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History Attack - Jade Dannatt, Daniel Simpson, Becky Marshall, Lisa Blythe

Presenters - Jade Dannatt, Becky Marshall

The Earl Of Effingham - Daniel Simpson

Newspaper Reporter - Lisa Blythe

In my group of 3, we are going to make a children's documentary about Boston Castle. Our target audience is going to be children mainly directed at the age range of 7-13. Our clip would possibly be a snippet of a longer children's programme, or something that teachers would show their pupils in a lesson to teach them about the history of Boston Castle. The mode of address is going to be teacher pupil however it will be very informal but still informative.





Basically within my group we intend to create this small clip by using only 3 locations. First we plan on starting in a classroom at college with a white backdrop. The use of the white backdrop is to make the colours we're wearing to stand out more. As me and Becky plan on wearing bright colours because it is something aimed at young children and bright colours attract and help keep attention. I think it would good to use high angle shots to make the children feel 'bigger' whilst watching this, even though we are more dominant as we are playing the 'teacher' role in the documentary. Also in this part of the documentary We will give a brief like 'Hi kids! Today we're going to be learning about Boston Castle!' and talking a little about it and then cutting to me and Becky (the presenters) to Boston castle, we were thinking about being able to use the top of the castle to cut to. Then we are going to have a video clip of around and in the castle, and maybe some grounds. On top of this we plan on having a voice over by Daniel explaining what we are seeing/filming. In this clip we will have clips of the grounds around Boston castle, Boston castle itself, inside Boston castle and maybe the bricked up Parish Church round the corner from Boston castle.


After this it will cut to a clip of me and Becky stood outside the small door inside college, we tell the children it is a time machine (we will also have a sign on the door saying 'TIME MACHINE') then we open the door and we will either use fade in and fade out editing or we will edit images of me and Becky onto a 'swirly' background with the sound effects used on doctor who. This is to create the effect of time travel. We then jump out from behind a tree however we are going to use the 'old' effect when editing the video because then it shows it is in the past. We also have an idea that there maybe a possibility that we could edit it so that me and Becky are the only things in colour. Showing we are from the future. We then stop and say 'shhh, look! there's the earl!' and the camera then goes to a shot of The Earl and a newspaper reporter interviewing him. The camera goes to a few shots however then after the interview you see us in the background using hand gesture to say 'come on! we're going!'

Then we are going to cut back to a shot of me and Becky and back outside the time machine, saying 'thanks for joining us today kids! see you soon!'

Costumes
Jade and Becky - wearing bright colours to keep the kids attention, funky clothes and pigtails.

Daniel - ( The Earl Of Effingham) 18th century clothes, from the drama section in college

Lisa - Newspaper Reporter, wearing a suit and a hat.

PROPS - Something for the newspaper reporter to be writing on.

The hardest part we are going encounter whilst doing this is going to be doing the reenactment, we have to go back to 1846(ish) using the location as it is today. This is hard because the windows and doors of Boston castle are covered with metal planks, this is obviously an issue to tackle. We plan to tackle this by still showing Boston castle, however only using shot that do not show the windows and/or doors, but only the walls. To make it look as though we are in the past we are going to have try and cut out any sounds such as cars from in the distance, and also film in the early morning when there no cars around at the car park. The costumes will also fit to the diagetic world. We may also add some non-diagetic sounds. We will be using a non diagetic sound when it comes to editing for the time traveling scene.

There will be some health and safety issues in two of our three locations which can all be solved. When filming in the classroom with a backdrop, using the lights at a wrong angle could go into the eyes of the presenters, or they may become too hot. However it can be tested before filming. When filming at Boston we will have to be careful as there is a car park, and also the chance of falling down the small hill. However these can be solved by simply being careful.