We asked the public in Warrington golden Square various questions about our topic to use as vox pops. We are also going to film a young, middle-aged and old person for our documentary to show the different attitudes to tea using we are using Christian Birchall as a young person Annette Smith as an older person. In these two interviews we will ask similar questions in order to gain a contrast of views from the different generations. Also we will interview a sociology teacher to get some theoretical knowledge of tea and to get an answer to why it is seen as a social drink. The final interview we will conduct is with a supermarket worker to tell us how well tea sells in their store compared to other drinks and to bring up the topic of herbal tea. The interviews will either be conducted in front of a blue screen where tea related images will later be added or the interviews will be filmed in front of a background which has lots of images of tea and tea boxes. This will create good mise-en-scene for our documentary because this will show the audience what the documentary is about and will be relevant to what the interviewees will be talking about. The background will have many images of tea, tea cups, tea boxes and other tea related items. These images will either be scanned in or found from the internet. Below are a selection of images we used.
The locations for each of the interviews will be different. For the interviews with the old and young person we will try to film them in their own home. The interview will be conducted in front of the background which I have made to add mise-en-scene. We will also film them making a cup of tea, which we can use as cutaways during their interview. So we will need to bring props for this of tea bags, milk and mugs. The interview with a sociologist will be conducted in front of a blue screen where similar images will be added as to the background and for use of cut away shots we will use images of iconic sociologists, for example Karl Marx, corresponding to what theories he is talking about. Some of these images are shown below.
For the interview with the person in the supermarket we will do the interview in front of the background so the location of the interview is not essential as it will not be seen in the shot. For cutaways in this interview we will use still images of tea boxes, relevant to what they are saying. Examples have been shown below.
Secondary Research
Before we filmed our voxpops we went on www.voxpops.com to research how to make voxpops successfully. This was helpful when it came to filming our voxpops. We will be using archive footage of an episode of Coronation Street where Jack offers to make a cup of tea, we have recorded this episode onto a tape. Our documentary starts with the voiceover talking about the origins of tea and whilst this is happening we will use a variety of still images, which show images of importing tea and tipical iconic British images, like the ones seen below.
We also researched facts about tea on www.tea.co.uk/facts to help us use interesting facts for our documentary. We also found out that Turkey is the most tea drinking country in the world from the website http://hubpages.com
Here is some of the useful secondary research we collected from www.tea.co.uk/facts :
Tea breaks are a tradition that has been with us for approximately 200 years.
80% of office workers now claim they find out more about what's going on at work over a cup of tea than in any other way.
By the middle of the 18th Century tea had replaced ale and gin as the drink of the masses and had become Britain's most popular beverage.
Tea contains half the amount of caffeine found in coffee.
The number of recommended cups of tea to drink each day is 4, this gives you optimal benefit.
Tea was created more than 5000 years ago in China.
Tea is a natural source of fluoride that can help protect against tooth decay and gum disease
The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu in 800 A.D
Tea firstly appeared in Europe thanks to Portuguese Jesuit Father Jasper de Cruz in 1560.
Tea has potential health maintenance benefits in cardiovascular disease and cancer prevention.
96% of all cups of tea drunk daily in the UK are brewed from tea bags.
Apart from tourism, tea is the biggest industrial activity in India.
98% of people take their tea with milk, but only 30% take sugar in tea
Drinking tea 3 times a day is believed to reduce chances of having diabetes.
We also found some facts from http://www.californiateahouse.com/blog/tea-pearls/38-the-myth-of-the-first-cup-of-tea.html such as who drank the first cup of tea and when. It was Chinese Emperor, Shennong 5000 years ago.
We will be using archive footage of an episode of Coronation Street where Jack offers to make a cup of tea.
Here is the link for a video to be used as archive material for our documentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqHf-v33fE0 – Tea Song
(We will only be using the audio track from this)
We also got some adverts to be used in our documentary as archive footage. These are old and recent adverts of tea brands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmE_h60rjk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kAozE-sKTQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-8XQZhcQvY
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