Shot list

16/12/16

Shot	Shot type	Camera movement	Description
1	Medium shot	N/A	Teacher 1 talking to the camera.
2	Close up shot	N/A	Teacher 1 looking for student who called him “Shit”
3	Two shot	Tilt	Student 1 is asking for help from teacher 1.
4	Medium-close up shot	Tilt	Camera zooming in on Jack.
5	Panning shot	Panning	Camera panning to Student 2 shoes, and to the teacher.
6	Close up shot	N/A	Expelled student talking about his time in Ashburn.
7	Medium shot	N/A	Titles being written.

Update: 27/03/17

I have had to update my shot list for a few reason because many scenes were replaced for a few reasons.  The main reason was that it was difficult to get actors for certain scenes together at the same time, which meant the original shots 3 and 4 had to be removed.  During filming we decided to replace the classroom with a shot of Mr Garrett taking a bribe in the playground and failing to control misbehaving students.

Shot	Shot type	Camera movement	Description
1	Close up	N/A	Hand writing titles on small whiteboard.
2	Medium shot	N/A	Mr Garret being asked the first question for the interview.
3	Medium shot	Pans and zooms out to reveal Thomas.	Mr Garrett is being interviewed about the Ashburn playground, when he is interrupted by a student called Thomas.
4	Wide shot	N/A	Mr Garrett tries and fails to intervene with a fight between two young students.
5	Medium shot	N/A	Mr Garret being asked the final question for the interview.
6	Wide Shot	Tilts down to students shoes, and then pans towards Mr Garrett.	A student asks Mr Garrett if he likes his shoes but instead of saying shoes he says “crepes”.
7	Close up shot	N/A	Hand writing titles on small whiteboard.
8	Medium shot	N/A	Expelled student is being asked questions.
9	Close up shot	N/A	Hand writing titles on small whiteboard.
10	Medium shot	N/A	Post-credits scene of the expelled student.

Analysis of responses to focus group

I picked my focus group to answer a set of questions related to the mockumentary genre. All my respondents were young males aged 16 to 17. All of them were fans of the mockumentary genre, and I selected them based on their knowledge of this genre. They all had in common a belief that mockumentaries were successful because they parody real life situations, while often still carrying a serious political message.

Then when they were asked about which type of people on the political spectrum like mockumentaries, everyone said a mix of everyone from both sides of the political spectrum like mockumentaries with the exception of one candidate. This candidate said that left wing people are more likely to enjoy the genre because they are more politically engaged. However, the lack of political correctness in some mockumenrary films such as Borat might appeal to right-wing audiences.

Now for the final question, we asked if there would be any problems with filming a mockumentary in a school. This was the most practical question that I included to help me make decisions regarding my teaser trailer. Three out of the four answers said that some problems could arise when a mockumentary is filmed in a school environment. The reasons why people have said that is because you might need to make fun of stereotypes like the studious nerd, to the intellectually challenged bully, in order to make the humor work. Some people might get offended by this. Also, someone said that schools are a place where sensitive issues should not be mocked because of the way this can affect students' well-being.  However, overall the respondents thought that people will enjoy the film and that the school setting would work well in terms of playing-off stereotypes.

Limitations
One of my limitations when I was gathering data from my results was that I did not ask a broader range of people. All of the respondents were male. They all gave similar answers: for example, to the first question 'What makes mockumentaries so successful?', they all agreed that the humour comes from parodying real life situations, which people can relate to and make fun of. The reason for the narrow range is because I go to a school, where most pupils are boys. To remove this limitation, I would spent time finding girls to interview and in general asked more people so I got a better range of results. 

Influence of focus group on planning for trailer
The influence of planning this trailer has made me decide that people like mockumentaries because they are mocking real life situations, and therefore I will attempt to make the style of my teaser trailer as realistic as possible, which is helped by the fact it is being filmed inside an actual school.  The respondents found that mockumentaries that contained scenes they could relate to were the funniest, but perhaps this was because I only asked a narrow range of school-age people.  I will therefore try to focus equally on stereotypes about teachers and students to appeal to a wider audience.

Script for mockumentary teaser trailer

Black screen slowly fades to reveal a teacher being interviewed in a classroom, by an interviewer. The teacher will be facing slightly to the right of the camera, at interviewer.

Teacher fiddles with microphone and seems not to know how it works. Cut to shot a minute or so later where teacher is ready for the interview

Title: ‘WELCOME TO ASHBURN ACADEMY’

Interviewer: So, what is your name?

Teacher 1: I’m Mr Garrett but the boys call me OG.

Interviewer: Ok, so what do you think about the students?

Teacher 1: My class is well behaved, I think I've got them under my total control.

Title: ‘MEET THE CLASS’

Flashback: cuts to scene when teacher has no control of the class.

Cuts back to interview.

Interviewer: So, do you have a good relationship with your class?

Teacher 1: Yeah, I command a lot of respect and we are best of friends.

Flashback: cuts to scene where student has his hand up.  He lowers it then begins to speak:

Student 1: I need some help sir.

Camera pans to Teacher 1

Teacher 1: Ask Jack.

Panning shot to Jack.  Jack shrugs and looks confused.  Cut to Student 2, with hand up, asking a question:

Student 2: Yo fam, do you like my crepes? (Camera zooms in on his shoes. Cut to Teacher 1) 

Teacher 1: Do I like you’re what?

Title: ‘MEET A FORMER STUDENT’

Outside the school, an expelled student is lighting a cigarette, and smoking it.

Expelled student: So, I got kicked out of Ashburn for punching this teacher.

Interviewer: Describe this teacher to me.

Expelled student: He's ginger, got glasses, you know, how the typical nerd looks, something like that.

Flashback: Brief close up shot of Teacher 1. Cut to Expelled student

Interviewer: So what do you think about Mr Garrett?

Expelled student: Ah yeah, lovely fella he was.

Interviewer: Oh that’s nice.

Expelled student: Just kidding, he’s a little posh boy snob, who always begs it with the students.

Title: ‘ASHBURN COLLEGE: A LIFE’

Location scouting

I identified four locations for possible filming which relate to four scenes I have planned for my teaser trailer:

1) Classroom for interview scene with teacher or pupil

2) Street corner for interview with former pupil who has been excluded

3) Exam hall

4) School corridor for second interview scene, with disruption to occur in the background.

5. Backup corridor if the corridor above is too filled up to film.

6. This is the playground that I decided to film when we show the teacher interactions with the students more. Originally, I wanted to do have the teacher interact with the class but due to people not being available, and rooms being taken, we could not proceed with this plan. So I decided to take some students from the younger years to act in the playground, and interact with the teacher in my film.

Finding locations for filming was fairly straightforward because my teaser trailer is going to be set in school, and this is where I did the scouting.

However, there are several issues with locations that I had to consider.  Filming will need to be done during lesson time so I am not disrupted by moving students, but the noise from filming may distract teachers. It will be difficult to recruit enough schoolchildren for the exam scene who wear uniform, so I will need to use actors wearing casual clothes.  This may make the scene appear less authentic.  I will have to plan the scene very carefully to limit the amount of filming time, as there will be at least six actors involved.With the outside scene, it may be difficult to hear the person being interviewed because of background noise from the street.