Task: Make a 7-10 minute documentary on any topic 'The Nottingham Creatives'

1. Documentary Production Log
MCLT205 Creative Documentary
Holly Hubbard - N0730029
Brandon Boyd - N0703554
Matthew Bradley - N0744123
Rheanne Ferguson - N0741893

2. Subject
For our Documentary, we wanted to choose a topic that we could all relate to, and we decided to do
something based on the creative people in Nottingham. There are a lot of stereotypes out there that if you’re
interested in subjects like Media, Photography and Fashion, that you’re automatically classed as being
‘creative’ and when you study subjects such as Geography and Maths, you’re not. In the Documentary, we
just wanted to show that anyone and everyone can be creative people, it’s just about finding it from within
and learning what type of creative you are from experiences you go through.
One of the other reasons that we decided to pick this topic is that we are all currently studying in Nottingham
and will have easy access to facilities, buildings and people for interviews as well other external contacts that
we know in the media/music industries.
Our main target audience for this video are students in general, but also more specifically any students or
young people living in Nottingham, working in Nottingham or studying here (whether that be at University of
Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University or any other alternative college/school). We want to advocate to the
young generations of children that Nottingham is a creative city and that there are opportunities around, you
just have to go and find them yourself in order to chase your dreams.

3. Research
For our initial research, we
all decided to contact
creative people that we felt
would be able to speak
about their experiences or
help us find an angle for
our Documentary. We also
decided to go online and
research ‘The creative city
of Nottingham’ and see
what content was already
out there and how we
could give more exposure
to those creative people in
Nottingham as well as
showcasing people who
started their careers here.
The screenshots on this page include the literature history of
Nottingham being on of the growing cities which has continued
to develop it’s writing, creativity and performing within the city.
The screenshots above, are from a creative’s Facebook story
which gives a bit more insight to one particular aspect of
Nottingham (we aren’t going to use this in the Documentary,
but the fact that he was speaking about something creative,
sparked up the idea of focusing around the area of Nottingham

4. Approach/Angle
For the documentary, we obviously had to pick a specific aspect to focus on. Initially, we were going to follow
the personal life of a singer/songwriter from Nottingham, but we realised that a 10 minute documentary on
one individual person might make it boring for the audience. Unfortunately we also came across the problem
that the singer/songwriter didn’t want to open up about her personal life so we have decided to speak about
the creative opportunities in Nottingham more generally.
We feel that this will help give a quick insight to the opportunities available in Nottingham, showcase some
professionals who started out their careers in the city of Nottingham and then introduce some young, creative
people and ask them about what it really means to be creative, show some real footage of them in action and
try to inspire as many young students to get creative and involved with any creative opportunities in and
around Nottingham.
One of our group members Brandon, actually knows several of the people personally that we plan to interview
for this documentary, so we are going to hopefully include him in the documentary making it more genuine,
as well as some shots to camera introducing the topic, a voiceover and interviews with some of those creative
people.

5. Documentary Proposal Form
This is our Documentary proposal
form. We have filled out all of the
basic information about our
documentary!

6. Script
This is the basic script that we have come up with for the Documentary. It could possibly change if we are unable to
interview certain people, but the main concept is to have a brief introduction, followed by the history of Nottingham.
We will then introduce a variety of different Nottingham Creatives (not students), a few students, and a summary
with the question ‘Do you think you are a creative?’ speculating on the viewers mind.

7. Pitching
For our pitch we decided to make a quick powerpoint presentation showcasing our idea. Initially, we
weren’t sure what the response was going to be, but we had a lot of positive feedback and some
constructive criticism which would help to improve our project.
After the presentation we were faced with two main queries which were:
1-‘How are you going to get access to these creative people’
And…
2-‘Don’t you think you’ve got too much content for a 10 minute Documentary’
Our response:
1- Luckily, the people in our group are friends with the creative people we intend to interview.
2- We do have a lot of different ideas for our documentary and at the moment our plan isn’t set in stone.
Once we get to the filming stage, we are going to look over the individual concepts and see if there are
things that we can remove - but might wait till the editing stage to see how the clips come together first.

