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Anorexia documentary
By Annie Magner
Introduction
Time – It will last for 30 minutes and there will be one break. It will be on from 21:00 PM
to 21:30 PM.
Copyright
The copyright designs and patents act 1988 is the current law in the UK when it comes to copyright. The
law states that if someone creates a work, whether it be literature, a play, musical, art, song, image, video,
film, sound recording or typographical arrangement of published editions, they have the right to control
what is done with it.
This means that if someone else wants to use their work in public whether they have edited the work or
not, they would need to have permission from the original owner. Ideas for a fictional work are not
protected under copyright and names, titles and short phrases, unless these combine to create a logo
because in that case it is protected.
However, names can be trademarked but someone or a company would have to apply for a trademark and
it would only apply in the country that they applied for the trademark. When it comes to literature,
musicals, dramatic and artistic works, copyright only applies for the creator's life time and 70 years after
their death. The copyright for sound recordings lasts 50 years after the creator's death and when it comes
to typographical arrangement of published editions, the copyright lasts 25 years from which it was
published.
Programme Structure
Opening Music – The music will be soft but not cheerful. I have chose a tune called
“Loneliness” by Adrian von Ziegler.
Introduction – The introduction will consist of the Talent talking about what will be
featured on the documentary and a preview of what is to come.
Adverts – There will be one set of adverts which will take place halfway during the
documentary.
Closing Credits – The credits will include everyone involved in creating the documentary
and the sources used to obtain the information used in the documentary. The music in the
closing credits will be the same music used as the opening music.
Programme Structure
▪ What is anorexia?
▪ What are the symptoms?
▪ What are the statistics? Beginning
▪ What causes anorexia?
▪ More facts
Middle
▪ Advertising effectiveness
▪ Response to advertising campaigns
End
▪ Discussion
▪ How it can be treated
Proposed Production Schedule
Planning – Overall, it will take four weeks to create the whole documentary. It would take
one week to do the research, put the research together and another week to find the Talent
and everyone taking part in the documentary. The next week would be when the filming
takes place.
Studio Filming – The discussion will be filmed at one of the Participant’s homes. We will
agree with the Participant’s on which home will be filmed. The Talent will only be filmed at the
Studio.
Editing and Publishing – The last week would consist of the editing and publishing of
the documentary. It will be edited on Adobe Premiere.
Budget Analysis
Budget – £40,000
Video Camera with built in microphone (GY-HM200E 4KCAM live streaming Camcorder) – £1,981.95
Discussion Participants for 4 hours – £50 for two of the Participants plus £100 for the Participant’s home is being
filmed in.
Total of – £14,381.95
Any other locations involved? – The editing will take place at Channel 4
headquarters, which is in London.
Reccee
What will take place? – The Talent will be narrating all the information apart from the
discussion that will take place. There will be a discussion with Participants who have not
suffered through anorexia and they are just sharing their opinions on what causes anorexia
and what can be done to prevent it.
When? – The discussion will take place first and the Talent being filmed in the studio will
take place after the discussion. The reason why I want it to take place in this order is so the
Talent will know what took place in the discussion.
Where – The Talent will be filmed at the studio and the discussion will take place at one of
the Participant’s homes.
Facilities
Who is the Talent? – Scarlett Moffatt is a TV personality who is known for appearing on
“Gogglebox”, which is a programme on Channel 4. She has also presented TV programmes
such as “Streetmate”, “Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway” and “Host the Week”.
How much do they charge? – It is estimated that she would need to be charged
about £2500 a day.
What is anorexia?
Anorexia doesn’t just affect the mind, it affects the body as well. It can cause problems in the bones
and muscles such as osteoporosis and feelings of weakness and tiredness can arise.
It can also cause fertility problems and a lack of sex drive. It can cause health problems involved
with the heart and blood vessels including poor circulation, having a heartbeat that isn’t regular, low
blood pressure, heart failure and Oedema (Swelling in feet, hands and/or face).
The most common types of therapy for People over 18 include cognitive behavioural therapy
(CBT), Maudsley Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults (MANTRA) and specialist supportive
clinical management (SSCM). Anorexia Sufferers under 18 are offered family therapy like CBT or
adolescent-focused psychotherapy.
Secondary Research –
Quantitative
She also pointed out that both The Daily Mail and The Sun
blamed “Pictures in Magazines” in both their articles about
anorexia.
▪ Anorexia “Has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder” and that
13% to 20% of anorexia sufferers die from the disorder
▪ Anorexia can cause depression and a lack of socialising
Questionnaire – I created a questionnaire and handed them out to ten of my peers. The questionnaire was about body image
and I asked questions such as “On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident do you feel in your body?”, “Do many models in adverts appear
unrealistic to you?” and I also asked what was their age range, race and gender.
They were all in the same age range and of the same race. Half of the respondents were female and the other half were male. The
graph on the right shows the results for question number 4. The most common answer was 8 on the scale. Nine out of the ten
respondents answered “Yes” on question number 5.
I feel like low self-esteem could be a cause for anorexia because for
example, they could have been insulted because of their body and this can
lead to low self-esteem.
If they were only insulted once then this probably wouldn’t cause them to
have a distorted view of their body but if it has been happening for a long
time, especially if it started when they were younger then this would most
likely cause them to have a distorted view of their body.
Joel Miller at AdMedia found that 69% of girls agreed that models in magazines
have a huge influence on what they think should be the perfect body shape.
These effects have also caused women and girls to lose weight as a study found
that 47% of girls losing weight said they were doing so because images in
magazines was a reason. However, 29% of the girls asked in the study were
overweight.
A study was done where women who had previously had eating disorders
viewed advertisements with both average sized models and very thin models.
The advertisements with the very thin models did not cause the women to
have more anxiety but after looking at the average sized models, the women felt
relieved and their anxiety decreased.
Evaluation
World wide web – I chose this method of research because it is an easy way of doing research.
Programme ratings – I chose to find out programme ratings to see how well programmes about anorexia did so that I
can predict how successful my documentary might be.
Response to advertising campaigns – I chose to look at responses to advertising campaigns because I wanted to see
what others apart from myself thought of advertisements to do with beauty.
Books – I chose this method of research because the Authors of non-fiction Books tend to be experts on the topic that
they are talking about.
Questionnaire – I did a questionnaire on body image because I wanted to find out what some People around me thought
about their own body image and how Models are portrayed.
Discussion – I decided to have a discussion with two other People about anorexia to find out what non-sufferers think
about the disorder.
Age and gender demographics – The reason why I decided to find the anorexia statistics for these demographics
because I thought that these were the easiest demographics to find.
Advertising effectiveness – I wanted to find out how effective advertising is to see if the advertising on very thin models
effects People’s image of a perfect body.
Selection of material
Music – The reason why I chose the music that I chose was because it was not
cheerful but it was calm.
Why choose my documentary? – The documentary isn’t a long one like many
documentaries are and the information is split into different sections so the information is
easy to take in.
How will it benefit the public? – It is important that the public is aware about anorexia
as they may know someone with anorexia. By knowing the facts, they might know what to
do if someone they know has anorexia.
Is it a worth-while topic? – Although anorexia isn’t common, it isn’t extremely rare and
sufferers can be found all around the UK.
Thank you For Listening