PLANNING

INTERVIEW WTH HAIRDRESSER

INTERVIEW WITH PERSON DYING HAIR

INTERVIEW WITH PERSON WHO WAS BULLIED

INTERVIEW WITH OLD PERSON

OPENING SEQUENCE

INTERVIEWS

We have 3 interviewees who we are going to include in our documentary.

The first is Hannah Burkey who is dying her hair for the first time. We will interview her about how she is feeling about dying her hair permanently for the first time and will ask her how it is before, during and after so we can see how people think it will affect their lives.

We will then interview Andy Moran, of Callaghan & Moran Hairdressers in Warrington, asking questions about if he thinks stereotypes are true and what hair styles and colours he finds are the most requested and if he thinks hair styles can affect someone’s chance of getting an important job or not respected by other people.

We will finally interview Patricia Williams, asking her what hair styles she's had throughout her life, what she thinks of young peoples hair today, and how it differs from when she was our age. We will also ask questions regarding how often she gets her hair coloured and cut etc.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

HANNAH

Before

Have you dyed your hair permanently before?

Why haven't you dyed it before?

What colour are you dying your hair?

Are you excited to do it

How do you think it will effect your life?

Do you think you're ready to dye your hair?

During

How do you feel?

Is it what you expected?

How do you think the colour will turn out?

Do you think your friends will like it?

After

Do you think it looks good?

Does it look how you expected it to?

Would you dye your hair again?

Are you worried about what everyone will think?

Was it fun to dye your hair?

ANDY

How long have you been a hairdresser for?

Do you enjoy your job?

What age range of customers do you work with most?

What are you opinions on young peoples hair nowadays?

What is the 'craziest' hair style and colour you've had to do for someone?

What is the 'craziest' hair style and colour you've had yourself?

Do you agree with stereotypes? If so, which ones?

Would you ever not hire someone based on their hairstyle?

How many people who get their hair cut have their hair dyed too each day?

Are there any hair styles that a lot of people ask for?

Which celebrities hair style do people ask for most?

Are there any celebrities that inspire you because of their hair?

What is the most popular hair dye colour?

PAT

How many different hair styles have you had?

Were the hairstyles you had popular at the time?

What colours have you dyed your hair?

How much time do you spend doing your hair?

Do you enjoy doing your hair?

How long does it take to get your hair cut and coloured?

Do ypu enjoy getting it cut?

Do you change the style of your hair a lot? If so, how often?

Do you have a particular celebrity whose hair you base yours off?

What do you think of young people’s hair today and how do the styles differ from the hairstyles you had at that age?

Have you ever judged someone based on their hair style and colour?

VOX POPS

1. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear blonde?

2. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear brunette?

3. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear ginger?

4. What is your natural hair colour?

5. Who is your hair icon?

6. What is the craziest thing you’ve done with your hair?

7. Is your hair naturally curly or straight?

8. What do you think of young people’s hair today?

RUNNING ORDER

NAME ~ On Yer Head

CHANNEL ~ 4

SCHEDUAL ~ Monday 29^th November 9:30pm – 10:00pm

DURATION ~27 minutes (advertisements included)

RESEARCH

From our audience research (shown in an earlier post), we found out how to make our documentary appeal to our audience and what time would be best to air it. Whilst conducting more primary research and secondary research we had to look at many things like who to interviewm celebrities with different hair colours and styles that beat the stereotype, archive footage, images, audio, locations and props.
For out Primary Research Ww looked at who we could interview and we found a local hair dresser in Warrington who was willing to be interviewed, as well as people with different hair styles and colours to talk to us about stereotypes and how they;re treated. We looked for locations to shoot and for our reconstruction we thought a park would be the most suitable location and for the interviews, we decided when interviewing the hairdresser to do it either in the hair salon, or set up a relevant background if that isn't possible due to noise etc. Props we thought we could use are hair care products like shampoo and conditioner, as well as having gel, wax, a hair dryer and straigteners in the background. For other interviews, we thought it would be best to film the interview in a comfortable environment for the interviewee, so they don't feel intimidated, for example, if we film infront of a blue screen or projection.

