Evidence Of What Comic Relief does To Help Young People With Mental Illnesses

Profile Of Naomi

Naomi was six years old when her mom died of liver cancer. She was distressed and shattered as her mom was her rock but things began to slip even more when she lost her dad. Her dad passed away in a car accident and from there Naomi was never the same. She blamed herself for the deaths of both of her parents and at the age of seventeen things were not looking up. In April 2011 during red nose day, She started to have delusions of persecution that other people especially her parents were coming to kill her as she believed that she killed them too. School was getting harder and she was not doing very well in her school work as she would hide in the toilets to protect herself from anyone out there who was going to hurt her.

 However, she got the help she needed and this year on red nose day, she is celebrating her anniversary of getting through this disturbing illness. She is dressing up to show that she feels more ready and powerful and in control opposed to last year.

Formal Proposal

This is our final proposal about our documentary.

Topic
The topic of our documentary is Special Cases

Type of Documentary
The type of documentary is a mix of compilation film and its also an educational documentary.

Style of Documentary
We shall be using a mix of documentary genres. However the main genre will be expository. We will be using key features of the genre so the audience is anchored in, we are not using a voice of god and use images

Channel and Scheduling
ITV 1
Wednesday
9pm

Target Audience
Are target audience will have a primary audience of both females and meales  aged between 16 and 25. However a secondary audience of teenagers ad young teens.

Primary Research Needed
Interviews
Questionnaires
Emails
Secondary Research Needed
Research about schizophrenia

Narrative Structure
It will have a linear structure- it shall start with a sequence of pictures
Interviews with: psychiatrist, David

Symptoms of schizophrenia

Treatment of schizophrenia


Resource Requirements
Audio Recorder
Video camera
Still camera

Use Of Silhoettes

Silhoettes are images of people consisting of just an outline with the image of being black. The light might be natural for example a doorway or sunset. 

  

In our documentary, we used silhoettes to represent the difficult journey that David had to essemble to be able to be where he is now. The silhoettes are used when David is sad or depressed and when talking about his symptoms.

Use Of Reconstructions

Reconstructions are often used in documentaries. They are acted out scenes to enable the audience to understand what is going on in the documentary. They usually provide factual information and provide the audience with a sense of realism as if the actual event was occuring live. The camera work differs to the camera work used for the actual documentaries, for example in reconstructions they always include:

• Distortion
• Lighting effects
• Changes in camera levels
• Colour enhancement
• Blurring

THIS IS APPARENT IN SHOWS LIKE CRIMEWATCH ON BBC1

Cast List

Schizophrenic patient: David Failler

Psychiatrist: Miss Richardson

Voice over for the Radio Advertising: Kerry King

Mental person in photographs in the documentary: Ashleigh Innis Durin