- Start with voice over introducing animal and owner
- Interview of owners story
- When owner talks about her and the animal, we see a cover shot of her playing with the animal
- Voice over talks throughout the interview as well as owner talking
- Voice over introduces topic, Dr and owners fill in the content of the topic / story
- Long reaction shots on the owners when Dr is giving his results
- Keeping mid shots of person talking longer in length, while cutting between wide and mid shots
Titles
The font of the title is very simple, in thin white letters states 'The Supervet'. As there is no fancy writing this can give a serious and clinical feel to the documentary. There have been 11 series to The Supervet and throughout each one they have kept this style of font and layout for the title.
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| The Supervet titles Series 1 Ep 1 (top), Series 11 Ep 1 (bottom) |
We may want to keep this font and style for our title, I have found a font called 'Century Gothic' which seems the best fit, 'Avenir Next' is also appropriate. The gaps between the letters in The Supervet are wider than standard text, I should be able to widen the letters in Premiere under the titles tab. 'Century Gothic' and 'Avenir Next' aren't exactly the same font, but by using one of these you can still see the connection to The Supervet.
I created these examples with a coloured background so I could see the effect of the white font. The white definitely looks better than black on a white background - the white font brings the title alive.
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| Supervet and VETMAN titles in 'Century Gothic' |
The animation on the title causes it to fade in, it then grows slightly and then stops and fades out. I will replicate this for our mockumentary title.
A few seconds into the episodes they also have '#supervet' on the bottom right hand side, this way people can tweet their thoughts and opinions with #supervet so they all come up on one page when searching for The Supervet. We may think of doing this for our mockumentary and add #vetman on the bottom right hand side.
Grading
The grading can look quite clinical, especially in the interviews with the staff and the surgery scenes. We can give this look to our mockumentary with a slight blue tint over the shots. I will be liaising with Katie for the colour grading so I will get her opinion on this.
Effects
In The Supervet the employees interviews / PTC are on a blurred background of a surgery room (second photo below). We know we always should include something related to the person / story in the background of an interview, so for The Supervet they use a dark surgery room but blur it considerably so all the focus is on the person in frame, and the white caption was very bright and bold along side the dark background.
This may be down to the depth of field the DoP creates in the shot - I will feed this idea to Alex and Katie and see what they think of it to get a similar style shot.
Lower thirds
The name captions for the people involved with the current episode are written in the same font, and simply say their first names.
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| Screenshot from Series 11 Ep 3 |
The captions for the employees at Fitzpatrick Referrals are also in the same font, and they include their job title under the name. These captions are only on their interview / PTC scenes, not during the actuality shots with patients.
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| Screenshot from Series 11 Ep 3 |
Ours may look like the examples below, but again I will space out the letters in Premiere. I made the font examples in a coloured box so we could see what the white text looks like, on the edit there will just be the font with the accompanying shot being the background for the text to appear on.
Captions change from bottom left, middle and right of the screen.
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| Series 11 Ep 1 (left), Series 11 Ep 3 (middle, right) |
I don't think I'll be putting our captions in the middle, we only have two actors anyway so there is no need to mix it up and place the names in the middle. I will choose either the left or the right. As we have two actors, I may put one on the left and one on the right. The middle ones look slightly messy in my opinion, however I understood why they placed the caption there, as there wasn't much room either side of the wide shot for such a long name tag.
- There are no captions for the animals - just the voiceover introducing the animal with its name.
- The lines of the font are slightly blurred, giving a shimmery and glowing look to the text. I should be able to blur the font slightly on Premiere giving the same look.
Images:
- Screenshots from http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-supervet/on-demand/65174-003
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