This documentary will feature interviews with members of Help The Hatters, a volunteer support group for Stockport County FC. The interviews will be conducted at Edgeley Park, the club's home stadium, and will discuss the interviewees' experiences and the group's impact on the local community. The genre will be participatory factual programming. Questions will not be heard, and answers will be edited together to form a cohesive narrative with cutaway footage reinforcing points. Camerawork will include static shots for interviews and handheld footage of the stadium. Background music will be from the local band Blossoms. The pace will be mixed, with a fast intro crosscutting archive footage and stadium visuals.

1. Treatment
Written By Adam Paterson Working Title Help The Hatters
Synopsis Write a short outline of your story – briefly mentioning the main characters and what happens to them.
The main body of the story will feature various interviews with different members of the Help The Hatters group,
talking about their stories, influences and value towards the club as a small group of volunteer supporters for
their Local football club. These interviews will be cross cut with each other with relevant cutaways used to back
up their claims, whilst focusing on their interviews and what they are saying. The questions I will ask will be
related towards their experiences with the Football club and their development over the future few years in
terms of the football and in terms of their community group primarily.
Setting Say where and when the story happens – you need to describe the environment in which the action
takes place
The location for the factual program will be in Edgeley Park, Home of Stockport County F.C. This is because it would make
relevant Mice-En-Scene, the setting is relevant to the topic, the environment would help to reinforce the meaning of the
topic being a voluntary group for a non league football club.
Genre Say what type of programme it will be – will it be naturalistic, melodramatic or comic?
The genre of the programme will be a participatory factual program with a community theme to the story of the film. The
questions from the interviewer will not be heard, and much rather the questions will be answered by the interviewees, and
will be able to be understood by the viewer. The visual experience will also be helped with relevant cutaways.
Narrative
Structure
Say how the programme is broken down - is the story told in chronological order and are there sub
plots?
The story will be told with a Q&A Feature without the Questions. In post production I will delete the audio of me asking a
question and have the answer create one long answer, this will sound like a monologue and more professional. When during
production instead this was broken up for the interviewer to focus on specific areas of his answer. The questions will be
interlinked with B Roll, which shows a multi-strand structure to the story. The questions will also be crosscut with other
people’s answers to the questions.
Vision Explain how the film will look – this will include the style of camerawork, the use of colour and the use
of lighting
The Camerawork for the interview will be static shots on a tripod at eyeline level with the subject situated in the left or right
third depending on lighting on the day. The close up shot will also be at an eyeline level with a shallow depth of field to focus
more on the face of the person talking, this brings a lot more emphasis on the audio of the person talking, thus improving the
delivery of the lines. The cutaway shots will be shot on the day, with the use of handhelp, tripod and monopod shots
depending on which is the most efficient on the day, this is so that the shooting day is more free on the day, and whatever
we find at the stadium worth shooting with a vague shot list with a variety of wide and close up shots.
Sound Explain how you will use sound to help tell the story – how you will combine the four layers of film
sound to add to the total effect
Diegetic Audio –
Interviewer – Having the interviewer speak clearly into the Lavaliere microphone to create crisp and accurate audio that the
audience will be clear to hear with no problems. This will also help the footage more aswell because it will help to bind the
scenes and transitions together.
Non – Diegetic
Background Music – The background music will be music by the Stockport band Blossoms, this is because with a community
video highlighting the Stockport community, it would make sense to balance with visuals with the audio.
Editing Explain the cutting of shots and the use of transitions – what kind of pace will you have, and how you
move from one scene to the next
The pacing of this will be a mixture, the Intro will feel fast due to the short answers aswell as fast soundtrack in the
background of Charlemange by Blossoms. This will be crosscut with archive footage of Famous SCFC games and cross cut with
visuals from around the ground.