The document outlines an action plan for creating a documentary about a canal with various tasks and deadlines. Key tasks include choosing a topic by August 1st, researching the canal's history by September 26th, conducting interviews with canal owners by October 17th, editing the documentary starting December 1st, and creating a new action plan by January 15th to address any additional work needed.

1. Action Plan
Task Deadline
Update my blog about every stage of the project Ongoing
Choose a question/title for the project (can be refined later 01/08/2010
if need be)
Evaluate the effectiveness of every stage of the project Ongoing
Watch some documentaries for inspiration and ideas 19/09/2010
Research the main history of the canal 26/09/2010
Find books/articles about the canal and read them, keeping 26/09/2010
a note of relevant information
Organise a visit The National Waterways Museum 26/09/2010
Organise a boat ride/tour along the canal 26/09/2010
Create a timeline of the canal’s history for easy access to 03/10/2010
basic information
Narrow down all the information I gather to only things 10/10/2010
which are relevant to my chosen question
Establish my target audience 10/10/2010
Organise interviews with canal-boat owners 17/10/2010
Contact the BBC/Channel 4 about any canal footage/ 17/10/2010
archive information they have that I might be able to use
Choose/hire a narrator and other members of ‘staff’ for 24/10/2010
making the documentary
Buy/borrow a camera and empty tapes 24/10/2010
Film basic/extra footage to fill in any gaps I might have later Ongoing
Draw several storyboards to get a feel of how parts of the 24/10/2010
documentary will be filmed
Find out if there are any canal enthusiast groups and get in 31/10/2010
touch with them for information and interviews
Carry out surveys/questionnaires (eg the public’s opinion of 31/10/2010
the canal)
Get in contact with people who lived by the canal/worked 07/11/2010
on the canal in the past/present for information and
interviews
Write a script for my narrator 21/11/2010
Record my narrator reading the script 28/11/2010
Begin the editing process 01/12/2010
Decide on the trivial matters of the documentary (part of the 03/12/2010
editing process)
Identify any changes/extra work needs to be done (eg if any 08/01/2011
shots need to be re-done/more footage needs to be shot
etc)
Make a new action plan with deadlines for the above 15/01/2011
‘changes/extra work’