Paper drafts of interviews

Before conducting our interviews, we create some paper layouts of what the interviews will look like.

Questions for tattoo artists

Here are the questions that as a group we decided that we would ask each tattoo artist.
1.How long have you been a tattoo artist for? How did you get into it?
2.Tell me about the process of doing a tattoo, what equipment do you use?
3.Are you a tattoo designer as well as a tattoo artist?
4.What is it that you like about tattoos?
5.Why do you think that tattoos are more popular now?
6.Tell me about the most popular tattoo designs people ask for?
7.Which celebrity’s tattoos do you like?
8.Which celebrities’ tattoos do you dislike?
9.Have you ever tattooed anyone famous?
10.Do you think it is possible to go too far with tattoos?
11.Tell me about the weirdest tattoo you have ever been asked to design?
12.Where’s the strangest place on the body you have ever given a tattoo?
13.Do you do tattoo cover ups?
14.Tell me about the process of covering up a tattoo
15.What is the weirdest tattoo you have been asked to cover up?
16.Tell me about the most complex tattoo you have done?
17.How old where you when you got your first tattoo?
18.Tell me about your favourite tattoo?
19.How many tattoos do you have?
20.Tell me about your most meaningful tattoo? What is the meaning behind it?
21.Would you get any more tattoos?

Secondary research

Primary research

 Tattoo Artists...



ARTISTIC TATTOOING & BODY PIERCING
42 Seaview Rd, Wallasey CH45 4LA Merseyside
Tel: 0151 638 4900
www.artistictattooing.com
 
 
Studio 13 Tattoo Ltd
84 Victoria Road, Wallasey CH45 2JF Merseyside
Tel: 07980 168909
www.studio13tattoo.co.uk
 
 
Sugar Skulls Studio
48 Mill Lane, Wallasey CH44 5UG Merseyside
Tel: 0151 638 8822
 
 
Dr Feelgood
71a Bold St, Liverpool L1 4EZ Merseyside (Central Station)
Tel: 0151 707 7889
 

The Tattoo Boutique
69a Bold St, Liverpool L1 4EZ Merseyside (Central Station)
Tel: 0151 708 6797
 
 
Dermagraffiti Tattoo
80 Bold St, Liverpool L1 4HR Merseyside (Central Station)
Tel: 0151 707 8094
www.dermagraffiti.co.uk
 
 
Richie Tattoo Artist
24 Newington, Liverpool, L1 4ED (Central Station)
Tel: 0151 709 1422
 
 
13 Ink Tattoo Studio
12/14 Slater Street, Liverpool, L1 4BS (Central Station)
Tel: 0151 707 9629
 
 
Liverpool Ink Tattoo & Piercing Studio
15 Cases Street, Liverpool, L1 1HW (Central Station, Clayton Square)
Tel: 0151 703 0552

Design 4 Life Tattoo and Piercing Studio (City Centre)
70 Lime St, Liverpool, L1 1JN (Central Station)
Tel: 0151 709 0479
 

 

Forever True Tattoo
23 Cheapside, Liverpool, L2 2DY (Moorfields Station)
Tel: 0151 255 1982
 

Stigma Tattoo Liverpool
Gostins Arcade, 32-36 Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 4LN
Tel: 0151 708 6659
 
 
Extreme Tattoo
41 Main Hall Grange Precinct, Birkenhead CH41 2YJ Merseyside
Tel: 07541 915621
 
 
Empress Tattoo
126 Chester Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5DL
Tel: 07896155375 / 0151 666 1335

Running order

Running Order

Formal proposal for documentary

Formal Proposal for Documentary

Content for documentary

Questionnaire recorded answer 3

Here is a video of one person we asked to fill our questionnaire about tattoo's. We asked a wide range of people in order to get a clear understanding about the thoughts of people with or without tattoo's.

Questionnaire recorded answer 2

Here is a video of one person we asked to fill our questionnaire about tattoo's. We asked a wide range of people in order to get a clear understanding about the thoughts of people with or without tattoo's.

