This is a case study that I have done on the documentary One Mile Away

1. ONE MILE AWAY

2. BRIEF OVERVIEW AND PLOT
One Mile Away is a documentary about two miles north-east of Birmingham city
center, in an area of Aston known for violence among gangs and drug dealers, six
gang members are gathered in a building. The older members – 'elders’ – are doing
what they have always done, which is teaching young members how to follow in
their paths, imparting their knowledge to the next generation. It’s Directed by Penny
Woolcock and produced by James Purnell, the former Labour cabinet minister, it
charts what happens after two rival gang members – Matthias 'Shabba’ Thompson,
33, from the Johnsons and Dylan Duffus, 31, from the Burger Bar Boys – take the
decision to call a truce and campaign for peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqjZy4HnC0

3. FINANCE
The documentary ‘One Mile Away’ raised £21,033 from kick start.
• The average return train fare from Birmingham to London is £50. Every small contribution can help
towards the travel costs of bringing the cast of the film to a school or youth center near you. They will
have had to make more than one trip to Birmingham, this means they spent quite a lot of money on train
fair for the characters, which was a must because to drive there they would have had to pay for petrol
and parking.
• Some youth centers don't have screening equipment and so for £100 we can hire a van to take
our portable screen and projector to any location in the UK to set up a special screening.
• To make the event engaging for younger audiences we want to utilize the musical experience of our
cast. £500 would contribute towards hiring sound equipment to host a local open mic night at a youth
center on the night of a film screening.
• To plan all of these events we need a coordinator to keep everything in check. £1000 would contribute
towards the salary of our Impact Producer. Overall, all though they
• The film funded by: Channel 4, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Creative England, and Development grants from
influence film fund. They needed all these companies because otherwise they wouldn’t have had enough
money to produce the documentary.

4. LOGISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS SUCH AS
DEADLINES AND RECOURSES
Some of the youth centers they went to during filming didn’t have projectors or
portable screens, so they had to buy these, and they were about £100 each. They
would have also needed to buy security and bullet proof vests, just incase they got
under attack as they were filming gangs, and they were in quite a dangerous place
during filming. They didn’t pay for locations as One Mile Away is a documentary,
they just filmed the gangs whilst walking around Birmingham. The producers had to
think about people who was in the scenes that they didn’t have permission for to be
filmed, and they have to blur them out due to security reasons.
During the filming of One Mile Away they wouldn’t have had to consider paying a
certain amount of money to the owners of the land, as they just filmed in many
different locations in Birmingham.

5. REGULATORY REGULATIONS
Film censorship is carried out by various countries to differing degrees, sometimes
as a result of powerful or relentless lobbying by organizations or individuals. Films
that are banned in a particular country change over time.
One mile away does contain a lot of swearing and strong language that may not be
suitable for younger audiences, therefore the age rating is a 15. There are strict
rules against people under the age of 15, watching a 15 rating documentary, when a
film or programme is rated 15, it usually contains Bad behaviour, Nudity, Sex,
Threats, and when talking about One Mile Away, a lot of violence as it is set in
Birmingham on local gangsters. I think that 15 is a good age rating for One Mile
Away as it is going to contain all the bad things that are listed above, which is quite
unpleasant when watching it from a young persons point of view. And also some of
the stories that come along with the documentary can be offensive to adult veiwers
as well as young veiwers.

6. PRE- PRODUCTION
Pre-production is all about the stuff that needs to be done before the shooting or editing begins.
Although One Mile Away was planned before shooting, they wont have needed to rehearse any of the
shoots, as they were literally just interviewing gang members that were popular and well known
around Birmingham.
They would have needed to plan out certain parts of the documentary but no where near as much as a
film would have needed. Just over the fact that it’s a documentary based on real life characters, other
than actors acting out a fake character. They filmed in Birmingham and they had to think ahead of
what it was going to be like there, the producers that went there to film it had to wear bullet proof
jackets, because they were getting so involved with the gangsters, they had to think about their own
safety. They had to also get the train down to Birmingham carrying all of the Equipment, so they had
to think ahead about booking train tickets, and they might have had to stay there over night for a few
days whilst filming so they had to plan where they were going to stay, and how many days they will
have had to be staying there for.

7. PLANNING OF EDITING
During the making of One Mile Away the producers had to consider blurring
certain peoples faces out of the picture, who they hadn’t got permission of to say
they could be in their documentary. For example whenever you go to places you
might see people of the public who have nothing to do with the programme have
their faces blurred out because it is illegal to not.
They didn’t have to use any editing applications, the only editing they did was
subtitles at the bottom in case the audience couldn’t understand what they’re
saying if its not very clear at all.