For secondary research, we looked at archive material such as videos, images, music, surveys and articles. We also looked at celebrities who prove their stereotypes wrong and prove that you can be successful with what could be classed as 'socially unacceptable'.
A celebrity we thought that beats their stereotype is Vanessa Feltz.

We also thought about a celebrity who had a 'socially unacceptable' hair style, and we thought P!nk


was a good example and she is a very popular musician.We looked into music we could use in our documentary and we thought "Five colours in her hair" by McFly was a good choice as it is relevant to the subject.

However, we will download an mp3 of the song to use.
We then looked into archive footage we could use to anchor the points made throughout and we found a video on YouTube, showing how badly stereotypes and bullying because of hair colour can affect people in a negative way.



A marketwire survey we found showed that 40% of the men surveyed worried about hair loss, this can be found here. We also found an article that looks into the blonde stereotype here.

HISTORY OF HAIR
(60’s – 00’s)

THE SIXTIES
In the 1960’s hair always had a great deal of work to get it to the right look the person wanted. Curls were all the rage in the 60’s whether they were big deep curls, small tight curls and even spit curls. Hippies of course Prided themselves on the defiance of style.

Longer, straight hairstyles are seen in 60’s programmes although they were not the norm. These were more commonly seen on younger people in the 60’s rather than older people.
The picture to the right was more commonly seen in the long hair look, long and wavy, free swinging hair.

In the 1960’s Vidal Sassoon and twiggy had a very big influence on shorter hairstyles, they were the stimulus for a whole new view of hair styling. Named the "The Face of 1966" supermodel Twiggy sported an ultrashort hairdo which was compatible with her boyish figure.

The Bouffant is the word that describes all the poofy hair styles. The big hair of the Sixties required that hair expanded out from the head. This was accomplished by setting with rollers the size of Coke cans.

THE SEVENTIES
During the 1970s, personal expression was the key to a great hair style. Groovy looks explored personal values and individuality rather than society's expectations, and both men and women embraced more natural styles with longer locks less tamed by hair products. Funky looks were also popular, particularly for trendy, younger individuals, and offered another way to express a person’s personality. Many 1970s hairstyles are in vogue today because they are classically appealing, particularly for anyone interested in a stylish natural look they can care for and maintain easily. This says that 70’s hairstyles are coming back into today’s society as they had big hair with lots of products although easy to maintain.

THE EIGHTIES
In the 1980’s everybody wanted to be a rockstar or at least wanted to look like one, hats and super straight hair was popular, however for the younger people side ponytails were all the rage. 1980’s was time for punk, being a big influence for the “emo” scene now, mohawks and big, big hair was popular for both males and females. Untamed curly hair and creative braiding was also a familiar sight to see in the 80’s. Other removable hair styles were popular in the 1980’s. For celebrities; short hair and stunning afros were popular and were also popular with the mainstream public. The most popular look was just basic cropped and choppy hair.

THE NINTIES
Hairstyles of the 1990’s for women were heavily influenced by Rachel from the T.V. show friends. Having a shoulder-length, sleek and layered style with a grown out fringe and highlights mainly around the face.was all the rage in the 90’s for a lot of women. This was called the “Rachel cut”. In the 1990’s hair changed rapidly throughout the year from having a dirty blonde and choppy hair, through to a thin bob influenced by the character lois from superman. This hairstyle was then taken and changed by posh spice and was changed into a smaller and heavier bob which a lot of women had copied. As it was for the women of the 90’s movies and music had a heavy influence on male hairstyles, actors from keanu reeves to joey from friends and in music from mc hammer to vanilla ice. The 90’s media was the main influence for hairstyles and have had a big effect from the 90’s until now. Zig Zags and nike ticks were a popular style in the 90’s with most teens as these were seen in a lot of rap music at the time

FORMAL PROPOSAL AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

TOPIC

The topic we chose to create a documentary based on was Hair. This is as it is easily accessible and is a broad subject, meaning that it gives us many possible stories we can follow through the documentary. This topic also means that we can question many of the public as all people have hair and opinions on what style is fashionable. Interviews will also be easier to arrange within this topic as there are many hairdressers around.

TYPE

The type of documentary we have chosen to make our documentary is mixed. This is as this is the type of documentary we have researched and means that we can use a broad range of techniques within our documentary to show case our work and make the documentary more interesting.

