Topic
The topic of our documentary we want to explore is the supernatural focusing in particular about fortune tellers and psychic readings. We wanted to investigate the brief history of fortune telling and different types of fortune telling involved, for example palm readings, tarot cards and tea leaves. We plan to also involve how the media has become a great influence win fortune telling and the money involved giving unbiased opinions about if it is fake and if it is real. Involving our audience we wanted to get opinions and beliefs off them, by asking questions in interviews to show these unbiased opinions we are trying to portray. When including about the media we wanted to include how celebrities scan have a major impact and how people can idolise celebrities who get their fortunes read, read horoscopes and how this can influence people.
Other sub topics we wanted to include Ghosts and haunting and show real life experiences in interviews where people have had contact with the supernatural. We investigated different opinions and beliefs about the supernatural and, the paranormal genre overall.
When choosing our topic we knew we wanted something intriguing and objective, we wanted it to be non bias and appealing towards a large audience. Initially we wanted to explore all areas of supernatural, however, when we looked more in-depth we found our interest leaning towards Psychic readings and fortune telling. This particular area of the supernatural was interesting to us and we have a strong knowledge on each topic. For the content of our documentary we had several sources we knew we could rely on to submit strong and trustworthy advice and answer all of our queries.
The name of our documentary is Fortune in fortune telling.
Type of Documentary
The type of documentary we wanted to carry out was participatory documentary, this will involve the filmmaker (us) getting involved and interacting with the interviewee’s and people featured within the footage, us being involved may alter the results and opinions. We will be interacting and having our own fortunes read and communicate with the fortune teller by asking various questions.
Style of Documentary
The style of our documentary is formal. We feel by having it formal we can include more objective opinions and wanting our audience to have their own opinion on what they believe after the documentary
Channel and research
The channel we have decided for our documentary to be on channel 4. We felt this was a strong channel to show our documentary on because lots of successful documentaries from many genres are shown on channel 4 and have become very popular. We wanted to show our documentary on Thursday at 9 o’clock; this we felt was an appropriate time because we felt our target audience would be available to watch during the week, as many people can be busy on the weekend. Another reason we choose channel 4 is because it has many other options viable if our audience does miss our documentary, for example 4 OD and channel 4 plus one.
Secondary research needed
We needed research on each type of fortune telling, what they’re about, what they do and who does them. We then needed to research the advertising behind fortune tellings and the money to be made from it. We researched authors of at home psychic books and the sales made from them. We found statistics from a website stating the countries beliefs and the amount of encounters have had with something supernatural.
Narrative structureThe narrative structure for our documentary is linear. This is because we wanted our documentary to be chronological and show our journey while exploring the supernatural.
Outline Content
· Intro – We introduce the theme of Supernatural, a voice over narrates the up and coming footage.
· History – We look back on the evolution of Fortune telling and zoom in on focus points IE tarot card and were it originated.
· Tea Leaves – We conducted an interview with a tea leaf reader and she opened up about her process and accuracy.
· Fortunes - How easily people are influenced by media, Sylvia Browne and the business she’s created. How people advertise with images of celebrities to draw in the public.
· How the media has become involved – Advertisements and how easy it is for people to say they are gifted but are fraud.
· The fortune in fortune telling – The money that can be made
· Palm reading – At home palm reading books and how you can predict your own future.
· Tarot Cards – Participate in a tarot card reading and conduct an interview with the reader
· Ghosts – Interview people who have had ghost encounters and their views on the situation.
Resource Requirements
· Camera, microphone tripod
· Interview questions
· Candles and images for mise-en-scene .
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