1. By Corry Raymond,
A short factual Laura Manners, and Jake Coates
film.
FOOTPRINT - RYAN INGLIS
A documentary following Ryan Inglis,
a singer/songwriter from Weston, and
his work for the charity ‘Footprint’
31/10/11
C Raymond
L Manners
J Coates
WESTON COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
LOXTON ROAD
WSETON-SUPER-MARE BS23 4QU

2. Media Production
Copyright @ 2011
Proposal
Laura Manners (me), Corry Raymond and Jake Coates (Entertainment
Pictures/E.Pics) are the media production team working on this
project.
We propose to make a short expository documentary, of about 5
minuets in length, exposing the life of Ryan Inglis, a local
musician/songwriter. It will also have the sub-focus of the
charity Footprint, a charity that gives musical instruments to
under-privileged children, but only briefly as we are more
interested in Ryan’s involvement and what he has done for it.
After doing research we found multiple ways of approaching this
documentary; Ryan Inglis has a very interesting back-story as to
how he became a musician.
This program is aimed towards being aspirational to music
students as well as entertaining and factual as the documentary
will mostly contain live music, with the audio from interviews
played over the top, in a similar style to the documentary Live
at Abbey Road, also occasionally showing archive footage
(sponsored skydive, vlog, photos etc.) in a similar style.
We will have no problems in getting the music because we will be
using a selection of Ryan’s own music as the soundtrack, meaning
we will have no copyright issues. The interviews will also be
easy to set up as the people we would like to feature are easily
accessible. Our budget will also be quite small as the main costs
are hiring the crew and renting out the rooms for the live shows.

3. This idea is good because it’s a really interesting yet unheard
story, which deserves to be told. There aren’t many documentaries
with a similar idea, especially not with a musician like Ryan.
We would like for this documentary to eventually be entered into
a local short film competition to win £1000, and then to be used
by Ryan for promotional purposes.
It will be finished in the week before the 5th December (the
deadline).
Treatment
The majority of our documentary footage will be live shows and
archive footage, with the audio from the interviews played over
the top.
The first live show footage will be shot at the Louisiana in
Bristol, from the back next to the sound deck. The background of
the stage is well lit with an orange backdrop, and Ryan will be
sitting on a stool central with multiple spotlights on him. The
second live show will be in the college TV studio, well lit with
a black backdrop. Ryan will be staged the same as before,
although this time we want to have more camera’s with more
interesting angles; probably one just off center and another shot
from the side. For both of these live shows there will be a live
audience. Our final location is at Jules Derrick’s house, in her
living room where we will interview Jules and Ryan. We will put
them in the same positioning just using different camera angles
to add interest.
We’ve already begun searching through the mass of archive footage
at our disposal. We have a rough idea of a structure but that is

4. due to change once we start the first edit and watch the
interviews. Here is a rough outline of the planned structure:
Intro: it will start with an opening summary of what we shall
cover in the documentary, probably a montage of clips to Ryan’s
music and a brief explanation of the charity and Ryan. ( 30 to
60 seconds)
Middle 1: We will cut to interviews with various people talking
about Ryan. It will not feature Ryan at first, or Jules Derrick
(head of the charity). Clips it may include are interviews from
Tony Hobden, Steve Williams, Cliff Moore, Paul Raymond. They will
be discussing Ryan and his origins as an artist. Roughly last 30
to 90 seconds.
Middle 2: At this point, after introducing Ryan through
interviews we will cut to extracts from Ryan’s interview. This
will be a more in depth look at his career and life story.
Roughly last 30 seconds.
Middle 3: Extracts from Ryan’s live performance or traveling on
the road with him (in his car driving to a gig, setting up,
performing). Roughly last 60 seconds.
Middle 4: Introduce his work for and about the charity. Roughly
last 30 seconds
Middle 5: Focus on the charity and the work for Charlie Derrick –
extracts from all interviews. Roughly 30 to 60 seconds
Outro: Montage of clips to final piece of the interview (about
Charlie). Summarize Charlie and him leaving a footprint on
Weston. Roughly last 30 seconds.
Contingency Plans
If the documentary doesn’t work out as planned we will instead
use archive footage and a ‘voice of god’ narrator talking about
what we know of Ryan from our research.

5. Demographics and Psychographics
Our target demographic audience are music students at college
standard education and aged between 16 and 40.
Our target Psychographic audience are music lovers, aspiring to
be a musician/songwriter in the future. We want these students,
having watched our film, to feel motivated because Ryan started
where they are and he has had a very successful career so far.
Crew
Between myself, Corry and Jake, we have agreed on job roles;
Corry will be taking the role of Producer and sharing the role of
Director of Photography with Jake, I am the chief editor and in
charge of sound when filming and we decided to share the role of
director because we all wanted to put a large input into the
outcome of the film. We are also allowing our subject (Ryan) to
put in input as well so he could better use the film in the
future.
Budgets
Our production costs will be minimal, because we have very good
access to the locations and very good facilities at all those
locations.
• Camera Operator: £40 per hour, 9 hours. Total = £360
• Lighting Specialist: £50 per hour, 9 hours. Total = £450
• Soundman: £25 per hour, 9 hours. Total = £225
• Locations: Louisiana, 2 hours + set-up = £300
TV Studio, 2 hours + set-up = £300. Total = £600
• Transport: 20p per mile
£10 returns from Louisiana, Bristol
£0.64 returns from Locking road,
Weston-super-mare
Total = (rounded up) £11

