Target Audience

The video displayed shows my interview with Danielle and Lydia who watched parts of the group's documentary and expressed their views on the appropriate target audience. They agreed with the target audience mainly containing teachers, parents and children who are under private or public schooling because of the helpful insight given when displaying contrasts between schools. 

It was decided teachers would be interested in the documentary due to standards of teaching being covered in the documentary. Parents would be a target audience because they will face the decision whether to send their child to private or public schooling and would find the documentary a helpful insight into making that decision. Finally pupils would be interested due to facilities being discussed and differences between schools. 

Archive Footage

After searching video website such as www.youtube.com , we found relevant archive footage to include in our documentary. Ideally we wanted to find two videos highlighting the results from two different schools, Private and Public schools. The reason for this would be that it would be very relevant to our filming comparing the two schools and this would give the audience a real life example and a further insight into the comparisons between the two. The two videos below are examples of the archive footage we could use, taken from St John Baptist school in Woking and Harlow College.

Woking A-Level Results:







Harlow College A Level Results:

Mise-En-Scene

Uniform:


Costumes appear in our documentary frequently and have a very clear image portrayed to viewers. Private school and state schools differ in uniform, especially at sixth form, public schools aren't required to wear uniform. However private school sixth form's require uniform and this topic appears in our documentary interviews when the question 'Do you think uniform has an effect on your learning?' is asked. Uniform is to be carefully considered for how much involvement there will be in our documentary and how severe the differences are between standards of learning and wearing/not wearing uniform.

Filming At Reeds

Reeds Filming on Prezi

Filming at Reeds

Our day filming at Reeds School

Due to our change of plan, Meg, Nick and I took the day to film at Reeds School. This was a very successful and valuable day of filming as we filmed everything we needed in order to make our documentary as successful as it possibly could be.

We got to Reeds for 10am where we were introduced to Mr Michael who had kindly arranged the day for us. We met one of the sports coaches called Mr Haining who was more than helpful. It was great talking to him as he provided an insight to both experiences at a state school and a private school. He gave us a tour around the sports department and showed us the sporting facilities which was one of the significant differences between the two.

We were also allowed to sit in on a history lesson which was great as we got a real life example of teaching instead of interviews and the ways in which the children responded and got involved in lessons. All the children were very well behaved and took part in the lesson activities. They had a friendly and practical approach to teaching.

We sat in on a gym session as well as two students playing tennis. This was great as it in our documentary their is a clear contrast in the facilities.

Speaking to the sports coach whom had attended both private and state schools was very interesting, his view was that he feels you get what you pay for when you come to a private school, the sporting facilities and matches that take place in every sport at the weekends, the top athletes get one on one sessions with coaches which was a real benefit. However if students are determined to succeed they can do just as well at a public school if they are motivated to do so.

At Reeds, we also got a chance to have some one on one interviews with the students of the sixth form, they seemed to love where they were and what they were doing. Another difference between a state and private school was the way in which in free periods the students at a private school are made to study where as public schools have the choice to study or go out in their free periods.

The day was ideal and we completed a bulk of filming which could now be edited and placed into our documentary. We also were kindly given GCSE and A Level results on a page and a copy of one of their Newsletters to observe and include if needed.

Still to do: Over half term our group needs to edit our final outcome together to produce the best possible result for our documentary.