A short factual film.

By Corry Raymond,

Laura Manners, and Jake Coates

FOOTPRINT - RYAN INGLIS

A documentary following Ryan Inglis, a singer/songwriter from Weston, and his work for the charity ‘Footprint’

31/10/11

C RaymondL MannersJ Coates

WESTON COLLEGEUNIVERSITY CAMPUS

LOXTON ROADWSETON-SUPER-MARE BS23 4QU

Media Production

Copyright @ 2011

Proposal

Laura Manners (me), Corry Raymond and Jake Coates (Entertainment

Pictures/E.Pics) are the media production team working on this

project.

We propose to make a short expository documentary, of about 5

minuets in length, exposing the life of Ryan Inglis, a local

musician/songwriter. It will also have the sub-focus of the

charity Footprint, a charity that gives musical instruments to

under-privileged children, but only briefly as we are more

interested in Ryan’s involvement and what he has done for it.

After doing research we found multiple ways of approaching this

documentary; Ryan Inglis has a very interesting back-story as to

how he became a musician.

This program is aimed towards being aspirational to music

students as well as entertaining and factual as the documentary

will mostly contain live music, with the audio from interviews

played over the top, in a similar style to the documentary Live

at Abbey Road, also occasionally showing archive footage

(sponsored skydive, vlog, photos etc.) in a similar style.

We will have no problems in getting the music because we will be

using a selection of Ryan’s own music as the soundtrack, meaning

we will have no copyright issues. The interviews will also be

easy to set up as the people we would like to feature are easily

accessible. Our budget will also be quite small as the main costs

are hiring the crew and renting out the rooms for the live shows.

 

This idea is good because it’s a really interesting yet unheard

story, which deserves to be told. There aren’t many documentaries

with a similar idea, especially not with a musician like Ryan.

We would like for this documentary to eventually be entered into

a local short film competition to win £1000, and then to be used

by Ryan for promotional purposes.

It will be finished in the week before the 5th December (the

deadline).

TreatmentThe majority of our documentary footage will be live shows and

archive footage, with the audio from the interviews played over

the top.

The first live show footage will be shot at the Louisiana in

Bristol, from the back next to the sound deck. The background of

the stage is well lit with an orange backdrop, and Ryan will be

sitting on a stool central with multiple spotlights on him. The

second live show will be in the college TV studio, well lit with

a black backdrop. Ryan will be staged the same as before,

although this time we want to have more camera’s with more

interesting angles; probably one just off center and another shot

from the side. For both of these live shows there will be a live

audience. Our final location is at Jules Derrick’s house, in her

living room where we will interview Jules and Ryan. We will put

them in the same positioning just using different camera angles

to add interest.

We’ve already begun searching through the mass of archive footage

at our disposal. We have a rough idea of a structure but that is

 

due to change once we start the first edit and watch the

interviews. Here is a rough outline of the planned structure:

Intro: it will start with an opening summary of what we shall

cover in the documentary, probably a montage of clips to Ryan’s

music and a brief explanation of the charity and Ryan. ( 30 to

60 seconds)

Middle 1: We will cut to interviews with various people talking

about Ryan. It will not feature Ryan at first, or Jules Derrick

(head of the charity). Clips it may include are interviews from

Tony Hobden, Steve Williams, Cliff Moore, Paul Raymond. They will

be discussing Ryan and his origins as an artist. Roughly last 30

to 90 seconds.

Middle 2: At this point, after introducing Ryan through

interviews we will cut to extracts from Ryan’s interview. This

will be a more in depth look at his career and life story.

Roughly last 30 seconds.

Middle 3: Extracts from Ryan’s live performance or traveling on

the road with him (in his car driving to a gig, setting up,

performing). Roughly last 60 seconds.

Middle 4: Introduce his work for and about the charity. Roughly

last 30 seconds

Middle 5: Focus on the charity and the work for Charlie Derrick –

extracts from all interviews. Roughly 30 to 60 seconds

Outro: Montage of clips to final piece of the interview (about

Charlie). Summarize Charlie and him leaving a footprint on

Weston. Roughly last 30 seconds.

Contingency PlansIf the documentary doesn’t work out as planned we will instead

use archive footage and a ‘voice of god’ narrator talking about

what we know of Ryan from our research.

 

Demographics and PsychographicsOur target demographic audience are music students at college

standard education and aged between 16 and 40.

Our target Psychographic audience are music lovers, aspiring to

be a musician/songwriter in the future. We want these students,

having watched our film, to feel motivated because Ryan started

where they are and he has had a very successful career so far.

CrewBetween myself, Corry and Jake, we have agreed on job roles;

Corry will be taking the role of Producer and sharing the role of

Director of Photography with Jake, I am the chief editor and in

charge of sound when filming and we decided to share the role of

director because we all wanted to put a large input into the

outcome of the film. We are also allowing our subject (Ryan) to

put in input as well so he could better use the film in the

future.

BudgetsOur production costs will be minimal, because we have very good

access to the locations and very good facilities at all those

locations.

