Treatment:

I plan to start off with explaining what my documentary is about ‘development of camera shot
quality’ and then zooming it in on a specific part to show how cameras quality has improved to
‘capture better stilled shot of moving people in quick time.’ With this I will add side on photos of the
first ever human photographs to the one now day to show the difference. Then adding a small
introduction into photography, giving a brief of what exactly photography is and why it is such a
impactful thing now – while I’m talking I will have a few different time era cameras and photographs
fading in and out on screen.

I will then go onto the brief of the history on cameras, starting in ‘1826’ when the worlds first
photograph was made using heliography and giving a small intel as to what heliography is. While this
is being said, I will have the very first photograph on screen and an image of the creator ‘Joseph
Nicephore Niepce.’ From this I will then jump to ‘1838’ where the ‘fist photograph of a human
appeared.’ Here I will show the image while also explaining how the photo came about and as to
why it took so long to make a single photograph back then. In similar timing to this I will add in the
first daguerreotype portrait photo ‘selfie’ of a person made only a year later in ‘1839’ by Robert
Cornelius.

I will then jump onto when the first Kodak roll-film hand camera was released in 1888 and who
made it and giving a few insights to the photos it was able to capture. From here I will go to the
1920s as this is when the next big development in cameras happened, by the way they looked but
also how quick it was able to take the photographs. From the 1920s cameras slightly changed but
not immensely until the 1960s and how many photos the camera could take and the level of quality
difference. And this is also where the brand canon became one of the most well-known camera
brands even till this day. I will then go onto how the camera design has changed from 2000 to 2023
and how now we can add multiple lenses and change settings on cameras to make the photo focus
better, but also to take burst of photos in one go to get the perfect one of a moving person.

From the history I will go into technology and how it has changed, and how this has then affected
the development of cameras. This will go slightly into the history of photography and the technology
before is history compared to the technology today. For example, I will state about the change of
technology from using wood cameras to metal and now a mixture of metal and plastic on the
cameras. The main point I will focus on for the change in technology s from the 1930s-1060s as the
cameras here have an immense development.

I will have a section going into some of the key people in the photography camera industry and give
some in sight in what they did for cameras and how it’s helped today, for example; Robert Cornelius
being the first man to take a selfie, George Eastman to make the first film-roll hand held camera, the
makers of the canon brand - Takeshi Mitarai, Goro Yoshida, Saburo Uchida and Takeo Maeda.

I will then go onto my own attempts to mastering the techniques, by taking photos on a … camera of
a female jumping into the air into a position, and doing the same with a modern-day camera. I will
do a few positions to put different angles but making sure I take each position on both cameras to
show the difference in how the change of technology has bettered the quality and focus. For this
part I will display my final results of my attempt on screen, but also have behind the scene footage
to show how I did it while I explain the process.

For the interviewing section I will have a video recorded chat between myself and Steve Bell, with
questions I have asked him on his own thoughts and opinions on how cameras have changed and
does he think it’s done the photo industry a positive or negative impact

For the conclusion, I will go into a brief overview of everything I’ve spoken about, but also by the
research has it been made easier or harder to take photographs, and is the quality better for taking
photographs of moving people. And say how it has or hasn’t helped the photography industry to this
day.