1. Documentaries unit 10 ideas
By Lucy Millar

2. My Idea
My idea is to produce a short documentary on the different sports there are for people with disabilities. The main sports will be Wheelchair Basketball and Boccia. Part of my idea is to also do some in depth research and find out more about the club. I am intending to do a vox pop or a questionnaire to collect this information
I have researched information about both clubs. I have researched when both of the groups first started and also where they are based. There is also a cost for the groups which I knew without researching. More research will be done throughout this project.

3. Codes and conventions of documentaries
A voice over/Narration is always used in a documentary.
Close ups and extreme close ups are used in a documentary.
Documentaries have smaller audiences depending on the distribution.
A documentary always has a narrator to tell the story.

4. What I found out.
I found out that my camera work will be mainly close ups and extreme close ups, also that there may be some over the shoulder shots. I also found out that I will be using voice over or narration for my sound work as that is the most common in documentaries. I'm not quite sure on the design yet as I'm still researching documentaries. I am also still researching about colour for documentaries. I also found out that interviews are used in documentaries that are shown on television. This will relate to my documentary as I will be conducting interviews but I don’t think that they will be shiown on TV ,they will only be shown to my target audience.

5. Contexts.
I am producing a short film which will be a documentary. Documentaries can usually be found at festivals such as Sheffield doc fest. I have also found out that documentaries can be shown on YouTube or channel 4.
You are able to tell from the first minute or so if it is a documentary or what type of genre it is.

6. Summary of my idea
My idea is to produce a short documentary on the different sports that are available for people with disabilities. I think that it will also promote disability sport. I hope to gain peoples interest with my ideas. I also hope to give you a better understanding of wheelchair basketball and boccia.

7. Conclusion
By conducting research about documentaries and what is included in a documentary, I will now be able to produce a short film for my project as I know the codes and conventions and I know what needs to be included to make my film a documentary style.
I have also found out the different things that I will need to produce my documentary. I will need, sound, close ups and extreme close ups, over the shoulder shots. I will also need a voice over but before I can do a voice over I will need a script which will detail the dialogue that I will need for my documentary.
Over the shoulder shot
Documentary script
Close up shot