Running Order

Running order

Documentary: Biscuits
Channel: Channel 4
Duration: 30 minutes

Montage of different types of biscuits and people eating them accompanied by a music bed. The title of the documentary occurs after the Montage is over.	20 seconds
Camera in static motion and the general public being asked ‘what is your favourite biscuit’ and voxpox used to get a variety of answers.	15 seconds
Narrators voice talking about the discovery of biscuits and the rise of the popularity in the 19th century accompanied with archive footage of old Britain. They will then talk about today’s biscuits with shots of biscuit isles in supermarkets.	20 seconds
Footage of people drinking tea and eating biscuits, people being asked when they eat biscuits and weather they dunk their biscuits in their tea.	15 seconds
Medium close up interview with Millie’s about who the main age range is and why they think that is. Cutaways of the products at Millie’s cookies and people buying them.	20 seconds
Narrator’s voice talking over a Jaffa cake advert about the conflict of weather it is a cake or a biscuit with voxpox from general public.	20 seconds
Biscuit isles in different shops with the narrator explaining which is the most popular (referring back to Jaffa cakes being the favourite) and showing basic versions to our favourite biscuits and why our target audience prefer to pay less for biscuits.	30 seconds
Interview with Marks and Spencer’s employee, discussing their prices/ Morrison’s and why people pay what they do/ are the quality worth the price.	30 seconds
Following a shopper to biscuit aisle buying biscuits with a voice over of her voice telling us.	15 seconds
Narrator talking about the difference between a cookie and a biscuit, cutaways used to give the audience a visual image of what the narrator is talking about.	20 seconds
Gregg’s employee discusses the success of seasonal inspired biscuits i.e. Halloween/Christmas biscuits (footage combined with Morrisions)	15 seconds
Interview from Wicked café staff telling us about the popularity of the selling of biscuits and what time of the day they sell the most.	20  seconds
Interview with Millie’s cookies staff about the baking their own biscuits combine with interview from home baker about their views on home made biscuits.	15 seconds
Archive footage of biscuit adverts off TV including the Jaffa cake, Fox’s biscuits, BMBM and the breakfast advert with narrator’s voice over the top.	15 seconds
Interview with media teacher discussing the effects of advertising on biscuit sales.	20 seconds
Voxpox asking students what adverts they have heard of and if they have purchased any of them with cutaways from the adverts.	20 seconds
Narrator talking about dietary biscuits such as weight watchers adverts being advertised on the weight watchers advert.	30 seconds
Interview with someone that goes to weight watchers and talking about the biscuits that are available to them and how they differ from full fat biscuits.	15 seconds
Discussing how the sales of biscuits have changed over the years and how they are available for different events eg; thank you, valentines day, mothers day ect.	20 seconds
Asking our target audience if they would purchase the online biscuits with cutaways of the website and people looking at the website.	20 seconds
Narrator discussing the amount of biscuits people consume at what part the day people normally eat them (again discussing the breakfast biscuits) and what effect this has on our diets	20 seconds
Narrator discussing what the major biscuit companies are with archive material of the biscuits mentioned.	20 seconds
Staff from the companies previously interviewed answering the question on what biscuit brands sell the best.	40 seconds
Interview with Café Nero staff asking them what biscuits people buy and if they dunk it in their tea or coffee (answers also coming from the home bakers)	60 seconds
Biscuits sold in the vending machines from the wicked and crescent café and staff telling us why they can be bought from vendors and weather it is a good idea.	40 seconds
Interview with small shop owner and asking them if people normally buy biscuits for a passing snack.	30 seconds
Voxpox with other shop owners asking them if they see people buy biscuits to eat as a passing snack.	20 seconds
Asking a table of students in the wicked café if they buy biscuits from the vending machines as a snack or as a meal with cutaways of people buying the biscuits from the vending machines.	30 seconds
Cutaways from the home bakers asking them if they think it is sufficient to have biscuits for a meal and why.	40 seconds
Interview from weight watchers person discussing the importance of healthy eating and avoiding biscuit overdosing.	60 seconds
Panning shot of inside an old people’s home and the biscuits they eat.	10 seconds
Interview with OAP discussing how often they eat biscuits and weather they consider it as an occasion.	30 seconds
Cutaways of OAP shopping.	10 seconds
Interview with OAP shopping for biscuits and telling us which biscuits they normally buy for the home and which is most popular.	60 seconds
Voxpox between OAP and our younger target audience asking them how much they will pay/what biscuits they buy.	30 seconds
Interview with biscuit factory employee discussing how the biscuits are made with cutaways of the biscuits being made.	30 seconds
Interview with biscuit factory employee discussing the dispatching process of the biscuits and how many they sell a year (with cutaways of the process.)	60 seconds
High angled shot of biscuits they make and made and discussing what they are and what makes them unique.	2 minuets
Narrator discussing baking competitions such as the Lucy Hamper festival and seeing how many people make biscuits and how many win out of that percentage.	60 seconds
Interview with home baker and asking them weather they have and/or if they would enter a baking competition making biscuits.	40 seconds
Footage from the Jamie Oliver cook book and the biscuit recopies from that book. Narrator voice over discussing the book.	30 seconds
Footage of the Jamie Oliver biscuit recipes online along with the BBC biscuit recipes and how they compare.	30 seconds
Voxpox of general public asking them if they prefer Jamie Oliver or the BBC	40 seconds
Archive footage of Jamie Oliver baking biscuits with narrator explaining why people copy his recipes.	1 minuet
Home baker explaining that they use Jamie Oliver’s biscuit recipes and why.	30 seconds
Montage of different chiefs cooking different types of biscuits.	1 minuet
Narrator talking about how many different types of biscuits there are over the world with footage of different types of biscuits.	1 minuet
Closing Montage	1 minuet
Total Running Time	30 minutes