Documentary- Proposal and treatment for Busking piece (main idea)

BUSKING DOCUMENTARY

Brief Overview
To allow the audience to contemplate the
social construct of how street performers are viewed using the legislation
proposed on charging buskers as an issue that will affect all buskers. We are
trying to capture a more human side to the busking community by recognising
them as individuals. We will do this by focusing on a specific individual
called Jonny Walker, a Liverpool busker who has had a certain amount of
commercial success. We will further shoot an interview with a councillor called
Steve Munby who will discuss the legislation and his opinions on what effect
this will have on the busking community.

Narrative development
Opening Scene: FADE IN- Publics view on
buskers without disclosing subject matter of buskers immediately then
introducing subject matter with cutaways
to buskers performing and back to the public disclosing the word busker in an
answer.
Buskers view on their own community.
Cutaways of Buskers within the Liverpool high street
Narrator says statistics about how many buskers there are in the UK and how much income
is made in a year by the busking community over the top of the buskers on the
high street.

CUT TO: high street time lapse shot with
Jonny Walker walking into centre frame setting up and starting to busk.
Cut to Jonny discussing 'What is in the
Street Performing community?' and 'Why
do people chose to busk?'

CUT TO: Jonny Walker being interviewed
about himself as a busker. Asking why he became a busker, what his favourite
location is and how the legislation will affect him as a busker.

CUT TO: Cutaways of Beatles museum-
Narrator talks about how famous celebrities have busked and the opportunities
that have raised for bands such as the Beatles.

CUT TO: Steve Munby's interview about the
council's legislation plans. Ending with how he thinks it will affect buskers

CUT TO: Jonny Walker's interview, how he
thinks it will affect him personally.

CUT TO: Jonny Walker on the street
performing a song of his own toward the end of his interview. (Juxtapose)

END

Style
The documentary will be a hybrid approach
of educational/informative and investigative as we are looking at the busking
community in detail but taking a journalistic approach by interviewing the
local council for views and information on the legislation that poses a threat
on the busking community.
We will give a sense of vibrant activity
by using brightly lit shots and time lapse shots within the piece to further
exaggerate the similar activity the buskers give in this area. We will also use
this when focusing on Jonny Walker as he is the main individual in this piece
so this technique will help to create a more interesting visual. Furthermore we
will use Jonny Walkers own music to centre the documentary more around him than
other issues that are raised.

Audience
We will have a broad demographic range in
this piece however it will mostly be based on middle class people of any age
who have an interest in their community or political interests. As a
journalistic approach we aim to please the widest range of people we can within
this genre.