The Idea...

Within our Production Profile Module we have now been given a new brief. Furthermore the new brief is about a Personal Profile about an individual who has an interesting story to tell which could be inspiring for an audience. Meanwhile, before we came up with a final idea, we had an individual task to come up with our own idea along with writing a treatment about this for the Personal Profile. In the following lecture we then discussed in teams which treatment would be more relevant, successful, and whether the person involved in the film easily accessible. Effectively this was a quick process of coming up with an idea for a film as there will be different ideas from everyone therefore there will be more to choose from.

Initially I wrote my own treatment about someone who I used to work with in Southport. The character was quite miserable, with low self esteem and low confidence too. Meanwhile I thought perhaps it is because she did not enjoy her job.

After a few months working with the character she had lost increasing amounts of weight, as she was on a strict diet with the well known business, Slimming World.

• -She lost over five stone
• -Won slimming world of the year
• -Had the opportunity to meet Robbie Savage for her     fantastic achievement     

Now the character is more confident whilst she felt that now she can do more things, as she felt her weight got in the way of that. Subsequently she went to her School prom which she never thought she would go to, along with taking part in dance productions too.


I thought this was be a great idea for a Personal Profile as I can look at it from different angles:
-The types of foods she now eats in comparison to what she did eat.
-The activities, daily routines she felt she could not do which she can now.
-Images of the character before and after
-How it has improved her love life, personality and friendships
-How she is interested in drama, art and dance

From an audience's perspective this can give them the drive and motivation to want to undertake the same procedure as the character. Furthermore some people give up and feel they cannot lose weight, meanwhile after watching this personal profile they might feel that they can do it too. Those interested in what they should eat healthy would be interested along with those who are unsure if diet clubs actually work.

I had already contacted the character and she was happy to be filmed, whilst the locations where I planned to film she said she will already have permission. Meanwhile the only downfall about this is she is located in Southport which is 45 minutes away from Liverpool which could be quite inconvenient for other members of the production team.