Interviewing

This clip shows the interview we constructed in our group. We started to understand the reasoning behind interviews in documentary's and this resulted in the approach we chose to film the interviews. For example, we chose to abide by the 180 degree rule due to the purpose of a clear structure of interview technique and both facial expressions displayed to audience. This gives a full  in depth effect to the viewer. 

The interview was beneficial because we got a insight of interviews we were going to use in our documentary and what worked well and what did not work as well.

Interviews

In class we filmed our interview with Meg being asked the questions of her experience of private school and public school.  We did this as she could give a perspective on both a private school and state school. The interviews worked really well as we asked a wide range of questions that focused on the key aspects we should look to compare. We also interviewed Miss Donovan as she could also give us a point of view from both sides. We are going to St Georges College next week to film a few interviews with teachers there and to get some more footage of the school itself, mainly the facilities as there is a massive difference between the two. Types of questions included were:

Is there a massive difference between the facilities at the two schools? If so what are they?
Do the pupils have a different attitude to learning?
Is it worth the money you pay to be educated at a private school?
Does the uniform in sixth form effect attitudes to learning?
Is the teaching standard the same?
What does a typical school day consist of?

Planning Interviews

We have decided to include various interviews in the documentary in order to break our documentary up as well as include different points of views on a state school and private school.
Meg is being interviewed in our documentary as she used to go to St Georges College in Weybridge so she has experienced both a state school and private school and what life is like at both. This therefore meant Meg was able to reveal some of the differences and similarites from both schools.
We are also including interviews of several teachers.

During our interviews we also have to consider the different camera angles. This will provide the audience with a more interesting documentary to watch as we will not just stick to one camera angle. Possible shots we have considered are: Two Shot, Close up, Long Shot.

Location Shots

Our first part of our project was to take some location shots so we could see where we wanted to film parts of the documentary or even decide whether to include the location shots in our final task. We took pictures around Heathisde School (Public School) first, the facilities and mainly sports facilities.

These shots were taken to give audiences an idea of the building and sports facilities that would be compared to St Georges (Private School) during the documentary. 

Change Of Plan

Unfortunately we experienced some issues involving one of our schools and permission.

St. Georges College informed us that the filiming couldn't take place within thier school, so we were forced into looking into a new private school to film.  We decided to contact Reed's School Cobham and asked them for permission to film.