Online
Find key contacts have a basic understanding, then prepare basic questions. Write the questions out.
What to research
All ideas - test their viability.
Start as wide as you can.
Relevant legeslation - up to dat version of the law
Organisations and experts
Existing research - exclusivity
Case studies - people who are affected
Archive
What is your new angle
Pitch - 5 W's and how.
USP
Good pitch - well prepared
Presented to programme editor and senior producer
Could be sent in
Why - can get visual of what the film is. Also to get feedback.
Brief outline of story
Headlines of story
Scheduling - what time of day
USP
Pitch could be viewed as billing as appeared in tv listings.
Strength of story
Weakness could be test of format
Opportunity could be experts
Threats - someone may want that idea/story
Central hypothesis - forms opinions and conclusions
Write in proposal in present tense as an active voice.
1 page in length
Prepare alongside an oral pitch
Viable, interesting, new and appropriate to commisioning brief
Initial intention and ambition for film
Brave, passionate, engaging, new angles, pitch ideas in a paragraph,
Micchael raibers hypothesis
Shrot list -
Sequences and actuality
Interviews
Sound
Music
Archives/stills
Representation
Ethics and representation - how we handle people and represent them.
Disability
Income class
Values/culture
Ethnicity and race
Religion
Sexuality
Issues e.g crime
Tokenism
Youth/middle/old
Relevant legislation
Organisations - OFCOM
Press complaints comission
Broadcasters own
Own groups
Casting
Location
Storyboard
Shotlist
Shoot script
Call sheet
Recce
Release form
Risk assess
Copyright
Applies to all work
Protect creators rights to material
Ip intelectual property.
Find out who owns it and the fees.
Remember to use your blog to meet the learning outcomes - add critical reflections from your work/workshops, evidence your idea development and prep as well as the wider research into documentary filmmaking
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