Planning

Ideas for Documentary

• Title- Allsorts
- Sweet enough

• Title made out of sweets
• Interviews – Children
- Mr Dynment (Headteacher)
- Old man
- Dentist
- 50 cent
- Cadburys
- Girls who work in sweet shop
- Emma Bunton

• Archive footage of websites, newspapers, past documentaries
• How sweets have become associated with occasions
• Archive footage of music videos and adverts
• A lot of panning camerawork across sweets
• Lollipop Lady footage
• Vegetarian sweet info
• Sweets from different religions
• Filming in sweet making factories
• Montage shots of sweet shops
• Charlie and the chocolate factory footage/relation and interview with creator and director.
• Music – “candy shop”
- “Sweet like chocolate”
- “I want candy”
- “Lollipop” – The Chordetts
- “Lollipop” – Mika

• Footage in supermarket
• Scheduling – BBC1, 7pm on Sunday
• Family audience


Formal Proposal


• Title of documentary – Allsorts

• Topic – Sweets

• Type of documentary – Mixed

• Style of documentary – Informal, contemporary, witty and informative

• Channel and Scheduling – BBC1, 19.00 on Sunday.

• Target audience- Families, all ages.

• Primary Research needed – Interview with elderly man talking about sweets of his childhood, Interview with young workers in “The rock shop”, Interview with dentist in surgery, about effects of sweets on the teeth.
• Locations to film include, “Cadburys” factory, sweet shop, Elderly home, dentist, supermarket etc.

• Secondary Research needed – Sweet websites, books about sweets, newspaper articles.

• Narrative structure– Closed, Non linear and single strand.

• Outline of content – Archive material including adverts, films, and music videos. Interviews, websites, filming of how sweets are made in Cadbury factory, local sweet shops.

• Resource requirements – Digital stills camera, Adobe Premiere, tripod, video camera, microphone, computer and internet, sweets, music, people to interview.


Questionnaire Results

Here are three people who took part in answering the questionnaires.
Emma, 17, student
Matty, 17, student
Laura, 18, student
















Male - 13
Female - 18

We asked a range of people to answer our questionnaire’s to get a reliable result. However because 18 females and 13 males answered the questionnaire’s it will be slightly unreliable as there are more females than males that answered the questionnaires.


What is your age?

10 and under – 2
11-20 – 12
21-30 – 4
31-40 – 6
41-50 – 6
50+ - 2

We also asked a variety of people from different ages to answer our questionnaire although there are more people from the ages 11-20 years.


What is your occupation?

Retired – 2
Student – 14
Shop assistant – 1
Library – 1
RAF officer – 1
Bus Driver – 1
NHS – 1
Manager – 2
Teacher – 2
Television Sales – 1
Cleaner – 1
Engineer – 2
Waitress – 1
Civil servant – 1

We mainly have students that have filled in our questionnaires but once again we still have a variety of people with different occupations ranging from shop assistants to engineers.

What is your favourite sweet as a child?

Liquorice – 3
Lollipop – 2
Milkyway – 2
Bonbons – 4
Cadburys twin – 1
Cola bottles – 1
Fizzy Bottles – 1
Flying saucers – 1
Jelly tots – 1
Rolos – 1
Whethers original – 1
Mars bar – 1
Aniseed balls – 1
Sweet tobacco – 1
White mice – 2
Chocolate limes – 1
Vice versa – 1
Haribo – 1
Pear drops – 1
Blue bottles – 1
Caramel bells – 1
Spiral – 1
Penny sweets – 1

Even though most sweets are still out now which people classed as their favourite sweet in the past, there are a few sweets that are unable to be purchased now such as vice versas, showing us that sweets can go out of fashion easily.






What are your favourite sweets now?

Sports mix – 1
Bonbons – 1
Liquorice – 3
Toffee crisp – 1
Galaxy – 1
Chocolate raisins – 1
Haribo eggs – 1
Chocolate nibbles – 5
Hard gums – 1
Peanut butter cups – 1
Rolos – 1
Milk bottles – 1
Cherry drops – 1
Fizzy bottles – 1
Almond tart – 1
Flying saucers – 1
Strawberry pencils – 1
Cheesecake – 1
White mice – 1
Skittles – 1
Humbugs – 2
Crunchie – 1
Malteasers – 1
Twix – 1

We have discovered that people still have their favourite sweet now the same as when they were younger. Also it shows that some participants have changed what their favourite sweet is now, showing that there are many new sweets are being brought out. We can see from these results and the results from the question before that there is a large range of sweets that people claim are their favourites.