8. Pitching (CONTINUED)
This is a copy of the pitch that we showed to the class.

9. Ethical Issues
In all honesty, I don’t think that there are any issues about any topics we are covering in our
documentary. We are trying to promote the creative scene and city of Nottingham and make a quick
documentary on how people have already made success from the area, are currently living her and have a
successful career in the media industry, or are students that are currently studying here and planning
what to do after University.

10. Filming/Editing Log
Date and Time Place Task Roles played by Individuals
13/04/2019 Ricky’s House -Interview with Chantelle Street (model) and
Ricky Liu (photographer). ‘Behind the scenes’
footage and pictures.
Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera
16/04/2019 Ricky’s House -Follow up shots of Ricky’s editing session &
another interview
Brandon _Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera
24/04/2019 Nottingham City -Film some establishing shots in Nottingham,
shots of the creative venues
Brandon - Presenter
Holly - Director
Matt - Sound
Rheanne - Camera
25/04/2019 Nottingham City -Interview with employee from the Nottingham
Creative Quarter
Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera
30/04/2019 NTU Clifton Campus -Interviews with student/working creatives
(Laura Moody and Hannah Clarke)
Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera

11. Filming/Editing EVIDENCE
Here are some of the ‘behind the scenes’ shots that we got of
Ricky and Chantelle during the photo-shoot, and we also have
inserted a few of the edited pictures that Ricky created.
We managed to get a lot of footage at Ricky’s house (with
permission to film the environment as extra footage and to
allow the documentary flow more easily!)

12. Filming/Editing EVIDENCE
When we went back to film Ricky, we asked him questions about his editing style and how he
got into photography. Whilst Brandon was interviewing and filming, the rest of our group were
working on time-lapse shots, began some of the editing, and were making sure that we filled
out the consent forms correctly.

13. Filming/Editing EVIDENCE
We also interviewed several students who include
Hannah Clarke from UoN and Laura Moody
(student turned technician) at NTU. In the
documentary we included screenshots, video and
photographic footage which explained who they
are (such as Laura’s Instagram page and some
examples of her photography, and Hannah’s
YouTube button as that’s her primary creativity).

14. Filming/Editing EVIDENCE
We recorded our
own voice over
using the recorder
at University and
had two different
takes, so that we
could edit out
which bits we
needed.
On Instagram, Brandon posted a
story saying that we needed a few
creative people to answer some
questions, and we got a lot of
responses but had to pick some of
the best ones.
In the end we chose
Naim; a model
Momen; NTU student (Thai Boxing)
Luce; NTU student (variety of
things)
It was nice to just introduce a few
creative people near the beginning
of the documentary and explain the
reasons for choosing this as the
topic, and then we introduced
Nottingham as a city, followed by
our interviews.

15. Filming/Editing EVIDENCE
At the Nottingham Creatives meet-up, we got a lot of interviews and
photos to help with our project (as well as just networking and
connecting with new people, if we were to make another episode for the
documentary in the future).
When asking questions in the interview, we asked what their creative
type was (and if they were a student how they were able to balance
student life and creative projects). The final question was how students
in Nottingham could be more proactive and make use of the
opportunities around them.
Here’s some pictures of Regina
and Naim; two of our
interviewees.

16. Filming/Editing EVIDENCE
When we got to the editing stage, we had to colour correct all of our clips. We
edited the videos and pictures on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro.

17. Shot Log - RICKY AND CHANTELLE INTERVIEW
Date of Filming Title of Project Name of Camera Operator
13/04/2019
THE NOTTINGHAM CREATIVES RHEANNE/BRANDON
Shot
no
Start time
code
End time
code
Duration Audio/Video Content Comments Whether Will
Use in Edit
YES NO
X X 3m50 Shots of Ricky’s house Used snippets through the
interview to show Ricky growing up
X
X X 0m26 BTS shot 1 Filmed a particular shot of the
photo-shoot
X
X X 0m25 BTS shot 2 Filmed a particular shot of the
photo-shoot
X
X X 1m30 BTS shot 3 Filmed a particular shot of the
photo-shoot
X
X X 1m40 BTS shot 4 Filmed a particular shot of the
photo-shoot
X
X X 8m25 Medium shot - Chantelle Street and Ricky Liu Had the interview filmed from
straight on perspective
X
X X 7m50 Close up shot - Ricky Liu Shots were out of focus so we
decided not to use close up shots
X
X X 9m58 Close up shot - Chantelle Street Shots were out of focus so we
decided not to use close up shots
X

