Documentary Unit - Producing a Script

Over the past couple of days me and Jemma sat down and wrote a script for the documentary. It is laid out in the correct format with the visual elements on the left and audio on the right. We also added time codes on the end as we wanted to get a rough estimate of how long the documentary would last and see if any cuts were needed to be made. We used shortened terminology like PTC (piece to camera) and GV (general View) so that the script was not cluttered and made it easy to read.

After showing the script to Helen she gave us a lot of good feedback on how to improve our script and the overall structure of the documentary. She explained that there was not enough focus on one particular thing and it was too heavy in terms of different content being incorporated. With this in mind we decided to focus just on the digital detox bootcamp and cut the other ideas we had including a dangerous driving and financial sections. She also explained that it was not personal enough and we needed to chat to our audience rather than talk at them.

The other thing said was that It was very one way and there was not enough positives to look for example a segment can talk about how apps have helped people in education, stress and money.

All this feedback had been taken on board and our group will re draft the script accordingly.