Planning on shooting

Over the weekend I plan on shooting my documentary on Magna. I aim to have the video based around how it has now become an attraction rather than a steel industry now. I aim to have the program on BBC 1 or 2 or could even be shown on one of the documentary channels on SKY. I want it to be around the second half of the show which is the 20min time slot.

What I aim to do is conduct an interview with one of the staff with a bit of history on the steel industry then talking about the main areas of the new magna and what it has to offer for the new generation as well as the older.

While the interview is going clips of inside Magna will be shown as the interview goes on for the full 5 min mark of the documentary. The clips will change appropriately as the interview goes on. The reason why I have chosen to do an interview rather than have the interviewer (Louise) go round Magna filming different areas is because the place itself is pretty loud and people walking around can be distracting on the camera which will make it hard to capture what I want to do for the documentary. So instead I came up with the idea I have talked about which will have the interview taking place in a space in Magna and clips being cut in to the interview itself.

Research

Following the filming I had to make sure I understood some of the background of Magna and the steel industry itself. For this I had to do some research in to Magna and how it came to start and how it came to be what it is today which is an attraction for people to walk round.

I decided to visit the website and see what they had to offer and understand a little more on the history of the building itself.

The Magna Website Click Here

Magna first opened as an attraction in late 2001 and has since then won many awards based on there efforts to educate people on the steel industry.

I found out that its got quite a lot to offer not only for older generations wanting to find out what their older family had to do for a living but also had quite a lot of entertainment for the younger generations to find out. Having been to Magna before on several school trips when I was younger I was able to understand a little about this and what the steel industry had to offer for towns in the 70s and before.

Magna now is split in to four main areas.

Air Pavilion

More than 15 metres overhead, high up in the rafters of the building is the Air Pavilion. This giant suspended 'zeppelin' is home to an array of exciting hands-on air-themed activities. Visitors can create stunning patterns with air cannons, witness a selection of humorous and disastrous attempts at early flight, take a spin on a gyroscopic chair and examine the air in our own bodies.

We can't see it, smell it or taste it.

There's 5,200 million, million tonnes of it surrounding the Earth.

We need it to breathe.

This is the story of air. How it creates forces, motion and sounds.

Earth Pavilion

Filled with chunky hands-on games and attractions, such as real-life JCBs to control, hoppers and buckets to race and fill, and a quarry to explode.

This earthy experience is guaranteed to get your adrenalin pumping and sort the workers from the shirkers and the foremen from the labourers!

Fire Pavilion

The blazing Fire Pavilion is a perfect place to dry off after the fun of the waves in the Water Pavilion. The burning atmosphere creates the perfect ambience for the awesome five-metre fire tornado and the clanging and banging of the electromagnetic crane - just some of the mesmerizing attractions available to touch, feel and experiment with in this pavilion.

Make cables glow red hot and paint heat patterns with your hands. Melt steel and race with an electromagnetic crane. Feel the flow of heat and watch crystals as they melt. Find out how heat causes change.

Water Pavilion

Hours of 'soaking fun' are to be had in the Water Pavilion. This wonderfully lit giant steel wave houses a selection of interactive games and challenges that explore the astonishing nature of water. The huge, steel Water Wheel seems to power the whole pavilion and raining clouds overhead mean that your chances of staying dry in 'Water' are very slim!

We drink it. Wash in it. Swim in it and life depends on it. It's 60% of our bodyweight and covers 70% of the Earth's surface. It carves landscapes and creates floods, monsoons, rivers and oceans.

Now you can throw it about, get wet, squirt and spurt. Turn wheels and race to lift it. Flush yourself away in the Water Pavilion.

Change of objective

Due to conditions with the weather its and other problems its been unfortunate again that I've had to completely change my idea again. This time I have changed my idea it to producing a documentary about Magna which was a huge steel industry which ran for many decades up till 1993. It then had to close as the overseas industry's had taken over the steel trade with employees willing to work for a lot less than British employees meaning that the steel industry all over the UK had to come to a close.

In 2001 Magna opened up giving people an insight on just how steel was made and gave younger generations a lot more understanding on what was once a proud and strong steel based town.

Objective Film over christmas

I have booked the cameras to take out over christmas and I will film my music video on The First Floors practice day which is a Sunday. I will get as much footage as I can so I will have enough footage to edit.

Storyboard

Video example on filming

While I was searching through youtube I remembered a video that is a perfect example of what I'm looking to do when I come to film. This video is actually the first video the band has ever shot which is the same position I'm in at the moment. I have decided that I will use this video to get ideas for different camera shots and see how the video is done in more detail.

From the start I can already see that the video itself has been shot in a practice room or just a plain room which is the exact same thing I have planned for my filming.


This is a wide shot. I can tell this because its not far away yet not close shot. It fits the whole band in moving. This shot is effective because it fits all the band members movements at the start of the video. Giving the viewer a glimpse of all four band members

I can use the band messing about parts of the video ideas for my filming. This is usually very generic in a music video like this but its seen as being very effective as it separates the shots of the band playing to them messing around having fun which is something that teenagers can relate to in a video. Its fitting the same teenage auidence I'm wanting to attract for my video which is 13-17 year olds.




I will have different scenes in my video of the band messing around to vary between shots




Undershot of the singer from All Time Low. I will use different shots like this for example. I will only have the shots on for a few seconds meaning the camera angle will change every few seconds.


The reason why bands usually tend to have a basic music video like this at the start of their career is because they are very low on costs. Bands when they first start out wont have a large budget and doing something like this is cheap but at the same time effective. The only prop used other than the instruments is the coach which was probably already available on site.

Objective update

I have completed my treatment and band bio and I will now start on the remaining ones left. I have added something called auidence feedback which I'm still looking at how I could achieve this. I'm thinking of posting three ideas on my facebook and the one that is liked the best i will use for my main idea.

• Storyboard
• Album cover research
• Draft Album cover
• Audience feedback - Done by Friday