Due to our documentary structure change and the change of our opening soundtrack from the 'Lion Sleeps Tonight' to 'Massive Attack - Teardrop' we contacted the owners to use their music for educational purposes for our A2 Coursework project.
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As we looked at the structure of our documentary - we both believed we weren't conveying that deeper meaning of negative representation of zoo's. We decided with our teacher feedback giving from our original start clip with Lion Sleeps Tonight, it gave too much of a happy feeling towards it. We agreed on using Massive Attack - Teardrop as our opening sequence with the narration saying about 'Zoos can be wonderful places however around the world this is not always the case'. Whilst showing horrible, disturbing clips, we want the viewer and audience to react to this and therefore possibly shed a tear(drop) to this emotive music. This then will have an immediate impact on the viewer and therefore be intrigued to watch how this zoo (Bristol Zoo) looks after their animals. It will take time to get right but with the music it will really help convey the narration and make the audience sit up and want to watch more. This is also more appropriate as Massive Attack are a Bristol based band adding to the deeper meaning and Bristol 'ness' of the documentary. Using the archive footage at the start will be good as it will have an instant impact on viewer. We will source the footage from YouTube.
At Churchill Academy, we have the recording studio for us media, music, dance etc students to use to record specific bits of audio. Recording this professionally will add to the appeal of our documentary and make it like a proper TV documentary. We recorded one of our Drama teachers Mr Buckley who kindly offered to use his voice for our project. Below is the script we used and recorded as an mp3 file to then use throughout our project.
After putting together our documentary, and starting to see the structure form, we needed to decide whether to use a voice of god for our documentary Life Inside Bristol Zoo. Looking at parts of it where I have archive footage and there is no sound as yet we feel we need this Voice of God to help the documentary flow more and carry the meaning of the documentary. We decided as we are both students (and our interviews about zoos may appear in the documentary) we needed an older, more mature voice as people would respect this. We decided to use one of our teachers, Mr Buckley who is a drama teacher and will read the script to help tell our story of our documentary. This should therefore help the documentary's structure and be a good bridge between our introduction and archive footage, then before and after interviews in our 5 minutes.
![]() After reviewing our footage for the last month or so and looking at what we have, we needed to make another trip up to Bristol Zoo. Having our opening was a good start and we started to form the structure of our final product but we needed more footage and most importantly interviews to make the documentary flow and covey the conventions of documentary throughout our product. Having all ready got archive footage - we both knew this could be a part with a voice of God were we could have 30 seconds or so about the history of the zoo. This informs the viewer on the history as this documentary is Life Inside Bristol Zoo and it sets the scene. This with a small introduction will be about the first 2 minutes of our 5 minute opening of our documentary. We set off for the zoo on Weds 15th March having a plan to shoot external shoots (outside the zoo - traffic outside, visitors walking in, the front of the zoo) and internal shoots with more shoots of the lion (didn't get much of them last time) and all the animals of course. We also would try to get interviews with zookeepers as this was an important part and we only managed two short ones the first time we went up (Sun 15th Jan). We both knew that we would need filler clips and that we needed enough footage to fill 5 minutes of this project. We filmed everything we could spending 4 hours up at the zoo with a tripod and DSLR camera gathering footage. I also decided to film the main 'avenue' of Bristol Zoo so I could experiment with a time lapse of people walking past. When we get back to school - we will review the footage and see what we can use and look at the structure of how we want our documentary. |
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