Tuesday 20 October 2009

Treatment for Do I Really Need...



The documentary programme will start off with arcive material from "Slumdog Millionaire", and will show the scene where the main character Jamal Maik [played by Dev Patel], wins 20 million rupees. The audience will experience a documentary that starts off by showing you how wealthy the character is and will describe his life before that.

The documentary will take the audience throught his life through the use of a live interview where he will discuss his previous life as an orphan who lived on the streets of london and who is how a young wealthy person due to his knowledge of entering a gameshow.

Reconstructions will be used to show his plan to change his life for him and his family and to give thm a better life as he was given the chance appear on a gameshow. It will explore his day-to-day life by the use of "Vox Pops" asking him what it is like? and How does he cope?.

This will create synpathy and empathy from the audience who will feel for the character and will want him to successed and change his life. Photographs will be used to show him winning the show, for example having photgraphs with the host and his family.

The documentary willshow the audience thew steps he took to appear on the game show and the effects that the winnings have had on his life, for example archive material showing him helping other people who are not as fortunate e.g. offering food, shelter.

There will be interview with members of his family on how proud they are and how it has changed his life, for example interiews with his mum and dad and the way that earning money before was difficult.

There will also be interviews and "Vox Pops" with celebrity hosts such as Chris Tarrant who hosts "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and how he is astonished on how much the winnings have changed the character's life compared to his life before by the use of archive material.

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