Documentary Storyboards

These storyboards show what the interviews in my documentary will look like.

Risk Assessments

BBFC Letter

Ben Harrison

100, Kings Road

London

LD23 5FN

bengsharrison@gmail.com

07433874017

Dear whom it may concern,

I am writing to submit my short documentary ‘Energy Boys’ for Classification.

After reviewing the criteria for your classification standards, I believe that the appropriate certificate would be a PG.  This is due to very mild references of alcohol and drugs; there is a very short clip near the beginning where two teenagers are seen playing music with two beer bottles in front of them. There is also a short clip of a teenager who has a tobacco pouch poking out of his shirt pocket.

There should be no reason for this film to be classified any higher, as there is no suggestion of condoning the use of these substances, and they are barely noticeable (you would have to look for them in order to see them).

For these reasons, I hope you will be able to review the film and provide this film with appropriate classification.

Kind Regards

Ben Harrison

BBFC Research

The BBFC or British Board of Film Classification is a British non governmental organisation, funded by the film industry. They have the role of categorising films with each licence they fall under. BBFC classify films in terms of violence & gore, sexual content, drug use and profanity.

There are several different certificates which the BBFC categorise films under:

- Suitable for all

- Parental Guidance

- Cinema release suitable for 12 yeasrs and over

Video/DVD release suitable for 12 years ad over

Suitable only for 15 years and over

Suitable only for adults

Adult works for licensed premises only

Recce Report

Location

1. Bedroom in a suburban house.

2. Music Room of a suburban house.

3. Bedroom of a suburban house.

Physical Location

1. Sams House in Sawston Cambridgeshire

2. Bens house in Cambourne Cambridgeshire

3. Jakes house in Whittlesford Cambridgeshire

Description

1. Walls of band posters, guitars leaned up against a bookshelf, bed in the corner of the room, fairly high key ambient lighting, no kind of ambient sound.

2. A small square room filled with musical instruments; guitars, a piano, a harmonium, and a drum kit. Spotlight in the centre of the room, but with general ambient light as well.

Outside Sams House

3. Large bedroom, with shelves, a desk, and computer. Miscellaneous guitar parts and amps in the background. Spotlight in the middle of the room.

Sams room in his house in Sawston

Jakes room in his house in Whittlesford

Music room in Ben's house in Cambourne

The overall look of this film will be very homely. I have chosen to shoot the 'Talking Heads' interviews in the casts houses to show where they practise. It also tells the audience a bit about the characters, by use of posters, instruments and musical equipment.

Documentary Rough Cut / Feedback

This is a 4 minute rough cut for my documentary 'Energy Boys'

Feedback from Charlie Scott:

.  Opens really well

.  Intriguing

.  Feeling like its moving somewhere

.  Good narrative

.  Leaves you wanting to watch on

.  Good sound

.  Music worked nicely

.  Well recorded voiceover

Evidence of Post Production

This picture shows evidence that I have used colour correction in my documentary, during the post production process.

This picture shows I have recorded audio with an external mic, and added the track to a 'floating head' interview.

This shows I had edited the audio in some way.

This shows i have organised my META data using folders.