Script for the documentary - Rizwana Jawid

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Voice over - Munya Gatawa & Rizwana Jawid

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Week 9

Although we are coming to the end of our production, we still need to finish our voice over for our documentry and also find an ideal background soundtrack for our documentry. Once they have been done then all we have to concentrate on is our individual posters and Radio trailers.

Score Music - Risha Jethwa

Score music

For our five minute documentary we used a non-diegetic soundtrack from the album ‘Human Documentaries’. We choose this particular soundtrack ‘Industrious’ because it creates a certain atmosphere about student behaviour declining. The sound used has and interesting elements as it is fast and up beating, from this the key instrument used is a keyboard as it keeps the music in pace.

Interestingly whilst soundtrack is play the voiceover also helps direct the narrative of the documentary. This shows that both types of sounds show a similar balance as it equal. In this case the soundtrack shows a lot of emotions as it draws the audience towards the documentary and engages them constantly.

Throughout the five minute documentary other sound elements have been used such as ambient and diegetic sound. The reason for this is because is captures the moment of students and there surrounding around them.

Originally we planned to use different types of sound and music for our documentary, this because we feels it helps break down certain issues raised and also helps focus on the key topic of student behaviour declining.

Interview Profile - Risha Jethwa

The interviewers shown in the documentary are:

Andrew Rosindell (MP for Romford)
James Smith (Student of Politics)
Janette May (Parent)
Mark Down (Student)
Mr Mishkin (Teacher)


The following interviewees above play an important role as they give their own perspective and opinion on the documentary about student behaviour. We have chosen these people because their role are linked with the topic student behaviour, most importantly because certain interviewees such as teacher, parent and students have a broader knowledge and experience about student behaviour and schools.

Location notes - Risha Jethwa

Location notes


The locations set for the documentary are:

Havering College – Parent and Students interview











House of Parliament – MP Romford and Future MP interview










Loxford School of Science and Technology – Teacher interview











Lucilla Uniform Shop











The main part of our documentary will be located in the following locations above. We picked this as a group as we felt it would help the audience get the impression that all members and speakers will have a certain setting to match their profession. Another reason we had chosen the following location is because it suggests the character background, lifestyle, social class which will be represented through the mise-en-scene and cinematography.

Codes and Conventions - Risha Jethwa

Codes and Convention

As a group we decided to research the elements behind a documentary, however from this research we will identify the important features and gain more ideas for our documentary when planning and producing.

Firstly as part of our research we defined what a documentary is, as it will help us identify the aspects. A documentary is a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event. Most importantly the objective of a documentary is to emphasizing or express things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation.

Most importantly documentaries can be divided up into many genres for instances frequency, threshold, unambiguity, meaningfulness, consonance, unexpectedness, continuity, composition, reference to elite person and nations, personalisation, negativity and finally visulisation. From this from our documentary topic is based on ‘Is student behaviour declining in secondary schools?’ The appropriate news value our documentary fits into is consonance, continuity and negativity. The reason for this is because consonance meets the expectations of media, secondly continuity shows that once and event has been covered, it is convenient to cover it some more as it shows a running story. Finally negativity shows that bad news is good news. This shows that all these news values are key elements to a documentary category.

Another reason is that documentaries have important conventions such as a voiceover, interview, titles, narrative, sub-heading, statistics and facts and figures. In this case these conventions allow the documentary to be fun, interesting and educational to watch. Despite this many conventions also engage the audience as the documentary become more appealing, however this is done by titles, interviews and sub-heading. This shows that titles and headings become more attractive by the appearance and colour as it maybe bold, italic or underlined.