Documentary Unit - Finalising Some of our ideas

1- Real story or Made up story

We were thinking about maybe going for a fake story for our project to add a bit of character but we decided as we would need to show the outcome most likely at the end of the show so we wanted to manage that by making it easy.

We decided to go with a story that follows the presenter that is an actor who is struggling to get jobs because of the way that he looks . We wanted to show that because he may be slightly plus size he may be struggling in comparison who is naturally blessed with good looks. The story will follow the presenter trying different ways to look better, including traditional methods as well as possibly harmful ways.

2- Talking to a personal stylist 

This was a possible idea that we were not sure if we were going to include or not, but George has been emailing around and we can get a personal stylist at no cost what so ever but the problem we may encounter is filming in a shop and whether the person helping wants to be filmed. As long as we get in contact very soon we will be able to sort out this quickly.

George has tried to book an appointment at House of Fraser and it was free at Bluewater so we are confident that we can get that booked and film there and it would be a good location to do so.

3- Slimming Belts / Undershirts

An idea that was brought up in one of our meetings was was using a slimming vest to see if it made you look better. The idea was to go up to people, with and without the vest and see if people thought he looked "healthy" or not. The idea would be that with the vest he would visually look a lot slimmer which may help when he is being photographed for his actor profiles.

4- The perfect Selfie 

We will get someone from the photography course to help our presenter take the perfect selfie, he will experiment with different lighting, locations etc to see which one looks best. ideally this segment will only last about one minute but will show the best ways you can quickly make your pictures look a lot better.

5- The photoshoot

To make the story make sense we hope to include a photoshoot so the actor can get some new shots for his page and it will make the story have a nice ending as we are trying to show that at least a few of these ways has worked or not. Ideally we want to show that it does make a difference and he gets more roles because he looks slimmer - At there lies the problem that people are too often judged on looks before anything else.

6- Diet pills

We want to ask the nutritionist about diet pills but not take them as we think that they may be dangerous, and we don't have the proper knowledge of them ourselves to test them. The nutritionist would be able to tell us what exactly these would do to your body - We assume it will be something bad with a long lasting effect.

7- Commentary

To make sure it's not too serious we will add in little facts in via commentary or a little side pop up annotation as we don't want to lose the attention of our viewers as we know it;s suppose to be a funny documentary so if we take it too serious then it could become awkward and confusing.

8- Instant Punch Line

We want to make sure we get our viewers attention right away so we may include a funny part of our show right at the start to let the viewer know what is happening and what the premise of the show is.