liv, Beth, Casey

Formal proposal for documentary

Topic
Our topic for our documentary is bad habits and strange addictions, we have brainstormed
ideas for the name of our documentary, those ideas consist of Maddiction Baddiction and
Habit hole.
Type of documentary
Our documentary is a mixed documentary, this consists of interviews, cutaways, a voiceover
etc. We are also including dramatic reconstructions of those with strange addictions to match
our theme and overall topic of bad habits and strange addictions.
Style of documentary
Our style of documentary will be created in a way in which makes it personal to the viewers,
it will make them consider whether they have and bad habits or strange addictions, or they
may watch the show to find people with the same habit or addiction as them.
Channel and
Scheduling

We will schedule our documentary radio advert on Radio 1 at 5:15pm on a working day due
to the fact that our target audience is those of the working class and 5-6pm is rush hour
when those of the working class are on their way home from work (They typically have the
car radio on). We will schedule our documentary on ITV on a thursday night, we will
schedule it at 10pm, right after the tv drama Paranoid (9pm-10pm) This is because

Paranoid is known to be a weird, curious tv drama, our documentary will also be weird and
curious.

Target audience
For our target audience we are aiming at the age 16+. We are aiming our documentary at
both genders . The viewer generally have a bad habit or strange addiction themselves. The

hobbies they have is music. We are aimed at a working class status and students, working
within a 9 to 5 routine.
Primary research needed
Our primary research is who we are going to interview.
Health advisor
Ex drug/alcoholic addict
Doctor
A psychologist/ psychology teacher
People with a bad habit or strange addiction
Someone with OCD
Someone who does not have a bad habit or addiction, to see what their views
and opinions they have about people with an addiction such as drugs or smoking.
Locations we are going to use are
A doctor's office
A psychology classroom
The person with the habit or addictions house
Secondary research needed
Our secondary research is the archive material we are going to use which is
Youtube clips
TV adverts
Still images
Actuality footage or dramatic reconstruction of someone doing a bad habit
Narrative structure
Our documentary is going to be muliti-strand because of all the different habits and
addictions we will interview people about. It will be linear. The ending will be open because
there will be no conclusion on what happens to all of the people who we interviewed.
Outline of content
In our documentary we will have multiple interviews, and between the interviewees answers
we will have cut aways that are relevant to what they are saying. People we are planning on
interviewing. We want to interview a person with a bad habit or a strange addiction, also we
want to interview a doctor or a psychologist, if we cant interview one we will interview a
psychology teacher.
There will also be a voiceover, the voiceover helps move the narrative of the documentary
onwards. We could possibly create a dramatic reconstruction of someone doing their bad
habit or strange addiction.
Some ideas for songs are
Pink- Sober and Just like a pill
David Bowie- Heroes
Amy Winehouse- Rehab
Ed Sheeran- Drunk and A-Team
Britney Spears- Toxic
Last shadow puppets- Bad habits
Muse- Psycho
Two door cinema club- Bad decisions
Rihanna- Rehab
Topics we want to explore are what are the effects these habit/addictions cause physically
and what effects they have mentally. Also how it can link to mental illness for example OCD.

One aspect we could focus on is the top three addictions, which are alcohol, smoking and
drugs. We are going to look at the medical side of what these habits can do to you,
examples are cancer, bleeding/receding gums. We are going to look at things that people do
to stop their addiction for example rehab.
Some of the cut aways will be.
Still images
Video clips of people doing a bad habit or addiction
Video of people drinking in a pub (possibly people smoking outside a pub)
Magazine articles
Youtube clips
TV adverts about how smoking is bad for you.
Clips of My mad addiction
Resource requirements
Camera
Microphone clip
Tripod
Adobe premiere
Computer
Lighting equipment
Photoshop