Brief Plan 1

• Opening like channel 4


• Brief o what will take place; 'The music industry has vastly increased from being a socialisation topic to a common career choice for many teenagers today'. Music is a part of everyday life for everyone, you cannot go a day with avoiding it, shops play it, radio stations have music, adverts play jingles, adverts on TV have music. There are also many music channels that involve teenagers (channel U 'Sky 360' lets people send in their songs to get noticed)

*Clips (photos) of celebrity singers in music

*Clips from MTV/Channel U

*Streets/buses/trains:music-listening

• Today music has become a major issue in the media, whether it's about latest songs or crimes committed by the people in the music industry. 'Amy Winehouse- drug taking', 'Lil Wayne arrested for life', '2pac-best selling rap artist'

But what is music to you? Does it represent rebellion, crime, violence or is it just something that you genuinely love to take part in?

• Its becoming a major issue within society today.

Many teenagers in Britain are considering furthering their career in music, but why exactly are they considering this as a career in further education? Is it the dream of living the high life with the huge houses and flashy cars? or is it the true passion of music running through their veins?

Why Choose Music

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  Clips of people saying why......


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  We spoke to some students from different age groups to find out why they chose music as a subject.

*show clips of students in Uni's, college/6th form, High schools, etc.

• Show statistics on a black screen about the percentage of music students


• We spoke to some schools in the local area to see how teachers were helping the students in furthering their careers in music

*clips of teachers

*clips of students playing and talking on top

week 1

On Monday we planned the opening of our documentary and wrote out the questions for a few interviews. This helped us as we now know how much filming we need to do and what we need to film. It also helped us to estimate how much more time we need to spend on filiming so that we can start editing as soon as possible as editing takes a lot of time.

On Wednesday we went into the music block(F Block) and did some filming. We filmed Karishma playing a few songs on the piano and recorded her playing from different angles and positions so that when we are editing we can chose the shot that goes best. We also filmed a year 10 student and a year 9 student who both play the piano.

On Thursday we went into Southall to the Dominion Arts and Culture Centre as we know that they run a few music classes. We spoke to the receptionist who gave us some advice on who we should see to interview. We picked up quite a few leaflets on different music classes as we could use them as still shots in the documentary. As the Ealing Music Service runs in the Dominion Centre we decided to go and ask them if we could interview a member of staff. We got an interview with a guy called Noel who works part time with the Ealing music service, he works 2 days a week and the rest of the time he is recording and producing. He plays guitar, sings and owns his own recording studio. Noel has worked with a few artists such as Atomic Kitten and Lemar. He has also done a degree in music technology so we found that very helpful as he was able to give us a lot of information on things relevant to our documentary.

We also went to Bina Musicals to ask a few questions but were asked to go back next week as the person who would be able to help us most and answer the questions best was going to london.

*Karishma*

Careers in music

Music is such a broad field - there is the music industry and music itself. So there are lots and lots of choices for a career within music. It's not just about being a pop star - we have music lawyers, admin support staff, sound engineering. It is a valid choice to make as a career.

If your child is mad about music they may be thinking about further study or even a career in music. At this point many parents ask: is there really a future in music? Today music is a major industry with a wide range of opportunities, employing an estimated 130,000 full-time in the UK alone. Your child may want to study music for the love of it, or to pursue a career as a singer, instrumentalist, or composer, but the possibilities don't stop there. Whatever the level of skills your child has achieved, there are career paths open, whether they decide to leave school at sixteen or go on to university. Whatever their interest there are jobs in teaching or music therapy, production, promotion, management, as well as performance.

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dot com

The montage used at the beginning of the documentary has been put together very well. You can tell that a lot of work and editing was put into the documentary. As dot com uses many of the conventions that we are planning to use in our documentary we will be analysing this production the most.

*Karishma*

Research...

Documentary Conventions
Archival Footage and Photographs

old photographs, newsreel footage, and even shots from fiction films.
Talking Heads

Talking heads are people interviewed to explain or comment on the text's subject. These people usually are shown in their offices (sometimes with a wall of books behind them) or in their homes.
Giggly Camera

A wobbly camera is often attributed to documentary. As cameras became more portable and more affordable,
Voiceover Narration

Voiceover narration occurs when a voice is heard on the soundtrack without a matching source in the image.
Re-enactments

A re-enactment stages real events that already have occurred. Sometimes they include the people who experienced the events originally
Real People

For the most part, the people we see in a documentary are real people.

Some of the good point of music...