If you could bring back any sweet from the past what would it be?

Tuti Fruti – 1
Whisper mint – 1
Milky bar munchies – 1
Pear drops – 2
Fruit winders – 1
Brain lickers – 1
Snicker – 1
Ice cream chews – 2
Star dust – 1
Everton mints – 1
Nerds – 2
Sweet tobacco – 1
Bonbons – 1
Ticket – 1
White mice – 1
Vice versa – 5
Frosties – 1
Caramac bars – 1
Flying saucers – 1
Bullseyes – 1
Barley twists – 1
Caramel bells – 1
None – 2

Most sweets people have said they would want to bring back are still out but are very hard to find. However, some you can still find in the average sweet shop.


What is your least favourite sweet?

Chocolate peanuts – 1
Marsbar – 1
Liquorice – 11
Cola bottles – 1
Fizzy sweets – 1
Smarties – 1
Turkish delight – 1
Star bar – 1
Bonbons – 1
Nibbles – 1
Rhubarb pie – 1
Opal fruits – 1
Toffee – 1
Hubbabubba – 1
Sour balls – 2
Millions – 1
White mice – 1
Bourville – 1
Picnic – 1
Brainlickers – 1

Although people enjoy sweets they still have a least favourite sweet and this chart clearly shows that liquorice is the least favourite sweet.


How far away is your local sweet shop?

Under 5 minutes – 22
5 minutes – 6
10 minutes – 2
15 minutes - 1

Our survey clearly shows that people don’t have to go far to get to the nearest sweet shop. With no one out of the 31people said there sweet shop is a drive away and 22 people say there sweet shop is under 5mins away.

How much money do you spend on sweets a week?

£0 to1 - 9
£1 to 2 - 12
£2 to 3 - 7
£3 to 4 - 1
£4 to 5 - 1
£5+ - 1

We can see that people don’t spend too much money on sweets as the survey shows that 21 people spend £2 or less on sweets every week


Have you had any problems with your teeth as a result from eating too many sweets?

Yes – 10
No – 21

Although the survey shows us that most people don’t have problems with their teeth because of sweets, there is still 1/3 of people who do showing that sweets generally do have a big impact on sweets.


How many fillings have you had?

0 – 12
1 – 2
2 – 7
3 – 3
4 – 1
5+ - 6






The survey shows that most people have no fillings however 6 people say they have 5 or more fillings, which shows us that the people how spend the most on sweets have resulted in having the most fillings. We can see from the results that 2/3 of the participants have had 1 or more fillings and 20% of people have had 5 or more, which suggests that sweets have had a dramatic effect on their teeth.





























Running order

Documentary: Allsorts
Channel: BBC1
Scheduling: Sunday 7pm-7.30pm
Duration: (including advert break)

Montage of interview talking about subject but the audience don’t know what it is yet. 20secs

Opening Title- Allsorts written with sweets. Fast motion of different hands taking sweets. Background song ‘lollipop by chordettes’. 10secs

Slow panning of sweets along aisle whilst playing background music ‘I like candy –candy girls”. 15secs

Interview of workers in sweet shop explaining what life is like working in a sweet shop 1min

Interview with elderly man talking about sweets from the past. Filmed in home environment. Questions such as, “How much money a week did you used to spend on sweets?” 1min

Interview with teenage boy being asked same questions as elderly man and results are compared. 1min

Montage of newspaper cut outs on articles about sweets. Scroll down of computer screen with articles about sweets and violence in children. 15secs

Interview of children fantasying about a world that was made out of sweets. Archive material of Willy Wonker film. 1min

Sweets in music. Interview with 50 cent, asking why he writes about candy in his songs and the sexual meanings related to the candy. 2mins

Fast cuts of different traditional sweets. 20secs

Mixture of interviews with people from different backgrounds and cultures and why they have different sweets on different occasions. 2mins

Filming of mother at checkout counter in a supermarket, and having a look at her trolley and how much sweets she has bought. 30secs

