Anaylis of a Simular Extract - Liam Augur

Gimme Shelter (1970)

I have chosen to analyze the first five minutes of the documentary concert-film "Gimme Shelter". The film covers the band on top form, and the problems they had at their infamous Altamont Speedway concert. I found this video on the website www.quicksilverscreen.com

The film begin with a black screen and the only thing to be heard is Mick Jagger's voice introducing his band on stage, once he has said the first two line you hear a roar from the crowd and Charlie Watts is shown on screen in a MCU one shot, the camera zooms out and pans left to right. Throughout the next couple of shots we see Charlie posing the live album cover of "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out". Props include a donkey, stars and stripes top hat, two guitars and a drum snare. The shots for this short sequence consist of CU of Mick Jagger, LS two shot of Mick and Charlie and an establishing shot of the photographers. All of this sequence is silent as the previously mentioned non-diagetic Rolling Stones introduction is still being played over the top. This is then cleverly transferred to diagetic when Mick Jagger takes the top hat from Charlie at the photo shoot and then the camera cuts to a MS of Mick fitting the hat onto his head whilst continuing his introduction, but this time onstage.

Mick stands at MS in the middle of the stage and shouts "welcome to the breakfast show" the band immediately react with "Jumpin' Jack Flash". The camera focuses on Mick throughout this performance, he is mostly framed at MCU or CU between the verses and LS or MS when he is dancing about and the camera needs to do some movement. There is also a lot of smash zoom used as emphasis of Micks performance, I imagine there is a lot of zoom used because of the time it was filmed maybe it was a popular choice or purely because some of the footage used is amateur. The onstage lighting helps to depict Mick as the main character since he is lit brighter than the others. Nothing else is really to be seen onstage at this point, the light only really focus on the individuals and their instruments. High angle/low angle shots are also used during this performance. This could have possibly been used to represent the band as powerful, with their adoring fans looking up to them. For example, at about 2:57, there is a high angle shot from onstage, of the crowd looking up to the Mick. At 3:35 a low angle LS is used showing footage from behind a bobbing fans head looking towards the stage. Shots like the latter mention, also add a more personal touch to the film, it’s feels almost you are stood in the crowd.

Shortly after the band have finish “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” the camera pans and tilt down to follow Keith Richards movements framed in MS. The film then cuts to a MS showing a monitor, which is playing the performance, making the impression that we were watching the footage in the studio. The camera then reveals the entire band watching back this footage. This is where the title sequences begin, they are subtlety edited in over the film, framing each band member’s reaction to their performance in CU and then appears their name in white typography, this then quickly fades out. Towards the begin of this scene they have used cross-cutting or parallel editing to show Charlie Watts watching the footage in the studio and showing him onstage when he is mentioned by Mick Jagger. The band are dressed differently in the studio, from what I can make out: Mick a shirt, blazer and scarf, Charile a shirt and waistcoat, Bill a jumper and leather jacket, Mick Taylor a t-shirt and Keith a red long sleeved top. Prop in brief scene include: lit cigarettes, an ashtray, a telephone, film reels and film production equipment. The last shot I recorded at 5:10 is a MS two of Charlie and presumably a film production worker. After this there is various discussions about the concert.

Conclusion

Overall I have enjoyed analyzing “Gimme Shelter” and found it beneficial own up and coming documentary project. Even though the film is dated and some of the footage is quite amateur, I think these factor help to make the film more genuine. As I fan myself, watching Gimme Shelter this way, gave me a better feel for the music, period and understanding of the controversial concert. If the film were “state of the art” it wouldn’t represent what The Rolling Stones are about.

There are some aspects I think I can take from this film and incorporate into my own project and some that I can’t. For example the scene shot in the studio at the end, will be very similar to the one we will be filming from, we could use the scene from this film to help us with things like: the appropriate camera angles, the 180 degree line for conversations and lighting techniques. Things I am less likely to take as inspiration, from this film could be the frequent use of zoom, which can make viewers, feel quite seasick. There are better ways to show emphasis and detail in modern cinematography.

Source: http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=52108

IMB page:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780/

Call Sheet - Josh Exley

Call Sheet/Daily Schedule:

Item/Title: The Rise of
Shooting date: Wednesday 14th October
TX date: Monday 2nd November

CREW DETAILS:
Producer: Joshua Exley
Director: Liam Augur
Camera: Jacob Gill
Sound: Liam Augur and Josh Exley
Additional Crew: Casey Wood, Jack Lodge, Simon Casken (Actors)

CALL TIME/RV: 11.00am Monday 19th October

LOCATION/DIRECTIONS/PARKING:
loction 1 and 2: Bom Practice Rooms, Summer Lane, Barnsley
location 3: Music Room, Barnsley College
location 4: Arches, Pitt Street, Barnsley

CONTACTS:
Josh Exley: 07868101497
Liam Augur: 07961398995
Jacob Gill:07951297470

SCHEDULE TIME /DETAILS OF ITEM LOCATION
11.30am begind filming news report, Honeywell campus, Barnsley.

