Filming- Interview with Hypnotherapist

During the interview with the hypnotherapist, we used a medium close up and framed him to the right, but then we realised the mise en scene was not good because it does not convey his work place very well. Therefore, we filmed him in big close up which we thought is better because it means that only his face is in focus and no disctractions in the background. As you can see we've set up the DV camera like this and we've made him sit in a comfortable stationary chair.

Filming- Petshop

We went to the petshop and filmed footage of animals, such as lizards and spiders, but mainly snakes and mice. We will use this footage in the montage or cutaways during the interviews. We filmed close ups, big closeups and zooming in and out.

Planning the Documentary

Framing of each interview:


> This is the title sequence for our programe. We want to film a male's face in big close up looking from left to right as the spider moves from left to right and we also want a shot of a male with sweat going down his forehead and then the title appears. 



> This is the single frame of the voxpops, which will be set in the streets, therefore the mise en scene might include people walking past.

> This is the single frame of the interview with the people afraid of spiders. It will be framed to the left, in medium close up and the mise en scene will be images of spiders filling the wall.

> This is the single frame of the interview with the person afraid of tall buildings. The mise en scene will be the cathedral behind her and we will have her framed to the left.

> This is the single frame of the person who owns a spider as a pet. We might interview him and if we do, we will have him framed to the left and in big close up.

> This is the single frame of the hypnotherapist. He will be framed to the left and in big close up.

Interview Questions:

Voxpops:
What are you afraid of?
How do you react when you face your fear?

Interview with people afraid of spiders:
Tell us about your fear of spiders, why and how did it develop?
How do you react when you see a spider?
Why do you find spiders scary?
What happend last time when you saw a spider?
Would you ever consider facing your fear? (and show spider)

Fear of tall buildings Interview:
Tell us about your fear of tall buildings, why and how did it develop?
How do you react when you see a tall building?
Why do you find tall buildings scary?
What happened the last time you a  saw a tall building?
Would you ever consider facing your fear? (and make her look back at the building)


Interview with Hypnotherapist:
Tell us about hypnotherapy and how you got into it.
What is hypnotherapy?
Tell us about the process involved when getting over a fear.
How does hypnotherapy help someone get over their fear?
Tell us about the most common fear that you treat.
Tell us about the worst case you have been involved with.


Interview with Psychologist:
What is fear?
What is an irrational fear?
Why do we have fears?
Are we born with any fears, if so what are they?
Why do you think so many people are afreaid of the dark as children?
Why is fear of spiders such a common fear?
Why don't people always seek help for their fears?


We also chose to use the Kings Of Leon track, therefore we asked for their permission first:

Mobile Phones Task

Me and my group made this short documentary on phones and the purpose of this task is to practise filming and editing interviews:

We then played this to the rest of the class and they gave us feedback on how to improve. For example, some said that the interview could've been framed more to the left as it seemed too central. Also, we could've used a better mise en scene which relates to the topic more clearly, so instead of the one poster we used, we could have filled the whole wall with posters. The positive feedback we recieved was that the cutaways were good and the class liked our choice of music and they also said one of our strengths lies in the editing as we did not include any jump cuts. This this task has helped us understand how to film and edit interviews better and hopefully not make the same mistakes when producing our documentary.

Codes and Conventions of Interviews

Open publication - Free publishing

Running Order

Running Order

Research for Documentary

As a group, we conducted all the research for our programme:

Research for Documentary

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