Research

Primary Research

We have four interviews planned:
1. Mike Whitmore, a banking teacher/ex-banker, who we are going to interview in his office.
2. Leanne Hill, a 17 year old teenager, who we are going to interview in her bedroom.
3. Jean Mander, a grandmother, who we are going to interview in her living room.
4. Richard, father of a 4 year old son, who we are going to interview in the child's bedroom.

The interviews will all have typical mise-en-scene of the locations they are filmed in, for example, the banker interview will have a computer or telephone or paperwork on a desk, the teenager interview will have jewellery or clothes or a mobile phone to imply her large spending habits, the grandmother interview will have shelves with ornaments or photographs on, and the dad interview will have toys or games featured in the background.

Secondary Research

The archive material we have collected includes photographs and short video clips. We found the photographs on Google Images, as you can decide what size images the search looks for, and as we needed large, high quality photographs for our documentary, this was ideal. The videos we used were collected from YouTube, as they have a large collection of videos and they are easy to find, despite the fact that the quality on some of them isn't very good.

Still images we have collected include: photographs of Paris Hilton, a photograph of Alexandra Burke, photographs of Michael Carroll, images of sweets in jars, images of Blackberry phones, images of a holiday villa, images of expensive-looking restaurants, images of alcohol bottles, images of medication/tablets, images of unhealthy food/fast food, images of private schools and images of comprehensive schools.

Video clips we collected include: a "old fashioned" style clip of a girl riding a bicycle, news footage of Michael Carroll, the lottery winner who lost all of his money, somebody using a Blackberry phone, panning footage of a villa on a beach, and footage of Alexandra Burke singing.