Formal Proposal for our documentary

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.

Target Audience research

Are you male or female?

Male - 8

Female - 22

This shows that our results may be biased. We will take this into account when planning our documentary as it may affect the colours we use or the gender of the voice over.

How old are you?

What channel do you watch the most out of the following?

What time are you most likely to watch a documentary?

These results may have been affected by the age of the people we questioned. As a large amount of them were between 16 - 25 they are less likely to watch TV in the daytime. However, if we'd had asked people such as housewives and the unemployed then the answers may have been different. We will take this into account when making our final decisions.

How often do you watch documentaries?

What is your favorite colour?

This will help us to decide on the colour scheme we use in the documentary.

What is your favorite genre of music?

Do you wear glasses?

Yes - 12

No - 18

If no, have you ever been to the optitions?

14 said yes.

Have you ever had any problems with your hearing?

Yes - 5

No - 15

If yes, what?

• Selective hearing
  
• Tinnitus
  
• General problems
  
• Labyrinthitis
  
• Ear infections
  
• Half death

How loud do you have your music?

Questions like this will come in handy as we will be able to use these statistics in our documentary.

How spicy do you like your food?

What is your favorite smell?

What is your least favorite smell?

Have you ever broken a bone?

Yes - 15

No - 15

What sense could you live without?

What is your favorite sense?

What channel do you watch the most out of the following?

What is your favorite genre of music?

How loud do you have your music?

What is your favorite smell?

What is your favorite sense?

Brainstorm of content for our Documentary

Initial Plans

Topic: Senses

Name: NONsence.

Channel: Channel 4

We decided to show our documentary on Channel 4 as this channel is aimed at young adults - which is our target audience.

Time: 9 PM

We chose 9 PM as it is usually the watershed time. This means that things more appropiate to our target audience can be shown.

Target audience: Young adults (of both genders)

Brainstorming

• Fast Food
• Christmas
• Smile
• Social Groups
• Football
• Piecings
• Alcohol
• Badminton
• Recycling
• TV shows
• Drawing
• Bags
• Social Networking
• Game Consols
• Jumpers
• Jonas Brothers
• Relationships
• Size
• Dancing
• Sandwiches
• Soap
• Disney
• Tables
• Dogs
• Make up
• Beauty
• Music
• Shopping
• Sport
• Teens
• Student jobs
• Shoes
• Chocolate
• School
• Local Bands
• Concerts
• Films
• Reality TV
• Holidays
• Technology
• Cereal
• Hair
• Hats
• Fish
• New Brighton
• Plastic Sugery
• Media
• Travel
• Smoking
• Money
• Liverpool 1
• Chair
• Mice
• Flip Flops
• Phone
• Pen
• Paper
• Clocks
• Orange
• Talking
• Gardens
• Singing
• Stationary
• Fat
• Blonde
• Park
• Lunch
• Laptop
• Remote
• Coffee
• Water
• Heels
• Hoody
• Soup
• Milk
• Spark Plugs

Genre Analysis - That Thing - Lara Croft

Type of Documentary

Mixed

Themes

Phenomenon of Lara Croft

Representation of Women

Power of the media

Influencing peoples thoughts about the representation of women.

Narrative structure

Closed narrative structure

Non linear

Single strand

Camerawork

Interviews

left or right of the screen

Eye line third of the way down the screen

Close up/medium close up/big close up

Low angle was used

Other camerawork

The Barbie sequence was in extreme close up.

Whips pans

Tracking shot of the cyber cafe

Extreme close up of keyboard and the screen.

Mise-En-Scene

They use chromakey, to get a moving background

In the interview it is out of focus to not distract attention from the interview

Sound

Voiceover

Calm

Clear

Male

Age 20’s

Someone who would of played the game when it came out.

Editing

Cuts

Interview of man on computer screen was filtered – he was the creator of the computer game so they put him in the computer

Fast motion of man going up and downstairs in the cyber cafe.

Archive Material

Tomb raider film

Tombraider game

Graphics

All had "That Thing" at the end

White Sans Seriff, all lower case

Genre Analysis - Britains Whitest Family

Type of documentary
Mixed

Narrative Structure
Multiple strand
Linear
Closed narrative

Camerawork
Interviews:
Eye line third of the way down the screen
Positioned to the left or right of the screen
Medium close up
Close up
Tracking
More Camerawork:
Handheld
Point of view, walking down the street
Crane of the town
Zoom into Pictures
Tracking
Panning of shoes, portrays being put into there shoes

Mise-en-scene
The home
The street life and town
Normal bedroom space and there usual place to go with friends

Sound
Voiceover:
Middle aged
Male
Calm
Sympathetic Music

Editing
Cutting
Stock footage dissolved in

Archive Material
School photographs
Family pictures
Crane of the town and cities

Graphics
White Sans serif
Sub titles
Name/location