Glamourisation

and
Destruction

By Louisa Reid and Madeleine Rees

 Competition Information
Information and Deadlines
Madeleine and I will be entering the British Documentary Film Festival. It is a festival that
accepts documentaries from all around the world, all lengths, and all budgets. They have
showcased them in some of London's best cinemas. The opening date is February 27th,2024,
the early bird date is July 19th 2024, the regular deadline is November 1st 2024, the late
deadline is December 20th 2024 and the extended deadline is February 14th 2025. There are
many awards such as Best Documentary, Best Student Film and The Environmental
Award. The different categories that we could enter are feature documentaries, short
documentaries, and student documentaries. To qualify to submit into the feature length
documentary, your documentary must be over 55 minutes, to qualify for the short
documentary your documentary must be under 55 minutes and to enter the student
documentary it can be any length you would like but it must be produced or directed by a
student at theme of filming.

Rules
If the competition feels that your production better suits
alternative categories, the competition reserves the right
to enter them into a different category. All entries must
be entered separately. Failure to submit four weeks in
advance, your production will not be eligible for an
award. For the selection process, the digital screener
must be submitted through Vimeo or YouTube for the
judges’ protection. They do not return submissions.
Student documentary prices are £10 for early bird, £15
for regular deadline, £20 for late deadline and £25 for
extended deadline.
Winning Prizes
You have the chance at winning an award in one of the
following categories: The Environmental Award, The Wild
Animal Award, The Heritage Award, Best Documentary,
Best International Short, Best British Short and Best
Student Film.
I feel that Madeleine and I have a good possibility of winning this competition as it is
aimed at students and young people to showcase their work. It also has multiple categories
Fees
There are different fees depending
on which deadline you are going to
meet and which category you are
entering into. For feature length
documentaries early bird costs
£30, the regular decline is £40, the
late deadline is £50, and the
extended deadline is £60. Short
documentary costs are early bird
£20, regular deadline £30, late
deadline £40 and extended
deadline £50.

Outline of Final Idea

that our production would fit into, unlike other competitions. I feel that Madeleine and I
work well together, and we make a strong team, which us an advantage as we will be
collaboration both of our strengths together and working together to the best of our
abilities.
The We for
final idea are our
giving a different
production is aperspective on how movies
documentary-series are portrayed
explaining how somerather than
movies
being romanticised,
encourage which
impressionable not many
people to dodocumentaries have
bad things, even done.
if the movie makers hadn't
considered this as an outcome of the film. In our documentary-series, we aim to
enlighten people on how the media portrays these movies and glamourises the bad
Rules and Regulations
  Meet all deadlines.
 Working in pairs is allowed but all
research must be done individually.

 If the competition feels that your production better

suits alternative categories, the competition reserves
the right to enter them into a different category.
 All entries must be entered separately.
 Failure to submit four weeks in advance, your
production will not be eligible for an award.
 For the selection process, the digital screener must be
submitted through Vimeo or YouTube for the judges'
protection. They do not return submissions.

I think the age range of our

documentary will be a 12 due to the
realistic violence and mild use of
language by the characters.

Target Audience

We are aiming our documentary towards teens and

young adolescents. We believe this is a good target
audience as this is the most impressionable group of
people due to their brains not being fully developed yet.

Legal and Ethical Issues

 We need to ensure that when we use clips from the
movies that we do not copywrite, and if we decide to
use music, we need to make sure that the music isn’t
copy-writed either.
 If the clips we decide to use have swear words or
violence, we need to upload it on YouTube to not
child friendly as we don’t want to leave a bad
 Production Schedule
Date Topic Achieved / contingency
16th Idea Generation and Context
22nd Research on topic and conventions
29th Test shoots and target research
6th Planning
13th Recording and Filming
20th Filming and Editing
3rd Editing