Interview Questions

Driving Instructors:

1.     Tell me about the sort of people you teach

2.     What do you think about the cost for young drivers?

3.     What is your opinion on the bad reputation young drivers are labelled with?

4.     What would you say is the biggest danger for young drivers on the road?

5.     What would you say is the best way for young drivers to keep their costs down?

6.     Tell me about the funniest thing to happen during a lesson

7.     Tell me about the scariest thing to happen during a lesson

8.     Some people have suggested that young drivers have a curfew put on them, what is your opinion on this?

9.     What is your opinion of the black box that insurers are putting in young drivers cars?

10. Tell me about your experience when you started to learn how to drive

11. How many times did it take you to pass your test?

Parents:

1.     Do you think the number of passengers in a car should be restricted for young drivers?

2.     Why do you feel that way?

3.     Tell us about your experience when your son/daughter started driving

4.     Why did you feel that way

5.     Have you helped your son/daughter with learning to drive? Eg tips/hints

6.     Did you feel that this helped them?

7.     Tell us about the costs that you may have incurred due to your child learning/driving, or the costs that they may incur?

8.     What kind of restrictions do you think the government should put on young drivers?

9.     Why do you think that?

10.   Tell us about your first driving experiences?

11.   Why do you think you’re a good driver?

12. What concerns do you have about your son/daughter driving?

13.  What is your opinion of the black box driving insurers want to put in young drivers cars?

14. What is your opinion about the prices insurers quote for young drivers?

15.  Do you think this is fair? Why?

16.   Tell us about your experience with young drivers on the road

17.  What is your opinion of the “pass plus” scheme after young drivers have passed their test?

18. Have you given your son/daughter a driving lesson yourself?

19. Tell me about it.

20. Tell us about your opinion of the theory test

Young Drivers:

1.     Tell us about the best driving lesson you have had?

2.     Tell us about the worst driving lesson you have had?

3.     How many times did it take you to pass both your theory and your driving test?

4.     Did you ever change from one driving instructor to another and why?

5.     What is your opinion of the black box insurers want to put in young drivers cars?

6.     What is your opinion of the bad reputation young drivers get labelled with?

7.     What is your opinion of the “pass plus” scheme after young drivers have passed their test?

8.     Do you think the number of passengers in a car should be restricted for young drivers?

9.     Did your parents help you in any way when learning to drive and do you think this helped you?

10.  Some people have suggested that young drivers have a curfew put on them, what is your opinion on this?

11.  Why do you want to learn to drive?

 

Mise En Scene for Interviewee's

 For the interviews that we are going to film, we drew the mise en scene for each of them.

This is the mise en scene for the driving instructor interviews. Here we have sketched for the instructor to sit to the left and in front of the car they teach in. 

This is the sketch for the interview with the parents of the young drivers. Here we have sketched the interviewee to have a plain background and to also sit on the left side of the screen.

This is the sketch for the how we are going to interview the young driver. Here the young driver is on the right sat in their car. 

Opening Title Plans

These are the sketches of the opening title sequence that we have planned after we have filmed the needed footage for it. 

Running Order

Running Order

Secondary Research

Secondary Research

Primary Research

Locations:
Young drivers cars - As some of our young driver interviewees may have their own cars, we have decided that this would be the most appropriate place to interview them.

Residential House - We will interview our parents of young drivers interviews in their own homes.

Warrington Town Centre - Here we will film our voxpop where we will ask people shopping what their views are of young drivers.

Interviewees:
Danielle Littler - Young driver
Mandy Littler - Danielle's Mum
Becky Moremon - Young driver
Jackie Moremon - Becky's Mum
Luke Martin - Young Driver
Chris Martin - Luke's Dad
Claire Young - Young Driver
Alan - Instructor from Aces Driving School, Warrington


Images:
Images of young drivers, their cars and images of roads.

Formal Proposal

Formal Proposal

Brainstorm Of Content For Documentary

Young Drivers Questionnaire Results

Young Drivers Questionnaire

Young Drivers Questionnaire by Charlotte Martin

Initial Plans

• In our group, we discussed the different topics for our documentary to be based on in which we decided to do it about Young Drivers.
• Target audience - Young people - 17 - 25
• Channel - BBC 3
• Scheduling - 9pm Wednesday
• Possible Titles 

• Chosen Title - 'L' On Wheels

Documentary Ideas

Scheduling

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Documentary Notes

Documentary Analysis - In The Teeth Of Jaws

 

 

The subject of this documentary is the making of Jaws the film. There were many themes of this documentary and a few of them were sharks, sea, and death. The main theme of 'In The Teeth Of Jaws' was the problems of film making as throughout the production, there were many things they had to make and overcome to make the shark especially look real.

