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Research Statistics

As part of my research towards making my documentary, I need some interesting statistics to keep the audience hooked into watching my documentary. Here is a few that i have found and am going to consider using in the voiceover of my documentary.
The ones in bold are statistics I plan to definitely use and other are just potential statistics that I will use where I need to fill up space.

- Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents.
- 40 – 60% of high school girls diet.
- 50% of girls between the ages of 13 and 15 believe they are overweight.
- 80% of 13 year old girls have dieted.
- 40% of 9 year old girls dieted.
- Reports show girls as young as five years of age have weight concerns, and think about going on a diet.
- About 40 percent of people with anorexia recover completely.
- Approximately 10 percent of cases of anorexia arise in men.
- On average, anorexia occurs between the ages of 16 and 17.
- An identical twin has a 50 percent chance of developing anorexia if their twin has it.
- A history of sexual abuse is seen in 3 out of 10 people with anorexia.
- Currently, in developing countries and black communities, anorexia nervosa appears to be somewhat rare.
-15 per cent of young women have significantly disordered eating attitudes and behavior.
- Around 30 percent of anorexia sufferers continue to experience the illness long-term.

Listing Magazine Articles

Listing magazine articles tend to be different to normal magazine articles because they are all about a film, a TV programme .etc
Whereas other magazine articles can be about anything, they could be about celebrities, real life stories .etc

A TV article in a listings magazine is different to an article in, lets say a celebrity magazine, because in a listings magazine it seems to be more advertising the programme to you and what is going to happen.

My article is going to be a mixture of a review of my documentary, so it promotes it and also something that interests people to watch it. I will put this in a listings magazine the week that it is going to be showing on TV. The examples I have shown use large texts as headlines and small text for the actual article columns. This is a common layout and works well because it allows you to read the headline from a distance and grab the readers attention. I feel personally that it is better to have thinner columns because it tends to look less worse to read. It also gives it more of an article feature rather than a large text box with no columns. Two of these examples use the picture as the background for their text and I feel this works better because it doesn't make it look as basic, I find its more exciting than a blank white text background. My article will have a large photo collage of different things in the documentary that advertises different interviews, different footage. The picture will be the whole page and have text overwriting it. The main headline will be large and short, whereas the subtitle will be a bit longer and explain a bit more about what the article is about.

Newspaper Advertisements

 Newspaper Advertisements are usually quite plain and basic. Most often black and white, with a bit of text and sometimes an image. Some of these examples are advertising things about weight, whereas some are advertising TV programmes. I am going to buy The Sun newspaper and take a look at any of the advertisements in there and also use the TV magazine I get free with it to look at example of magazine page spreads.

The advertisements that advertise products tend to be more basic than TV programme advertisements. However the last example I have is very basic as it only has a picture, the time of the programme, the title, the channel and a logo.

As with any sort of article or advertisement, the title has to be big, bold and often a catchy headline. This is because it tends to be one of the first things that someone sees when looking at an advertisement. Therefore if reader isn't attracted by the title they won't want to read the rest.

One of these examples could be described more of an article but it gives me a taster of how newspapers present things. After research from the internet I have decided that I want my advertisement to have the title, possibly a picture, a brief summary and the time and channel. This is because I want my advertisement to be quite basic so that people take information in when glancing at it, rather than studying it and reading it thoroughly.

I will definitely put my advertisement in a tabloid newspaper because if you get any teenager reading a newspaper it would The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Mirror. I know that The Sun comes with a free listings

magazine and would therefore put my advertisement in the same newsaper that has the same listing magazine with my double page magazine spread.

I think that the best example is the bottom one, and I plan to do mine like the structure of this, however I am debating whether to have the background as an image or just plain white.

I feel that maybe an image could put people of

because not everyone would want to see an image of someone anorexic when flicking through a magazine, and may get the impression that my whole documentary will be as graphic as that. Whereas it will not be, it will have some images in it, but it won't be jam packed full of them.

The headline of my documentary will probably be the same as the title of my documentary, this is to prevent confusion and extra text that perhaps isn't needed on my advertisment. I will obviously have the time and channel of the documentary and perhaps mention to reading the article in the attached listings magazine for more information about it. This will then give my audience the choice of reading more about it.

Proposed Running Order

- Text - What Makes The PERFECT Body?
- Talking Heads - Are you happy with your body? Which bit of your body are you not happy with?
(Music loud on text and quieten it down over talking heads) - Fast-ish music

- Voice of God - 'In society today body image is becoming more of an issue, I will explore this is this documentary. Many factors have been blamed for this - the media, the fast food industry, lack of education at schools.
(Still images of various pictures of over weight and underweight people, magazine pages of articles of over/underweight people)

- Archival footage of stand up comedians talking about weight issues, something humorous and light that I can then juxtapose with something heavy.

- Voice of God - 'Unfortunately it is not such a funny issue for some people..' (followed by statistics)

- Interview with anorexic teenager - Reconstruction
(Slow music throughout the whole thing)

- Talking Heads - Show picture of the teenager I just interviewed - Do you think this person is overweight, underweight or average?
(Back to the track that was at the beginning of the extract)

- Interview with Psychiatrist

A Useful Website

I spoke to the psycharitrist that I plan to interview in my documentary yesterday and she recommended a website that she uses for her patients. I have looked at this website and feel that this will be a good example to use in my statistics or any archival footage. I feel that even the URL of the website (http://www.b-eat.com/) has a good name for an eating disorder website. This is because it is about 'beating' an eating disorder. The main target audience for the website is the carers, parents, friends and family of people who suffer with anorexia. It gives them advice and support information to help them.

Research On Magazine Double Page Spreads.

 

I like this magazine spread because the text is only about a 1/3 of the two whole pages, and not everyone wants to read lots of text. The picture and the headline are very large and therefore grab the attention of the readers.



 I also like this one for the same reason as the previous one. However this looks more like a magazine than a newspaper one because it is in colour. The colour has a different effect because the can make things stand out more. For example, the pink speech marks grab my attention, to probably think about reading that quote first.

I also like this one because of the picture taking up half of the page so that there isn't too much text. The reason I don't want much text is because I don't want to bore my audience with too much reading, I want to get the point across about my documentary in just a few paragraphs.


I like the layout of all three of these magazine double page spreads, but for my subsidiary task, I need to create a double page spread for a listings magazine. Such as Radio/TV times, TV Quick or a TV magazine within a newspaper.

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