Location Planning

For location planning we scouted around doha for areas that we are going to use to start off our short film, we wanted to find areas that are unique and can easily identify doha so the audience knows that Qatar is our main location. The areas we chose to establish Qatar are the main areas of attraction when visiting doha, Aspire and the torch, the pearl, the corniche and Katara.

We will also be using other locations for our short film such as the houses of our 2 different actors. first we will be filming in our first actors house, Jeppe. for this location we aim to make Jeppe seem like a healthy responsible person who's treats diabetes seriously and looks after himself. then for the 2nd actors house we want it to be more messy as if the person isn't looking after themselves and not taking diabetes seriously.

Lastly we are going to use different health centres as our locations. we will be filming in Hamad hospital which is the main hospital in Qatar and we will also be filming in the diabetes centre in doha.

Title Design

This is what we have decided to use for our logo design. We didn't want to make the logo too childish or fun because we aim to make our short film as professional and serious as possible due to it being about a very serious condition, diabetes. The rest of my group decided on the choice of colour, black with the two 'e's being red because that is the colour scheme we are going for and I designed the logo myself by using a website that generates different fonts and downloaded the font and typed out our title.   

Mood board

For this mood board I've chosen pictures of various different things that all relate to our short film. I've chosen pictures of the location that we are going to use, Qatar and also a picture of the world so show that we are targeting our short film at everyone. I've also put in a picture of an arab to show that one of our characters will be arab and i've put in junk food and a fast food restaurant to show all the bad things that can give you diabetes. lastly there is pictures of equipment you'll need to use if you are a diabetic.

Audience Profile

this is a profile for the type of person or people that our short film is aimed at. So basically our short film is really aimed at all ages because diabetes can effect anyone at anytime, so we want to direct it at all ages so that everyone is aware of the seriousness of diabetes. we are trying to get this message across by using both young and old characters.

It is kind of the same for the type of gender, we want to aim it at both genders, male and female. the reason for this is the same as it was for the target age, which is to get the message across to as many people as possible because both genders can get diabetes. we want to try getting this message across by maybe using both a male and female as characters in our short film, but we still haven't decided on this yet.

for nationality we are primarily aiming our short film at the people of Qatar because we are based in Doha and the message we are trying to trying to get across is mostly targeted at people in doha due to it having the worst ratio for diabetics to non diabetics in the world. however we also aim to get the message across to all different nationalities just to show what it can become like if they don't make a change, as it is a world wide problem. we are going to show this by probably using a typical arab to represent what it is like to have diabetes in Qatar and compare it to somebody who doesn't have it

Audience Research 2 - Questionnaire

Audience Research 1 - Focus Group

We each had different roles whilst producing this focus group. This is what each person did:

- Jeppe: Jeppe came up with the different questions to ask and asked the people the questions.

-Abdul: Abdul was in charge of filming the focus group.

-Maya: Maya organised the setting for the focus group and the people who were involved.

-Me: I was in charge of editing the focus group.

Documentary Editing Analysis

editing is different between a film and a short film (e.g. a movie is different to a documentary/short film). It needs to be different because of the time length difference between the 2. For example a film or movie would need to have a lot of continuity in order for the film to make sense, whereas in a short film there isn't really much continuity because they don't really tell the whole story, they only tell it in parts (only including the more important parts).

They will use a lot of jump cuts for short  films in order to cut out all the slow and boring parts, in a way creating a sense of pace to the short film. There tends to be interviews in documentaries/short films with either experts or just every day people in general. For these interviews they will probably use mid close up shots normally on a black background the reason for this is because they don't want distractions in the background they only want to viewer to focus on the persons face so that is why they use the mid close up.

Mise-en-scene for our documentary will have natural lighting for the majority of our short film and for interviews we will have bright lighting just on the person and no lighting in the background. The reason for this is because we want the attention to be focused on the person we are interviewing in order for the audience to understand and listen to what he/she is saying. there won't be any specific costumes for our short film the only costume we will be using is a thobe for our arab actor so that people can see the difference between the 2 different actors. For non-verbal communication we want our actors to give off a very serious vibe because we want it to reflect on our aim which is serious about improving the problem with diabetes in Qatar as it could be a life or death situation. We will also be using a lot of props in our short film such as the diabetes pen to inject yourself just so we make our film seem as realistic as possible.

Documentary Narrative Analysis

I have chosen 'The weight of the Nation' as it follows 'Todorov's theory' well and explains diabetes well. it is a documentary about diabetes and throughout the documentary it goes through all the states of the theory apart from the first step. It is targeted at type 2 diabetes patients in America but it can also relate to people around the world.




1st: state of equilibrium:
this step is usually just getting to know the setting and the characters throughout the story. at this stage it should provide you with the most basic knowledge, and everything thing should be in place.

2nd: disturbance in the equilibrium:
for the documentary I've chosen there is an immediate disturbance in the equilibrium where it states how a peoples lives have been turned upside down due to diabetes. by doing this it really highlights the main problem which is diabetes.

3rd: recognition of the problem:
For this stage it also builds up the story even more by adding in more detail from experts or doctors  and also by explaining how you can get diabetes by using simple knowledge about it so that it makes it easier for the audience to understand,in order to make the audience see that this is a massive problem. really emphasising its effect it can have on people. it makes people realise that something has to be done about this problem.

4th: attempt to fix problem:
for this stage it really interacts with the audience, by getting the doctors to try and persuade the audience to make a change and tells them how they can make this change by giving professional advice on how to prevent diabetes. they do this by giving advice on how this problem can be fixed.

5th: return/change in equilibrium:
this is the last stage in the theory, this is where to problem has been fixed and either it returns to the old equilibrium or it will change to a new and better one. For this documentary it has changed to a new equilibrium of recognition and willingness to change making people think about what they do with their bodies after watching this documentary.

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