Planning- Interview questions

Designer-

1. What do you think is the best thing about denim?
2. Are there any movements/eras in fashion that have influenced your work or designs?
3. Do you have any celebrity style icons or anyone that you would love to design for?
4. What is your favourite use for denim?
5. Do you think that it is a practical material?
6. Do you think it is versatile?
7. Has anyone ever asked you to design anything specifically out of denim?
8. What is your opinion on double denim? Would you advice people against it?

New look shop assistant-

1. Do you wear denim often?
2. Does the shop's stock influence what you wear yourself?
3. Do you think that denim is more day or nightwear?
4. Do you think that your stock reflects this?
5. What is your opinion on double denim? Would you advice people against it?
6. Do you think that it is versatile?
7. What type of denim items does the shop sell?
8. Does denim sell well?
9. What do you think is the best thing about denim?

Research for documentary- Archive footage

Youtube-
Levi jeans advert (laundrette)
Film-'Brokeback Mountain'
Images/video footage illustrating why it's banned in North Korea
Film-'Rebel without a cause'

Google-
Images/Video footage illustrating why it's banned in North Korea
Images of celebrities wearing double denim.

Research for documentary- Planning for 'New Look' interview

Remember-
Test mic- film a test question and then test playback.
Find place on tape, don't film over anything.
Take photographs.
No light behind her.
If possible, name tag on show.

Cutaways-
Tracking and panning of jeans.
Someone choosing jeans (hand across them).
Film front of shop (sign)- establishing shot for the interview.
Film a New Look tag on a pair of jeans (or other form of denim).

Research for documentary- Emails to potential interviewees

Formal Proposal

Topic- Denim

Type of documentary- Informative

Style of documentary- Expository

Channel and scheduling- C4, 8.00-8.30pm, Sunday

Target Audience- Teens/young adults

Primary Research- Questionnaires, Interviews/Vox pops, Cutaways, mise en scene/location.

Secondary Research- Archive footage (e.g images, films and music- 'Dukes of Hazzard' clips, 'Levi' advert in the laundrette, celebrities wearing denim and practical uses of denim eg denim uses in the workplace and the history of denim).

Narrative structure- Informative- There is a question at the start of the show (the title- 'What's the obsession with...denim?'), leads into opinions and history of denim to analyse the question, and this eventually leads to a conclusion- what the obsession with denim is, in other words, why denim is so popular.

Outline of content- Interviews-Vox pops (public opinion), Shop owner/manager.
Archive footage- 'Dukes of Hazzard' clips, 'Levi' advert in the laundrette, Pics of celebrities.
Cutaways- Aisles of denim (tracking/panning), people buying/picking up denim, people wearing denim (Liverpool).

Resource Requirements- Camera, mic, computer, tripod, Props/mise en scene to suit interviewee.

Brainstorm of content for the documentary

*Interviews- Vox pops in Liverpool- Shop owners- Manufacturers/designers.

*Voice over- Female- to suit the theme.

*Archive footage- Adverts- Levi, Gap- Celebs in denim (Pics or vids) COMARED TO Practical use of denim (Pics or vids).

*Cutaways- Panning/tracking of aisles with denim in, people buying or picking up denim.

Target audience research- Audio Questionnaire

Audio Questionnaire