Formal proposal For documentary

Topic- pets

Type of documentary- mixed documentary (lots of variety in the documentary, voxpops, archive material, music, voice over, interviews)

• Channel and scheduling- channel 4 8.00- 8.30

• Target audience- 16 years onwards

• Primary research- interviews with pet owners, pet shop owners and the rspca.

• Secondary research- books, internet for statistics

Narrative structure- beginning- set the scene with lots of cutaways of different pets and people. Middle- the conflict of the documentary people who like pets and people who don’t. ending- statistics of pets. (most hated pet, most loved pet, most vicious/dangerous, how much people spend on their pets)

Resource requirements- camera, still camera, tripod, charger, microphone