Proposal and Treatment For My VT Clip.

Killjoy Productions.
South-Essex College,
Southend-On-Sea,
Luker Road,
SS1 1ND.





Dear whom it may concern,


I am writing to discuss the idea of a local news story that could be used within the [NEWS SHOW]. It is something that is a cheerful news story, but is also rather different and not reported on every day.

The idea is to follow a local sled dog team up to a sled dog competition held by the BSHRA (British Siberian Husky Racing Association). The team consists of two dogs and live in Pitsea, and the event itself is held in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk on the 1^st and 2^nd of February, 2014.

Focusing both on the local team participating, as well as the competition itself, it’ll be a news story that can interest the whole family and perhaps get them interested in visiting on the second day of the competition seeing as the races are rather obscure and aren’t widely known, even though a huge amount of people and dogs turn up (around 100 racers and over 300 dogs).

It’ll also be a cheap news item to document on, as there is no entry fee to spectate and most people seem to be rather happy to talk about the racing to others and show their dogs off to the cameras. It’ll fit in nicely with the rest of the news programme and also be a rather family-friendly VT clip.

Yours sincerely,

Nicola Sinclair.

Killjoy Productions.

South-Essex College,

Southend-On-Sea,

Luker Road,

SS1 1ND.

  

Dear Sir or Madam,

We thank you for taking an interest in the VT clip about the sled dog competition. We are writing to inform you of our treatment for the clip, which includes the budget, contingency plans, the list of our planned cast and crew and also a more detailed description of the production.

Expanding on the original idea stated in the proposal, we will be following a local sled dog team from Pitsea to a competition in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk. The majority of competitions are held between October and March during the year, otherwise the weather is too hot for the dogs to cope with, and most of these competitions are held in forests around the Suffolk area, although also branch out to South Wales and Scotland on occasions. The VT clip will give information about this particular competition on the first day of the competition on Saturday the 1^st of February, although will encourage people to visit the second day of racing on the Sunday as well as the other racing days coming soon after this particular race.

The idea of the news programme is, of course, family friendly news and the VT clips included in the show would reach a wide range of people, and so this would be more focused towards animal lovers and the younger audience – although perhaps the older audience may be interested too. It will be informative, yet entertaining, and will keep the audience engaged within the report by showing both interviews with sled dog racers as well as clips of the racing itself.

Budget:

We should hopefully be able to budget the production extremely cheaply. There is no entry fee to the competition, and the only things that will need to be paid for are food, drinks and travel. I will be able to film the report by myself with somebody who is volunteering to help me out, and so I would only need to consider them and myself within the budget.

I am able to bring food and drink from home, however, and so I don’t need to spend any money on that, and the volunteer is able to provide transport to and from the location without any additional fees,

The equipment hire has no fee as I am going to be hiring the sound recording equipment from the college, and therefore I will not need to pay for those. Also, we are not using any props or any costumes in particular, and so that does not add to the overall budget, and we are using all public places so we will not need to pay to film there. All this will save money greatly and allow things to be an extremely low-budget production.

Contingency:

We are going to keep another £10 to hand just in case there are any problems during the shoot and we need to pay for something – such as more food and drink, or travelling for longer than expected/taking different routes to locations because of traffic, etc.

If my volunteer is ill on the day, or has had to back out due other commitments, I will keep a list of people who would be able to step in on short notice on the day so we will be able to keep filming and stick to our deadlines. We will also make sure that we have extra equipment in case something breaks, or if a tape/battery runs out during filming.

If we have issues with the weather, we should hopefully be able to shift the timings of the shoots slightly to work around it, as it is being filmed in a forest and therefore there would be some shelter from the trees. However, we are able to return on the Sunday in case the weather seriously takes a turn for the worst and we are completely unable to film. This means that we’d be able to continue filming on a different day when the weather isn’t quite so bad.

Yours sincerely,

Nicola Sinclair.