Secondary research

these are the pictures we will show to people in our vox-pop and film their reactions

formal proposal

Formal Proposal

Topic : Tattoos & Piercings
Type of Documentary : Mixed
Style of Documentary : Informal, Informative/entertaining, fast paced
Channel and Scheduling : Channel 4, Thursday 9pm
Target Audience : Young Adults
Primary Research : Interview headteacher, cathryn getting tattoo done, vox pop (liverpool,liscard,birkenhead), Mike, Designs (tattoo shop), Demi, tattoo/piercing parlour, tattoo artist, tattoo kit, tattoo sleeves, manager of shop
Secondary Research : use music from what was popular in questionnaire, still photos of tattoos and piercings, youtube videos, use magazines where people have tattoos or piercings, debates about tattoos/piercings gone wrong, pictures of celebrities with tattoos/piercings, TV programmes about tattoos/piercings, extreme tattoos printed out, interview with Travis Barker
Outline of Content :


Human Canvas - picture of art and person, merge together through photoshop
Interview with an older person to see if they regret it
Cutaways - equipment, designs, extremeists
vox pop asking why people get tatttos & piercings
interview with people against the idea
vox pop of people's idols who have tattoos/piercings
find videos on youtube of people doing them theirselves
archive footage of interviews with famous people about tattoos/piercings
Resource Requirements :

Digital Camera
Microphone
Props-tattoo equipment
Piercing gun
Tripod
DV Tape
Video recorder
Adobe Premier
PC
Photoshop
Microsoft Word
Internet

Brainstorm of content

Brainstorm of content for documentary
In our group we have thought of a variety of ideas that could be put into our documentary:

-use videos from youtube 'do it yourself' tattoos/piercings
-archive footage of interviews with famous people about ther own tattoos or piercings
-print out extreme tattoos and perform a vox pop
-interview employers about accepting people with tattoos/piercings
-interview with a professional tattoo artist
-interview with David Beckham about his tattoos
-interview of Demi (upcoming tattoo artist)
-voiceover
-recording of Cathryn getting tattoo with an interview over the top. another camera capturing still images
-interview with people off the programme Miami Ink or LA Ink
-recoding of a nose piercing being done
-good and bad sides of tattoos + piercings
-pan of a tattoo shop or 360 shot
-interview Demi/record her walking to tattoo shop. tracking
-interview youth about piercings and tattoos
-human canvas - picture of art and picture of person merging together through photoshop
-interview with old person with a tattoo to see if they regret having it
-cutaways - equipment, designs, extremeists
-vox pop asking why people get tattoos or piercings
-interviews with people against the idea
-vox pop of peoples idols/celebrities who have tattoos or piercings
-news to do with tattoos

Questionnaire results

Audience research

initial idea

Topic: tattoos and piercings
Target audience: young adults
Channel: channel 4
scheduling: Thursday at 9pm
title: the human canvas

Brainstorm for documentary

between our group we came up with 5 ideas for the topic of documentary:
Fast food
social groups and stereotypes
Learning to drive
Music and tattoos and piercings

we decided to do tattoos and piercings as we could find a lot of information about this topic, and easy to find archive material to go with it.