Production Plan

1. Complete planning and research on sport documentaries- This includes completing the checklist.
2. Deep research into the actual facts surrounding the Allam's.
3. Find royalty free music for the documentary opening sequence. 
4. Email potential interviewees who could give an insight into the situation at then club- Luke Cash who is the media manager at Hull City- David Burns who is a journalist at BBC radio Humberside 
5. Start to create graphics for the documentary- Name tags- transitions etc.
6. Film outside the KCOM stadium- I will then use these clips to create various different clips for my documentary.
7. Create intro for the documentary- the first 30 seconds- this will be made up of various football clips
8. Start to film interviews- Will Hobson
9. Create Logos- Documentary series logo- channel logo
10. Finnish the documentary by editing in the interviews and cut scenes- the cut scenes will be pictures of the KCOM or anything related to Hull City.  

Step by Step for Logo

Health and Safety Grid

What are the hazards?	Who is at risk?	Severity of the injury? (1-5)	Chance of injury	Risk measures	Control Measures
Lights and other electronic gear overheating	Interviewer and interviewee and the students attending the college	4 (Could set on fire)	Unlikely	The lighting box should be checked by members of staff at the college	If it was to happen there are fire extinguishers around the building.
Wires in the green room	Interviewer and interviewee	2	Likely	The wires should be organised in a safe way. They could be put along the wall in the Green room	If anything was to happen E.g somebody trips, I would be there to help.
Weather; when recording there is a chance that extreme weather could appear at any moment	Interviewer and interviewee	3	Unlikely	Check the weather beforehand	If you ever got caught in extreme weather then run to the nearest shelter

Questions

Because the subject of my Documentary is a sensitive subject it's likely that the interviewee will be unable to answer questions which are related to the takeover process. Because of this, the questions will need to be worded in a way which they can answer.

Questions for Fans 

• Do you think that the Allam's have done a good job in charge of the club?
• Are you a fan of the Membership scheme?
• If you were the Allams, what would you do now?
• Do you agree with the idea to change the name?
• Do you want the Allam's to stay or leave?
• Are you for or against a Red Bull takeover?
• Would you rather have English owners or Foreign owners, and why?
• Would you be willing to give the Allam Family a second chance, should they decide against a sale?

Interviewee Profiles

These two profiles were provisional, unfortunately due to the club ignoring my interview requests, I was unable to interview either.

Mise-En-Scene

Because my documentary is based around solely football the location needs to be football related:

KCOM stadium - Drone footage, fan interviews, long shots. I've chosen to use this as an establishing shot because it identifies where the scene is set. On match days there will be a thousands of fans to interview who wont have a biased opinion, unlike the players and staff who work at Hull City

Allam Marine  - Shots from outside of the Allam Marine factory. The Allams are the main talking point of the documentary so therefore it's important to show how they became so successful in order to buy the club.

Dark Room - from watching interviews with footballers it's common to see them being interviewed in a dark room. The picture below is an image from an interview between BBC match of the day and Jake Livermore, the reason they have used a dark setting is because Jake Livermore has had a bad recent couple of years with drug use and losing his child, this would be a good mise en scene because Hull City recently has been in a bad way.

The locations I would like to use for my interviews is in a room with a wall behind the interviewee decorated in pictures of Hull Citys famous moments, however another option I could use is the dark setting, it would be be more related to recent years.

Synopsis

The structure of my documentary will be straight forward. I will focus on the two main conflicts of interest; the name change and the membership scheme.

1- At the start I will be making a short title sequence which will have commentator noises of goals conceded, this hopefully will set the tone. 

1 Updated- now that I've have finished my documentary I moved slightly away from the original idea; I opted against this purely because I felt like using a radio line which in about 20 seconds sums up the whole conflict would work better.

2- The next part will focus on the Name Change; this is what started the whole conflict so I feel like it would only be right to put it first . Throughout the course of explaining this I will cut away to vox pops which I will record outside the KCOM Stadium on a match day. I will also include mini sections of interviews which i shoot

2 Updated- I stuck with this idea, the name change was put first and I produced mini cutaways which included vox-pops and many other random shots.

3- Next, I want to talk about the membership scheme, this will be fairly similar to the way the name change section will be displayed, i will talk over some shots of the KCOM stadium.

4-The outro to my documentary will be heavily related to the club, this can include things such as music and video.

4 updated- I made an outro which I feel represents the club. I think that the Elvis Presley song works well with Ian Wright section.

