Your 10 minute presentation should reflect your ability to communicate clearly and concisely your thoughts and ideas to an audience.
The key elements that will be assessed.
- Presentation technique
- Introduction and conclusion
- Effectiveness of visual aids
- Effectiveness of project demonstration
- Communication skills/clarity of information
-INTRODUCTION
Introduce yourself,
What you are pitching today (title of doc)
-What is the documentary about, objective of the doc
This film explores the concept of “pretty privilege”, the direct link it has to the hospitality industry and its impacts towards numerous aspects in this business sector.
Raise awareness on the significance of this matter and inform viewers about the advantages and disadvantages
Allows viewers to decide for themselves whether this is more of a positive or negative issue
-Where do you see this going (after the 4-5 min short)
Go through the 3 act structure in the treatment
PART 1:
What it is, who benefits from it, the research behind it, opinions from the public.
Research involves:
Statistics and facts, qualitative and quantitative data primarily from secondary sources
This focuses on topics (employment and wage statistics, pulchronomics: The link between economics and physical attractiveness and finally the ‘halo effect’: overall impression influences how people feel about you, if you are good looking people assume you are good)
PART 2:
Strong focus on the hospitality industry and how this ideal impacts both sides of the business: Establishments who use it for their own gain & workers who either benefit/struggle more because of their looks
Interviews with the characters with unique points of view either negative or positive who talk about their experience
Interviews with direct heads of recruitment, get their opinion/side of the story
More in-depth involvement with the interviewees (fly on the wall following them around for a day), get a better feel of their personalities so audience can sympathise more with them
PART 3:
Summarises points/findings from each character, allows audience to draw their own conclusion on the matter
Asks the audience to consider the ethics involved and how this may impact society as a future further down the line.
-Inspiration
My own experience, experiences my other friends have had
Generally affects all industries but the strongest impact was in hospitality as it affects your employability
-Who it features
Documentary Characters
Emily
A female working part time in hospitality who states she gets treated differently to girls who are ‘conventionally attractive’.
Kenzie
A female working part time as a server and hostess who has experienced advantages of pretty privilege
Greg
A part time bar manager with previous experience in the events and entertainment industry who benefits from this privilege and also has insight into how this privilege can benefit recruitment/employability
-Film mode/style, visual style, inspiration
Informative and investigative style:
Investigative aspects- as it is a new concept, will be finding out more about this ideal through research/interviews.
Informative aspect- involves heavy research into the subject, both secondary and primary through various forms of media and written sources as well as the interviews. Filmed in an expository mode using a “voice of god” narration to relay this information back to the audience.
Aesthetic wise:
I want my documentary to be partially cinematic with a strong focus on making the shots visually pleasing to the audience. I’ve found with the documentaries I have watched, the majority of the ones I have fully enjoyed have had a cinematic touch to them which I think really improves the film.
Pastel colour palette- Wes Anderson inspired
Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
Pastel colours often make things seem more dreamlike and “emit this soothing aura”,
Often used in films like Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands to showcase a utopia environment. Not only are these colours calming but they present this perfect environment which I believe links in with the ideal of ‘pretty privilege’, this ideal of your attractivity boosting your life positively.
-Target Audience
Subject is quite universal & can impact both genders HOWEVER based on both quantitative and qualitative research, younger females are the most impacted by this concept and treatment
age range of 20 to mid 30s (this is due to how the documentary focuses on the hospitality working sector which would mainly relate to those in employment)
Class E-D demographic: This issue is quite common despite differences in race, cultures and locationss so the type of female viewer could be quite varied, but there would be a stronger interest with the class E-D demographic as it has been suggested those of a higher class can bypass this biased treatment on appearance via their wealth (as suggested in podcast episode ‘is pretty the ultimate privilege’ (Bobo and Flex, 2020).) so they may be less inclined to watch as they don’t relate as much.
As this documentary is set in the UK, it is likely the majority of the audience will be from this geographic location due to aspects such as the documentary’s promotional reach and available access to it (may not be available in other countries) or personal identification (seeing people from the same area).
-Psychographics:
Aspirers: Materialistic, care about appearance, typically a younger crowd
This concept lines up with their personal ideas
-Budget/Time needed
-TopLine film (production company) suggests that a professional company production budget would be around £3,000-£50,000
Through research I’ve found that most basic production budgets would be about 50 thousand, for example “-Netflix documentary competition for documentary makers gave a budget of £40,000 each for those successful. https://www.netflixdocfund.co.uk/”
-Those documentaries funded are the similar quality and style I would aspire for in my documentary, so having a similar budget of £40,000 would be ideal however I would like to have that in a phase by phase plan with the potential to increase the budget considering the ones produced by Netflix were only around 12 minutes long whereas ideally mine would be about an hour minimum.
-I believe the phase by phase plan would also be more beneficial to you as it provides you with more security in financing this documentary.
-Excluding the planning, this short took about four weeks to produce and edit in post production. For a longer piece of work with more research at a higher quality, I believe that at a minimum it would take about 8 months.
-Taking into consideration aspects such as location scouting, research, casting, crew, production, post production, distribution and marketing,
-This is similar to the Netflix documentaries which took 8 months (May 2021-Jan 2022) to be made.
-Why would this documentary be successful
Has not been done/seen yet in an in depth accurate way, certain documentaries have touched on this topic (Netflix’s “Hello Privilege, It’s me, Chelsea”) but have not properly developed it
Relevancy: New topic more relevant to this current generation
With interesting and stylised cinematography I believe this could be a very attractive documentary to an audience
Of course, my personal link to it makes me incredibly passionate about this piece and is why I would also want to ensure its success as I believe there are stories here that definitely need to be told.
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