Formal Proposal for Documentary

Topic

Exercise

Type

Mixed: interviews, observations, narratation

Style

Informal Lots of variety of content Short sequences

Channel and scheduling

BBC1 8:30pm

Target Audience

Everyone

Primary Research Needed

Find interviewees How often people do exercise based on our questionnaire

results

Secondary Research Needed

Statistics of the number of people in the UK who are overweight

Statistics of how much exercise people do in the UK

Narrative Structure

Closed, non-linear, single strand

Outline of Content

Interviews with the general public Interviews with doctors Observations of people doing sports Newspaper articles Fitness DVD clips Voiceover of someone reading out statistics Interviews with a professional sportsmen Exercise for old people Exercise for young people Exercise for disabled people Benefits and drawbacks of steroids, protein shakes and

supplements Exercise in daily life and the benefits to the environment Evolution of exercise

Resource Requirements

HD video camera Adobe Premier Radio studio Photoshop SLR camera Microphone Lights Tripod