Shooting Script - Liam Augur (unfinished)

Shooting Script

Shot 1 – MCU one shot following Liam to practice room

Shot 2 – CU of Liam opening door

Shot 3 – MCU of Liam walking through corridor

Shot 4 – XLS four shot of whole band in practice (camera pans left to right

Shot 5, 6, 7 & 8 – Long shot of all band members

Shot 9 – LS of interview introducing himself

Shot 10 – MS of the interview taking his seat

Shot 11 – MS of the band taking their seat

Interview

Shot 12 – MCU one shot Interview asks question

Shot 13 – LS four shot band respond

Shot - MS one shot of specific answers from relevant band members (occasionally)

Shot 14 – MCU one shot Interviewers reaction to bands answer (occasionally)

Shot - CU of interesting gestures and actions are doing (occasionally)

This is repeated until

Fade out

Shot 15 – Still images of newspapers and magazines are edited onto a blank screen

Shot 16 – LS of the band ‘partying’ camera tracks

Fade in

Shot 17 – Repeat above interview format

Shot 18 – Repeat above interview format

Shot 19 – Repeat above interview format

Fade out

Shot 20 - ELS of band receiving award, zoom in closer

Shot 21 - LS of band walking up to accept award, camera tracks

Shot 22 - MCU/MS of acceptance speech

Fade in

Shot 23 – Repeat above interview format

Shot 24 – Repeat above interview format

Shot 25 – Repeat above interview format

Shot 27 - Cut to a edited MCU of NME magazine front cover

Fade out

Shot 28 - Hand held footage of band at secret party

Fade in

Shot 29 - LS of the bands recording studio, camera pans left to right

Shot 30, 31, 32 & 33 - MS of different equipment in studio

Shot 34 - MS one shot of Simon Casken talking about the band.

Fade out

Shot 35 - ES of The Arches exterior

Channel 4 - Josh Exley

Our documentary will be featured on Channel 4 as they show alot of documentaries. Our documentary is perfect for Channel 4 because they show lots of cutting edge documentaries and autobiographies such as http://www.channel4.com/programmes/a-boy-called-alex-the-concert which was very popular. Our show would fit in very well as a documentary on this channel as they are always looking for something new.

Character Profile - Josh Exley

Name - Jacob (called interviewer in the script)

Occupation - Journalist/ Reporter

Age - 20

Jacob is made to feel quite uneasy by Jack but the rest of the band make him feel quite welcome. He is trying to find out how the band have changed since they rose to fame a few years ago. He is polite and has alot of knowledge about music and is a very good journalist. He has to be friendly to do his job because he has to work with lots of people such as musicians. In our documentary he has to speak to the bands parents. He gets along with the band well by the end of the interview by having a conversation with them purely about different bands, this however is not featured in our 5 minute slot but is on the documentary. He also has to travel around the country to find the bands home town and where they did their first gigs etc.

Name - Liam

Occupation - Musician (vocals)

Age - 20

Liam has the most to say out of the band. He is well spoken and the most loved and well known out of the bands. He is loud and the center of attention. He fits in well with anyone and can make friends easily, he makes the interviewer feel welcome due to his personality and also gives the interviewer straight answers but also goes in depth with them so he has a better picture.

Name - Casey

Occupation - Musician (guitarist)

Age - 19

Casey is a calm, friendly person and is probably one of the most well liked out of the band due to his quick wit and his funny ways. He is known as one of the best guitarist of our time and he is popular and also very easy going in interviews and is the easiest to talk to out of the band. He is really bothered about the way the media have portrayed him as he doesn't feel like the band have done anything wrong for the media to say what they have said.

Name - Jack

Occupation - Musician (bassist)

Age - 24

Jack is known as the bad boy of the band. Anyone who knows Jack or who has worked with Jack agree that he is the worst band member to work with. He is not bothered about what the media say about him as he is purely in the band for the music and the lifesyle. He does not make the interviewer feel too welcome and give short snappy answers

Name – Josh

Occupation – Musician (drummer)

Age - 21

Josh is a friendly down to earth musician in a famous band. He is well known from the bands bad media and so is known as a ‘druggy’ and a ‘bad role model’ but throughout the documentary all the band are trying to do is clear their name.

