This document summarizes a presentation on homelessness in the local area. It discusses researching homelessness statistics, shelters, and common causes of homelessness. It outlines the planning, storyboard, filming and editing process for creating a video on homelessness. Feedback was gathered from the client and public, which was mostly positive about the video conveying its message clearly and being emotionally impactful through the use of music and contrasting footage/photos. The presentation compares their video to an example online and discusses potential improvements.

1. Homelessness in my area project presentation
By Sophie Hoskin
and Hayley McCarthy

3. Proposal
First email from our client giving us 2
briefs to chose from.
Brief 1
Brief 2
We chose brief 2.

4. Chosen brief

5. Planning
• For our preparation for the film, we came up
with several ideas on how to cover the topic.
• We had 2 initial idea, they were:
• Show a before and after shots of a homeless
person.
• Show several homeless people from around
the county and with the effects of
homelessness.

6. Research into homelessness (statistics)
• 76% of clients were male
• 24% of clients were female
• 39% of clients were from BME communities
• 64% of clients had issues with substance use (drugs and/or alcohol)
• 64% had a physical health condition (medical condition, vision or hearing
impaired and/or required regular medication)
• 70% of clients had mental health issues (diagnosed, suspected, depression
and/or self harming)
• 54% of clients had educational needs (learning disabilities, difficulty
reading, difficulty with numeracy, managing money and paying bills)
• 8% had been in care
• 48% of clients were ex-offenders or had been in prison
Found from
http://www.mungos.org/homelessness/facts/homelessness_statistics/

7. Research in to homing and shelters

8. Research into the reasons that
homelessness happens
• People are forced into homelessness when something bad happens and
they don’t have the support of family or friends to fall back on. Many of
these situations could happen to any of us: it might be redundancy, a
relationship breakdown, poor mental health, alcohol/substance addiction
or domestic abuse.
• Without a strong system of support around a person, one incident can
spark a chain of events that lead to homelessness. Triggers include:
• Marriage or relationship break-up
• Addiction to/dependence on alcohol, prescription or illegal drugs, or
gambling
• Job loss, which leads to repossession or inability to pay rent
• Mental illness
• Physical illness
• Escaping an abusive relationship
• Getting into debt
• Death of a loved one
• Leaving institutions (such as army or prison)
http://streetsoflondon.org.uk/about-homelessness

9. What would attract an audience?
• We conducted a questionnaire which we
asked 10 people to take part in.
• We asked: What would make you want to
watch a video about homelessness? The
results show that people would like included:
Clear understanding of what it is about, good
music, pull at the heartstrings.

10. What needs to be included
• Music
• Relevant footage
• Relevant pictures
• Statistics
• Important information
• Names of shelters that could help.

11. What we don’t want it to be
• Boring
• Irrelevant
• Long
• Hard to watch, must not want to make the
audience walk away.

12. Storyline
• The video to do with homelessness shows a
homeless person after they have found a
shelter and rebuilt there life to a better place,
it then shows what there life was like and how
it was hard for them to cope without alcohol
and other substances. Throughout the video
statistics and relevant information is shown so
that the audience can find out more about the
topic through the whole production and not
the footage.

13. Storyboard and ideas

15. Location and equipment
• All aspects of the film was taken in
Watlington, the footage was filmed next to
church alley and the photography was taken in
a near by courtyard.
• Equipment used was: A video camera, DSLR
camera, tripod, and editing equipment.

16. Creating the video
• When creating the video we used our idea combined with the
storyboards to make the video come alive, once choosing our actor
we then worked on a plan as to where when and how. Whilst this
was being considered, Sophie took photos that would be used to
show the former life of the ex-homeless person. After the pictures
where taken and uploaded onto premier pro we focused on the
video, first we shot the after shot we took our actor to the location
and asked her to improvise and imagine how the person would be
feeling. We then changed outfits and created our props and got to
work shooting the final scene which was our homeless person. We
came across a few problems such as the dye coming out of our beer
bottle which was improved by editing and several people walking
through when shooting was taking place, however we just reshot at
a less busier time, the final problem we came across was lighting as
sometimes the sun shone into the camera we changed the angle
and reshot.

17. Choosing the music
• For the music we needed a serious tone to it.
We decided to use a moving piece to go
alongside with what we have shot in black and
white.
• We had various different pieces of music to go
along side our video yet the one we chose, we
felt fit the criteria in the best way.

18. Legal/copyright
• We used copyright free music for our
production. We downloaded it from a website
that allows you to obtain music copyright free
for free.
• All videos and pictures seen in the production
are our own videos that we shot our self.

19. Editing
• In editing we decided to change the colour to
black and white to create dramatic effecting.
We used transitions between pictures to
allow them to merge together for a fuller
effect in the production.

20. Roles
Sophie ‘s roles – pre production ( location,
production script, storyboards.)
Main production ( photography, footage and
editing.)
Hayley's roles – pre production ( risk
assessment, cast contact list.)
Main production ( photography and editing. )

21. Improvements
• As it was quite a challenging subject as there is
not a specific population of how many people are
actually homeless.
• We decided to add a drama into it. If we were to
do it again we would create several other stories
to show the different types of homeless and how
they live, we would make it longer and a lot
easier to understand, we would follow the brief
more carefully and produced a well-balanced
production using all features that our client
wanted.

22. Examples
• Below is an example of a you tube video made
to help awareness of homelessness
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkOnqQ
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23. Comparing example to own work
The You tube video is created by videos and
photographs from the internet, it shows the
audience facts and figures as to the homelessness
in the UK.
Our video is created from videos and photographs
taken by us also using facts and figures to show
detail.
A main difference between the two videos is that
the you tube video is just a sequence of pictures
and videos whereas ours has more of a drama to it.

24. Feedback (client)

25. Feedback (public)
We asked 20 members of the public what they thought of
our film.
18/20 people said that the film was intellectual and it was
easy to understand what it was about.
2/ 20 people said that it was put together well however if
they saw it then there views would stay the same.
5/20 people said that they enjoyed the contrast between
the photos and the footage.
14/20 said that the music is what drew the film to there
attention.
Overall the project was put across well in the public.

26. Thank you for listening