Christian - 40, Banker. Group Leader
Zach - Early 20's, Joining the Royal Marines January 2012
Daiman - Acoustic Engineer, 25
Tom - Recruitment, 24
Start, introduction by Paddy Ashdown (Poss Dan Snow) actuality of training at army barracks, train At Eastney in Portsmouth (where the Cockleshell Heroes trained for the mission) interviews with veterans; Former England Rugby Player (Jason Leonard) training day with the marines.
The Challenge:
Start at mouth of the river Gironde on canoes. Actuality: stop and meet the lady who met the heroes (giving them food etc.) stopping over night and camping, downstream- the small hamlet of St.Genes-de-Blaye, the team will abandon our canoes to our land team.
Conclusion.
The Team finish at the ‘Toque Blanche Café’ where the original heroes met the French resistance. Inviting all the poeple they have met on the journey it will include interivew and summaries from Paddy Ashodwn and other contributors.
Monday 28 November 2011
Monday 21 November 2011
References
The last of the Cockleshell heroes : a World War Two memoir / by William Sparks with Michael Munn. 1995. (Rev. 3rd [i.e. 2nd] ed.)
Cockleshell Heroes. By C. E. L. Phillips ... with the co-operation of Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Hasler, etc. [An account of the raid by Royal Marines on Bordeaux in December 1942. With illustrations.]
Blondie Hasler : a life of Herbert George Hasler, Cockleshell hero, navigator and inventor extraordinary.
Cockleshell heroes / C. E. Lucas Phillips with the cooperation of lieut. col. H.G. Hasler ; with a foreword by admiral of the fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 2000.
Voices from the sea : remarkable encounters with the world's oceans / Nic Compton ; foreword by Alex Thomson. 2007.
Cockleshell Heroes. By C. E. L. Phillips ... with the co-operation of Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Hasler, etc. [An account of the raid by Royal Marines on Bordeaux in December 1942. With illustrations.]
Blondie Hasler : a life of Herbert George Hasler, Cockleshell hero, navigator and inventor extraordinary.
Cockleshell heroes / C. E. Lucas Phillips with the cooperation of lieut. col. H.G. Hasler ; with a foreword by admiral of the fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 2000.
Voices from the sea : remarkable encounters with the world's oceans / Nic Compton ; foreword by Alex Thomson. 2007.
Friday 18 November 2011
Naming the film:
Good titles help clarify the complex and define the promise. these are 'hard-bite' phrases that attract attention and promise strong sensations.
Suggestions include,
- The Cockleshell Challenge: 2012
- Cockleshell Raid: `70 years on
- A Courageous Raid: The Challenge
- The Frankton Four: Cockleshell Heroes 2012
I looked at the film of 1955 and the movie had 3 working titles:
'Survivors Two',
'Canoe Commandos'
and 'The Survivors'.
Logline
This mean literally one sentance that encapsulates the storyline and the style in which it will be told. The discipline ensures the filmmaker has a clear handle on what they are on about.
The Commisioning brief for BBC Two Documentaries
The Voice:
Most landmark series are built around a given presenter, who will normally be responsible for the orginal script (Paddy Ashdown The Courageous Raid). It then falls to the producer and/or director to establish how that will be visualised, how much will be voiced in vision, how much in commentary, weather this will call for a secondary commentary voice and/or readers for written extracts, and how many complimentary speakers will be called on in the course of the programme.
Too many can make the pace frenetic and programme superficial: to few can make it slow and monotonous. How strong is your presenters voice, especially in voiceover? Can theyu manage long pieces to camera, enabling developing shots, or will their take have to be cut around, line for line?
Examples of similar documentaries:
SAS: Embassy Siege
It used live witnesses and abundant archive material.
Good titles help clarify the complex and define the promise. these are 'hard-bite' phrases that attract attention and promise strong sensations.
Suggestions include,
- The Cockleshell Challenge: 2012
- Cockleshell Raid: `70 years on
- A Courageous Raid: The Challenge
- The Frankton Four: Cockleshell Heroes 2012
I looked at the film of 1955 and the movie had 3 working titles:
'Survivors Two',
'Canoe Commandos'
and 'The Survivors'.
Logline
This mean literally one sentance that encapsulates the storyline and the style in which it will be told. The discipline ensures the filmmaker has a clear handle on what they are on about.
Cockleshell Raid: 70 years on: 1942's heroic mission retold, 70 years on
The Frankton Four: Cockleshell Heroes 2012: A modern reimagining of The Marine Commandos world changing mission
A Courageous Raid: The Challenge: A new generation tackles the impossible.
Canoe Commandos: Chronicling 1942's heroic Cockleshell raid in 2012.
The Commisioning brief for BBC Two Documentaries
Our goal on BBC Two is to be recognised as the home of documentaries. This means that diversity and range of ideas, voices and tone are prerequisite across the slate. And we want our documentary output to feel distinctive from other channels.
Documentaries should make BBC Two feel relevant and modern - populating the channel with compelling real lives, interests and concerns.
To manage our commissions, we split the slate into entertaining and immersive ideas that explore better ways to live your life on one side, and modern provocative, challenging and contemporary subjects on the other.
In particular, we're looking to strengthen our reputation for award winning observational docs about modern life. These one offs and series should simultaneously inspire and challenge viewers to reappraise their view on modern life and society.
The Voice:
Most landmark series are built around a given presenter, who will normally be responsible for the orginal script (Paddy Ashdown The Courageous Raid). It then falls to the producer and/or director to establish how that will be visualised, how much will be voiced in vision, how much in commentary, weather this will call for a secondary commentary voice and/or readers for written extracts, and how many complimentary speakers will be called on in the course of the programme.
Too many can make the pace frenetic and programme superficial: to few can make it slow and monotonous. How strong is your presenters voice, especially in voiceover? Can theyu manage long pieces to camera, enabling developing shots, or will their take have to be cut around, line for line?
Examples of similar documentaries:
SAS: Embassy Siege
It used live witnesses and abundant archive material.
Tuesday 15 November 2011
A Typical Pitch (Titles taken from Michael Rabinger book, Directing the Documentary)
1. Title and Setting
2. Genre - This will be and observational documentary looking at the subject matter of The Cockeshell Heroes Raid of 1944 and a group of four men aiming to recreate the daring feat in the 70th anniversary year. The camera will accomany the main characters, sharing the situation and predicaments that face them on the way, using historical fact and footage to link them back to the original mission.
3. Main Characters and other characters. - from the orignal 10 cockeshall heroes there are a modern day 4 leading characters. 3 in their 20s and one man in his early 40s
1. Title and Setting
2. Genre - This will be and observational documentary looking at the subject matter of The Cockeshell Heroes Raid of 1944 and a group of four men aiming to recreate the daring feat in the 70th anniversary year. The camera will accomany the main characters, sharing the situation and predicaments that face them on the way, using historical fact and footage to link them back to the original mission.
3. Main Characters and other characters. - from the orignal 10 cockeshall heroes there are a modern day 4 leading characters. 3 in their 20s and one man in his early 40s
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