Potential Channels

Channel broadcasted on
There are various tv channels which broadcast documentaries in general; There's ITV, BBC, Sky Sports and many more, when it comes to Sports Documentaries there aren't as many options; the BBC has broadcasted some Sports Documentaries such as The Class Of 92 which was very successful.

The other channel is Sky Sports; Sky sports cover a wide variety of sports however their primary focus is Football, they recently aired a new documentary called 'Life out of contact' which is about Football players who are out of work, this was massively successful and so are most of their other documentaries.  

History of the Documentary

The first documentary's were shown in 1895 when the first films were shown, film was invented by the Lumiere brothers; they created a camera which could only hold 50 feet of film stock and their films were short clips which had not been edited at all, they recorded themselves in their own personal lives and they called them 'Actualities'.



The most famous film they ever created was the 'Un Train Arriviee', it was created in 1895 and the film footage was just a train pulling into a station, the reason it became so famous was because the audience were so amazed by the fact they could see moving images for the first time and how they could evolve.

The first documentary of the kind we see today was created in 1922 by Robert Flaherty, the documentary was called Nanook of The North; it was about the life of an Inuk which was called Nanook, they follow his family around as they search for food and drink and get on with their ordinary lives. The word documentary originates from this film, John Grierson described it as a 'documentary' and 'the creative interpretation of reality'. Flaherty had made sure that a lot of the scenes in documentary were staged so the audience would find it more interesting and dramatic.

Documentary ideas

Hull City the club in crisis Interviews with former employees Ownership issues Name change No manager Interviews with David burns Lots of different opinions Hull city’s rise up the leagues Lots of highlights More interviews available because it’s not a sensitive issue Interview with david burns 2002 to 2009 highlights Won’t go out of date Limited public views The allams No interviews would be available Lots of public opinions Talk about the name change Talk about the protests Allams businesses Corruption in football Becoming common Lots of public views

Codes and Conventions of Documentaries and Sport Documentaries

This is a good example of a documentary; it has most of the the conventions of a documentary.

One convention of a documentary is interviews, almost every documentary has interviews in it, they help to get across the point the documentary wants to show, interviews are especially important within sport documentary's because they give you information about what goes on behind the scenes. A lot of people will watch the documentary for the interviews, they are seen more reliable then a voice over who has no credibility. Usually they back up the point the documentary is trying to prove but sometimes the questions asked to the interviewee are against the point and this is will normally be disproved throughout the documentary.

Another convention of a documentary is a voice over, almost every documentary should have a voice over because it keeps the viewer informed about whats happening in the documentary, they will usually encourage the audience to believe that they have a large knowledge of the area that the documentary is about.

Another convention of a documentary is 'Real footage'; in a documentary there will often be 'real footage' of what the narrator is describing, for example if there was a documentary on 911 then there would be lot's of footage of the event to give the viewer an idea of what they're describing. The documentary will often spend time trying to convince the audience that the footage showed is 'real' and unaltered, they do this because they need to make the audience believe in the point they're trying to present. This is one of the most important conventions of a documentary.

In a football related documentary one of the most crucial aspects is the use of archive footage, with archive footage I can make my documentary seem much more credible. This is an important aspect my documentary specifically because a lot of people watching won't know about the club; using archive footage is a good way to entice the audience into the video.

Vox-pops are a huge convention of similar documentaries, it's the best way to represent the fan base and it's something which you'll find in almost every documentary similar to mine. It has a huge effect on the audience; by having vox pops you're giving the documentary added credibility, it's not enough to just say what you think they think, you need to have evidence. With added credibility it makes my documentary look a lot more professional.

Like all documentaries there has to be a narrative, as explained by Todorov. There has to be an antagonist and a protagonist; the antagonist will be the Allam family and the protagonist will then be the fans. I think that it's best to make the Allam family the antagonist because they're seen like the 'bad guys' in all of this. There has to be a conflict of interest; the conflict of interest is the many things; the two main conflicts are the name change, and the membership scheme.

Documentary Brief

An extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

•a radio trailer for the documentary;

•a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;

•a newspaper advertisement for the documentary. 

Documentary Ideas

Hull City Ownership Crisis

15th September 2016

Sven E Carlssen
Commercial exhibitionist (Jenny from the block Jenifer lopez) (Drunk in love beyonce)
Televised brand (Seven years Lukas Graham)
Electronic shaman (Scream michael jackson) (roar katy perry)

14th September Notes

Pierce 1931
'Nothing is a sign unless it is interpreted as a sign'

3 types of signs
Iconic
Index
Symbolic sign