Formal proposal

Formal proposal for documentary

Title: How things changes – The book age

Topic of documentary: Books

Type of documentary: Mixed with a full narration throughout

Style of documentary: Informal, informative... using lots of short clips and will also be fully narrated

Channel and Scheduling: ITV1 Wednesday 8pm

Target audience: 17 -30 years old

Primary research needed:

- Finding interviewees for the programme

- Finding locations for the filming

- Finding props for mise-en-scene of the interview

Secondary research needed:

- Get extracts from The bli

- Still photographs, music, relevant documents e.g maps, official reports or surveys: newspaper and magazine article books

Narrative Structure:

- Non Linear single strand

- Open narrative structure

Outline of content:

- Do people prefer to read the book or watch the film?

- Has the standard of English decreased over time?

- Why is it that people don’t read anymore?

- Do children learn slower or faster?

- How blind people learn to read

- How children with disabilities learn to read

- Adult Literacy

- Why people enjoy reading books? Why they don’t?

- Are autobiographies more popular than novels... why?

INTERVIEWS

- Young children

- Teenagers

- University students

- Young adults

- Blind Children

- Local Authors

- English teachers

- Primary school teachers

- Learning mentors

- Interview with a well known film director who has adapted a book into a film

- Interview with learning specialists

- Interview with historians who have researched literature

CUTAWAYS

- Extreme close up: people writing

- People shopping in book stores

- Young children reading books

- People working into libraries

- People in libraries

- Pupils being taught in schools

- Stereotypical groups

- Panning across books

- Archive material