6. • Food: Day 1 (Louisiana): 4 people, £10 each = £40
Day 2 (TV Studio): 4 people, £10 each = £40
Day 3 (Jules’ House): 8 people, £10 each = £80.
Total = £160
• Renting the equipment: £400, 9 hours
• Editor: £300
• Edit Suite: £100
• No copyright costs.
TOTAL MINIMUM BUDGET: £3,356

7. Secondary Research
The majority of our research has been from interviews, although
we conducted a lot of secondary research to decide what sort of
questions we would like the interviewees to be asked. This
research was done using the internet, from 3 main websites:
ryaningls.co.uk

8. We also have print screens of the amazon UK music charts
following Ryan’s single ‘Secrets’ on its way up to number 1 and
news paper cut-outs.

10. Primary Research
The obvious first step from there was to talk to Ryan Inglis. We
emailed him, explaining what we would like to do and if he would
be interested in helping us along the way. We discussed with him
how he could help and what we wanted to achieve from this
documentary and later in the conversation he sent us an email
giving us 19 people who we could talk to and their contact
details.
So far we have had a few positive replies from Ryan’s contacts.
We have also had an unofficial interview with Tony Hobden, Ryan’s
music producer and friend. He gave us some great insights into
Ryan’s education and career. We shall be re-filming the interview
soon.
The next part of primary research we did was a questionnaire. We
showed a range of students at Weston college 3 different styles
of documentary.

11. The first was Live at Abbey Road. This documentary is
interestingly shot, has an artistic feel and is full OD focus
pulls and variations in the depth of field. We were especially
interested in a quote from the producers: ‘Look like a film,
sound like a record’, and I think that really sums up the film
well. It’s quite a relevant documentary because it features
interviews and live music over a presenter.
The second was Secret Millionaire. This includes features such as
‘voice of god’ narration, pre-recorded music in the background
and basic editing and camera work. This Documentary was relevant
because it follows charity work, and at this stage we were unsure
whether the charity or Ryan would be the main focus. The problem
with this example was it is tailored to a more mature audience.
The last documentary was Michael Jackson. This uses fast editing,
a combination of live and pre-recorded music, interviews and
‘voice of god’ narration. Once again this follows the story of a
recording artist, featuring archive footage. Although this is
quite similar to the sort of style we had in mind, the results of
our questionnaire weren’t fair because the audience responded
better to it because Michael Jackson was a music idol and is very
well known.
Questions:
Which documentary will you be answering these questions on?
Live at Abbey Road Secret Millionaire Michael Jackson
Which age group are you?
16-18 19-25 26-35 36-45 46+
How much did you enjoy this documentary?
(1 being not at all, 5 being very much)
1 2 3 4 5

12. Would you continue to watch this?
Yes Maybe No
Are you likely to watch this in your own time?
Yes Maybe No
How long do you think a short documentary in this style be?
1 min 2mins 3mins 4mins 5mins above
After we had got back these results, we concluded that our target
audience preferred Live at Abbey Road to the other two
documentaries, although Michael Jackson was not far behind.
From these results we decided we would shoot in the style of
Abbey Road, although still incorporate archive footage etc. like
Michael Jackson does.
Group Meeting Minutes (11/10/2011)
• Proposal! ! ! ! ! ! !
For the intro for the proposal we should use a planned
speech at the beginning, which introduces the title and
give a really quick brief of the content. Along side this
we should edit to a quick video of archive footage - film
of gigs and charity events/interviews and photos - that
corresponds with what the narrator is saying. So, for
example, the narrator would say ‘…singer, songwriter…’ and
either an image or a short clip should be shown of him
singing and playing his guitar.
For some of the other slides we should show our research by
using print screens of websites, news paper clips etc. We
could also maybe give the panel a hand out.
Then we need some slides giving the details of our
contributors, Laura’s making make those slides. Yes, in

13. them I’ll just show examples of the emails, possible
interviewee’s so who they are and why I got in contact with
them.
• Research! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Market research (questionnaire) to be done by the end of
this week. We could possibly do it tomorrow but we need to
get in contact with the music tutors.
• Job Roles! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Producer – Corry
Director – Joint role, all make contribution
Chief Editor – Laura (Do research about how I can edit it,
styles etc.)
Chief Director of photography – Jake
Sound - Laura
• Equipment
We defiantly want to film in HD, if we have the equipment
available then we should make use of it. The best camera to
use for this is probably a Z7, but that’s quite a big one
and wouldn’t be very convenient to get more than one shot,
we would only have the one camera so we would have to move
the camera around and maybe get the subject to repeat
things. An alternative is the Canon 55D, we could use more
of these as there’s more accessible. We could even use
both, so use the Z7 as our main camera and then the 55D to
make the film more interesting and get some other shots in.
Equipment List
• Sony Z7
• Four Manfrotto Tripod
• Shotgun Mic
• Final Cut Pro (video footage)
• Pro Tools (audio/sound)
‘Look like a film, sound like a record’ – Abbey Road producers