Edit Decision List

These are the photos of our edit desicion list. We had a lot of footage to edit together as we filmed a lot of interviews and cutaways. We had some problems with some of the interviews where the people didn't answer our questions in full sentences so we had to work around this and edit the footage together so it made sense. We also added adverts of old toys as archive footage and stills.

Log sheet

Counter number-             shot description-                shot length-               good take- Y/N

00:00	Start of interviews, toy store worker.	2m 30sec	Yes
02:30	Teenager interview.	2m	Yes
04:30	Katie’s interview.	3m	Yes
07:30	Becki,dec and phil interview.	2m	No- no sound
09:30	Beth and ellie interview.	4m	Yes
13:30	Theo and cutaways.	40 sec	Yes
14:10	Dec and india interview.	1m 30sec	Yes
15:40	Rach and becki interview.	50 sec	Yes
16:30	Extra vox pops.	40 sec	Yes
17:10	END

Editing Diary

2-3^rd  November 2011:

Today we are editing the footage of the interview with Charlie from the Entertainer and also the cutaways of the different toys that she talked about including lego, nerf guns and dolls. We captured the footage on Adobe Premier and edited the shots together to make it flow as one piece. One problem with the interview was that she didn’t answer the questions in full sentences so we had to edit the footage so it made sense all together.

4^th November 2011:

Today we are editing the footage of Luke gaming and also the interview. We will take footage of him gaming and use them as cutaways throughout the interview. We had no problems editing this footage as he spoke in full sentences and answered the questions fully.

8^th November 2011:

Today we are editing the Katie interview and cutaways of her toys. Katie, like Charlie, didn’t answer one of the questions in a full sentence so we had to cut the footage to make it flow. Today we also put all the interviews together on the timeline and thought about how we could link the three together and talked about what the voice over could say to link them.

10-15th November 2011:

Today we are editing the interview with our three friends and seeing if we can make the sound quality better. We found that the sound could not be helped so we didn’t add these to the timeline. We also edit the voxpops and put them on the timeline. We also readjusted the timeline so the voxpops would fit in nicely with the other footage and didn’t look out of place.

16^th November 2011:

Today we are editing the interview with the two teenage girls on the blue screen. As it is our first time using the blue screen we had help from our teacher as he taught us how to upload an image and put it in place of the blue screen using the Chroma Key on Adobe Premier.

17-24^th November 2011:

Today we are editing the cutaways that we filmed last night with Theo.  We will use these cutaways in the interview that we were editing yesterday with the two girls. Also we are making sure that the whole timeline is fitting together and deciding on what the voice over will say to link everything up. We are also making sure that the blue screen image works well and doesn’t look silly.

24^th November 2011:

Today we have started to edit together the Dec and India interview about Barbie, Ken and Action Men dolls and also use the Chroma Key to edit an image on the blue screen.

25^th November 2011:

Today we are finishing editing the Dec and India interview and also starting to edit the Rachael and Becki interviews about older games and board games. We have also used a blue screen for this so we will have to find an appropriate image to have behind the interview.

26-30^th November2011:

We are putting everything together on the timeline and working out the final script for the voice over and radio advert. We are also making sure everything flows together with transitions and make sure that there are no blank parts in our documentary.

1-9^th December 2011:

Today we got feedback from our teacher about our documentary and the feedback was to make the interviews intertwine so there are different parts of the interviews together with other parts of other interviews. We have had to make the sound and video move about the timeline without getting mixed up with other footage.

14- 16^th December 2011:

Today we are starting to edit the voice over onto the footage and make sure everything fits together on the timeline. We will also add all the titles to the interviews and credits at the start to make the piece look professional. While we are doing this we will also be editing together our Poster Advert by using our primary images and slotting them into the squares of the Rubik’s cube.

Radio Advert

Here is our final Radio Advert:







Voice Over Script:
"Latest Documentary about toys throughout the generation"
"Sound clips from interviews"
"Friday 9th December, 8:30pm on BBC 3"




Codes and Conventions of a Radio Advert:
Radio adverts should reflect your program. It should make the audience want to watch the full documentary and should also represent what your program represents, for example our documentary is about toys so our advert should be fun make the audience think about their old toys and want to find out more about them, so they would want to watch the documentary. Like the poster advert, a Radio advert should indicate the time and date of the documentary so the audience know when to watch it.

Here is an example of a succsessful advert:

Poster Advert

This is our final poster advert for our Documentary. We have used a secondary image of a Rubik's cube and used primary images to fill the different squares.

