LOGO

We know that we are producing a documentary and it will be like, that we have a company who is making a documentary. Every company has a logo so we decided to come up with our original logo.Firstly, we searched on logos that how are they like and we made something like this:

 

However, researching though different production houses' logos, we improvised on our initial idea to develop a new logo as shown below:

                                                   

  Adding this logo to the starting and ending credits of the documentary will give it a more conventional and professional look.

Types of Documentaries

1) DOCUSOAPS

Its a observational documentary, it observes and follows any individual or group of people for certain time, for example, The Family and Big Fat Gypsy Weddings.

2) REALITY TV

This type of documentary gives useful information in form of entertainment.

Its a mixture of authentic material with serious information and commercial content.

3) Fly On The Wall

When camera is unseen or people ignore it, for example, Big brother, where hidden cameras are used.

4) MIXED

Its a documentary where combination of interviews, observation, actuality, footage and narration is included.

Narrator links the story together and advances the narrative. For example, The Future of Food.

5) SELF REFLEXIVE

Its a documentary where camera follows the Host but he pretends to ignore it.

6) DOCUDRAMA

Reconstruction of something which actually happened, with new actors posing to be real ones.

7) Fully Narrated

Narrator narrates whole way through documentary.

It is used to convey exposition and used to make sense of what audience watches. Narrator dominates what is happening, for example, Human Planet and The Future of Food. 

Research

Research is an essential part of the documentary making process so we researched into existing projects as well as the works of professionals to get a gist of the documentary ideas and the making process.

A) professional work:
Researching into the works of professional documentary makers, I came across some very beautiful documentaries featuring the cultural, social and historical aspects of societies.
1.India Reborn (CBC)
2.BBC Future Of Food- Part 1: India
3.The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar by Ruchika Muchhala
4.India A Dangerous Place to Be A Woman 

B)existing projects:
Research into projects by A levels students gave me an idea of the pros and cons of each project and helped me prepare for my own project.Some of the prominent documentaries I saw were as follows:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv8IrG8s8hg
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqzdnSSILUY
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgZ-MkICdC0

Check list (pre prodeuction)

1. Music: to be found on copy right sites

2. Making a story board, and considering WOW shots, such as, aerial shots or animations.

3. Production schedule, so we can use time properly.

4. Film Gear: making sure that i have necessary equipment, such as, Camera, tripod, microphone, etc.

5. Interviews/shot list: We need to consider the number of interviews we are going to include in extract of           documentary.

 Other than video we also need to focus on our ancillary tasks; a ad and double spreadsheet.

6. For ad we will make a rough sketch keeping our topic in mind

7. For double spreadsheet we will consider different type of contents to write, in planning, such as, interview or review or just a essay on it.