DOCUMENTARY FILM TREATMENT
The working title of your documentary. This one’s essential.
The Social Problem.
Logline. Explain what your story’s about in a couple of lines.
Include modes
Its about social media and its effects, we are asking a question whether social media makes us less social and more lonely, and we will show a range of opinions, from that of young people who commonly use social media vs older people who don’t use social media as much, and will also ask an expert their opinion.
Participatory/Expository
Explanation of act one. Where are we? What’s this documentary about? Who are the main characters? What do they want? What’s the setup?
It starts with a piece to camera (PTC), as an explanation is given and we introduce our title and main question. then it shows some clips from vox pops.
Explanation of act two. What’s the conflict? Where’s the story going?
Expert interview, add more research and information, have b-roll.
Explanation of act three. How does the documentary reach a resolution? What’s the climax?
More vox pops and expert interview clips, add a statistic/fact, tell it to people in the vox pops, would be good if the expert gave us this fact, and then get the vox pop interviewees to react to it, link it into the expert interview.
Final wrap-up. Where do we leave the ‘characters’? What happens at the very end? Is there an epilogue? (a final or concluding event)
Conclusion. The end.
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