Here we had to open an image into a seperate layer and then we used the Magic Wand tool to select the square we wanted to replace and put the square over the picture which selects it and the image is in place of the square.

Here we have added the time and date ouf our documentary and added the logo of BBC3 as this is the programme that we think our documentary should be shown on.

This is the secondary image we used as our background for our poster advert.

Here are the primary images that we used to create our poster advert. We took these photos in the toy shop "The Entertainer" after we had interviewed one of the employees.

Codes and Conventions of Poster Advert:

A poster advert should represent what your programme represents. For example, or documentary is about toys - which are fun and appeal to everyone. Therefore our poster advert should represent this. A print advert should have aspects of your programme in it, like using the same font and colour scheme that you have used throughout the show. Another convention of a poster advert is to show the time and date of when the programme will be aired to the audience know when it's on.

Examples of Poster Adverts:

This is a poster advert from Channel 4 for a program called "Disarming Britain" from this title and the image the audience can tell what to expect from the show. Also the date and time are present so the audience know when to view the programme.

This example breaks the convention of telling a time and a date of when the program will be on.

Voice Over Script

Old or young everyone has played with toys, from old board games to new technology, everyone has their favourite toy. We took to the streets to find our peoples opinions.

According to the Guardian, a survey taken in 2001 predicted that the most popular toy would be the Harry Potter Lego set. Proving that Lego is a toy for every generation. The Guardian retook their survey in 2011 and the most popular toy was the Xbox, raising the question whether new technologies have taken over the teenage generation.

Toys are generally separated into two categories, Boys and Girls.

Barbie has been around for generations, her real name is Barbra Millicent Roberts and is based on the creator’s daughter.

Filming Diary

Tuesday 1^st November 2011:

Today we went into Warrington Town Centre and interviewed an employee, named Charlie, from “The Entertainer”.  We asked her questions from our questionnaire and filmed her responses; we also filmed opinions on toys. Also in the shop we took pictures of different toys and toys she mentioned during her interview for cutaways. However during filming, we had a problem with the clip on microphone as the battery was dead. We overcome this by using the microphone on the camera although the sound quality wouldn’t be as clear as if we had used the clip on mic.

Thursday 3^rd November 2011:

Today we filmed a family member playing on his Xbox. His name is Luke and he is 14, we interviewed him for a teenager’s opinion on video games and also we thought that he would have a contrasting opinion to Charlie as she works with physical games and is also older. We also filmed an interview with him and when we edit it together, we will use the footage of him playing on his Xbox as cutaways in the interview. We asked him about his favourite video games and how he interacts with people all over the world on Xbox Live. We also asked him about board games and why he prefers the Xbox over playing older games.  There was a problem while filming, there was bad lighting as when we watched the footage back on the camera before finishing, and we noticed that there was a reflection in the window of the light and also of us filming, so we had to re-film the cutaways and the interview.

Saturday 5^th November 2011:

Today we travelled to Liverpool to interview a different family member.  Katie is 8 years old and we interviewed her for a child’s opinion on toys. We interviewed her and asked her what her favourite toys to play with were. We also filmed the different toys that she talked about to get cutaways. There was only a small problem whilst filming this as Katie’s room was very small so it was hard to fit all the camera equipment into the room.

Wednesday 9^th November 2011:

Today we filmed three of our friends outside of college. We asked them what their favourite toys when they were younger and what toys/games they play with now including games on their phones and iPods. Although the interviews were good, the mise-en-scene was poor as we couldn’t use the blue screen as it was occupied. Also when we played the interviews back, the sound wasn’t working because the microphone was picking up the wind. We decided against using this particular footage because of the poor mise-en-scene and no sound. We also went into Warrington Town Centre and asked shoppers to answer a few questions. This was difficult as many people were in a hurry and wouldn’t talk to us. We got two interviews with an older lady and one with middle-aged women with a child before a security guard told us that we would have to leave as we didn’t have permission from the college to film on the site.

Tuesday 15^th November 2011:

Today we interviewed two girls in college using the blue screen available in college. We asked them about their favourite toys when they were younger and what they used to play with. We also asked them if they think that new gaming i.e video games are becoming anti-social as some people from our first audience feedback said that they think it is becoming that way even with Xbox live. The girls were talkative and great for a girl’s perspective of modern gaming. Using the blue screen was new to us so that was a challenge getting the lighting right for the shot.

Wednesday 16^th November:

Tonight we are taking the camera home to film some more cutaways for our documentary as it lacked variety. We are filming a friend called Theo who is 17 and we will film him playing with an Ipad, on a Playstation 2, a board game and on the Wii.

