Brainstorm of Content

Here are some of our early ideas of what to include in our tea documentary

Vox pop’s, get them to say their favourite tea brand, what biscuits they dunk with and what they say when offering a cup of tea (fancy a cuppa?) Then we could use this for an opening.

We will interview an old person, young person and middle aged person about tea, with
the same questions, and put them together, with their answers contrasting each other.

We could get the voiceover to say facts about tea. For example how it is associated with Britain and being British. We could say where it is grown and when it came to England. We could also give facts about which country drinks the most tea and find some statistics on that. We could even schedule an interview with a foreign person. If we had an interview with a foreign person we could also get an interview with a typically British person, to contrast the things that are said in the other interview.

How it revolutionised jobs, builders, window cleaners, gardeners and get interviews with them

How it is associated with old people/ religion. Coffee mornings

Which biscuit is best to dunk, we could get some vox pop’s with people saying their favourite biscuit. This is also an opportunity to use archive footage of Peter Kay doing his stand up routine.
More archive footage we could use is of old tea adverts like the PG tips one with the monkeys and the new ones with Jonny Vegas.

For cut away shots we could buy loads of tea boxes from the supermarket, also we could get the interviewee’s to make a cup of tea in their own homes and film that. Also with the biscuit question we could get shots of the biscuits which they say is their favourite.

We will conduct the vox pops in the street and the formal interviews in their own kitchens, with footage of them making tea themselves, this will make them feel comfortable and this means that they are more likely to give correct answers. We could include some low angle shots of tea making it look important in British society.

We will use an upbeat music bed in the beginning to make it exciting, and then we will also find some tea related songs to use later in the documentary.
The voiceover will correspond with our target audience, this is a code of documentaries, so we will have a voiceover of a woman and she will be used to say tea related facts, which we have found. We could also use her to inform the audience with some information we found from our questionnaires