Formal Proposal

Topic
As a group we decided to research and create a documentary on the causes of Attraction. We believed this to be an interesting topic as it affects a wide range of the public who are in a relationship or can relate to this topic. We also believed this to be an interesting covering the reasons why we are attracted to certain people. I believe this subject to be intriguing as it is an unusual subject that may shock certain people because of its factual evidence. Interviews with professional people will also be easy to gain as there are many professionals who work within the area of relationships. Also as we are looking more at the psychological reasons of why we are attracted to people and it would be easy to interview a psychologist the real reasons for attraction. As attraction affects more or less everybody this enables us to interview people on their thoughts of attraction and whether they believe there is a psychological reason for being attracted to certain people.


Type
We have chosen that our documentary is going to be a mixed documentary containing a voice over that will be heard over filmed footage. This voice over will inform the audience and anchor what is being shown on screen. Vox pops will also be used as cutaways that will speed up the documentaries pace and get the public involved with the subject. Interviews will also create a professional opinion and also the public’s opinion will be relevant. Archive footage and reconstructions will add drama and interest to the documentary adding to the audience’s experiences. This is all relevant as it creates more entertaining documentaries and can lure the audience in from the programme before, using quick editing from all these options.


Style
The documentary will be informal allowing those being interviewed to be relaxed and help the audience easily relate to the documentary. The style of documentary was decided based upon the results that came from the questionnaires, the average age range was 17 and this therefore allowed us as a group to relate the documentary to what they would be interested to see. The fast pace of the documentary will keep the audience interested with the exception of the interviews that will be quite slow paced to enable those talking to engage with the audience. This allows the documentary to be easily understood and prevents the audience from being confused and bored.


Target audience and Channel
Our target audience will be from the ages 17-45; this fits in well with the channel that we chose as the audience research showed that this channel appeals most to this age group.This information was collated from our graphs from the audience research. We also believe that this subject would interest people of this age range because we believe it to effect almost everybody in their lifetime. The channel we will be broadcasting our documentry on will be Channel 4, we dicided this as it is a very popular channel, and is popular for many documentrys and we think ours would fit in well here, and fit in well with our audience age range.


Narrative Structure
Beginning- Introduction to the topic and the Vox pop’s will show the public’s thoughts on what makes them attracted to certain people. There will also be a voice over explaining what is going to be happening throughout the documentary.
Middle- When the professionals are being interviews we are going to have cutaways that are relevant to what the person is saying. This part will also include the publics views on whether they believe in love at first site. This will also include different Psychological ideas towards the cause of attraction.
End-The end of the documentary will sum up all the different theorys towards attrcation which a summary explaining the real reason we are attracted to people. For example is there a actual reason or is there no reason for attrcation ?


Resource requirements-
-Camera.
-Microphone.
-Head phones.
-Tripod.
-Steady cam and Jib.