Final Proposal

Final Proposal 

Over the last couple of months, myself and my work partner have made and edited a documentary about James O'driscoll and about his life behind being a blind personal trainer. We also show footage about a charity event which James  recently took part in called the 300 Workout, this was to raise money for the charity Save The Children. During the documentary we show James and some of his fellow friends completing the workout, we found this inspirational to put into our documentary to show how amazing James is and how loosing he's sight has not stopped himself from doing ANYTHING. We also show footage of James talking before and after the workout and what he found was hard about doing this challenge. We also have a small clip on some of his friends talking about the workshop and how they felt after completing the challenge.

I think one of the main reasons myself and Ryan chose to make a documentary on the life of a blind personal trainer is that he is an inspiration to everyone! I feel that it literally puts into perspective anybody can achieve or be what they want to be if they put their minds to it. James also does a lot of fund raising for the charity Save The Children, so to complete such a hard workout to raise money is a great achievement.

I feel that from filming this documentry I have not only learnt myself but taught over people never to give up in life. James is this first blind persoanl trainer in england and after loosing is sight during his mid 20's it just goes to show that for anyone who has lost their sight from birth or midway through life, they should not let that put them down, they should pick themselves back up and achieve what they want to. This may not happen straight away but you will certainly achieve the highest you can one day, and be proud of it!

Story Ideas

Documentary research 

idea 1- my first idea is to create a documentary based on the uk's first
 blind fitness instructor. his name is Jame's O'Driscoll, he is 38 and was diagonesed with optic neuropathy.

One morning, construction worker James O’Driscoll woke to discover he couldn’t see from his left eye. Over the next few weeks, the sight in his right eye deteriorated too, leaving him completely blind. After months of testing and extended stays in hospital, the 26-year-old from Bromley, Kent was diagnosed with Leber's Optic Neuropathy, a rare genetic condition that affects just one in 20 million people.

when we researched and found james we was fascinated by his sheer dedication to overcome his illness. we was impressed with how he overcome the illness not only mentally but physically.

He struggled to cope with his disability, finding solace in junk food, cigarettes and alcohol. His moment of clarity, however, came four years after losing his sight, when he realized it didn’t have to stop him leading a relatively normal life. He cast aside his vices and began exercising. Now, at the age* s is England’s first blind qualified personal trainer, having exceeded the expectations of all those around him. For the determination and tenacity he showed to become a fitness professional, James O’Driscoll is the MH Man of the Month.


idea2- our second idea was to base our documentary on the radio station that prank called kate mideltons hospital. we wanted to firstly highlight the key points on why they did it and the controversy that it caused also the consequence it had on someone's life. we also wanted to get a non biased view from the public on the prank call, i would also like to document what consequences it has on the radio station and what the police intend to do. this prank calls has caused an uproar worldwide and has also put a invasion in the privacy of the most security family in the world. if it was that easy to find out information on kate in hospital what else can people find out about the royal family?
idea3- my third idea was to base our documentry on an insperational english architectue called norman robert foster. Norman has designed many famous building around england some of his most spectacular designs are the hearst tower in new york, torre caja madrid in madrid and the Gherkin. all off these building's are very spectacular. i wanted to base my documentary on the design and structure of the Gherkin. i wanted to display special features of the building and the history and designs behind the making of the gherkin. into my research of norman i was also going to display some of his other projects he has created around london. 

Location Reece

Location Recce 

The location for our documentary will be located in Virgin Health Club located in Bromley.

The reason in which we have chose to film our documentary here is because this is where James spends most of his life working as a personal trainer. We also thought it would be a good idea to locate our documentary here because we would be able to capture some great shots of James completely the 300 challenge work out. 

The only issue we could think of when deciding where to locate our documentary was the fact the gym has 6,000 members and nearly 1,300 members use the gym on a day to day basis. We would have to speak to some people incase they were captured in the shot to ask for their permission and also we had to be careful of the level of the noise that would be in the gym at the time of our filming.

Documentary Plan

Introduction-
In our introduction we want to include a variety of clips. We firstly wanted to give the audience a brief into what our documentary is actually about. we will do this by voice overs, video clips and text. the clips that we want to include are off james and his fellow trainees working out preparing for the 300 work out. we want to include a short into james and his life. we don't want to include in the beginning about james being blind we want to tell the audience later on in the documentary about his illness. in the introduction we want to show james in his normally day to day life working out, training and just generally introducing us to his generally, life by this i mean his age, family life and maybe past jobs just generally informing us about his life. in some of the clips we want a voice over. i also want to include a variety of shots of james personal training, as i believe this is a vital this to include and document about not only james success but his day to day life, his job.                    


Middle-
In the middle of the documentary we want to include the workout taking place, we will shoot a variety of shots varying for angles and height. i want to include a voice over of james talking about his illness, i want to document his illness with the success that he has achieved since this illness occurred. near the end of the documentary i want to include the ending of the charity event, the pain and suffering that this 300 workout has caused, and the sheer dedication and time that has been put into not only training for the event but the preparation of the event. 

End-

At ending of the documentary i want to include people speaking about the event, james giving his overall thought of the event and how it went. i want to include interviews with the people he works with day to day. i also want to include a short clip of james explaining what he wants to do in the future with the charity very close to him save the children.

 interview/voice over of how he feels the event went and to sum up the charity event.                                                           

The 300 Workout

a) Pull-ups – 25 reps
b) Deadlifts with 135lbs – 50 reps
c) Push-ups – 50 reps
d) 24" box jumps – 50 reps
e) Floor wipers – 50 reps
f) Single-arm clean-and-press with 36lbs kettlebell – 50 reps
g) Pull-ups – 25 reps

Risk assesment

Equipment List

Equipment list 

All the equipment we need is listed below for our documentary. All the other equipment we need is already in the gym ready for us  to use when we film part of our documentary.




The camera that we are going to use is a sony HD Pj260VE full HD camera. this camera will be used to film our in tire interview. this camera we will loan of our schoo. we choose to use this camera as it has a very sensitive microphone that will pick up the majority of sound that we want it to.

We are also going to use a camera stand. By us using a camera stand will allow us to have perfectly still camera shots and will allow our interview to be still not to have wonky moving shots. we choose to use a stand as well as it will make our interview allot more professional.






We need to take a phone each as this will allow us to contact each other in case we get lost in virgin active health club. we can also use our phones to track time so that we can make sure that our interview isn't too long but also isn't to short.








We need to take a clip board pen and paper so that we can have our questions clearly shown to us so that we know exactly the questions that we want to ask. We will use a pen to tick off each question as it is asked so that we don't ask the same question twice as this would make our interview not very professional.

Documentary Script

Documentary Script

Scene 1 - Introduction to James. Brief about his life and career.
(in conference room in the Virgin Active gym)

Scene 2 - Go onto further detail about is career and his build up and training to his job as a PT.
(film James with a client doing some training in the gym)

Scene 3 - Talk about the charity event James took place in recently.
(we will also do a before and after talk with James about the charity event he took part in)

Scene 4 - Speak with James about how and if his blindness has effected him in any major