♪ many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.
♪ Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.
♪ Music is a shared bond between teenagers. It gives them an identity, a feeling of belonging to a group.
♪ Regardless if the person likes music or not it is involved some way in that person’s life; whether it’s by playing an instrument, listening to songs on the radio, studying music, or even by hearing a song being played in a store.
♪ listening to classical music increases a person’s IQ level
♪ The results showed that listening to the Mozart sonata produced showed no different improvement in students grades reasoning

♪ 'I have recently discovered that, by using such music to teach, grammar points can be continually reinforced years after the actual lesson, even in the students' own country where exposure to the English language could be practically nil. Used positively, this could almost be described as the perfect teaching medium'
♪ Listening to music is a time filler, and can be used to kill the anger that teenagers face in their lives.
♪ Some teenagers listen to music to kill the silence in their lives. Many teenagers in dysfunctional families can relate to the music in a way that it can help them escape their lives. May teenager face the fears of their parents’ relationships and use ‘listening to music’ as a way not to get involved. The divorce rate in Britain has dramatically risen and this affects the children. Many children sit in their rooms listening to their parents screaming and shouting at each other and it kills them inside to hear this, that is why they would put music on to avoid this pain.
♪ Teens are often on a quest to learn who they are. As they grow and develop, they learn things about themselves that help them define their personality, style, attitude, etc. Music is one of the factors that creates this definition.
♪ Music "soothes the savage beast," and the same can be said for some teens. Teens use music for a variety of reasons: to have fun, study, relax, set a mood, etc. Regardless of the why and who, there is no denying that the influence of music is there – and isn't going anywhere soon.
listening to or singing dark, depressing or inappropriate lyrics can have a negative effect, these are not directly responsible for the behaviors themselves. “Teens who are said to commit suicide or acts of violence as a result of a song they listened to do not do these things as a result of the music,”
♪ According to Gross, it is not the explicit lyrics that should be of concern; it is whether or not the teens know what behaviors are inappropriate.
With each generation of teens comes a time of rebellion. With each new rebellion comes new music. With new music comes controversy.

Statistics...

♪ 80% of children that played an instrument are smarter than the average child
♪ 95 percent of music students quoted the subject to be a well-rounded form of education.
♪ approximately 80%of students believed participating in a school music program helped in achieving better grades.
♪ Close to 78 percent of students said learning a musical instrument gives you confidence to do better in other subjects.
♪ About 96 percent of students said that school band helped to develop team building skills.
♪ Approximately 71 percent of teenagers who play an instrument were on average more disciplined.
♪ Schools should offer musical instrument lessons as part of regular curriculum.
♪ playing an instrument teaches children discipline.

Existing documentaries relevant to our topic...

Put the needle on the Record

♪ Put the Needle on the Record is an award-winning documentary that explores the evolution of electronic music and the rise of the DJ in pop culture. Filmed in Miami during the hot and sexy Winter Music Conference, a yearly week-long event attended by over 20,000 electronic music professionals and fans, the ?lm takes an inside look at a growing global phenomenon. Interviews with top artists, footage from events around the globe and a brilliant soundtrack are combined to create a highly energetic piece of filmmaking. Director Jason Rem brings an unexplored genre of music to the masses for a glimpse at a movement that is driven by passion, creativity and business.

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What we have done so far.

well after deciding on what we were going to do we did a lot of research on the topic and tried finding statistics and articles to back up our points.

we knew that we will need to include some interviews in our documentary opening. this meant that we needed to find some people to interview.

we produced a letter to send out to music companies around london; this included recording studios, schools, universities and youth groups.

Dear Sir/Madam,
As two passionate Media and Music A level students, at Greenford High School, Middlesex, planning our first year assessment piece, we will be independently producing a documentary.

This documentary will investigate the interest of many young people today who strive to enter the music industry. It will aim to explore the routes open to them and finally shed light upon some who have accomplished their ambitions as well as those who did not quite make it. We need the experience and expertise of industry professionals and would like to interview you for a segment about your profession. Ideally, it will inform the film and relay your insight about the industry.

We appreciate the fact that you have a busy schedule and do not wish to take much of your time. However, we would be very grateful for approximately 10-20 minutes of your time to learn more about you. Please let us know if and when this would be possible.

Thank you
Yours Faithfully

After sending the letter out we finally got a few replies back from a school governor who previously worked in a recording studio, and someone from the youth music theatre in london.

we also sent out letters to schools around the area to find out how the teachers are helping their students with furthering their careers in music.

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Starting off the Practical Production

For the practical production we are working in a group of 4 people which includes Rupal, Karishma, Jyoti and Bhavishree.

Since October we have had ideas running through our minds about what we are going to do for the production.

After deciding that we were going to produce a something to do with music (as it was something that we were all familiar with) we started thinking about the form of the production. We thought that a documentary would be the suitable thing to do as we can use the knowledge that we gained in learning documentaries in module 2 to help us produce something that we were familiar with. Also because it would be ideal to make a documentary about the development of music as it can inform, educate and entertain the audience.

As time went on our ideas about the documentary had changed. We started off just wanting to do something about music and then realised to succeed we needed it to be specific to a certain thing within the music industry. This made us consider the way the media portray the music industry and how they believe that only violence may arise from the topic. ‘Music has been blamed for the increasing drug abuse... antisocial behaviour... lack of respect for authority’ finally we thought that talking about the development of music and how it has changed from a small socialisation subject to a full time career for many young people today, and how many teenagers tackle many obstacles to further a career in the subject they love and how schools and teachers help them to do this.

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