Questionnaire recorded answer 1

Here is a video of one person we asked to fill our questionnaire about tattoo's. We asked a wide range of people in order to get a clear understanding about the thoughts of people with or without tattoo's.

Questionnaire results

Questionnaire results finished from Lottie39

Initial plans for documentary

We have decided as a group of initial plans for our documentary. The topic for our documentary will be Tattoos. We decided that the name ‘Think before you Ink’ would be a clever interpretation on people considering receiving tattoos. Our documentary will be targeted at both genders and will appeal to an age of 18+ as the legal age for a tattoo is 18. The documentary will be shown on Channel 4 and will appear at 9 o’clock on a Monday evening.  

Brainstorming ideas for documentary

Brainstorming on Prezi

Media mini task documentary

Evaluation

In class we were asked to create a mini documentary about phones as part of a primarily task. In this documentary we had to have an interview with someone we knew and ask them questions about phones for example, what kind of phone do you own? We also had to include 13 cut shots to go in between the questions we asked the interviewee so we didn’t have ‘jump cuts’.

We asked our classmates to evaluate our documentary so we knew what things worked and what things we would need to improve on for our main task documentary. Here is the evaluation given to us by our classmates.

-Our cut shots were weak and didn’t flow properly as it should have done.

-Our music didn’t run to the end of the interview.

-Our mise-en-scene didn’t really fit well with the interview and we were trying too hard to try to make it fit.

-Our cut shots were shaky and didn’t look professional.

-The interview itself was too long and quite boring by the end of it.

-Half way through, our interviewee held up a piece of paper which distracted the audience and looked unprofessional.

However the class also told us what well in our documentary. They said that our framing for our interview was correct and that the music worked well however it was too short. They also said that our cut shots worked well as they related to the topic.

Obsessive compulsive hoarder

Obsessive complusive hoarder on Prezi

TV Scheduling

TV Scheduling

The Undateables documentary

Codes and Conventions of interviews

The codes and conventions of interviews from Lottie39

Codes and Conventions of the documentary genre

Codes and conventions from Lottie39

Documentaries

Documentaries

The purpose of a documentary is to document i.e. report with evidence something that has actually happened. It can show this by using actuality footage or reconstructions. It can use a narrator’s voiceover to anchor the meaning or reply on the participants themselves with the occasional interjection by an unseen narrator.

There are five central elements to documentaries according to John Corner.

Observation: Camera observes what’s going on. This is used to place the audience in the role of eye witnesses.

Interview: TV Docs rely on interviews.

Dramatisation: A sense of drama through observation.

Mise-en-scene: Careful composition of shots.

Exposition: Line of argument in a documentary, what a documentary is saying.

There are lots of different types of documentaries that cover a large range of issues talked about in documentaries.

Fully narrated: The voice over is used to make sense of visuals and dominates their meaning. An example of documentaries like this would be Natural documentaries or History documentaries.

Fly on the wall: Influenced by Cinema Verite. Offers a ‘true or real’ picture of events.

Mixed: Uses a combination of interview, observation and narration.

Self-Reflexive: Participants acknowledge the presence of the camera and often speak directly to the documentary maker.

Docudrama: Re-enactment of events.

Docusoaps: Following the daily lives of particular individuals.

Each documentary has a set narrative structure in order to show that it is a documentary.

The documentary can either have an open or closed narrative. An open narrative is where there are questions left unanswered in the documentary where as a closed narrative is where all of the questions in the documentary have been answered and by the end of the documentary there are no more questions to ask.

A documentary can follow a Linear or non-linear narrative structure also. A linear narrative is where the documentary will follow the chronological order of events taken place where as a non-linear narrative doesn’t. This would be where documentaries will show flash backs or will skip to different events in the documentary than skip back.

Documentaries will also either have a single strand narrative or a multi-strand narrative. A single strand narrative is where the documentary will only follow a single narrative thread however a multi-strand narrative is where there are more than one narrative thread and they may combine or come close together.

Interestingly some documentaries may also follow a circular narrative. This is where the start and end points in a documentary are the same.

That Thing Lara Croft documentary

The Marketing of Meatloaf

The marketing of meatloaf from Lottie39