Thursday, 6 May 2010
Change to style
Influences..
Alan Berliners' : Nobody's Business (1996)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117196/
http://www.alanberliner.com/flashdev3/viewing.html
Channel 4 Series. Fonejacker
Phone call to Unite
As Unite haven't replied to our email we sent, we then decided to ring them up and try arrange an interview to see what they had to say. Heres a short script of what we planned to say during the phone call.
We are giving you the opportunity to express your side of the story which will be recorded for our film.
Would you like to arrange an interview with us?''
Having tried to arrange an interview over the phone, no one was willing to speak to us regarding the topic and kept redirecting us to other offices.
Unite: 0800 783 4213
Sheffield Unite... 01132 426135
Head Marketing Department Bristol... 01173027046
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Email to unite
Hey sorry took so long to put this email on that we sent to unite was trying to find it in my mailbox, still no reply from them yet though.
To whom it may concern,
Hi my name is Sam Parker, I am currently a second year student at Sheffield Hallam University and studying film and media production. For our latest project we have been asked to make a documentary that is within the public interest, being students we decided to tackle the issue of student acommodation prices. we decided to look at both student and private sector letting agents to find out who offered the better deal for students. upon our findings we found that your company is one of the most expensive.
From this we decided to speak both past and present tenants of your acommodation to see wether they thought you acommodation was worth the money. From this we discovered that not all of them were entirely satisfied with the service that is provided by you. We would very much like to hear your views on the issue as to your pricing structure and to the standard of your acommodation and allow you to have an input into our documentary, unfortunately we discovered you were not the only company that didn't provide adequate service or value for money and we as students feel we deserve a better standard of living especially for the amount of money we are spending on such service.
We very much looking forward to hearing a response to this email and hopefully shed some light on the disillusionment we feel as students on the current issues.
Yours Faithfully
Sam Parker
Monday, 19 April 2010
Statistics
A table of statistics regarding student accommodation prices :)
http://www.shu.ac.uk/accommodation/costsandcont.html
Interviews..
Looking back at our interview from Fit estate agents with feedback from the tutorial, the interview will have to be re-shot, due to poor sound quality (from a faulty rifle mic, which we didn't realise until it was taking place), the framing could also be improved aswell as the lighting!
Having rescheduled this, Ashley has now been stranded abroad due to the Volcano in Iceland. So will try get this done, asap on his return!
The Interview with the students in the house is useable aswell as some footage of the tour around the house.
An interview has also been arranged with the Uni student accommodation services has been arranged for 3pm, 20th April.
Sunday, 18 April 2010
What we see on screen
Introduction of what we will be talking about:
This will include a voice-over which will explain what we are doing and why we are doing it. It will last around 1 minute and should tell of exactly how we are going to highlight our point. Whilst the voice-over is telling the audience all of this there will be shots of Student Accommodation and student buildings. There should also be a small montage of vox-pops that we have done that describe the accommodation with words like “disappointing”, “awful” and “sickening”. After this, there might be a title saying “student accommodation”, with maybe a devil horns and tail around it. Throughout the intro there will be music playing and the final chord plays when the title comes up.
The main body:
Whoever the presenter is, they will appear now and talk to the camera directly as they explain “but before we go and speak to the student letting agencies, let’s go and find out what the students themselves have to say about the places they live”. He will say this in a busy street and should have a mini mic attached to him to pick up sound as road noise may be a problem. We then show some vox pops with students and for the first one we will see the presenter asking them the question “what do you think of student accommodation prices?” We will get 4 or 5 full responses to the question.
Then the presenter will talk about the findings and explain how it’s “time to find out what the student accommodation places have to say about prices”. There can be a short shot of their sign with maybe the sounds of thunder and a haunting church organ. The next shot will be in the student letting agents with the presenter asking what prices everything is. Once we find out the results we go to a whiteboard and copy the figures we have found out and compare it to the minimum loans that people get. This will be done by the presenter saying to the camera what he is adding up and then in fast motion he writes down his findings on the board. After writing it all down the presenter then asks the camera “hmm, I wonder if there’s another way”.
