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Documentary: Can I take your order please?
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Tuesday 20:00-20:30pm
Duration: 27 minutes
Montage of fast food restaurants and people eating/buying fast food.
Opening title sequence
Start with archive footage of the first fast food restaurants and their logos and then
compare them with images of modern day fast food restaurants. With this we will
have a voice over explaining the history of fast food and how it all began worldwide
and in the UK. We will use facts and figures.
Vox pops explaining why they think fast food is so popular. (First word that comes
to mind when they think about fast food)
Voice-over stating facts and statistics about how much people spend on average on
fast food and how often they eat it. This will be with images of newspaper articles.
More vox pop footage on how often they (the public) eat fast food and how they
think it affects their health.
Voice over of facts and statistics about how much of the population eats fast food
and then make the point many don’t question how it is made or advertised. Show
the adverts of fast food restaurants and images they show of their food compared
to the real product.
Interviews with fast food employees (preferably in uniform) with cut-awayshots of
either fast food being made or archive footage.
Voice over about drive-thru and how it came about and the accessibility of fast food
with still image of 24hr McDonalds and how that helps sales.
Observation footage with tracking shot of drive-thru
Voice over about what experts say with observational footage of unhealthy
people/still images.
Interview with health dietician Sue about the health risks of fast food with cut-away
shots of the human body and how it is affected by fast food.
Reaction shots of the public of the affect fast food can have on the body.
Voice over explaining how people have tried to show how damaging fast food can
be. Archive footage from the documentary ‘Supersize Me’.
Back to interview with the vox populi about why the still eat fast food when it is so
unhealthy. Answers on which fast food restaurant is the healthiest and which is the
unhealthiest.
Voice over stating which fast food restaurant is actually the healthiest and which is
the unhealthiest with observational footage or still images of each one. Summarise
why people still eat fast food and mention how busy modern day life is (with tacking
shot of busy town).
Montage of the media coverage of fast food with music from the title sequence
louder.
Voice over about the conflict in opinions on fast food i.e. organisations against fast
food such as ‘Slow Food’ in the UK and the ‘Food Empowerment Project’ in the USA.
Possible interview with Booths in Manchester who are in partnership with ‘Slow
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Interview with fast food restaurant manager discussing their plans of action and
aims that they set for their restaurant
Voice over about fast food mascots and jingles with footage of this
Interview with restaurant employee about their advertising and mascots
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Voice over about kids parties taking place at fast food restaurants
Interview with parents and why they allow parties at fast food restaurants
Voice over about how fast food is social especially with young people/students.
Interview with young adults/students (16-25) about why they eat fast food. Cut
awayshots to students eating fast food.
Voiceover about media coverage of fast food, with footage of documentaries,
television programmes, movies in which the characters are eating fast food.
Cut away to ‘supersize me’ documentary
Voice over talking about sales comparisons around the UK, Europe and the rest of
the world using statistics and images of graphs and finance documents.
Interview with fast food employee in charge of finances also and how they work
with their other stores abroad.
Voice over about how fast food restaurants edit their menu’s for their location for
example in McDonald's Austria they have McNoodles.
Observational/archive footage of different fast food restaurants worldwide and
altercations in their menu’s to fit in with that country’s culture. Alongside interviews
with a range of people from different countries and what they think about fast food.
Voice over about hygiene and safety standards within fast food restaurants in the
UK and worldwide.
Interview with employee and interview with health inspector.
Interviews with parents part of the ‘Parents Against Junk Food’ organisation. With
cut away shots to children and families eating fast food.
Interviews with members of the ‘Food Empowerment Project’. Discussing what they
do and how others can become a part of the organisation or support it.
Voice over about how fast food restaurants have managed to stay so popular over
time and how they plan to continue to be successful.
Voice over summing up what we have found out and what the future holds for fast
food restaurants.
Ending Credits
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