Pitch - josh exley

documentary about the rise of a famous band, to find out if they believe what the media say about them is true.

Project Schedule - Liam Augur

Week 1 – Practice Rooms

• Aim to film all of the practice room scene (interior & exterior)
• Attempt to complete all photoshop artwork

Week 2 – Possibly may need another week in practice rooms (allow this week but no more)

• Finish photoshop work if not already completed

Week 3 – College Recording studio

• Film the short interview with Simon Casken
• Film some interior shots of studio (if needed)

Week 4 – Town, friends and family/editing suite

• Film the shots of the music venues
• Film the shots of interviews with family and friends
• Put together “after the breaks” scene (may need to done last)
• Should have started to gather all of our footage by now and uploading

Week 5, 6 & 7 – Editing Suite

• Have this period to fully edit our project inside of college

Week 8 – Final week (hopefully finished)

• Keep this week free to perfect everything in time for the deadline

Script - Josh Exley and Liam Augur - need to finish

Exterior (Band walking to practice room)

voiceover – I arranged to meet the band at their practice room where I finally got to speak to them. I followed guitarist Liam Augur to the location

Interior (band in practice rooms)

Band – (just chatty conversation while setting up instruments)

Cuts to band sat down waiting to be interviewed

Interviewer – So how are you doing today then?

Interviewer – So what have you been doing this week?

Interviewer - How long have you known each other? and when did you decide to start a band?

Interviewer - What can we expect from the new album? anything new?

Interviewer - And when is the tour?

Interviewer – How have you and your music evolved since the first album?

Voiceover

(Voiceover over the music playing) the band have notoriously been in and out of the media with both good and bad reviews of the music and also a lot about their notorious partying antics and their never ending flings with women. I now attempt to ask the band about how they feel they are portrayed in magazines and newspapers.

Interviewer – what is your reaction to your recent reputation in the media

Jack – what you mean by that then

Interviewer – well (pause) the sun newspaper quotes that ‘ you can clearly tell the music is second best to the bands lifestyle’

Interviewer – yes I can see where you’re coming from. Do you think you have changed since the band first formed when you were playing small gigs at pubs with small crowds?

interior (band receiving award for best album)

interviewer - Who are your main influences?

Interviewer – when your first album came out you were compared to a modern day rolling stones, do you think this is a hard reputation to live up to?

Liam – who said that?

Interviewer – the NME’s reporter Gareth Barnes said it

Cuts to NME cover

Interviewer - What was the best gig you ever played?

I then found the bands producer Simon Casken. Simon was at the very studio where the bands have recorded every single and album. The studio has obviously got better as they have had alot more cash flow with lots of artists queing to get in to the studio. It has gone from a very small studio in Leeds to one of the top rated in England with Simon Casken one of the top rated producers in the industry but always makes time for the band who made him. I talked to him about what it was like recording all 3 of the bands albums so far

Simon – well they were alright most of the time apart from Jack who was always the worse as you can probably tell. He always took jokes too far and would never let anything go. You can tell Jack is the worst and most stuff that is in the media about him is true. The recording processes though was fairly straight forward they got down to the work and were pretty much perfectionists on the first album and wouldn’t take second best. Their sound was pretty bluesy and it was really different for a change and I think that’s why people like them so much and it was really nice to record.

Voiceover – it seems that the producer even agrees with what the media said. I travelled to their home town to find out more about their first gigs and how the band developed musically and talk to their friends and family about the band.

exterior (Cuts to a shot of ‘The Arches’)

Voiceover – this is where the band did their first ever gig where as little as 50 people were meant to have turned up.

Filming Locations - Liam Augur

This is the lucorum bar where we will film brief exterior clips. We are using this location because it is the best legitamate venue for live music in barnsley, which is the home town of the band in our film.

This is the colleges on-site recording studio, which we will use to film a mock up of a record producer talking about the band. I have seen this kind of thing done before on music documentaries and it works really well. This recording studio is ideal for our documentary because the equpiment is real, therefore hopefully making our documentary authenic.