• Camera Operator: £40 per hour, 9 hours. Total = £360

• Lighting Specialist: £50 per hour, 9 hours. Total = £450

• Soundman: £25 per hour, 9 hours. Total = £225

• Locations: Louisiana, 2 hours + set-up = £300

TV Studio, 2 hours + set-up = £300. Total = £600

• Transport: 20p per mile

£10 returns from Louisiana, Bristol

£0.64 returns from Locking road,

Weston-super-mare

Total = (rounded up) £11

 

• Food: Day 1 (Louisiana): 4 people, £10 each = £40

Day 2 (TV Studio): 4 people, £10 each = £40

Day 3 (Jules’ House): 8 people, £10 each = £80.

Total = £160

• Renting the equipment: £400, 9 hours

• Editor: £300

• Edit Suite: £100

• No copyright costs.

TOTAL MINIMUM BUDGET: £3,356

 

Secondary ResearchThe majority of our research has been from interviews, although

we conducted a lot of secondary research to decide what sort of

questions we would like the interviewees to be asked. This

research was done using the internet, from 3 main websites:

ryaningls.co.uk

 

We also have print screens of the amazon UK music charts

following Ryan’s single ‘Secrets’ on its way up to number 1 and

news paper cut-outs.

 

 

Primary ResearchThe obvious first step from there was to talk to Ryan Inglis. We

emailed him, explaining what we would like to do and if he would

be interested in helping us along the way. We discussed with him

how he could help and what we wanted to achieve from this

documentary and later in the conversation he sent us an email

giving us 19 people who we could talk to and their contact

details.

So far we have had a few positive replies from Ryan’s contacts.

We have also had an unofficial interview with Tony Hobden, Ryan’s

music producer and friend. He gave us some great insights into

Ryan’s education and career. We shall be re-filming the interview

soon.

The next part of primary research we did was a questionnaire. We

showed a range of students at Weston college 3 different styles

of documentary.

 

The first was Live at Abbey Road. This documentary is

interestingly shot, has an artistic feel and is full OD focus

pulls and variations in the depth of field. We were especially

interested in a quote from the producers: ‘Look like a film,

sound like a record’, and I think that really sums up the film

well. It’s quite a relevant documentary because it features

interviews and live music over a presenter.

The second was Secret Millionaire. This includes features such as

‘voice of god’ narration, pre-recorded music in the background

and basic editing and camera work. This Documentary was relevant

because it follows charity work, and at this stage we were unsure

whether the charity or Ryan would be the main focus. The problem

with this example was it is tailored to a more mature audience.

The last documentary was Michael Jackson. This uses fast editing,

a combination of live and pre-recorded music, interviews and

‘voice of god’ narration. Once again this follows the story of a

recording artist, featuring archive footage. Although this is

quite similar to the sort of style we had in mind, the results of

our questionnaire weren’t fair because the audience responded

better to it because Michael Jackson was a music idol and is very

well known.

Questions:

Which documentary will you be answering these questions on?

Live at Abbey Road Secret Millionaire Michael Jackson

Which age group are you?

16-18 19-25 26-35 36-45 46+

How much did you enjoy this documentary?

(1 being not at all, 5 being very much)

1 2 3 4 5

 

Would you continue to watch this?

Yes Maybe No

Are you likely to watch this in your own time?

Yes Maybe No

How long do you think a short documentary in this style be?

1 min 2mins 3mins 4mins 5mins above

After we had got back these results, we concluded that our target

audience preferred Live at Abbey Road to the other two

documentaries, although Michael Jackson was not far behind.

From these results we decided we would shoot in the style of

Abbey Road, although still incorporate archive footage etc. like

Michael Jackson does.

Group Meeting Minutes (11/10/2011)• Proposal! ! ! ! ! ! !

For the intro for the proposal we should use a planned

speech at the beginning, which introduces the title and

give a really quick brief of the content. Along side this

we should edit to a quick video of archive footage - film

of gigs and charity events/interviews and photos - that

corresponds with what the narrator is saying. So, for

example, the narrator would say ‘…singer, songwriter…’ and

either an image or a short clip should be shown of him

singing and playing his guitar.

For some of the other slides we should show our research by

using print screens of websites, news paper clips etc. We

could also maybe give the panel a hand out.

Then we need some slides giving the details of our

contributors, Laura’s making make those slides. Yes, in

 

them I’ll just show examples of the emails, possible

interviewee’s so who they are and why I got in contact with

them.

• Research! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Market research (questionnaire) to be done by the end of

this week. We could possibly do it tomorrow but we need to

get in contact with the music tutors.

• Job Roles! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Producer – Corry

Director – Joint role, all make contribution

Chief Editor – Laura (Do research about how I can edit it,

styles etc.)

Chief Director of photography – Jake

Sound - Laura

• Equipment

We defiantly want to film in HD, if we have the equipment

available then we should make use of it. The best camera to

use for this is probably a Z7, but that’s quite a big one

and wouldn’t be very convenient to get more than one shot,

we would only have the one camera so we would have to move

the camera around and maybe get the subject to repeat

things. An alternative is the Canon 55D, we could use more

of these as there’s more accessible. We could even use

both, so use the Z7 as our main camera and then the 55D to

make the film more interesting and get some other shots in.

Equipment List• Sony Z7• Four Manfrotto Tripod• Shotgun Mic• Final Cut Pro (video footage)• Pro Tools (audio/sound)

‘Look like a film, sound like a record’ – Abbey Road producers