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The Real Cambridge

Making the extraordinary ordinary

Imi Ranner
January 2017

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Contents
Working Title

Log Line

Treatment

Synopsis

Character

Target audience

Style and Genre

Resources

Time line + Launch Date

Distribution

Pricing

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Working Title
The real Cambridge

Log Line
Cambridge making theextraordinary ordinary

Treatment
History , culture , diversity.in other words boring and normal. I have grown up in
Cambridge my entire life and due to this i always heard and interpreted the words the
worlds your oyster to mean life starts outside of Cambridge and this meant that I always
neglected the life i always had but never experienced. But now I still find it a place of
history, culture and diversity but boring no and it is about as normal as an elephant on a
surfboard. Its the history and backstory that makes Cambridge a landmark but its the
bizarre that makes Cambridge brilliant.

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Synopsis
I am a 16 yer old girl born and raised in Cambridge and although I have an immense
appreciation for the pace i grew up i cant help but notice that this isnt the case for the
majority of youths living in and around Cambridge dont . Most adolescents i have met
seem to share the view that Cambridge is only its past and cant look past the old buildings
and museums that they find dull and lifeless. In this documentary I will be taking my subject
on a journey round there home city and showing them a side of Cambridge they have been
blind to; the one full of life and exciting culture and not just the city, of boring buildings
and the Tesco down the road, that they have been confined to live within. Its the
stereotypes of Cambridge that make a lot of resident youths want to leave and other tourist
youths avoid but in this short documentary I intend to change this and intrigue people into
sharing my passion of the city of Cambridge.
The start of the documentary will consist a interview style section of my subject and
explaining how they describe and view Cambridge before they go round the more
interesting parts of Cambridge and see Cambridge in a different light.
The middle section of my video will consist of my subject being taken around to parts of
Cambridge they have never seen before and being shown some of the parts of Cambridge
that they had once viewed as boring and vulgar in a different more interesting light.
The end of the documentary will mirror the beginning section of an interview style section
of my subject and explaining how they describe and view Cambridge after they have been
round Cambridge with the documentary and they will discuss how there opinions have
changed and the journey they have come on.

Character

The documentary only focusses on one subject as it is only a short documentary and it is
important for the audience to build a personal relationship with the subject as it will
keep them more interested in watching the documentary and it gives them someone to
sympathise with.

The subject will be around the same age as the audience 16/17 yrs old as it makes
the documentary more relatable for them.
The subject will most likely be male as male teens dont respond as well to females telling
them information as they do to males or as females do to males.

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Target audience
The target audience 1s middle class studying teenagers (both male and female) between the
ages of 15-20 that live in and around Cambridge or are looking for somewhere to visit, who
dont have much interest in Cambridge because they dot believe it has much to offer them.

Style and genre

As it is a documentary it will have a formal structure and but it will have a fairly colloquial
tone to keep the feel of the documentary light and entertaining The documentary will have
a positive slant. This will be achieved by:

Keeping the topics light

Using upbeat music

Having an upbeat presenter/subject

Showing different lively activities and places, such as music, parks, theatres, skate parks,
different people

Shooting in daytime

As my target audience is teenagers so this short documentary that is roughly 10 minutes long
as people of this age tend to have a shorter attention span, so having a shorter documentary
that is is more varied might help to keep there attention.

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Resources

Recourses I will need are:

Camera (for Filming)
Microphone (for recording sound)
Final cut Pro (for editing)
3 crew members (including myself. Crew to help record sound and carry equipment ect)
Dolly and Track (for moving shots)
Tripod (For static shots)
Background music (to be put in after editing)
Imogen Ranner

Oscar Carter
Anna Burnley- Davis

Crew
-Writer, director, producer, editor

- Sound recording
- Camera Woman

Time Line and Launch date

The launch date is the 17th of March. It will take approximately 2-3 weeks to produce the
production itself and as for the post- production that should take around 2-3 weeks, this
means I should easily make the launch date

Distribution
Distribution and marketing: As the program is targeted at youths living in the UK, it would
be primarily distributed through social media and youtube, as these are the most commonly
used means communication within this age group . Also, it will be shown in Secondary
and 6th form school in and around Cambridge.

Cost
In Total it should cost around 500
Equipment
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Camera Woman
80 (2day)
Sound Man
80 (2day)
Editor
100 (2day)
Director
100 (2day)
Subject/presenter 60 (2day)
Producer
80 total (total)

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