Final IdeaMy Final idea is to document the culture surrounding gigs and concerts in the Bristol area.
Gig Culture I want to investigate somethings about gig culture
I think my documentary will capture a wide variety of audiences.
Viceland - Vice Media LLC is a North American digital media and broadcasting company. Originating from the Montreal-based Vice magazine co-founded by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes, Viceland expanded primarily into youth and young adult focused digital media, including online content verticals and related web series, the news division Vice News, a film production studio, and a record label among other properties. In 2015 Vice Media was called "a poster child for new-media success especially when it comes to attracting a valuable millennial audience." I think that Viceland would be most appropriate as they create raw mixed documentaries, that are mostly filmed on free hand camera rigs. But also Viceland documentaries are on a range of interesting and young adult focused topics like food, sex and drugs. Plan I intend to take panning location and establishing shoots inside and outside gig venues around Bristol. I also intend to take some live footage at gigs in venues such as Thekla, the Fleece, the Canteen and other such venues. I intend to film interviews before and after gigs asking opinions from gig goers, bands, artist, venue managers and bouncers. |
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‘A Music Scene:’ allows a series to be created. I could say that my documentary is an episode of documentaries investigating different music scenes in the UK. Bristol instantly informs the audience of the documentaries content and where it is filmed. The font ‘Bookman Old Style’ displays organisation and official. ‘Decorated035 BT’ looks like some graffiti in Bristol Created from stencils, which is highly representative of Bristol with one of the most famous and world renowned artists in the world 'Banksy' coming from Bristol, graffiti is a very important part of Bristol's culture. In addition the shape of the letters tell the audience of the tradition and history of music in Bristol that has lasted generations.
This is the final title I have decided for my documentary, i think both the name and fonts are relevant and appropriate. They do not create connotations that would not be explored or touch on in my documentary. It is simple and elegant allowing it to be used on many different formats, opening titles, posters, trailers, double page spreads and billboards for example. |
20 Feet from Stardom
20 Feet from Stardom is a 2013 American documentary film directed by documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville. It is about the lives of background singers and it follows the behind-the-scenes of backup singers and stars Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Táta Vega, and Jo Lawry, among many others. In 2014, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck a 2015 documentary film about Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain. The film was directed by Brett Morgen and premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the life of Kurt Cobain from his birth in Aberdeen, Washington in 1967, through his troubled early family life and teenage years and rise to fame as front man of Nirvana, up to his death in April 1994 in Seattle at the age of 27. These two documentaries relate to my documentary as they are music documentaries and feature both stock footage of concerts and interviews of artists and fans. I intend to include both some stock footage from gigs I have been to and other similar footage on the internet, and also film interviews of fans and artists. Glastonbury Glastonbury is a 2006 'rockumentary' film directed by Julien Temple which details the history of the Glastonbury Festival from 1970 to 2005. It is the third attempt to make a film about the festival. The film is made up of footage shot by Temple at the festival in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, as well as footage sent in by festival goers after a request on websites and newspapers for footage. The film also includes footage shot by Channel 4 and the BBC during their coverage of the festival since 1994. Similarly to the two previous documentaries I have talked about, this 'rockumentary' uses old footage shot by other people at previous events I intend to do this in my documentary. Woodstock Wood stock is very similar to Glastonbury with it being a documentary focused on a single festival but differs as it is only about the Woodstock 1969 Festival. Woodstock is a 1970 documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film 'the benchmark of concert movies' and 'one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made'. In 1970 it received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Schoonmaker was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing, a rare distinction for a documentary. The Documentary features performances from all of the artists at the festival making it much more like a live recording of the festival a documentary recording what happened with information filling the gaps in between acts. Woodstock and Glastonbury both have an element I would like to incorporate into my and that is live recording of an artist performing but rather than it being about the artist at the festival my filming will be about any artist performing in a Bristol Gig venue. |
How often do you watch documentaries?
From my research I found that the majority of people watch documentaries more than once a month, this shows that documentaries are quite popular, but more because no one said less than once a month I think documentaries are popular. Which shows it is a good idea. What genre of documentaries do you most enjoy? (out of the options available)
The two that were most popular from my questionnaire were Education and Music this tells me that I should pursue creating a documentary about music and the music scene in Bristol in particular. Social issues and food were the second most popular this tells me that that people are interested in important and endearing subject matter. This tells me that there should be some element of a social issue that is endearing and concerning to the audience. For My documentary I think I will include the issue of closure that so many gig venues have been threatened with in the past. What do you enjoy most about documentaries?
