Formal Proposal

Topic - Sleep

Type of documentary – Mixed

Style of documentary – Informal and informative, fully narrated

Channel and scheduling – Channel 4 – 8:00 Wednesday night

Target Audience- young adults/teenagers 15-20/educated audience

Primary research needed -

· Shift Workers and Air hostesses

· Psychology Teacher

· Vox Pop, Where is the strangest place you have ever slept or woken up? Filming their weird and wonderful answers.

· Sleep Clinic?

· Locations for filming – airport, bedrooms, train stations, public shopping areas

· Interview with Mums and Dads on experiencing sleeping habits around a newborn baby

Secondary research needed –

· Archive footage: clips of babies crying, music relevant to topic, TV news extracts, Documentaries on dangerous dreams, YouTube clips of people and animals dreaming.

· Dangers of sleeping, narcotics, sleepwalkers, insomnia 

Narrative structure – Single strand, Linear, Open

Outline of content-

Different peoples and different careers sleeping habits and how sleep affects our day to day performance in life

Dreams and the mysteries of them, why do we dream, does cheese make us dream

Strangest places people can fall asleep

Remedies that keep the human body fighting off sleep or help sleep

Sleep clinic and interview with person who runs it

Relieve stress

VOXPOP – the joys of sleep and favourite thing about sleep

Interview with psychologist/psychology teacher

Interview with Shift worker/Airhostess

Interview with new mums n dads

Footage of people yawning

How sleep affects people emotionally, mentally and physically

How sleep can affect lives

Resource requirements –

· Digital video camera

· Microphone

· Tripod

· PC with adobe premier pro software

· Tape