The PitchBy Fraser, Luke and Tom

Our idea

• We plan on basing our participatory observational documentary around an isolation experiment, such as the one presented in the Island with Bear Grylls and the movie ‘Old boy’. We want to see what happens to people when they confined to one area by themselves; how does it effect them mentally and physically?

• We plan on basing the documentary in a group members scout hut, if possible. We plan on doing it there as it feels very remote and the inside is fairly empty. • If we cannot get the scout hut we will use another room

i.e.: a members house or a clearing in the woods.

• We also plan on giving ‘trials’ to the participant to complete on a “weekly” basis to ‘measure their psychological and physical wellbeing’

How will it be set out

• We plan to use ‘fly on the wall’ style footage, with cameras placed around the room in a fashion that is similar to security cameras in the style of layout.

• Our editing will be more slow paced, changing mainly from different angles of the events, with occasional cutaways to interviews and people outside of the room such as the presenters giving a live reaction to what is happening inside, family members talking about participant etc. there may also be cutaways to the participant giving a video diary either during the experiment or in retrospect.

• For mise en scene it will mainly be casual wear, similar to TIWBG in that they wear the clothes that they arrive in for the entirety of the documentary.

Audience Appeal

• We believe that this will appeal to our audience as this is a fairly new topic to investigate in a documentary. • This may appeal to them as it can indicate dysfunctions

that can arise from long term social isolation, something that young people may experience

• A majority of our target audience liked the similar programme ‘the island with Bear Grylls’ which suggests that they will enjoy what we plan on doing.• Shows involving trials, such as ‘I’m a celebrity…’, are

also popular among our target audience so the trial aspect of our documentary should also be appealing to them