Outline of our documentary

Our documentary- 'The Lavish Life' is based on how the media influences us to shop. We will look at: celebrities and adverts- how they persuade people to Buy Buy Buy!! We will defiantly look at the Gap advert featuring Madonna because she's such a huge success and is one of the most famous singers, also she is easily recognised by everyone and on top of that Gap is a big company which most people are familiar with. Do girls really shop more than boys? Or is this just a stereotype put forward by the media? We plan to use montage squences, vox pops and much more to make our documentary interesting. However, although we want our documentary to entertain, we also want to show a serious side to it, which involves people who run into debt because they shop too much. As we want to shock our audience, we intend to make the end shocking to really put our point across and to show the serious side. We plan to use a main female character who we will follow around and who will be shown as a shopaholic- we've already spoken to a uni student who is willing to take part in our documentary. We have also done alot of research and we will use alot of the techniques from Michael Moore's documentary 'Bowling For Columbine'. Pardeep