This is a rough outline of what will be in our documentary
Beginning of documentary – video of models on a catwalk – including sound, video then goes into slow motion, and screen goes black and white, following on will be the title of our documentary in colour.
Find model footage on you tube
Montage of Celebrities/Covers
Title will come up- fade (music could stop)
Beginning of dietitian Interview/ still of her face and name will appear, explain what eating disorder is
Pictures of magazine Covers
Possible interview with The Guardian journalist ( still not confirmed)
Interview with psychotherapist
Try an get a video of models on the catwalk, a voice over saying statistics
Get some general information about media influence on teenagers.
Record vox pops of people saying what an eating disorder is. Overlapping the voices so it becomes a blur
the clip below, shows models on the catwalk - we may use part of it during the documentary
What do you particularly like about it? What's especially impressive?
What could be improved? What's missing or could be added?
2. Based on what you've read on the blog (and maybe seen in test screenings in class) what suggestions do you have regarding what we could do to make our Practical Production really successful?
What other things could we include in the production?
How should we go about filming any remaining scenes or editing the footage during post-production (+ suggestions for music, etc.)?
This article was published today in the Daily Mirror, as there is controversy surrounding London fashion week.
PROTESTERS ZERO IN ON SIZE 0 MODELS
PROTESTS against Size Zero models hit the start of London Fashion Week yesterday.
Waving placards, demonstrators blasted the British Fashion Council's decision not to ban super-skinny girls from the catwalk.
The move came as five models were judged too thin for Spain's top fashion event in Madrid.
In London, protesters gathered outside the Natural History Museum as Paul Costelloe's new collection kicked off the week-long fashion event.
Designers have been asked to use only "healthy" models in their shows who are aged at least 16.
The use of girls wearing American size zero clothes - the equivalent of a British size four - has sparked huge controversy.
In Spain, five of 69 women vetted for the Cibeles fashion show in Madrid were declared too thin to take part.
Their body mass index was analysed by doctors and if it was too low, they were banned from catwalk. Dr Susana Monereo said: "The idea of weighing models who are on show here and making sure they look healthy is so that they do not have a negative influence by prompting young people to become obsessed by being thin."
Yesterday British Fashion Council boss Hilary Riva defended the decision not to ban ultra-slim models.
Speaking after the Paul Costelloe show, she said: "What I think we saw today were great models.
"Very tall, and there wasn't one of them which I thought looked very young or excessively thin.
"I think it is unrealistic to expect changing behaviours and attitudes after a short space of time in something like this. We have to raise awareness and debate about the subject."
And banning size zero models could lead them to take legal action, it was warned yesterday.
Melissa Richardson of the Take Two agency, said: "You can't say to models, 'You can't work because you are black or because you are blind', so why should you be able to say, 'You are too thin for work'?"
Her opinion was backed by Vogue magazine editor Alexandra Shulman.
She said: "We would not be allowed to discriminate in that way. It would be like saying you can't have black or white models."
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said all women should face medical checks before they are allowed on the catwalk.
Milan, Madrid and New York have banned models with a body mass index of less than 18.5 per cent. A healthy BMI is regarded as between 18.5 and 25 per cent.
But designer Katharine Hamnett said the size zero debate was a "frivolous" distraction from more important issues about the ethical and environmental impact of the fashion industry.
So far we have interviewed a dietitian, who was very helpful in answering questions related to eating disorders amongst teenagers on the 19Th February we have arranged an interview with a psychotherapist, however she specialises in eating disorders amongst adults so it may be different to the previous interview. also we have planned the opening sequence for the documentary and the features we want to include.
