Mission Statement

The programme 'Stadium Watch' will be aired every week, on Sunday at 9pm on sky 1. The programme will have no particular target audience, this is because football attracts people of all different ages and genders, but in the main the audience would have to be men as they are generally more interested in football and also the time of the show is 9pm on a Sunday  many children will be a sleep at this time and will not be able to watch the program.

The programme will be broadcasted on Sky 1, as this channel is known for its documentaries.Also another reason for it being aired on Sky 1 is the fact that there is a catch up service for this channel which is they Sky player. Sky player means that the viewers can catch up on the programme if they missed or they can just watch it again if they really enjoyed it, also the fact that the time of the show is 9pm on a Sunday many children will be a sleep at this time and will not be able to watch the program makes Sky player very useful as children will be able to watch it another time.

The purpose for making the programme is to give fans a view of the new stadiums being built which is also a bonus for the clubs of stadiums being shown as it shows fans the facilities the club has to offer and can be a form of advertising/marketing for the club as it may help to attract people to come and watch the games at the stadium. The first documentary in the series is on Brighton and Hove Albion's new stadium the Amex. This is the newest stadium to be built in europe and will be the headline show of the series, be sure to tune in.

When creating the documentary we are going to use a camera with a tripod to keep a steady screen but in some parts we will be using the hand held camera technique to give off a more documentary like feel. When we have our footage we will edit it on a the computer using the program Sony Vegas Pro.

Montage Ideas

In our documentary we wanted to include one or two montages that are personal to Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club to give the viewers a better feel for what the club is like and what it has been through and also another look at the Amex stadium.

Here are some of our ideas for the montages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3G-v2HiAb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRBgmH2cDE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLkMVFfJi5E

Editing Process-Sony Vegas

At first we was going to use iMovie to edit our documentary but in the end we ended up using sony vegas pro to do the editing. We started to edit it on iMovie at college because we thought it would be easier to get it done at college becuase we would be able to get hlep from the teachers and pointers on how to make it better. But because none of us knew how to use it, it took us quite a while to get some basic things done. Also none of us own a mac so we were also unfamiliar with the hardware and we didn't want to spend loads of time learning how to use a mac and then iMovie as this would take a while so Steve suggested instead of using iMovie on a mac that we went to his house and edited using Sony Vegas Pro 10.0. Here's a tutorial, which shows you the basic features of sony vegas and how to use it:

Here is an example of an image of me editing our documentary on Sony Vegas Pro:

Christopher Guest Research

Christopher Guest is an American screenwriter, musician, director, actor, and comedian. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational "mockumentary" films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

However Christopher Guest does not like his films being called mockumentaries. Though shot in documentary, his movies do not mock like an average mockumentary. According to him his films are character studies of "people who become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people". Guest's affection for his characters is a large part of the appeal to other people.

Whilst guest is parodying the characters, he nevere does it in a spiteful way. However Guest's characters are never very good at what they do and yet take themselves very seriously, which is the basis of the comedy in his mockumentaires. This mockumentary format is one in which Guest has proven himself very funny.

Common traits of Guest's mockumentaires:

• Movies are almost completely unscripted and improvised.
• He shoots ten minute scenes to let the improviation between actors to happen organically.
• He always uses a group of actors including: Eugene Levy, Parker Possy, Fred Willard etc..
• Mock interviews, handheld camera and footage of events are common features of his movies which give off a documentary feel.
• The documentary feel of the movies is never compromised because the actors stay completely in character. 

During the project we watched some of Christopher Guest's documentaries to help us with getting ideas for our documentary. Here is some information on the documentaries we watched:

This Is Spinal Tap:

This Is Spinal Tap is a mockumentary directed by Christopher Guest. The documentary shows the life of a fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap, touring and promoting themselves.Guest uses similar techniques in This Is Spinal Tap as he does in all of his documentaries to make the band seem real.

The film satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal musical bands, as well as the tendencies of rock documentaries of the time.He captured the look and feel of the 'rockumentary' so well that many people who watched it thought they were a real band, but how did Christopher Guest achieve this?

He does this by using archive footage of the band at concertswhich implies to the audience that this is a real band who have been together for years.The setting of the concert is also very realistic to what a concert would have been like back in the time of when it was set (the 1980's), he gave the concert this realisitc feel by using real props such as guitars that were made in the 1980's and also the clothing of the band and fans which are just two of the things which make the documentary realistic.

The fact that Guests documentary's are unscripted and mostly improvised play a big role in portraying the band as real. This is most effective during their interviews because it portrays a sense of realism and you feel that the interviews havent been scripted and are made up on the spot.

Best in Show:

Best in Show is a mockumentary that was made in the year 2000. It follows five entrants in a prestigious dog show whilst focusing on the slightly surreal interactions among the various owners and handlers as they travel to the show and compete.

Throughout the documentary the footage jumps between each of the owners from preparation for the dog show to their hotel, backstage and finally to the dog show itself. Guest uses many techniques which effectively make the mockumentary look realistic such as the use of handheld camera, almost placing the audience within the scenes.

Christopher Guest is known for using the same actors as he likes his scripts to be spontaneous, he gives no set scripts, in Best In Show characters seem to overlap and interrupt each other giving the audience the impression that it is real. The exaggeration from each character makes this documentary somewhat humorous but portrays their passion for dogs so well.

Features of mockumentaires

Mockumentary is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. Mockumentaries normally dont really have a strict script that the actors have to stick to and is more mainly made up on the spot. Mockumentaries are used to analyse or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. They may be either comedic or dramatic in form.

Mockumentaries have three main features:

• Deconstruction
• Parody/Satire
• Critique

Parody/Satire: A parody is a type of mockumentary that is used to mock an original piece of work. It reinforces an aspect of popular culture, sometimes so well that it is hard to determine whether it is fictional or not.

Critique: Mockumentaries as a critique can parody or satire an aspect of popular culture.

Deconstruction: Mockumentaries as deconstruction subvert and deconstruct the conventions and aspects of the documentary.

Storyboard-First Drafts

When we first started the project we decided to create some rough storyboards which basically map out what is going to be included in our documentary. This is a rough version which only gives us basic detail which will help us to develop our idea. We will be producing another version of these which will be more professional later on in the project when we have a strong idea of exactly what we want to include in our documentary. Here is our first version of the storyboard:

Mark Kermode Research

Mark Kermode is an English film critic, musician and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
He contributes to Sight and Sound magazine, The Observer newspaper and BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presents Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews with Simon Mayo on Friday afternoons. He also co-presents the BBC Two arts programme The Culture Show and discusses other branches of the arts for the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review. Kermode writes and presents a film-related video blog for the BBC.


Mark Kermode has a very liberttarian view when it comes down to filem censorship. The libertarian view is that people should be able to view whatever they like. Here is a quote from when Kermode was talking about the topic " We've allowed the censors to view us all as children and we've handed over the reigns of responsibility for our viewing habits because we are not willing to accept that responsibility ourselves".


Mark Kermode is continously in debate Aminatta Forna who is the complete opposite to Kermode and has a moralist view when it comes to censorship. The moralist view is that people shouldn't be able to view what ever they want because they believe that its wrong and some footage can have a bad effect on society e.g copycat theory.