Storyboard for Opening Title Sequence

This is our storyboard which consists of frquent montages of people asleep, yawning, getting in and out of bed, people making and drinking coffee, and contains our production name '40 Winks'.

Animated gif how to

Mise en Scene for our Interviews

This video is of me talking through the details of the mise en scene of our interviews along with images on how we have positioned them, where we are interviewing them and who the interviewee is.

Edit Decision List

This is the Edit Descision list for our documentary...

Logging Sheet

This is the logging sheet that we filled in as we went along in the filming process of our documnetary.

 These are evidence images of us uploading the footage in Adobe Premire Pro ourselves...

Filming: Interiview for our Documentary

Filming: Interviews on Prezi

This Prezi presentation is showing the questions we asked each of our interviewees in their interviews, along with photographic evidence whilst the interviews were taking place of us setting up the cameras and speaking to the interiviewees.

Running Order

Running Order

Documentary: 40 winks
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Wednesday,8.30pm
Duration: 27 minutes (including advert breaks)

Secondary Research

Secondary Research on Prezi

Primary Research

This is an email that we sent to the Sleep Laboratory in Arrowe Park Hospital to see if it was possible for an interview to take place, but because of lack of available time, they had to be fair to others and decline our request.

We were able to contact Liverpool John Moores University and speak with Lynn Sutcliffe and she was able to refer us to the Director of Natural Science and Psychology, Profressor Andy Tattersall.

This is an email followed up from Lynn Sutcliffe who passed our request on to psychology professors around LMJU and we were lucky enough to recieve a reply from a lecturer in psychology called Yvonne Harrison, who had completed research into sleep and the effects of sleep deprivation etc. at Liverpool John Moores University. In which we were successful in setting a date for an interview with her at the university.

This is an email we sent to Andrea Doolan who works as an air hostess which was going to take place but we lost contact with her as she got called away on a long hall flight at the time of our interview.


We also used telephone calls, the internet and emails to contact local doctors and lorry drivers but could not persue interviews with these people as there was limited hours.

Formal Proposal

Topic - Sleep

Type of Documentary - Mixed

Style of Documentary - informal but informative, fully narrated

Channel and Sheduling – Channel 4 – 8:00 Wednesday night

Target Audience- Mainly everyone, as everyone sleeps/educated audience/Young adults

Primary Research Needed

• Arranging interviews:
  Shift workers, Air hostess, Psychology lecturer, New mums and dads, Sleep Laboratory
• Contacting the interviewees
• Creating interview questions
• Organising interview, filming and Voxpops locations:
  Airports, Train stations, Public shopping areas, Work places
• Finding props for filming:
  Yawns, coffee etc...
• Vox Pops:
  Where is the strangest place you have ever slept or woken up? Filming their weird and wonderful answers. Also, What is your favourtie thing about sleep?

Secondary Research Needed

Archive footage:

• clips from documentaries (dangerous dreams or similar)
• clips from films (Inception, Stepbrothers or similar)
• Footage from youtube.com of babies crying, people and animals dreaming/snoring
• TV news extracts (from BBC or similar)
• Music relevant to topic (Beyonce - Sweet Dreams & Bibio - Lover's Carvings)

Other Research

• Dangers of sleeping, narcotics, sleepwalkers, insomnia

Narrative Structure – Single strand, Linear, Open

Outline of Content-

Different peoples + different careers sleeping habits and how sleep affects our day to day performance in life

Dreams and the mysteries of them, Why do we dream, does cheese make us dream

Strangest places people can fall asleep

Remedies that keep the human body fighting off sleep or help sleep

Sleep clinic + interview with person who runs it,  

Relieve stress,

VOXPOP – the joys of sleep + favourite thing about sleep,

Interview with psychologist/psychology teacher,

Interview with Shift worker/Airhostess,

Interview with new mums n dads,

Footage of people yawning,

How sleep affects people emotionally, mentally and physically,

How sleep can affect lives

Resource requirements –

• Digital video camera 
• Microphone
• Tripod
• PC with adobe premier pro software
• Tape