18. Shot Log - RICKY FOLLOW UP SHOTS
Date of Filming Title of Project Name of Camera Operator
16/04/2019
THE NOTTINGHAM CREATIVES RHEANNE/BRANDON
Shot
no
Start time
code
End time
code
Duration Audio/Video Content Comments Whether Will
Use in Edit
X X YES NO
X X 0m30 Timelapse of Ricky editing pictures Recorded a time lapse of the editing
process- nice as overlaying image
X
X X 0m20 Shot of Ricky driving Showing travel in the documentary
but didn’t use the clip
X
X X 4m30 Interview Cut clip with answers to questions
about editing
X
X X 1h50 Screen recording of editing the pictures We didn’t need to use any of the
screen recording to overlay as we
had time lapse
X
X X 1m40 BTS shot 1 Shots of Ricky editing pictures from
the photo-shoot with Chantelle
X
X X 3m20 BTS shot 2 Other shots of Ricky editing pictures X

19. Shot Log - NOTTINGHAM CITY SHOTS
Date of Filming Title of Project Name of Camera Operator
24/04/2019
THE NOTTINGHAM CREATIVES RHEANNE/BRANDON
Shot
no
Start time
code
End time
code
Duration Audio/Video Content Comments Whether Will
Use in Edit
X X YES NO
X X 2m30 Video montage of Nottingham Shot of Nottingham City centre
(would be good with the pictures that
we included)
X
X X
X X

20. Shot Log - NCQ INTERVIEW
Date of Filming Title of Project Name of Camera Operator
25/04/2019
THE NOTTINGHAM CREATIVES RHEANNE/BRANDON
Shot
no
Start time
code
End time
code
Duration Audio/Video Content Comments Whether Will
Use in Edit
X X YES NO
X X 4m50 Interview with student member of NCQ File corrupted and we had too much
footage so couldn’t use interview
and didn’t have time to re film
X
X X

21. Shot Log - STUDENT INTERVIEWS
Date of Filming Title of Project Name of Camera Operator
30/04/2019
THE NOTTINGHAM CREATIVES RHEANNE/BRANDON
Shot
no
Start time
code
End time
code
Duration Audio/Video Content Comments Whether Will
Use in Edit
X X YES NO
X X 7m36 Interview with Hannah Clarke (Student &
YouTuber)
Filmed interview in one take; edited
out best parts (and included B roll
footage and images)
X
X X 2m20 Interview with Laura Moody (Ex Student &
Technician at NTU)
Filmed interview in two takes; edited
out best parts (and included B roll
footage and images)
X
X X 2m11 Interview with Laura Moody (shot 2) Filmed one of the questions from a
different to have a variety of angles to
use for the final edit
X
X X
X X

22. Filming/Editing Log (CONTINUED)
Date and Time Place Task Roles played by Individuals
02/05/2019 Nottingham City (The
Nottingham Creatives
meetup)
-Grab some more interviews and ‘behind the
scenes’ shots of the meetup
Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera
x x x Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera
x x x Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera
x x x Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera
x x x Brandon - Interviewer
Holly - Director
Matt - Consent/Sound
Rheanne - Camera

23. NOTTINGHAM CREATIVES SHOTS
Date of Filming Title of Project Name of Camera Operator
02/05/2019
THE NOTTINGHAM CREATIVES RHEANNE FERGUSON
Shot
no
Start time
code
End time
code
Duration Audio/Video Content Comments Whether Will
Use in Edit
X X YES NO
X X 0m28 Interview with Naim and Regina
(Naim- Model, Regina- Student & Model)
Bloopers; restarted the interview X
X X 3m30 Interview with Naim and Regina 2
(Naim- Model, Regina- Student & Model)
Filmed the interview from straight
on
X
X X 2m28 Interview with Naim and Regina 3
(Naim- Model, Regina- Student & Model)
Close up shots of Regina (not used
as we already had content we
needed)
X
X X 2m30 Interview with Naim and Regina 4
(Naim- Model, Regina- Student & Model)
Close up shots of Naim X
X X 2m50 Interview with Fernando
(Model)
Filmed the interview from straight
on
X
X X 2m39 Interview with Fernando 2
(Model)
Close up shots of Fernando (not
used as we already had content we
needed)
X
X X 4m30 BTS shots of other photo shoots and
Nottingham Creatives speaking
Variety of shots from photo-shoot
with Serena, Fernando and Regina
X
X X 7m21 BTS shots of other photo shoots and
Nottingham Creatives speaking 2
Variety of shots from photo-shoot
with Ava, Tom and Kyle
X
X X 8m40 BTS shots of other photo shoots and
Nottingham Creatives speaking 3
Variety of shots from photo-shoot
with Regina and Naim
X