STYLE

We have chosen to make our documentary informal as this means it will be more accessible to the type of audience we wish to broad cast to. Informal documentaries also tend to be more modern and fun; this will attract more people to watch.

CHANNEL AND SCHEDULING

Channel 4 is the channel we have chosen to display our documentary on as this is a channel we think our target audience is more likely to watch at about 9 0’clock before a popular television programme, the ‘Inbetweeners’.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Our documentary is aimed mainly at 16-25 year olds who are our target audience. We are targeting this age range as hair has a big impact on fashion and the majority of fashion conscious people are aged 16-25. These 16-25 year are also mainly students which gives us good ideas of what channels we should put our documentary on.

PRIMARY RESEARCH

For our primary research we created a questionnaire to give to people to fill in asking a variety of questions that would help choose the audience we want to make this documentary appeal to most. We included questions like what gender they are, so we know who to make the documentary appeal to most. We asked what their favourite genre of TV show is as well as their favourite TV show, so we gained an idea of what people enjoy to watch and could think about airing the documentary before a popular programme. We asked at what time of the day they watch TV most so we knew what time would be best to air our documentary. We also asked how many documentaries they normally watch and if they enjoyed them so we could find out if we would have to really try to gain peoples interest if they don't enjoy documentaries or if a lot of people enjoy watching a documentary. We then asked what their favourite colours were, so we could use colours that would appeal to a wider audience to gain their attention and we asked what their favourite genre of documentary is, to gain an idea of how big the audience will be, and how many more people we need to get interested. All of those questions were asked so we could find the best time to air our documentary, whereas we then began ask questions about peoples hairstyles, colours, if they have dyed their hair, how often they go to the hairdressers so we could find out if our target audience would most importantly enjoy the documentary we are trying to persuade them to watch and all the answers we received are shown above in the audience research section.

We then began to look into who we could interview, such as hairdressers and people who spend a lot of time sorting their hair out as it means a lot to them how it looks. We then looked into the locations we could film which we decided would be near or in a hairdressers and when interviewing we would make sure the mise-en-scene is relevant to the subject, by again, interviewing in a hairdressers, or in an environment in which the interviewee is comfortable. We thought about what props we could use and we found that this would be quite basic as the props we need are ones to do with hair styling such as, dye, brushes, straighteners and hair dryers, as well as the equipment used in the hair salons.

SECONDARY RESEARCH

For our secondary research we looked at what archive material we could use. We decided we will use images of celebrities that are mentioned, we will use videos off the internet such as YouTube and will include whole songs related to the subject such as “Five colours in here hair” and songs that have parts related to the subject like “The way you look tonight” and “Say a little prayer”

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
Beginning - The beginning of the documentary will involve stereotypes of different hairstyles and colours and will also show bullying that goes on due to hair. A reconstruction will be shown at this point. The beginning will also give information about hair and give a few of the different hairstyles there are and show different hair colours people have.
Middle - the middle of the documentary will involve hair dressers opinions on hair and their experiences. We will show these opinions through interviews where they will also tell us about the crazy hairstyles they have encountered. The middle will also include some archive footage of things like the “Gingers don’t have souls” video from youtube, and also music videos to show a change in hair through the years of music.
End - the end of the documentary will resolve the conflicts and say it doesn’t matter about what hairstyle you have or what hair colour you have, and will tell us how it shows individuality explaining the good points about different hairstyles. There will be shots of celebrities at this point showing their different hairstyles.

