My original pitch is no longer the subject matter of my documentary. I initially decided to base it on government funding cuts for school subjects that fall in the creative category. This however changed due to the fact that it would require a lot of scenes (almost all scenes) to be filmed in the school environment which the examiner's report stated lower-achieving students featured too many shots in a school setting. Also, I decided it would make more sense to utilise my passion for puppetry and use this to my advantage because it's different and unusual which would make it engaging to the audience. My pitch on the puppet theme has not changed too much. I have gathered a greater understanding for some of the shot types and conventions of documentaries like the one I choose to create. For example the use of overlapping narration over shots of someone being "hard at work", frequent featuring of old photos to create a nostalgic feel and finally a generally calm mood through the use of gentle dialogue and calming background music.
I still plan to have the two social groups that are interviewed being my parents and them giving an account of when they knew I was going to be a puppeteer when I grew up. And the other being myself giving my life experience accounts.
I am still doing an episode from a series that encapsulates teenagers with unusual hobbies called "Teen Interest" I will have a Narrator/voiceover who is not me to introduce the episode and do some links but the talking will predominantly be my own voice.
I will have wide shots of me working (making puppets) with the voice over on top which is inspired by the textual research 1 and 2 from my investigating
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