24. LOCATION RECCE - NTU CLIFTON AND CITY CAMPUS
Before filming on location either on campus or away from campus you must do a ‘recce’ of the site in order to assess
the suitability of the location for filming.
Permission to film required? Y Y If so, permission from whom? NTU STUDENTS - We
are allowed to film on
Clifton Campus and
around Nottingham
Times available ALL DAY
Electricity supply N/A
Noise interference (air con, wind etc) WIND (but we will use microphone cover)
STUDENTS (but we will film when no students are walking next to camera)
Obstructions (on-lookers, traffic,
limited space)
TRANSPORT (but we will wait for cars/buses to drive past before filming)
RESTRICTED SPACE (but we will film in open area on campus)
Light (availability and need for extra) DAY TIME (we don’t need to worry about light as we won’t be filming when it’s dark
Other Considerations N/A

25. LOCATION RECCE - RICKY LIU’S HOUSE
Before filming on location either on campus or away from campus you must do a ‘recce’ of the site in order to assess
the suitability of the location for filming.
Permission to film required? Y Y If so, permission from whom? RICKY IS A FRIEND
OF BRANDON’S AND
HAS GIVEN
CONSENT TO USING
HOUSE TO FILM
CONTENT
Times available ALL DAY
Electricity supply N/A
Noise interference (air con, wind etc) TELEVISION (but we will make sure electrical items are off when filming)
FAMILY (but we will film when his family aren’t in the house)
Obstructions (on-lookers, traffic,
limited space)
TRANSPORT (but we will wait for cars/buses to drive past before filming)
RESTRICTED SPACE (but we will film in open area in his house)
Light (availability and need for extra) DAY TIME (we don’t need to worry about light as we won’t be filming when it’s dark
Other Considerations N/A

26. City Campus &
Ricky’s House
Risk
Assessment
Form

27. Clifton Campus
Risk
Assessment
Form

28. Copyright Log
Name of Production
Names of Producers
BRANDON BOYD, HOLLY
HUBBARD, MATT BRADLEY,
RHEANNE FERGUSON
Date
15/05/2019
Media Form of
Material Used (video,
audio, image or
other)
Description / name of track
Where Obtained (web URL
etc.)
Copyright Status
Details of Permission
Gained
RICKY & CHANTELLE
INTERVIEW
.MP4 FILES
VIDEO FOOTAGE ON HARD
DRIVE
NONE OWN CONTENT
RICKY & CHANTELLE
BTS FOOTAGE AND
PICTURES
.MP4 FILES & .JPEG IMAGES
VIDEO FOOTAGE AND IMAGES
ON HARD DRIVE
NONE
OWN CONTENT (OR
CONSENTED CONTENT)
SHOTS OF
NOTTINGHAM AND
CREATIVE VENUES
.MP4 FILES & .JPEG IMAGES
VIDEO FOOTAGE AND IMAGES
ON HARD DRIVE
NONE OWN CONTENT
NCQ INTERVIEW .MP4 FILES
VIDEO FOOTAGE ON HARD
DRIVE
NONE OWN CONTENT
STUDENT INTERVIEWS .MP4 FILES
VIDEO FOOTAGE ON HARD
DRIVE
NONE OWN CONTENT
NOTTINGHAM
CREATIVE
INTERVIEWS
.MP4 FILES
VIDEO FOOTAGE ON HARD
DRIVE
NONE OWN CONTENT

29. Consent Forms
Consent
forms

30. The End - Well done!
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this log.