When I was viewing this documentary, I thought it was interesting as I had seen the film and was interested in how they created the shark as there was no CGI when it was actually made.

The structure of the documentary was in chronological order. The beginning of it was about the concept and how the auther created the idea of the shark attacking, the beginning was also about how the film producers would go about creating the film and how they felt ''it was the adventure of our lives''. The middle of it was the production of it and how they made it such as the cameras and angles and how the made the shark as it wasn't real. Towards the end, it starts to talk about how successful it was in the cinemas, what the film critics thought of it and how the audience felt after they had watched it. This part shows the difference of opinion and that not everybody thought the same about it.

Throughout the documentary, the blue screen was used to put an image behind the interviewees to make it more interesting as these were images of sharks with their
Jaws open. Behind the author, there was the see and behind Spielburg was the posters of the film after it had been made. These all linked in with each other and the film which made it appropriate for the documentary to have them in.

For the camera footage, there was very little b-roll which was mostly archive footage. The interviews were also filmed at different angles such as rule of thirds to make the shot appear more appealing to the audience. There were also location shots of Martha's Vineyard where some of it was shot. For the editing of this documentary, the interviews were edited together in different ways such as going from one to the other or at the beginning it was a clip of one iterview then a clip of the sea and then another clip of a different interview.

The was no voiceover used at all during the documentary as the interviewee's are the ones who tell the story throughout it. The sound however, was the Jaws music used occasionally on the B-Roll/archive footage.

Throughout the documentary there was a lot of still images used such as a paragraph from the book or photographs of the actors used to play the different characters. These were made more interesting as there were effects put on them such as zoom in or out or tilting upwards to see the rest of the image. There was other archive footage like the crew filming the film and footage of the actual film.

The graphics in the documentary were only the graphic overlays for the names when there was a clip of the interview. On this, there was a small square graphic of a shark coming towards the camera, the persons name, and the role they played in the making such as 'the author' or 'producer' etc. To make the names be more appealing, they had drop shadows and the same font for each person.

Mobile Phone Documentary Evaluation

For this project, we had to create a documentary about mobile phones by interviewing different people to see what they thought about mobile phones.We had to include use of A-Roll and B-Roll and frame our interviewees in the camera to make our documentary more interesting.

Throughout the documentary, we used A-Roll as the interviews with the blue screen behind 2 out of three of them. We also used B-Roll as extra pieces of video to include when editing the video. These were videos of people using their mobiles in different ways such as talking to someone on it, texting and also using apps such as Twitter. When conducting the interviews, we placed the person to the left or the right of the camera shot like the rule of thirds while looking to the side of the camera at the interviewer which is a basic convention of interviews in documentaries. This made the overall shot look better as the person wasn't in the middle looking directly at the camera.

As we had two interviewees in front of the blue screen, when we were edting, we learnt how to add an image/video in the background of something relevent to the documentary which were different mobile phones and also the front of a mobile phone shop. Also while we were editing, we learnt how to cut different parts of the interview out to only include specific parts we wanted such as cutting out the questions and adding in text before the person speaks. I think that this made it look more professional as the sound quality wouldn't had been as good because the interviewer didn't have a microphone.

In the background of the whole documentary, we included a song relevent to the documentary which was Beyonce - Video Phone. We thought that this sounded good as the documentary was being played and also made it sound less boring as it did before we added it. The sound throughout the documentary was the answers to the questions being asked that had good quality sound and are clear for the audience to hear.

Overall, I think the way we have edited the A-Roll with the B-Roll with the sound/music brings everything together and makes it flow smoothly. I also think that this makes it more interesting.

Mobile Phone Documentary

Basic Conventions Of A Documentary

A-Roll Footage Of Interviews

•     Rule Of Thirds

 

The person being interviewed should not be in the middle of the camera shot but to the left or the right of the frame. Also their eyes should be looking towards the interviewer on the opposite side so if the interviewee is on the right they should be looking towards the left. As the interviewee is on the side, the mise en scene should reflect the topic they're talking about. At the bottom left of the shot, the name of the interviewee should come up so the audience know who they are.

B-Roll Footage Of Other Relevent Material

• Close-ups of relevent objects
• Long shots of locations
• Tracking shots of object moving

Archive Footage

Archive footage is where you use a video from a while ago that someone else filmed to add extra information into your documentary.

• From film libraries/Youtube

 

Still Photographs

Voice-Over Reading A Prepared Speech

A voice-over is someone speaking over a bit of filmed footage or a photograph which adds extra information while looking/watching something that they are talking about.

Non-Diegetic Music Made To Match The Subject

Non-diegetic music is music made relevent for the documentary to be put in over the top of a video or quietly in the background as someone is speaking which may get louder when they stop speaking.