Documentary research

Interviewees

Warrington Spiritualist church (not yet confirmed contact needed)
Chris Lee spiritualist medium (not yet confirmed contact needed)
Julie - spiritualist medium and psychic (not yet confirmed contact needed)
Employees for local ghost hunters(not yet confirmed contact needed)
The owner of walton hallLocations:(ideas)
Chester Ghost tour, thursday,friday,saturday at 7:30


The Pied Bull,chester,cheshire -As the hotel dates back to the 11th century, it has its fair share of ghostly goings on and paranormal happenings, warranting an investigation by the television show ‘Whines and Spirits’. The ghost of a man is said to haunt the cellar and the cellar seems to be the hub of all of the paranormal activity, with some staff members actually refusing to go down there alone. The man who haunts the cellar is thought to be named John Davies, and in 1609 it was reported that ‘he casually fell down a flight of stairs leading to the cellar belonging to the pied bull, and with a knife in his hand… and died’. As well as the ghost in the cellar, two of the bedrooms are said to be haunted by chambermaids who used to work at the hotel.

Pubs

George and the dragon,chester-Not far from Chester’s Northgate arch stands the George and Dragon pub, an imposing Victorian black-and-white building seemingly haunted by the spirits of long-dead Roman soldiers.Over the centuries, both landlords and regulars of the pub have heard the drum of marching feet beneath the floors – following the route of the old Roman road. Strangely, the sound seems loudest in the cellars, closer to the original Roman ground level, which once stood several feet below the modern surface.

The Bulls Head, swinton near manchester reports of several apparations, the building dates back to the sixtinth century. it is said that there are links to the nearby church and underground tunnels this would be a great place to investigate.


Halls and mansions

Walton Hall (ghost hunting group- http://www.ghostlyshadows.co.uk/)
this is the screengrab from the walton hall website that i took just before getting in touch with them.

Speke hall could use the location and possibly people that work there if we get permission.

Speke hall has featured on the popular paranormal show most haunted, this is what gave me the idea of contacting them at speke hall, this would be a great location and would look really great, especially if we was allowed to film and have interviews in room or the grounds which are supposed to be haunted.


Tatton hall is another location we have contacted.

(ghost hunting group- http://www.ghostlyshadows.co.uk/)

Running order

Running Order
Documentary: Ghosts, Ghouls and Paranormal Happenings
Channel: Living
Scheduling: Monday 31st October
Duration: 28 minutes including advert break

Montage of clips of what is coming up in the documentary. Snippets of interviews, locations, videos and still images.

The Documentary title appears on location shot, the title (graphics) fade or break away as the camera jump cuts to have the location in the centre of the shot.
The door of the location will creak open and the camera will zoom through.

Fast Motion handheld, the camera will explore the building/location this introduces the setting. Voiceover introducing the location.

As the Fast Motion stops the first interviewee will be shown stood either in a room or outside the location.

Interviewee will explain any paranormal happenings that happened at this location.

Reconstruction of the paranormal happenings.

The sun setting fast motion (elliptical editing) to night time, the camera crew and others are shown walking around the location at night with torches kind of like a ghost hunt, handheld to stay with the action.

A spiritualist interviewed explaining if they can feel a presence.

Further walking around the location handheld camera movement to stay with the action.

A shot of a séance/ Ouija Board handheld camera movement to stay with the action.

Advert Break

After advert break handheld (steadicam) walking through a graveyard. Voiceover statists of paranormal beliefs.

Vox populi interviews.

Voiceover explaining how these superstitions have inspired Hollywood cinema, paranormal activity, Ghostbusters movie archive material.

Fast Motion birds eye view over countryside leading to Chillingham Castle one of the most haunted castles in England.

Voiceover ghost story about the castle.
Sun setting elliptical editing, cut to spiritualist interview explaining some sort of presence in the castle.

Camera crew, film makers walking around the castle.

Sun rising elliptical editing, interview with spiritualist who adds on to the paranormal happening that happened at the castle in the night. Cutaways of images taken in the night, apparition shown and orbs.

Voiceover balanced argument of people who believe in ghosts and those who are sceptical.

To finish montage of paranormal experiences archive material (videos).




These are the different types of texts that we asked our target audience not only what type of text they would like but also what they think would be best for our paranormal documentary.