Proposal Form:

Topic:
Health and Fitness
Type of documentary:
Our documentary will be MIXED including observation footage, interviews, archive materials
such as images or videos, a voiceover.
Style:
The documentary will be fairly formal, this is due to the use of facts/statistics combined with
the scientific themes of the documentary. We will also be using a voiceover providing an
authoritative tone which will contribute to the formality of the documentary.

Channel and Scheduling:
Our health and fitness documentary will be previewed on Channel 4 due to the audience it
reaches and shown at 7.30-8pm as this is a suitable time for our target audience as this is
when they mostly watch television so we ensured it will be watched.
Target Audience:
We aiming to target 16-45 year olds mixed gender however, in our questionnaire we
opened it to 45+ year olds to gather a greater range of information.
Primary Research
What we will be doing before the documentary:
We will need to research and plan for the documentary. This means we will have to use the
internet to define and find information about health and fitness. We will need to plan when
we are going to interview the people we need as this is most time consuming, so will have
to get in touch with specialists eg. Nutritionists, gym instructor, everyday people and
arrange a time/place to meet which is suitable. We will also need to ensure we have
appropriate and relevant mise en scene of which the interview will take place for example
the interview of our gym instructor could be shot in the gym. We will need to plan for this to
decide exactly where in the gym, which gym, if this is able to happen. We will need to
decide what cut aways we will be using, this has been planned on our brainstorm of conent
for our documentary. We will be using cut aways of people exercising, archive materials,
people walking, fitness classes, healthy/unhealthy foods and more to represent and make
our health and fitness documentary flow. Within our documentary we will be using voxpops
to make it more entertaining and professional, this means we will have to plan what
voxpops are needed(the content), how many we will have and when we are going to use
them within our documentary.
Secondary Research
Existing material we will be using within the documentary:
We will be using archive materials such as videos and images. This will include abit about
the history of fitness, images and stories of the extremes people will go to keep fit along
with images of the good that fitness has done for them. We will also use archive footage of
how different countries approach health and fitness.
We will also provide facts and statistics about existing health and fitness data, giving correct
information and knowledge.
We will also need to use existing music to put behind the visuals of the documentary giving
more entertainment to the audience.

Narrative:
We will using a non-linear narrative structure so the documentary will not be
chronologically ordered. Single stranded, so all themes displayed will be under the same
topic and open, so there will be no clear ending point to the documentary.

Outline:
Beginning: We will be using a voice over to introduce our documentary to the audience, this
will help with understanding throughout the documentary. We will identify themes
portrayed in the documentary at the beginning along with a visually interesting title
sequence of what our documentary is.
Middle/Exposition: Within the middle of the documentary we will be identifying the
different areas of health and fitness such as why people exercise, information from
specialists, reconstructions. Along with cutways, interviews from gym instructors, gym
members, non-gym members who are fit and healthy and facts and figures.
End: In the end of our documentary we will be using credits (graphics), voiceover
highlighting the key exposition of the documentary.

Resources:
For the documentary we will need to use a video camera- videoing, tripod- allow the camera
to be still and professional, microphone, track, blue screen used for mise en scene, jib to
get high angle shots, computers for use of premier and photoshop, internet, SLR camera and
radio studio for voice over.