Thursday 17 November:

Last night we filmed Theo for the cutaways. We filmed him playing with the different toys and games but there was a problem with the Wii console so we couldn’t film him playing on that.

Tuesday 22^nd November 2011:

Today we filmed two more of our friends, Dec and India. They are both 17 and we asked them their opinions about Barbie dolls, Ken Dolls and Action Men. We asked them about when they were younger and what kind of dolls they had. They responded well and we used the blue screen to put images of different dolls to put behind them to make the mise-en-scene appropriate.

Thursday 24^th November 2011:

Today we filmed some more interviews with two more friends, Rachael and Becki. We asked them about their favourite games and their favourite board games and who they play them with for example; board games are more of a family game whereas some games are just 1player. We used the blue screen for these interviews as well to make the mise-en-scene appropriate.

Interview Questions

For our documentary we have set up an interview with a worker in a top toy store, The Entertainer. So we are prepared for the interview we have set a list of questions that we intend to ask the interviewee.

Interview Questions:
What toys did you play with when you were younger?
What toys were your favourite when you were growing up?
Do you still play with toys now?
Do you play games on your phone? if so which games?
Did you play with Barbie/Ken or Action Men?
Did/Do you play with board games?
Do you play on the Xbox/Playstation/Wii? If so which games do  you enjoy playing?
Do you think that newer gaming is becoming anti-social?  

We will also use these questions for our other interviews and vox pops.

However when we set up an interview with a teenage friend we had to change the questions slightly…

What toys did you play with when you were younger?
What toys were your favourite when you were growing up?
Do you still play with toys now?

What do you play on your xbox?

What is your favourite game?

What do you think of modern gaming compared to olden gaming?

Do you still enjoy playing with board games?

Location Sheets

Before filming we had made locations sheets of the places we where going to interview in so we could see where would be best to film and place the camera.

This is the media room that we used in college to film interviews and we used the blue screen here to make sure the mise-en-scene was appropriate.

This is the layout of "The Entertainer", a toy shop in Warrington Town Centre. This is where we filmed the interview with one of the employees.

This is the layout of Katie's bedroom where we filmed an interview with her. We used her bedroom because this was the best place for the mise-en-scene as she had a range of toys around her bedroom.

This is the layout for Luke's bedroom as this is where we filmed the interview with him. We chose this location because this is where his Xbox was and we needed to film him playing on it for real footage.

Storyboards

This is the storyboard for our final documentary. This is how we plan to set out the film and what we intend on filming. We chose this because we think this would appeal to our target audience which is adults and teenagers as they will able to relate to the older toys and also to the newer toys as the adults would be aware as the are buying toys for their children.

Running Order

Running Order

Documentary: Toys Are Us

Channel: BBC3

Scheduling: Friday 9th December 8:30-9:00pm 

Duration: 28 (including advert break)

Montage of primary images of toys – Lego, dolls, teddys, cars, xbox etc	15 secs
Opening titles – stop motion of lego forming title – Toys are Us	7 secs
Cut a ways of children playing with toys (primary) intro to the documentary with facts that we found from our questionnaire (graphs)	40 secs
2 interviews with parent and their child, including questions from our questionnaire, cut between the two	1 min
Interview with toy shop worker talking about their best selling toys with cut a ways of the toys	1 min
Stills of primary and secondary images of toys with facts and graphs of best selling toys and most popular toys Selling toys and the most popular toys – Own research and secondary information	15 secs
Interview with a worker from a toy shop their opinion on the toys they sell and new games	30 secs
Quick history of Barbie	10 secs
Interview with Barbie and Ken (Crazy Talk)	18 secs
Interview with older generation about older toys	2 mins
Images of older toys	5 secs
Toy review – Modern Vs Older toys/games, talk about the different aspects of each game, how each game is played (1player, 2player, teams etc) Talk about how each toy is made (video game – using computer programmes. Board Game – physically made and crafted) how each game has effected the different generations.	5 mins
ADVERT BREAK	3 mins
Montage of toys – Lego, dolls, teddys, cars, xbox etc	15 secs
Graphs with information on our questionnaire	30 secs
Interview with teenagers	3 mins
Importance of toys – Primary videos of people playing with toys	30 secs
Interview with parents about the importance of toys in children’s lives	2 mins
Cutaways of “educational toys”	30 secs
Interview with toy shop owner about educational toys	2 mins
Survey about educational toys with cutaways	2 mins
End Credits	40 secs