OUTLINE OF CONTENT
In our documentary we are going to have an opening sequence in which we have pictures of lots of different peoples hairstyles with McFlys “5 Colours in her hair” playing and then after that we will have the voice over introducing our documentary and talking over more images and possibly a mid-shot of someone getting their haircut. The voice over will explain how hairstyles have changed over the years, what hair styles and colours are socially acceptable and will then ask why. We will include an interview with a hairdresser, asking them their opinions on certain hair styles and colours and ask how many people have their hair coloured and if they have noticed any similar personalities and/or stereotypes between people with the same natural hair colour e.g. blonde girls being dumb and during this interview we will include cutaways which are relevant to what is being spoken about. We can also ask them about stereotypes and if they believe in any of them and we will then cut to a reconstruction of a red headed person being bullied because of their hair colour for example, maybe a group of people surrounding them and calling them names. We will have another voice over explaining that people put hair colours and styles into stereotypes without realised and we will have vox pops of what first comes to a persons mind when they hear a certain hair colour. We will use archive footage of a YouTube video where a teenager is discussing how he is discriminated because he has red hair. The voice over will then go on to tell us how it's not just hair styles people worry about and then tell us that an online survey has shown that 40% of men are worried about losing their hair, we will also include cutaways of balding/bald men as this is spoken about and will then look into the stereotype that bald men are far more stressed than men who haven't lost their hair.
We will also include more of the the interview of the hairdressercontinuing a similar subject as before but also including details about which hairstyles and colours are more socially acceptable. We will then include vox pops of what the public think of young peoples hair nowadays and then who is their 'celebrity hair icon'. We will cutaway to archive footage of celebrities as they are mentioned. We will include more archive footage of celebrities as the voice over discusses which celebrities have been successful despite having hairstyles which may not be considered 'socially acceptable' to some, such as P!nk the singer and celebrities that have proven a stereotype wrong, for example Vanessa Feltz being a smart, blonde haired woman, proving the 'dumb' stereotype wrong.


RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS
We will need specific resources. The most obvious of resources we needed was a camera and microphone. We used these firstly to film our vox pops and to record peoples answers by voice to our questionnaires. Which brings me to our next requirements; our questionnaires. We needed the questionnaires for audience research to see what our audience want to see in a documentary. We also needed the general public as a resource so we have people to film and gain vox pops from. A hairdresser is important also for our resources as we need to interview a hairdresser and gain some detailed answers making the hairdresser a very important resource for our documentary. One of the most important resources is the internet. The internet is where we will gain our archive footage and where we will gain the most information about hair, and the history of hair and its styles of the past 60 years

PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

Name Of Programme: On ya’ ed
Directors: Jessica Healey, Joe Williams, Matt Price
Producers: Jessica Healey, Joe Williams, Matt Price

Client: OCR

Date production Started: 27th September
Formal Proposal Started: 4th October Completed: 11th October
Storyboard Started: 8th October Completed:
Shooting Started: 11th October Completed: 1st November
Post Production Started: Completed:
Rough Cut Submitted: 15th November
Final show tape completed: 22nd November
Sent To Client: 17th December

Location Equipment Required:
Camera, Digital camera, Tripod, Microphone, Headphones.

Transport Required:
Local buses and own provided transport

BRAINSTORM OF CONTENT

INTERVIEWS

we could interview hair dressers and get their opinions on hair colours and how many people get their hair dyed when they come in to get their hair cut. We can ask them what personalities they see every day and if they think different hair styles and colours have an effect on personality.

STEREOTYPES

we could create a reconstruction of someone being bullied because of their hair colour. We can record vox pops of people saying the first word that comes to their head when we mention a hair colour such as blonde, ginger, brown.

HAIR STYLES OVER THE YEARS

for example in the 60’s a ‘beehive’ was a popular hair style, in the 70’s a quiff was a popular hair styles, in the 80’s punk hairstyles were most popular e.g. Mohawks, bright colours like pink and red.

HAIR DYE

we could look at what colours people dye their hair most, like bleaching it or adding colours and highlights, and how this effects people and effects their hair.

CELEBRATIES

we could look at celebrities who have bright, dyed hair such as P!nk and we can also look at celebrities who prove stereotypes wrong, like Vanessa Feltz because she is blonde, but is clever and isn’t a stereotypical beauty like people assume blondes are.

HAIR LOSS

we could ask interviewee if they are particularly worried about hair loss, do they think they will lose their hair, will it effect their lives in any way.

ARCHIVE MATERIAL

we could use the music video for “Five colours in her hair” by McFly as it is relevant to the subject, or we could use it as the song we play underneath the narrative. We could use footage from TV, music videos or Movies of the celebrities we mention like P!nk and Vanessa Feltz. We could also use YouTube videos.

CUTAWAYS

we could use images of popular hair styles as we bring them up. We could use the archive material we get during our cutaways as well. Still images of people getting hair cut and images of barbour shops and hairdressers.

