Running order

Running Order

Documentary:  ‘The Perfect Lunch?’      

Channel:  Channel 4

Scheduling:  Saturday 5^th November 9:30pm

The blue shows the first 5 minutes                                                                     

Research for Documentary

Documentary Research


Primary

• Interview with sandwich owner

o Mise en scene – The sandwich shop

o Asking questions about the health of sandwiches and popular sandwiches

• Vox pop

o Outside a sandwich shop

o Question – Whats your favourite sandwich?

o Picking out the most interesting answers

• Phone interview with nurse

o Asking about the health of sandwiches

o May not be used due to the lack of visual elements but will be used as research for voiceover.

o Leaflets from nurse and food tech department.

Secondary

• Archive material of adverts and TV shows about sandwiches

o Friends (Various Joey and Pheobe clips)

o One with the police car

o My sandwich

o Pheobes tries meat

o Scooby doo

o Subway adverts

o Sandwich adverts

Formal Proposal

Topic: Sandwiches
Type of Documentary: Mixed
Style of Documentary: Informal
Channel and Scheduling: Channel 4, 8.30pm – Wednesday
Target Audience: Teenagers/Young Adults

Primary Research:
Interviews
Vox Pop
Location for filming
Dietician/Nurse
Sandwich shops

Secondary research:
Archive footage
Sandwich history
Internet Research
TV shows

Narrative structure: Open, Non-linear

Outline of content:
History of the sandwich
Vox pop – “What’s your favourite sandwich?”
Interview with shop owner
Interview dietician
Still images – most expensive sandwich
Cutaways - Sandwich getting eaten, making a sandwich
Childrens school dinners
Interview with a dinnerlady
Sandwich facts

Resource requirements:
Video camera
Still camera
Compute – adobe premier to edit
Voice recorder
Microphone
Studio

Brainstorming Content for Documentary

Audience Research Video Recordings

Audience Research

How old are you?

The graph shows we only asked people within our target audience mostly 17 and 18 year olds as they are the mostly the people are programme will appeal to. 

Are you male or female?

Two thirds of our questionnaire was asked to females as typically women are more interested in food programmes than men.

What's your favourite sandwich? 

The most popular sandwich came out as chicken, this will be used as facts for the voiceover

Where is your favourite place to get a sandwich?

The most popular place to get a sandwich is subway as 2 thirds of the people we asked said subway. This will also be used as facts for the voiceover.

Why do you eat sandwiches?

 The most popular answer with a third of people saying it was that they taste nice, this will be used in the voiceover. 

Do you make your own?

 Do you consider sandwiches to be healthy?

 What do you usually have with you sandwich?

 Whats your favourite genre of music?

This question will be used to choose what music beds we will use

What would you have as an alternative to a sandwich?

 These answers will be used in the voiceover.

What meal would you usually have a sandwich for?

This will be used for the voiceover. 

Whats your favourite colour?

 This question will be used for the graphics on the documentary.

What TV channel do you usually watch?

Our programme will be on C4 as that came out as most popular

When do you usually watch TV?

Our show will be played of an evening as that came out s the most popular answer.

Initial Plans

Topic for programme: Sandwiches
Target audience: Teenager/Young adults
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Wednesday 8:30pm
Title: The Perfect Lunch?

Brainstorming topics for documentary