Interview with head teacher, about why vending machines have been removed from schools? 2mins

Fast panning around school canteen and zooming in on children eating sweets 30secs

Shot of sherbet on table and a hand writing “I love sweets” 5secs

How brands of chocolate has changed names over the years to make it more globally well known and accessible. Montage of different chocolate bars song “sweet like chocolate by shanks and big foot”. 3mins

Archive footage of the skittles advert. “Taste the rainbow” 5secs

Interview with owner of Cadburys factory, while footage of sweets being made is shown. 3mins
Worker making sweets in sweet factory and how sweets are made and what it is like making sweets every day. 2mins

World record sweets. E.g largest pear drop in the world. 20secs

Interview with Emma Bunton questions including “Why do you like lollipops so much?!” Song “My boy lollipop – spice girls” 1min 30secs

Footage of arcade and all the sweet machines available, and the giant lollipops that can be won. 20secs

Interview with dentist about the effect of sweets on teeth 1min

Montage of good and bad teeth 30secs

Archive of galaxy advert and interviews with woman why they like chocolate so much. 1min
Montage of children enjoying eating sweets. 20secs

Montage of variety of interviews talking about sweets and there different aspects.2mins

Fast cuts of different sweets.10secs

Break 2mins
Total 30mins


Interview questions for filming


Elderly woman interview

1) When you were younger, what were the most popular sweets?
2) What was your favourite sweet as a child?
3) How much money did you spend a week on sweets?
4) Where they seen as a treat or an every day thing?
5) Have you had any effects to your health as a result of eating too many sweets as a child?
6) Do you still enjoy sweets now?
7) What is your favourite sweet now?
8) Do you spend more on sweets now?


Girls who work in a sweet shop

1) When is this shop the busiest?
2) At what time of the year do you take in the most profits?
3) What are the most popular sweets bought from here?
4) On average, how much would you say people spend in here?
5) Do you find yourself buying the sweets you sell?
6) Roughly how much does this shop make each day?
7) Have you ever had any complaints about the sweets you sell here?

Children (3 young children)

1) If the world was made from sweets, what would it be like?

Teenage girl

1) What is the most popular sweet?
2) What is your favourite sweet?
3) How much money do you spend a week on sweets?
4) Are they seen as a treat or an every day thing?
5) Have you had any effects to your health as a result of eating too many sweets as a child?


Here are sketches of of our title sequence, this is how we would want it to appear.


Close up of sweets reading 'Allsorts'. 'Lollipop' (music) sang by the chordettes. Lasting approx 2 seconds.





Close up of sweets reading 'Allsorts'. Hands (different) entering shot from different angles, grabbing sweets. Lasting approx 4 secs.

One sweet left over. Zoom into sweet which then dissolves into next scene. Lasting approx 2 secs.

We also created sketches to show what our interview set up's would look like.

This first sketch was created for the interview with the elderly lady, we decided to have her seated because it portrays a sterotypical overview of some older adults and gives off a sence that she is relaxed and comfortable. The bird cage is also a sterotypical object in the background, however it was not used in the actual production.

We then decided on creating this mise-en-scene for the interview with the young boy. Although, this was not filmed as we decided to interview a teenage girl. This would contrast with the elderly woman and cannote how times have changed.

This shot from the documentary would show three young children, positioned on a couch talking about what the world would be like if it was made out of sweets.



Finally, this was one of the longest interviews that would be shot. it is of two teenage girls that work in a sweet shop, the mise-en-scene would be them standing behind the counter in their sweet shop.




The final part of the planning process meant creating a voiceover script to be put over the video clips in the documentary, here it is in writing:

"Bon,bons, cola bottles, sherbet, strawberry laces, lollipops, nibbles, millions, dolly mixtures, haribo, white mice, rainbow strips, gummy bears, floral gums, toffee, chewits, marshmallows, flumps"
(Child and old woman interview)
"Sherbet, liquorice and wethers originals, all sweets related to what kids call the oldies.
Sour balls, gob stoppers and millions all sweets that the kids just love. But how has the generation of sweets changed over the years."
(Children fantasy interview)
"Its scrumdidlyumtious its every child’s dream to live in a world made out of sweets, I wonder what the world would be like…"

And here it is with sound: