Formal Proposal

Topic- Fast Food/Convenience Food

Type of documentary- Mixed; interviews, voiceover, archive material, voxpops

Style of documentary- Formal, informative

Channel and scheduling- Channel 4, 8:30-9, Thursday

Target Audience- Age 16+ males and females

Primary Research Needed:

For our primary research we need to:

• Arrange interviews and contact interviewees
• Find locations to film at
• Find locations to record interviews
• Find locations to film voxpops
• Finding props for interviews
• Thinking of interview questions

Secondary Research Needed:

• Extracts from documentaries or films
• Extracts from TV programmes (Gavin and Stacey)
• Still photos of fast food packets
• Takeaway food menus
• Music to use (Fast Food Rockers)
• News reports on takeaway
• Radio footage
• E-Menus
• News paper cuttings of takeaway news
• Magazine articles

Narrative Structure- Open so the audience can make their own conclusion at the end of the documentary, multi stranded so although it is all on fast food there are many different aspects including; the history of takeaway, good points, bad points, cost etc.

Outline of content:

• The history of takeaway
• Good points
• Bad points
• Cost of takeaway
• Ease of takeaway
• Popularity of takeaway
• Nutritional information on takeaway
• National dishes (Curry)

Resource requirements:

• Camera/tripod/microphone/still camera
• Adobe Premier Pro editing software
• Interviewees
• Props for cutaways
• Props for interviews
• Actors to create reconstruction for title sequence
• Food