Voice Over Script for Documentary

Katie Price has had numerous surgical procedures, these include 5 boob jobs, liposuction and veneers. Surgery can be the answer to many peoples confidence problems most common procedures include Breast, eyes and nose. Influenced by many celebrities in the public eye. Through research we found out that Katie Price uses sun beds on a daily basis and has bald patches from gluing in her hair extensions.

Is it celebrities like this that have changed the way the public perceived themselves? Its not just celebrities that thrive to get this glamorous look.

Sunbeds are estimated to cause 100 deaths from melanoma every year in the UK. Sunbeds also cause premature skin ageing which means your skin becomes cause, leathery and wrinkled at a younger age. When the tan fades, the damage remains. Using sun beds for the first time before the age of 35 increases the risk of developing melanoma skin cancer by 75%.

People who are most at risk are younger people, people who have a lot of moles, people with fare skin, people who burn easily, people who have had skin cancer in the past, people with a family history of skin cancer.

People who use sun beds under age increase their risk of malignancy by 55% in the UK. Almost 9000 cases of meligmaloma are diagnosed each year, and more than 1000 people die from the disease each year.

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Words are kept to a minimum

The title is always included

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The scheduling information always included

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Proposal

The topic of our documentary is going to be about external beauty, this will explore the advantages and disadvantages of things such as plastic surgery, usage of the sun beds and also the process a girl goes through to look good. We will be discussing the risks of surgery and influences people have as to why they go through these procedures, this could to be things as insecurities or in influences through celebrities and the media.

Our documentary will be direct, addressing the audience, although it will be direct it will also be informal directing the audience in a friendly way being unbiased towards plastic surgery and surrounding topics.

We have decided to place our documentary on BBC, we chose this because they show a lot of documentaries relating to ours, for example’ Snog, Marry, Avoid’ they also have a series of documentaries broadcasting at the moment  about lives of different teenagers with extraordinary lives. We also chose the BBC to broadcast our documentary as they are an unbiased and so is our documentary. We have to chosen to broadcast the programme at 9 o’clock on a Wednesday, we decided upon this because we feel this would be a typical night where our target audience would be at home relaxing, as it is half way through the week it will be advertised before hand letting people know when it’s on.

Our target audience will be woman aged 16-40 this is because after conducting our research people relate women with beauty more than they do men. We decided upon the age because 16 year old girls are beginning to get more body conscious and we found older people think a lot about plastic surgery because of the effects of aging. 

So far we have conducted a questionnaire which we handed out to thirty members of the general public, ranging from different ages and genders, the outcomes of these gave us ideas for our initial ideas. To further our research we shall interview a plastic surgeon which will give us knowledge along with statistics on his field of work making our documentary reliable. We will also visit a health advisor to further our research into the truth about the risks involved with sun beds and the reasons for things such as the change in law making the legal age to use sun beds to 18.

As well as using primary research we will also use the internet to enhance our knowledge on our chosen subject, we will be able to gain archive footage by using the internet as well as getting more statistics and real life stories about things such as surgery gone wrong.

Our documentary will not be telling a story as such; because of this it will classify our documentary as non-linear. As our documentary is unbiased it may flicker from different opinions on the subject showing the risks to the advantages.

In our documentary we will include various interviews with people who have had plastic surgery, we will ask what they had done, the risks they took, how it went and how they feel about it now. We will also be interviewing an expert such as a surgeon or a worker at a tanning salon. We will also include various cutaways of things such as questions asked to the general public and before and after pictures of celebrities of the changes that were made to their bodies.

Equipment we will need to use when filming and editing will be things such as tripods, camera, tape, microphone, a computer with Premier installed on it to edit.

Running Order

·         clips of peoples bodies shown in a side profile changing with different peoples bodies-10 seconds

·         Pictures of body parts with titles shown over the top – 10 seconds

·         Questions asked to the general public about what they’d change about them – 30 seconds

·         Cutaway of news paper stories about surgery with narrator over the top talking about statistics- 30 seconds

·         Questions asked to general public – 20 seconds

·         Celebrity before and after pictures narrator– 40 seconds

·         Interview with someone who’s had surgery discussing positives – 1.50 seconds

·         Cutaway – 10/20 seconds

·         Archive footage of somebody having surgery – 30 seconds

·         Interview with someone discussing negatives about surgery, gone wrong- 3minutes

·         Narration about semi-permanent things with background of someone in a tanning salon – 30seconds

·         Questions  to the general public about sun beds/hair extensions etc – 40seconds

·         Show someone getting id’d for going on the sun beds – 10 seconds

·         Interview with someone who works at a tanning salon – 1 minute

·          Cutaway of archive footage of a news clip about someone who’s addicted to the sun beds- 30 seconds

·         Interviews showing peoples reactions to the statistics – 30 seconds (10.40)

·         Interview with surgeon asking about patients and their opinions discussing negatives/positives-2.30 minutes

·         Cutaway of someone being consulted about surgery shows the pictures of the difference it makes- 1 minute

·         3 minute advert break

·         Show archive footage of tattooed make-up with narrator over the top – 40seconds

·         Interview with someone who’s has make-up tattooed 1.30minutes

·         Questions asked to the public about tattooed makeup-40seconds

·         Interview with a tattooist who does the procedure- 2minutes

·         Ask the general public about the amount of makeup they wear, in the day and when they go out – eyelashes and extensions etc. – 40seconds

·         Cutaway of someone wearing heavy makeup taking it off fast forwarded -20seconds

·         Look into the media (newspapers magazines) about why people feel the pressure to wear so much makeup- 1minute

·         Narration about people having surgery to prevent ageing, before and after pictures- 20 seconds

·         Interview older people whether they’d have surgery to prevent ageing- 40 seconds

·         Interview someone who’s had facelift/Botox etc. – 1.30

·         Show someone getting botox with narrator giving statistics- 20 seconds

·         Narrator giving conclusion – 20 seconds