PRODUCTION: Unusable Footage

I filmed this footage but then I realised that I had filmed it portrait rather than landscape so had to go out again and re film some footage.

PLANNING: Planning questions for my documentary

RESEARCH: Statistics & Facts

• https://www.healthcentral.com/article/retail-therapy-myths-vs-facts
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simple-thrifty-living/can-shopping-help-anxiety_b_5936748.html
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-why-behind-the-buy/201305/why-retail-therapy-works

These are a few of the websites I used to find out my information when researching the topic of my documentary so that I could familiarise myself so that my script can be its best possible.

RESEARCH: Background Music

PLANNING: Documentary Plan & Structure

RESEARCH: Theorists

PLANNING: Sorting out filming destination and time

I wanted to do filming in London as this is one of the shopping capitals of the world and had a variety of different people to study. This is a screenshot of me planning my trip with a friend to go to London to do filming.

RESEARCH: Lecture notes from a local Psychologist

My email to a local psychologist who had done previous research in to the psychology of shopping.

 His response, with a link attached to the notes he had made for the lecture this was a good starting point for my to get an idea of the psychology of shopping and then what to research further.

PRODUCTION: Contact Sheet

PLANNING: Storyboard

RESEARCH: Textual Analysis 3

RESEARCH: Textual Analysis 2

 

RESEARCH: Textual Analysis 1

RESEARCH: Models of Documentaries

Bill Nichols discovered that there were 6 different models of documentaries these included

• Poetic Mode- focus on experiences and seeing the wold through someone else's eyes. These are generally abstract and no clear narrative, they aim to create a feeling with in the narrative not always necessarily the truth.   eg. Man of Aran
• Expository Mode- they aim to inform or persuade the audience rather than create feeling.  eg. Night Mail
• Participatory Mode- this includes elements of expository and observations, however with these the filmmaker is included with the narrative.  eg. The Life of Michael Jackson
• Observational Mode- observe the world around them, attempts to show all sides of an investigation.  eg. Salesman
• Reflexive Mode- Similar to participatory due to the fact the filmmaker has a part in the narrative. However they don't explore an outside subject. eg. A Man with a Movie Camera
• Performative Mode- These are used to stress subject experience and to globally express an emotive message. Personal accounts may be juxtaposed with political or historical issue. eg. Tongues Untied