Interview Scripts

Main Girl

How long have you been dancing?
I have been dancing for 8 years now. I started dancing when i was in year 5 because my teacher was doing an after school club for Latin American dancing. As soon as i started i fell in love with it, she requested that i should go to the dance school where she learnt when she was younger. The diamond dance centre.

How did it feel to go from your after school club to a proper dance school?
It was amazing, the atmosphere was incredible. I was welcomed into the school straight away and i made friends in no time at all. Also the dancing was more intense, the teachers were more strict than at my school.

What do you like so much about dancing?
I love the family feel of our dance school. We all look out for each other and we are all friends for life. I also love the theatrical side of it, all the make up and dresses. I really like when we go to the Nationwide Finals in Blackpool and we all come together and everyone puts their differences aside. We all cheer each other and out school spirit is amazing.


Grace & Emily

How long have you been dancing together?
2 Years now, we became dance partners at the beginning of the year, we were going to take it as an easy, fun year but then we realized we were really good together so we worked for it then came 1st in the Nationwide finals out of 50 couples!

How long have you been dancing for?
Grace: Since i was 3 so 15 years!! Wow i didn't realize it was that long!

How long have you been friends?
We have been friends for 9 years and were just as close now as we were back then, all them years ago.

How did you become friends?
We became friends through dancing. We started young and became friends at a young age, i suppose we've stayed this close because of dancing as well.

Why are there 2 girls dancing together and does it make dancing harder in competitions?
There are a lot of all girl partnerships because there aren't enough boys to go around so the girls go together. In competitions normally the boy-girl couples do better as its more appealing to the eye and it looks better, but then some all girl couples are really good and manage to beat them!

The teachers

Sarah - How does it make you feel when you see one of your lessons make a final or win?

Luke - Why did you want to start teaching dance?

Kyle- Is it easy to look at someone and know what to work on first?

Cara- What doe dancing mean to you?

Question for all- What do you love most about dancing and our dance school?

Head of the dance school

How long have you been dancing?

How long have you been running the dance school?

Is it stressful to run a dance school?

What would you say is the hardest part?

Is it all worth it at the end of the year when we all go to finals?

What do you love most about our dance school ?

Documentary Analysis 5

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004tml7

Documentary Analysis 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p008yyfg

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Please tick the appropriate answer for each question:

1) What gender are you?

• Male
• Female

2) How old are you?

• 5-10
• 11-15
• 16-20
• 21-25
• 26-30
• 31-35
• 36+

3) Are you a dancer?

• Yes
• No

4) Would you be interested in watching a dancing documentary?
    If the answer is no, Please explain why)

• Yes
• No

5) Do you enjoy dancing/watching people dance?
 

• Yes
• No

6) What dance interests you more than others?

• Lively/Upbeat
• Calm/Mellow

7) Do you think a documentary about dancing would be popular?
    (Give a reason for your answer)

• Yes
• No 

8) Would you class dancing as a physical sport?

• Yes
• No

9) If you do not dance would you consider taking up dancing as a hobby?

• Yes
• No

10) What channel do you think is most suitable for a dancing documentary? 

      

• BBC
• ITV
• Channel 4
• Other

Story Board for Documentary

• The girl coming out of college with a group of friends like a normal young girl
• Going home and grabbing her dance bag

ALL OF THE ABOVE IN BLACK AND WHITE, have the shoes outside the bag and them in colour and put them in the bag. 

• walking into dancing with lots of load music playing like i walked into a different world

VOICE OVER THE TOP SAYING HOW LIFE IS AT COLLEGE AND HOW LIFE IS THE SAME AS EVERYTHING 

WALKS INTO DANCING AND THE COLOUR COMES INTO THE SCREEN

• Starts practicing
• Interview with me to ask why i dance and how i got in it and why i love

PEOPLE DANCING IN THE BACKGROUND

• Interview the girls, Grace and Emily, to see how long they have been dancing for and why there is an All Girl couple. 

HAVE A SHOT OF US ALL DANCING AND HAVE US WORKING OUT STEPS

• Interview the head of the dance school to see how she got in to dancing and what its like to run a dance school and how stressful it is
• Interview some of the teachers as a group Cara, Sarah AH, Amanda J, Luke W.. ask what its like to be able to teach people and how you have seen them develop over 20 years.

HAVE FOOTAGE OF ME FROM MY FIRST DANCE COMP

HAVE A CLIP FROM MY LAST MEDAL TEST

Talk about the differences and the improvments 

• Go back to having shots of us practicing 
• Have a photo montage with lots of music going on in the background 

HAVE A SECTION OF US TALKING ABOUT COMPS AS A GROUP AND THEN DOING THE MAKE UP FOR ONE,have the camera in the same place whilst we move around them.. have close ups after. 

• Shots of us going home and then going back to our normal life, getting up and going to college the next day