Documentary Opening Script

Myself and Lauren had both contributed to come up with the script to make it sound as realistic and professional as possible as we are filming a documentary that is aimed at a more serious target audience. The script is written below...

(Starts with Levi Roots' entrance to Dragons Den. He walks up the stairs singing and the music fades out in twelve seconds)

Singing his way to sucess, Levi Roots first appeared on the BBC television show Dragons Den' in 2006.

His pitch was to raise a £50,000 investment for a 20% share in his product, Reggae Reggae Sauce, which was made from a secret recipe, passed down from his grandmother.

Two of the dragons, Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh were both enticed by Levi's Pitch.

After recieving the investment that Levi was looking for, his life changed dramatically, and we want to know, just how far Levi's career has progressed....

(Fades to black, titles roll)

Levi Roots Archive Footage with Voiceover

Below is the Levi Roots archive footage, which we will use as the intro to our documentary. I had posted the video before the voiceover had been added and this is the one where it has been inserted. This video is also available in HD (High Definition) by simply clicking on the resolution on the bar at the bottom of the video and selecting a HD resolution...

Interviewing Levi Roots...

Myself and Lauren had come up with various interview questions that we thought to ask Levi when we meet him in October. We borrowed a camera from the media department and filmed a short inerview with a student from our school (Harry Witherell) who was pretending to be Levi. This was to get some practise before the actual interview. When we interviewed the student, we had used various camera angles to give us some insight as to how we would film the interview. Some of the techniques we used, include...

• Over the shoulder shot of the interviewer, showing on the back of the interviewer and the inerviewee
• A mid shot showing both the interviewee and the interviewer from a side on position
• A point of view shot (POV shot) not showing the interviewer but only the interviewee

I will post the videos of the interview questions once they have been edited.

Levi Roots Archive Video First Edit...

The archive footage that i had edited was finished i just had to insert some transitions and add a voiceover and that was it. Below is a video of the archive footage, which will be the opening to our documentary, without the voiceover being inserted...

Editing Footage

Not only did myself and lauren want interview Levi, we also wanted to include some archive footage in our documentary also. This footage would include Levi's pitch on Dragons Den'. Myself and Lauren had arranged to meet up after school and see what would be appropriate to incorporate in our documentary. We downloaded a section of the audition we wanted and started to edit it to make it as short as possible, as most of the footage from the documentary must be our own. We also put in a black and white effect to emphasise that the footage is in the past and we had decided that at the start of the clip we would have the original music for a couple of seconds, the music would then fade out and a voiceover would then begin.

Below is a screen shot of us editing the footage that we had to show as evidence, if you cant see the image clearly, then simply click on the image to enlarge...

The Final Prezi

Here is what our prezi looked like one myself and Lauren had finished working on it...

Levi Roots on Prezi

Creating a Prezi

Our media studies teacher informed us of a website called PREZI. It enabled us to create presentations which were much more visual and engaging, as opposed to a powerpoint presentation. Myself and Lauren had an attempt to create a Prezi about the rise to fame of Levi Roots. We took screen shots of us making the prezi to use as further evidence of our research and planning, if you cant see the images clearly, simply click on the image to enlarge...