Location Sheets

We created two location sheets that depict two different settings with information alongside them, making note of any potential danger hazards and the address for reference. The first sheet portrays the location of the ground floor of a member of our group's house so when we come to film the group will acknowledge their surroundings and be able to adapt to them, as well as being aware of any potential hazards. The second sheet is split into two different sections; the front of The Raj (a local Indian takeaway/restaurant located in the village of Culcheth) and then a bird's eye view of it including the indoors. This assures my group and I that we will be able to prepare ourselves and work when we arrive and begin filming in the environment of the takeaway. The two documents also give details for the two locations such as the Address, and Health and Safety issues and the Date that we would film at the specific location. This helps us to plan and determine any considerations of the process of filming at the locations before we begin the practical production.

Interview Questions

We decided on a number of questions that we could potentially ask our Interviewees for use in our documentary - we will ask them to a number of people including the public, parents of teenagers/students (our target audience), and workers in takeaway restaurants. We specifically chose to highlight upon certain aspects of takeaways such as comparing it to home cooking, the cost, the time of having one and the service received from takeaways. We aim to ask these questions to get honest responses from the general public and for us to make unbiased points within our documentary to communicate to our viewers. The interviews will be shown in the documentary to back up the observations and the balanced exposition. 

1. Do you prefer getting a takeaway to cooking your own meal?
2. Is there something that you frequently order from a takeaway?
3. Do you think about eating healithy when you order a takeaway meal?
4. Do you find takeaways too expensive?
5. Is there a type of takeaway that you never order food from?
6. Do some takeaways take too long to be delievered?
7. Do you ever use the vouchers and discounts that some takeaways offer?
8. Do adverts on television ever convince you to buy takeaway?
9. Would you order healthy meals from a takeaway if you were given the option?
10. Is 5-a-day something that you try and stick to?
11. Are the drinks from takeaways usually good value for money?
12. Would you prefer less sauce with your takeaway meal?
13. Do you like spicy food?
14. Do you like ordering deserts from takeaways?
15. When do you choose to have a takeaway?
16. Do you like to order takeaways from the same company each time?
17. Do you recieve takeaway menus through the post?
18. Do you collect takeaway menus?
19. Are you always satisfied with the overall service you recieve from takeaways?
20. Do the locations of takeaways ever influence your decisions in ordering them?

Storyboarded Single Frames

So that we could go into more detail that the amount used on the storyboards for certain interviews, we created single frame close ups of certain panels from the storyboard to give us a more realistic insight and guidance into our initial plans of things such as the mise-en-scéne of the shot and the surroundings of the interviewee: we would be able to refer back to these sheets when doing our interviews in order to check that everything and everyone would be in their right place.

The first single frame depicts an employee being interviewed at the local takeaway, The Village Pizza. We decided that the interview with a takeaway employee should take place either outside or in a takeaway restaurant, depending on availability, times, and lighting conditions among other things.  

The second frame is of a parents who is being interviewed in her comfort zone of her house - namely the kitchen/dining room, as this would also provide relevant mise-en-scéne.

Storyboards of opening sequence

We storyboarded the opening five minutes of our documentary - the footage that we would be producing. Interviews were not required to be completely storyboarded here a they would take up much space with many similar shots, so interviews and vox pops are just represented by a single frame on the storyboard. We would be able to use this storyboard as a guide when we were filming and producing our documentary as it outlines what each shot should look like and include, as well as laying out the order for the narrative of our documentary opening. 



Running Order

We produced a running order for our documentary so that we would be able to map out exactly how our documentary would pan out in terms of timings and how and when certain aspects that we wanted to include in our documentary would be incorperated. Even though we would only actually be producing the opening five minutes of our documentary (marked onto the running order below), we also included the rest of the documentary on our running order - how it would be set out if we were indeed required to produce it. We also included where the advert break would be and made sure that the total time was added up correctly to make our production seem more professional and realistic.



Research

Here are screen shots and links to external sources from our research that will aid us in the production of our documentary. By doing this we will easily be able to access and compare all of our external sources, as well as refer back to sources of information should we; for example; require to return to a certain source such as a website to check something or retrieve more information. We will also be able to note each source's usefulness and reliability, which could influence future decisions on where we do and don't get information and data from.

The Raj: Menu

Kim's Kitchen: Menu

BBC Good Food Recipes: Sweet and Sour Chicken

Just Eat

BBC News Article: High Fat Levels in Takeaways

My Fitness Pal

BBC News: Takeaways High In Colourings

Iga: Why Is Fast Food Bad For Us?

The Independent: Families 'spending less on fresh food than on takeaways'

Rating of Takeaways in the WA3 area

Catalogue of Chinese Takeaways

Ingrediants in a Takeaway

Ordering Takeaways Online

Research Record

We created a research record to make a list of all the things that we would be using to collect research from. These sources included takeaway leaflets, websites, and graphs and data from the internet. All of the sources that we would collect information from would be listed on this list, along with notes on exactly what information we collected from the source; and why. All of the sources used in our final documentary will be credited, and this will allow us to keep track of them as well as allowing us to review our sources for things such as reliability or extra information at a later date.

Our research record sheets can be seen here.