AUDIENCE RESEARCH

1. What is your gender? (circle answer)

Male Female Other

2. Which age range do you fit into? (circle answer)

Under 15 16-25 26-35 36+

3. What is your favourite programme?

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4. What time do you watch telly the most? (circle answer)

Morning Daytime Night time

5. How often do you watch documentaries? (circle answer)

Once a week Once a month once a year never

6. Do you enjoy documentaries? (circle answer)

Yes No Sometimes

7. What is your favourite colour?

Red Yellow Green Blue

8. What is your favourite type of documentary? (circle answer)

History Nature Music Other(if other please specify)

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9. Is your hair colour natural? (Circle answer)

Yes No

10. What is your opinion on young peoples hair today?

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11. How often do you go to the hairdressers?

Once a week Once a month Other? (please specify)

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12. Have you ever dyed your hair? (Circle answer)

Yes No

13. If so what colour?

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14. Do you use hair care products?

Yes No

15. If yes what do you use?

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16. What is your preferred hair length? (please circle)

Long Short Mid Length Bald

17. Do males care more about their hair than females?

Yes No

18. How much do you spend in the hairdressers?

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19. Do you always have the same hairdresser?

Yes (if yes why?) No

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GENDER

We asked 14 males and 16 females. We tried to even out the gender as much as we could so we could get a more even view on hair from both sides of gender.

AGE

Everybody we asked was students and library staff at Priestley college and were aged between 16 and 25. This helps us find what the younger audience want to watch on television.

WHAT TIME DO YOU WATCH TELEVISION THE MOST?

93% of our audience said that they watch television at night time as the other 7% said they watch television in the daytime, so to attract this audience we will be putting our documentary on in the daytime/evening. This also means that we will be competing with some of the other primetime programmes on the television at daytime/evening, so our documentary has to be hammock-ing between programmes or before or after.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU WATCH DOCUMENTARIES?

When we asked our audience how often they watch documentaries the majority of people had said they watch documentaries once a week. As a result of this we will have to be careful where we put our documentary. This means that we need to make sure our documentary is really good and stand out to make people watch it.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURUITE COLOUR?

When we asked what peoples favourite colour there was a tie between red and blue. This is helpful information as it gives an insight as to what colour the graphics will be in the documentary.

IS YOUR HAIR COLOUR NATURAL AT THE MOMENT?

We asked our target audience if they had natural hair or whether it was dyed. 22 of 30 people asked had natural hair; the other 8 had dyed hair.

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON YOUNG PEOPLES HAIR TODAY?

We asked our target audience their opinion on young peoples hair today and we got two results that came up from the majority of people. The two results were stylish and too much dye. We found that 20 people said that it was stylish and 8 people said there was too much dye. The other 2 people gave different responses. This can be viewed as contradictory as many of the people we asked were young themselves.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU GO TO THE HAIRDRESSERS?

We asked how often our target audience go to the hairdressers. Our results say that 67% of our target audience go to the hairdressers once a month and only one person goes once a week. Therefore this means our documentary will be interesting to them as they care about there hair.

HAVE YOU EVER DYED YOUR HAIR IN THE PAST?

This means that although most of the people in our research have now got natural hair colour, in the past they have dyed there hair. This means that they will have experience and enjoy watching a documentary with content about hair dye.

DO YOU USE HAIR CARE PRODUCTS?

Hair care products are used a lot by our target audience and many of them named the products they used, hair straighteners and hairspray are used a lot by both male and female. For boys hair gel was also used a lot. Therefore our audience will care about there hair styles and take pride in how they appear.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE HAIR LENGTH?

We asked our target audience about their preferred hair length, long and mid length hair was the most popular, however short was close behind. This gives us something to research, as to why long hair and bald head is least popular of the lot. This means that the preferred hair leng5th of long and mid may be due to the media/fashion and advertisements.

DO MALES CARE MORE ABOUT THEIR HAIR THEN FEMALES?

Finally we asked whether males care about their hair more than females, the results were close, 12 people agreed and said males do care about their hair more but the other 18 said that females care for their hair more. This may show diferen5t attitudes towards male grooming.