SEXUAL HEALTH DOCUMENTARY

Sara, Diana

The message of the DocumentaryAim: To raise awareness about sexual health issues among

young people and also to educate them.We intend to do this by:

•Interview people to find the general knowledge that they already have about sexual health and also to find how they keep safe.•Holding group discussion led by sexual health experts.•Interview experts to advise youths.•Show facts and stats on the screen.•Have pictures up, used to shock.

MOODBOARD

Treatment

SEXUAL HEALTH AWARENESS

Contents page listings

Opening IntroductionInterviews DiscussionsLocationsShots

Opening Introduction: the opening title scene of the documentary.

Interviews: Vox pops filmed on the street

Discussions: Group discussion at the clinic lead by the sexual health experts

Location: Shopping centres, Common Room, clinic, and local parks

Shots: Possible camera shots

Interviews:

This will be in the form of vox pops filmed on the street. We will ask someone out of the public, who is (16+) as well as someone we know who wouldn’t mind jus to make sure that we have someone who can take part if no one agrees.

Discussions:

We would like this to led by a sexual health expert. Otherwise if it is not possible we will need to research some facts and ask within the discussion why the people think that is; for example 47% of teenagers who get pregnant and abort are underage. Then the group can discuss and suggest how this can changed.

Script:

Difference in the script of a documentary.

1.Documentary deals with fact, not fiction. Documentaries delven to a non-fictional world with real events,

• real issues, • real conflict, • real people,• real emotions.Everything seen and heard on screen is grounded in accuracyand

has no element of fiction.

2. Documentaries have no fixedvisual and conceptual guidelines per say.

3. At the very heart of documentary, there is an issue and a message at hand. The passing on of this message to the audience is usually the reason that the film was made in the first place.

4. Documentaries must be shot in the real world and show real events happening. Often, the filmmaker is unable to control the event he is shooting as well as the circumstances surrounding the event. It’s difficult to think about lighting when in the middle of a sniper shootout.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER –

For the Screenwriter Why is this film being made? What does the producer/client/financier want

to achieve through the film? Who is the targeted audience and what should

their reaction to the film be? How much does the audience already know

about the subject? What will be the film’s technical conditions of

use (Black & White/Multi-colour?Animation? Etc) What is the budget of the film? http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/24367/11757

852251documentary_script.pdf/documentary_script.pdf

Locations:

Digital... This will consist of photographs that we have taken for our preferred shooting locations.

Bromley [Glade Shopping centre] The common room for discussions/ or clinic...

MORE POSSIBLE LOCATIONS Croydon, Whitgift Centre

•This will consist of photographs that we have taken for our preferred shooting locations.

• Whitgift shopping centre, and central where most youths hand out.

Shots:

Digital storyboard... (on the slide below)Photographs of what the shots will look like in every scene.

1.Intro establishing shot of a place that lets the audience know the area in which the documentary is being shot.2.Passing people in either a busy shopping centre or the park. This will be blurred with statistics showing the percentages of facts such as ‘how many teenagers a year have had an STI’ or ‘how many have had sex underage’. 3.Long shot of the presenter walking towards the camera, introducing this episode and what will feature.4.Short clips of the presenter interviewing someone.5.Long shot to show that a discussion is taking place and then fast zoom onto someone talking.6.Back to the title scene with the a long shot of the presenter, establishing documentary is taking a break.