There will then be a short clip with a voice-over (of the presenter) saying “so we went and had a look and we found this, a non-student letting agencies” and there will be a shot of the front of the letting agencies. From here the presenter has a talk with the guys at this letting agency explaining why there place is so much better. We then go and have a look around one of their properties with the letting agencies showing us around it and interview the people that live there. !Hopefully! they will say that they haven’t had any problems which will allow us to lead onto the next section.
The next section will start with another voice-over or talk on street which says “so what are the sorts of problems students are getting at their student properties”. This will lead to more vox-pops of people with problems with their accommodation. For this we will have people that we know doing it so we can ensure that we get the juiciest stories.
After this, the presenter says to the camera (whilst talking on a street) “I think it’s about time we highlighted these points to the student letting agencies themselves”. After this we will either have footage of an interview with them where we highlight all these problems or we read out a statement that tells the audience that they refused to comment.
Conclusion:
With a voice-over we then sum up what we have found and finish with another collection of one word response to vox-pop questions. There will be music playing as this is playing. Then the credit roll.
p.s. the vox-pops should generally be people we know as we’re more likely to get more detailed answers from them.
This will include a voice-over which will explain what we are doing and why we are doing it. It will last around 1 minute and should tell of exactly how we are going to highlight our point. Whilst the voice-over is telling the audience all of this there will be shots of Student Accommodation and student buildings. There should also be a small montage of vox-pops that we have done that describe the accommodation with words like “disappointing”, “awful” and “sickening”. After this, there might be a title saying “student accommodation”, with maybe a devil horns and tail around it. Throughout the intro there will be music playing and the final chord plays when the title comes up.
The main body:
Whoever the presenter is, they will appear now and talk to the camera directly as they explain “but before we go and speak to the student letting agencies, let’s go and find out what the students themselves have to say about the places they live”. He will say this in a busy street and should have a mini mic attached to him to pick up sound as road noise may be a problem. We then show some vox pops with students and for the first one we will see the presenter asking them the question “what do you think of student accommodation prices?” We will get 4 or 5 full responses to the question.
Then the presenter will talk about the findings and explain how it’s “time to find out what the student accommodation places have to say about prices”. There can be a short shot of their sign with maybe the sounds of thunder and a haunting church organ. The next shot will be in the student letting agents with the presenter asking what prices everything is. Once we find out the results we go to a whiteboard and copy the figures we have found out and compare it to the minimum loans that people get. This will be done by the presenter saying to the camera what he is adding up and then in fast motion he writes down his findings on the board. After writing it all down the presenter then asks the camera “hmm, I wonder if there’s another way”.
There will then be a short clip with a voice-over (of the presenter) saying “so we went and had a look and we found this, a non-student letting agencies” and there will be a shot of the front of the letting agencies. From here the presenter has a talk with the guys at this letting agency explaining why there place is so much better. We then go and have a look around one of their properties with the letting agencies showing us around it and interview the people that live there. !Hopefully! they will say that they haven’t had any problems which will allow us to lead onto the next section.
The next section will start with another voice-over or talk on street which says “so what are the sorts of problems students are getting at their student properties”. This will lead to more vox-pops of people with problems with their accommodation. For this we will have people that we know doing it so we can ensure that we get the juiciest stories.
After this, the presenter says to the camera (whilst talking on a street) “I think it’s about time we highlighted these points to the student letting agencies themselves”. After this we will either have footage of an interview with them where we highlight all these problems or we read out a statement that tells the audience that they refused to comment.
Conclusion:
With a voice-over we then sum up what we have found and finish with another collection of one word response to vox-pop questions. There will be music playing as this is playing. Then the credit roll.
p.s. the vox-pops should generally be people we know as we’re more likely to get more detailed answers from them.
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