Synopsis - Joshua Exley

Synopsis

Our documentary is about following a fictional band for a few days to show how the band has rose and how they are dealing with fame and all the luxuries that come with being famous. The documentary starts with the band arriving at a practise room to practise, before they get interviewed by the interviewer. The interviewer/ camera man follows the band to parties and backstage shows to show the band in their true rock ‘n’ roll life style. The documentary shows drug taking and also drinking and the effects of the band on these substances. It shows the band when they first got together recording there first album and how much fun the band were having, this soon changed to violence and mistrust in the band. The film will not flow as bits of the interview will be interrupted by clips of the band partying. Also we will show the interviewer filming the bands close friends, family, producer and management who will give their opinion on how the band have changed and how the band formed. The interviewer is made to feel very unwelcome at the start of the documentary as the band are not happy to be interviewed you can tell by the way the band are treating the interviewer and how they are giving him short blunt answers to any questions he asks. Throughout the documentary the band start opening up to him about fame and life and begin to trust him. The interviewer talks to the bands producer who was at the time producing the bands second album. The producer talks about how the band was really focused about their music but how the media have portrayed them as drug addicts. The documentary shows the band and how focused they are despite their reputation. The band say that this helps them to try and prove people wrong.

Questionnaire: Jacob Gill

Questionnaire
1. In a documentary do you believe that factual content should be the main part of the story or do you prefer firsthand accounts?
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2. As a rough estimate would YOU say, you view more:
Ø Drama’s
Ø Period drama’s
Ø Popular culture television
Ø Documentaries
(Tick where appropriate)

3. Do you believe that a documentary that contains direct interviews with the subjects of the documentaries will give a biased skewed view of the truth? Example such as if you were to interview an author on their book they would promote the book?
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4. Which channel do you personally think produces the best factual documentaries?
Ø BBC 1
Ø BBC 2
Ø ITV
Ø Channel 4
Ø Channel 5
Ø Other digital channel (please state below)
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5. As a viewer would you say you prefer:
Ø Historical Documentaries
Ø Popular culture documentaries
Ø ‘shocking’ documentaries

6. What was the last documentary you watched?
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7. Do you think a documentary of a bands rise to fame, featuring interviews and first hand accounts sounds like a good idea?
Yes No Maybe
8. Would you view a documentary of the afforementioned nature?
Yes No Maybe

9. Whic channel would you expect to produce and broadcast sucha documentary?
Ø BBC 1
Ø BBC 2
Ø ITV
Ø Channel 4
Ø Channel 5
Ø Other digital channel (please state below)
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10. Would you expect a documentary like this to feature: (delete as appropriate)
Ø Interviews with the band
Ø Shakey unpolished camera work
Ø Old footage and voice overs
Ø Interviews with relevant people

Treatment - Joshua Exley & Liam Augur

Treatment.
The rise of “The
Suggested audience: Presumably older audience (post watershed content) 16 - 25
Run Time: 60 minutes
Aired on: Channel 4
Time slot: 10pm – 11pm

Synopsis
The five minute clip we have decided to show is from around 10 minutes of the documentary. The clip will start with a short clip of the band, just coming off stage and returning to a backstage party. This is supposed to introduce our audience to this notoriously successful and “reckless” band. After this short clip we will then cut to a title screen for the programme, the title screen and the opening scene will both be accompanied by music.
After the title shot the programme will start with a voiceover giving information on the band, this is played while members of the band are arriving at a nearby studio/practice area. Some of the band are preparing to be interviewed and some of the band are playing their instruments. The voiceover then stops and The band then sit down as the interviewer begins to interview them, the band are quite reluctant to be interviewed and this will be clear as they will make it uncomfortable for the interviewer. Throughout the interview the band the footage of the interview gets stopped as it is interrupted by clips of the band partying and playing shows this is all done with scrappy hand held cameras to give it real feeling as if you are there.
After this clip is shown it then goes to an ad break but before that, it says what is coming up after the break which shows you a few clips, such as talking to the bands producer about their first album and what the band were like to work with. Also the band on set of their video shoot and how the band is coping with fame and how it has affected them.

Suggested Audience
The audience for this programme will be from 16+ who are interested in music. It is for 16+ because it is post watershed content and involves drugs, bad language and violence. The band are very popular amongst young people and so should draw a big audience. Although we say it is suitable for 16+ the main audience we are aiming for is 18 to 30 years old because they have shown the main interest in the bands career.

Run Time:
The run time for this extract is 5 minute, this was part of our brief. The 5 minutes is supposed to look like it comes from a full 60 minute documentary.
Network aired on:
Our programme would air on Channel 4, in the time slot 10pm – 11pm, at first we considered bbc three, because lots of similar documentaries are aired on there but of course bbc three has no adverts and we thought a programme with adverts is easier to map out our ideas. So we decided to choose channel 4, our second best option. In the long run we also decided that channel 4 would attract us more viewers as it is a popular network for the the younger generation, which is our target audience.

Suggested elements:
Throughout our documentary we will be using voice pops where the interviewer is heard but not seen this is to help the audience follow the band and also let the audience know how he is feeling about filming the band.