The documentary aims to raise awareness of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a fatal genetic disorder affecting 1 in 3,500 male births. It will do so by interviewing a person living with DMD about their daily life experience, as well as genetic researchers discussing stem cell and gene therapy treatments. The documentary will be biographical and informative, using semi-structured interviews to allow patients and health professionals to elaborate on their experiences living with or researching DMD. This approach makes the documentary unique compared to others that only feature parents' perspectives.

1. Tooba Mubashira

2.  The aim of the documentary is to inform
people about a very rare disease called
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
 Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a fatal
genetic disorder diagnosed in childhood,
affecting approximately 1 in every 3,500 male
births/infants.
 The purpose is to raise awareness of the stem
and gene therapy treatment, by interviewing
genetic researchers and looking into a day in
life of a person who has the condition.

3.  It will be a biographical and informative
documentary because it will have both patient
and health professionals.
 It will be participant led so the audience are
engaged in the documentary and they can
relate their feelings more easily when the
participant is directly telling information to the
audience.
 It will have semi structured interviews so the
patient and the researcher knows what kind of
information we are looking for but they will be
able to elaborate on their answers.

4.  My idea is viable because the people I am
interviewing in my documentary are easy to
access i.e. the patient and DMD organisation.
 The locations I am using don’t need permission
for filming i.e. the patient’s house and office of
the researcher.
 The documentary is cost effective because I
don’t have to pay someone to make an
appearance or I don’t have to pay for any
locations or props to be used.

5.  The target audience for this documentary will
be 25-35 years old who are interested in
knowing more about the condition.
 It can also appeal to people with the
condition or families of people with the
condition because it will have information
about the stem and gene therapy treatment.

8.  I looked at different documentaries on
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and found out
that there are no documentaries that have
health professionals explaining the condition,
they only have the parents telling how they
found out that there child has the condition and
how they feel about it.
 It tells me that having a health professional and
the patient himself telling the audience will
make my documentary different rom others.

9.  My initial idea was to make a documentary on motor
neuron diseases to raise awareness if the disease but as I
started looking at similar documentaries for my secondary
research I found out that there are a lot of documentaries on
motor neuron disease covering all the aspects of it and If I
was to make a documentary it wouldn’t be original.
 After my secondary research, I decided to make the my
documentary on DMD. My idea also developed after
primary research because I decided to interview a
doctor/expert in the documentary to tell us what causes the
disease because 50% of the audience wanted to see both.
This development was reinforced by my secondary research
because none of the documentaries I looked at had any
health professionals in it.

10.  According to the calculations it will cost me
approximately more then 30,000 to hire key
personnel, equipment and editing software's.
 However, I decided to be the producer and director
of my documentary and I will be the person filming
it.
 I have decided to use the equipment I l already
have i.e. camera, tripod, slider and mic. So I do not
have to hire any equipment.
 I will be using final cut pro which is already
available to me.
 For consultant, I will hire a media student who I will
have to pay less.