

Extraordinary me

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'That Thing - Lara Croft' Analysis.

Type of documentary - Mixed Narrated.

Themes - Virtual V Reality.

Feminism and The Representation of Women.

Power of the Media Influencing Soceity.

Narrative Structure - Closed, Single Strand, Non- Linear.

Camerawork - Interviews - medium/close up. Also a big close up on Angelina Jolie. Framed to left or right of screen. Tilted frame through the computer screen.

POV shot of playing game.
Panning across people playing the game.
Zoom is used on the magazine covers.

Mise En Scene - Green screen is used. Images of the game played behind interviewees. Front projection is also used.
Everything is to do with computers e.g. cybercafe.

Sound - Voiceover matches the gender and age of the target audience, the voiceover uses standard english and its constructs the narrative.
There is music used throughout the documentary suc h as music from the game, dance music and also Madonna's songs are played during an interview where she is mentioned.
Sounjd Effects from the game are used.

Editing - Main edit is cut.
Toby Gard (creator) edited in a computer screen and a tilt frame to make him different to everyone else.
Green screen is used.
Fast motion going into the cyber cafe.
Lara with a gun is a recurring motife.
They put game and film footage of the same thing played after eachother.

Archive Material - Game footage.
Film footage.
Angelina Jolie Interview.
Websites and Magazines.
Nikey Advert.
Barbie Scene - The barbie scene is probably not archive material because the documentary makers would have to get the rights if its from a real advert and its not conventional of a barbie advert.

Graphics - Nikey symbol
Name of person being interviewed in big font and thier relevance to topic is smaller. Also their job title ( relevance ) is followed by 'of that thing' for example 'the creater of that thing'.

'The Music Biz' Analysis.

The Music Biz Analysis on Prezi

'The Devil made me do it' Analysis.

The devil made me do it.
Channel 4.
Part of 'Public Enemy Number 1' series or documentaries.

Themes - This is a mixed narrative documentary which explores several themes such as Good Vs Evil which is a binary opposition, Louis Strauss said that all narratives revolve around a serious of binary oppositions. A further theme is of rebelion which realtes to the disifected youth and problems in soceity and also the lack of communication between teenagers and their parents. Although probably the most significant theme would be the power of the media influencing behaviour.

Narrative Structure - The documentary is single strand as it follows a central thread, also it is non linear because it doesn't follow time order as there are flashbacks and finally it is open because the question is left unanswered and the audience can make up thier own mind if media influence behaviour or not.

Camera Work - Many types of camera work are used within the documentary for example..

Handheld- this is for actuality footage such as real events so the camera can respond quickly to an action an example of this is when the Marilyn is walking around the town.

Interviews- close up/medium close up- framed to the left or right of the screen with the interviewer standing on the opposite side to them in order to get the framing right.

Point of view shot - this is used in several places such as the concert. The point of view can be from the audience, marilyn and even the camera man.

Tracking - backwards or forwards in many places such as following manson around the town.

The documantarys also has pans, tilted frames, extreme close ups, tow shots, establishing shots etc.. Furthermore stock footage is used such as shots of teenagers, crosses, churches and other variuous shots from around the town.

Mise En Scene - The interviews refelct on something about the life, occupation or role of the interviewee such police men in office. Also there is a contrast between the old fashioned town and the loud rock concert and furthermore there is a contrast between Marilyn Manson being in McDonalds as this shows he isn't as different as the media and even himself try to make out.

Sounds -
There is non-diegetic sounds such as calssical music in contrast with Marilyn Mansons music which is also played throughout the documentary. There are also ambient sounds such as church bell rings, screams or choir music, these are usually during a scene that fits with these sounds.
There is narration throughout the documentary, this is done by a male who uses standard english and doesn't have a regional accent and he doesn't change the tone of his voice at any point point so the programme remains unbias.
There is another voiceover that translates anything that is said in italian. The translater is a similar age and same gender as the italian speaker.Examples of this is shown in the first minute of the extract below.





There are also scenes that need tension created in them and this is done by sounds such as heartbeats during the girls confessions and dogs barking in the murder scene.

Editing - The programme uses several forms of editing such as simple cuts from scene to scene, a montage such as at the beginning of the documentary (shown in extract below) and also at the end of each important scene the screen goes black signifying the dark themes of the documentary or that a certain amount of time has passed by. Also at the end of the beginning seqeunce there is a title shot which uses religious imagery in the graphics which allows the audience to understand some of the themes.

Archive Material - The documentary contained tconfessions from the girls, recordings from the time of the murder, news rreports on the nuns death and also Marilyn Mansons music video. There is aalso extracts from an italian talk show and front covers of newspapers to ddemonstrate that this was worldwide news at the time.

Graphics - There are several graphics used in the documentary such as the title which is shown at the beginning and the end start and end of each commercial break. There is also names, times, dates and places shown in the frame in the appropriate places. Furthermore there is also lyrics and subtitles which appear at the bottom of the frame, once again in the appropirate places. Finally there are the end credits.

Important Scenes

Murder Scene -
This scene is one of the best filmed and edited scenes in the documentary as it uses a lot of sound to tell the story and very little visual. The scene started with a long shot down a corridor with ambient lighting and a voiceover which stops just as the door closes. The echo of the door closing signifies emptiness. There is then a slow pan across the town of a roof top, this goes on and on whilst the girls confessions are used as a voiceover, these voiceovers are backed up with sound effects such a heart beat which gets faster as the attack begins, there is also muttering and you can hear the blow to the nuns head. Furthermore there is dogs barking in the background and this shows that no one is around apart from the girls and the nun then you can hear a knife being pulled out of the bag and stabbing the nun repeatedly as the heart beat slows down which highlights the fact that the nun is dying. There is then a point of view shot from the nun as she dying, it is a tilted frame of her lying on the floor helpless. Images of churches are then shown, the shot changes on every heart beat and then when the heart beat stops there is a pause with a church bell ending the sequence.(symbol of death). Then following scene contains a lot of religious iconography.



Manson interview - This scene starts with a low angle of Marilyn Manson which gives him power whilst the lighting leaves his face half in the light and half in the dark, this can highlight the question of whether he is a saint or a sinner. The camera then follows Marilyn Manson around the town by tracking, Marilyn goes into McDonalds which makes him seem normal and poses the question of whether 'Marilyn Manson' is just a character played by Brian Warner ( Mansons real name ) or if he really is an anarchy figure. The voiceover during this scene is Mansons interview and as he steps into McDonalds says "im not evil, i just have an opinion" .

Interview with priest - The scene starts with a close up of the priest driving and smoking and there is a voiceover of him talking about meeting the girls which killed the nun. The lighting in this scene uis very dark as they are talking about a dark subject. Every so often there are point of view shots of the road whilst the priest is driving. The documentary makers have done the interview in this way to keep the audience entertained and to emphasise the fact interviews do not have to be done in a traditional way.