Topic: Senses – Sight, sound, taste, touch and smell.
Type of documentary: Mixed.
Channel and scheduling: Channel 4 at 9.00pm.
Target audience: Young adults 16 – 25.
Primary research: An interview of Margret Ross (Jess’s Nan), she blind and deaf. Interview with someone at a perfume counter. Interview with Margret Wright (Jess’s other Nan)she cannot smell. Interview with Lennie and lyn who train guide dogs/puppies. Interview and owner of a restaurant in the restaurant. Blind fold game and interview afterwards.
Secondary research: Statistics of questionnaire. Pictures of headphones, guide dogs, different perfumes, food etc. Television show. Music. Newspaper articles. Zoom close up of senses.
Narrative structure: Non-linear, circular (How much do you depend on your senses? Beginning and end.) Multiple strand.
Outline of content:
Intro : Title screen, Questions on screen whilst zooming into the sense.
Smell : Interview with Margaret Wright. Interview with a woman/man at a perfume counter. Talk about most favourite smell and the worst smell.
Taste: Interview with a restaurant owner in the restaurant about the hottest curries etc.. Chilli tasting.
Sound: Interview Margaret Ross. Information on hearing dogs. Information on how headphones can damage your hearing.
Sight: Interview with Lennie and Lyn. Interview with Margaret Ross. Close up of someone putting their contacts in. Go to the opticians and do cuts of all the glasses. Film guide dogs being trained?
Touch: Blind fold touch test. Interview people who have took part in the bind fold touch test. Images of sensory gardens.
Resource requirements: Dictaphone, Computer – Photoshop, word, adobe, excel, Camera and tripod.
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