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)
- 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
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