For this question I leaved it with a text box so people could answer with their opinions without constrictions, this allowed me to get some more in depth response. My first response was "Louis Theroux" this told me that people greatly enjoy the humour element at Theroux creates in his documentary. As I don't not have his fame and recognisability i will not be able to incorporate this into my documentary. "Learning about different opinion regarding certain topics" this response tells me that people enjoy watching documentaries and learning information, from this I will add informational text to inform the audience. How interested are you in Gigs and the culture surrounding them?
Slightly was the most chosen response this isn't negative but it does tell me that people will not invest in watching a documentary about gigs unless they have something that interests or relates them to it aswell as the gigs, such as it being set in their local city and as a series it will go around many different cities, for example and for my documentary Bristol. Do you care about the Thekla and other similar gig venues being threatened with closure?
This garnered a great response with all but one saying there care greatly about independent gig venues being threatened with closure this reinforces what I said about my Q3. and tells me that people care when there is something important to care about. It also says that people would watch if such an issues was talked about in the documentary. Do you live in the Bristol Area?
Most of my respondents said yes for this question with a few saying no. This tells me that after all the questions of interest especially the last question people outside of the Bristol area still care about gig culture and the threatening of closure of independent gig venues. |
'Live music generated £123 million in revenue for Bristol in 2016'
'12% rise in audiences at live music events over the past 12 months'
£367 MILLION Total spend generated by music tourists visiting small venues in the UK in 2016
6.2 MILLION Total audience at smaller music venues in 2016
'47,445 is the number of full time jobs sustained by music tourism'
“Throughout my career I’ve been lucky enough to play in venues of all different shapes and sizes, from tiny clubs to massive stadiums all over the world. Without the grassroots clubs, pubs and music venues my career could have been very different. I support Music Venue Trust because artists need places to start out, develop and work on their craft and small venues have been the cornerstone for this. If we don’t support live music at this level then the future of music in general is in danger.”
'In 2016 50% of our music venues were affected by development, noise or planning issues'
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Canteen Exterior
Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY Canteen Interior
Thekla Exterior
The Grove, Bristol BS1 4RB Thekla Interior
The Fleece Exterior
12 St Thomas St, Bristol BS1 6JJ The Fleece Interior
College Green
College Green, Bristol BS1 5UY Bristol BS1 4PZ
Dockside Exchange Exterior
72-73 Old Market St, Bristol BS2 0EJ Colston St, Bristol BS1 5AR
Colston Hall The Louisiana
Wapping Rd, Bathurst Terrace, Bristol BS1 6UA All Saints' St, Bristol BS1 2NA
Bierkeller Trinity Centre
Trinity Rd, Bristol BS2 0NW |
Canon 700d This is the camera I will film all of my footage with: interviews, location shots and gigs. Mac Mini This is the type of computers that I will be using to edit on, this will mean that I am using iMovie. |
Sony Tripod This is the tripod I will use for interviews, panning shots and time lapses. Rode Microphone Here is the microphone I will use to record my audio with; interviews, voice over and location shot background sound. |
This track I really enjoy the ambience and vibe it creates with the electronic elements and slowly building up. The changes would be great for changing shots and angles.
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This track is another great song that builds up, creating a sense of narrative, it causes you to think that something is going to happen and something will develop.
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Far Nearer another great track with soundtrack qualities, such as minimal lyrics and big build ups. However I think the song is to club anthem like and generates the wrong vibe.
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Here is a screenshot of the first process in the editing stage of my documentary. I started by importing the opening location shot of Bristol, a shot of the suspension bridge. I then imported some of my own archival footage of gigs the first clip of from a gig not related to the location shoot. I then placed a fade to black transition between the clips to create a feeling of closing ones eyes. It is a fast transition to empathise the loud volume and bright lights of the clip. I have also Inter-cutting beautiful location shots and lively gigs scenes.
In this part of my documentary straight after the opening titles I have sped up four long clips to create separate time lapses. I have sped up the clips by using the speed tool. I did not place any transitions between the clips, because no transitions was needed or relevant. On top of the clips I have placed impactful quotes about the music industry that talk of the positive side of the industry's changes.
This part of my editing process was my adding subtitles to one of my interviewee's, Georgia Brown, interview clip. This required me putting in a many individual text sections, with the same font and font size. I lined up each of the texts with Georgia's voice. This was a time consuming method but something that needed to be done due to the background music at the venue. This process I had to do for each interview as they were all filmed at the same venue. Here I used archival footage from gigs to display some of the things that the interviews were talking about. for example one of my interviewees talks about being lost in the music and having a good time and I chose to cut to a loud moment of a Darwin Deez gig in which all the audience were singing along with the artist having a good time. This process of inter-cutting the two clips also required my to cross fade the audio. This meant fading in and fading out two separate audio clips.
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