NJJD Productions

Individual Treatment Idea

Documentary Title:
The lives of the homeless
That homeless person
Sasha Wilkins, homeless and hungry

Duration:
Extract lasting 5 mins approx

Audience: This documentary would appeal to both men and women, a high percentage teenagers.

Synopsis: Opening sequence starts with voice over of reporter, whilst showing relevant clips of homeless people/person getting on with their life. Will include facts in this speech, to shock and interest the audience. The title sequence will then appear. After this the next scenes will look more in depth at certain person's story. The reporter not on camera, starts asking the homeless person questions about living on the street and how it came about. In the scene when talking about dangerous experiences, there is a flashback, which means a change of scenery, and someone dragging the homeless person into a car follows. Slow mo to make it dramatic yet clear. The st scenes end with a paragraph that concludes what has been learnt and also "if you have been affected by any of the issues in this program . . . etc".

Suggested Elements: Dark dingy environment, filmed t night to achieve and portray to the audience the feel of living homeless. Lots of voice overs and also elements of the homeless people talking whilst not showing their faces and them doing other actions, which will put across the feeling of homeless people not having an identity which is how they often feel.

Questions reporter could ask.
How do you get food?
Where do you get washed?
Would you consider sleeping with people to get money?
Do you get scared?
How did you become homeless?
Did you want to become homeless?
Do you ever think about killing yourself?
Could follow two people's stories as a contrast.

For inspiration for my idea for a documentary and how it would play out, I used TV documentaries I had seen in the past and thought of the successful techniques that these used, and how we could as a team make our documentary similar. I also researched into youtube videos of similar briefs and found this one most helpful and as an ideal what we would have like to achieve.