Script

Pre - Script

The very nature of the documentary is that it is “unscripted”. It is meant to capture some aspect of “real life”. This means our documentary short film will be different from other genres because we can't know exactly what interviewees will say when being documented. However, in order to help us pinpoint the tyes of answers we want, we have created the following questions that will hopefully shape our documentary and give the base of our storyline.

Possible Interview Questions:

What first comes to mind when you think about skating?
How long have you been skating?/When did you first start skating?
How long did it take you to learn how to do an 'ollie'?(a skateboarding trick where the rider and board leap into the air without the use of the rider's hands)
Describe the skating community in london.
What are the benefits of skating?
Where do you usually skate?
Who do you skate with?
Why do you skate?
Do you think dedication is important in skateboarding?

Intentions for our Documentary

Based on our research into the skating subculture, we created a list of potential actors/interviewees:

A skate store owner or frequent customers
The community who use our local skate park area in Lloyds Park
An inspirational, young skater who has won or been in competitions

We will also like to add a voiceover where we further talk about the skating subculture. For instance, what we've learnt from our documentary or what's at the heart of the ever-growing action sport.

The style of our documentary will be an intruiging insight into those apart of the skateboarding subculture in London.

We aim to use a range of shots, from close-ups to establishing shots of the skateboarding locations. Medium close-ups will be key as we would like to catch the interviewee's facial expressions and gestures when getting questioned.

Documentary producer Faith Fuller explains her process for writing a documentary script.

Creative Aspects: a brainstorm of creative elements to help us produce our documentary script (before shooting).

Editing Techniques: slow-motion, jump cuts, continuity etc.

Including interesting facts and figures in a voiceover that many don't know or even think about.

Considering a range of creative camera angles and shots, in order to make our documentary short interesting to watch; it may help our positive message come across in a unique way - (the skating subculture in London).

Music: the placement of where the sound comes in before scenes to engage the audience and fit the narrative.

Our scenes will mostly be exterior (in and around famous places in our local area) - London. The only interior scene will be the interview of those in a skate store.

Voiceover Scripts:

This conventional voiceover is used at the beginning of our short film where we talk about the evolution of skateboarding within Southbank Skate Park. We decided to use a female voice because we thought it would help the male dominated sport appeal to female audience, thus Ashley is the "voice of God".

We've included interesting facts, which was accompanied by instrumental music and a range of camera angles/shots.

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This is our second voiceover script, it is used to explain the meaning behind the film's title - 'It's Not Raining'. Tamuka is the "voice of God"; we thought it was appropriate to use his voice because it's personal and means something to him. He uses a storytelling tone, which is typical of a documentary. This script, combined with some 'home video', is the ending to our short film.

By Ashley Fontaine and Tamuka Walker

The interview questions and voiceover narration script are significant to our documentary since they're conventional and shows that we are developing the genre's stereotypical elements.