Question 4

2. Research and Planning
Before starting our documentary we
needed research. We used the internet
and Google to find the necessary
information such as types of biscuits and
the most popular biscuits. We also used
google earth to find the locations we
were filming at for our location sheets.
We applied this information to Microsoft
word and Blogger to make the
information more accessible.

3. Research and Planning We then needed to plan the structure of our
documentary. We studied the codes and
conventions of several documentaries so that when
we come to producing ours we know what to
include. We watched these videos on You Tube and
the Channel 4 website where you can look
specifically at documentaries. This also helped us
know what to include and exclude, how to frame an
interview, where sound should be used, opening
titles and graphics.
Research and planning helped us decide what our
documentary should be about. After making a
brainstorm we thought it would be a good idea to
do Biscuits in Britain as they are cultural and
popular in Britain and there for there would be
enough people to interview and enough footage to
make a documentary.

4. Filming
For the production of filming the interviews we used a
XM2 manual camera which was simple to use as it
required a tape instead of digital so there was no
chance of accidentally deleting it. You can play the
footage back on the camera and plug a microphone
onto the side of it and listen to the sound quality
through a pair of headphones and with a tripod to fit
with it. This insured that the framing was still and
looked more professional.

5. Editing
For the editing process we used an SR-DVM tape deck to capture the footage and put it
onto Adobe Premier which was the programme we used to edit the footage.
Step By Step
1. Open Adobe Premier
2. Insert the tape into the machine, insuring that the cable is connected to the computer.
3. Press ‘F5’ on the keyboard so a new window comes up and click the record button.
4. Find the footage in the left window.

6. On this bar, to select the required
Editing footage you click ‘I’ on the
keyboard to start and ‘O’ to finish This window shows what
Captured footage where you would like to cut. is on the time bar
After selecting the footage you then
This box has different kinds of cuts and
drag the footage onto the line on the
Transactions that can be dragged onto the timeline
order you want.

7. Editing
The red line shows where
you are up to on the video
Title
Titles are graphics
Video
That go over the video
Sound
You can ajust the level of the sound by
moving the yellow line up or down.

8. Editing
We used the blue screen for our opening titles. We put a pile of biscuits on the screen and
took a picture. Then we removed some more biscuits and took another picture and then
over and over again so it looked like the biscuits were disappearing. When we put this
footage onto the computer we changed the blue screen background into a British flag by
saving the picture off the internet then opening it with Adobe. By doing this it looked like
the biscuits were disappearing and revealing the British flag.

9. Print Advert
Our Print advert follows the codes and conventions of a channel 4 poster as our documentary
is on channel 4. Before starting to make it, we researched what Channel 4 posters look like by
going on the website 4creative where you can see the posters from real Channel 4
documentaries.

10. Print Advert
Creating the Print advert

16. Radio Advert
Script
Britain loves biscuits, but why are they so popular? Why have we fallen head over heels
for the Gary baldy? -Vox pops from beginning of documentary- We'll do anything to get
our hands on them, weather its grabbing a pack off the shelves or making our own -Home
bakers and Gregg's answering questions- Relax with a cuppa, a bourbon and watch
Britain's Biscuits - Wednesday 20th December on channel 4 - dunking Britain.
After scripting the radio advert we found a suitable
voice over (That we also recorded and used for our
documentary.)
We recorded it in the radio room as it is quite and will
come out at a better quality when we open it onto
Adobe Premiere.