Presentation 2 - Treatment Writing Component

Treatment 1

Author Name: Carmen Wong

Title of Show: Child Obesity – The ‘Television Epidemic’

Format of Show: Documentary

Target Audience: Adults, Older generation

Opportunity or Problem Addressed: Identify the causes of obesity among children; main focus on how excessive television viewing is a becoming a large factor of child obesity. This documentary can also exhibit case studies of similar relevance highlighting the negative implications of excessive television viewing and obesity.

Desired Response: Create awareness and also encourage the change in lifestyle of children (i.e. to be healthier)

Logline: Television viewing can be seen to be harmless.. or is it? Child Obesity - The ‘Television Epidemic’ zeroes in on how excessive television viewing has greatly contributed to child obesity. This documentary will showcase studies done by researchers on the correlation between television viewing and obesity amongst children. This documentary will also exhibit the nuts and bolts of how addictive television viewing has negatively impacted the younger generation and also the cons of obesity.

Theme: Reality-based, educational, scientific background

The main idea of this documentary is to give the audience facts and figures of child obesity and also the implications of excessive television viewing. This documentary will hopefully cause some positive action of the viewer to practice healthier lifestyles for themselves.

Treatment: A two-part episode documentary series. 30 minutes each.

Part 1/ Episode 1

Highlights the growing phenomenon of obesity among children through statistics and also observatory studies done by universities/researchers. Go into the cause of obesity among children touching the point of the correlational relationship between excessive television viewing and obesity – exhibit related studies and also interviews with professionals on this point.

Part2/ Episode 2

Discuss about the harmful effects of excessive television viewing and how it has contributed to child obesity- looks into the hours spent on the television and its effects on the child from various aspects, interviews with parents, children and professionals. Remedies to help children focus less on the television and spend more time on other healthier activities and also suggestions to loose heavy weight gains for children. The documentary can end with a recap of how television viewing can have adverse effects especially emphasizing on obesity and also on the remedies and solutions to a healthier lifestyle (the take away packet from watching this show).

Treatment 2

Author Name: Carmen Wong

Title of Show: The Big O – Child Obesity

Format of Show: Docudrama

Target Audience: Children, Teenagers

Opportunity or Problem Addressed: To display the negative effects of excessive television viewing on children and also its contribution towards child obesity

Desired Response: Create awareness through using re-enactments of scenes and also humour and also encourage the change in lifestyle of children (i.e. to be healthier)

Logline: Do you love watching television? How long do you watch the television daily? If you are a heavy television viewer and also not so light weighed, then this programme is for you! Join Dobby on his quest to understand the harmful effects of excessive television viewing, the addiction of television viewing, cause of obesity and how does heavy television viewing relate to obesity.

Theme: Comedy, documentary drama, reality-based, fun and learning

This docudrama uses re-enactment of scenes to make it more fun and also easier for children to grasps the concepts shown. This docudrama looks to highlight the negative implications of excessive television viewing, obesity among children, the link and correlation between the two concepts and also the health implications that comes with it.

Treatment: The entire docudrama will be narrated and hosted by Dobby. Dobby is a plum-ish kind of boy and he will lead the flow of the entire segment. The entire segment will comprise a mixture of re-enactment of scenes and also recorded interviews and voice overs.

The docudrama will start with a scene showing Dobby sitting watching the television and chewing chips when his mother comes in and lectures him on the dangers of excessive television viewing and also how it contributes to obesity. Dobby then wonders what exactly are the effects of excessive television viewing and why does it make a person put on weight and he poses the question to the audience. He will invite the audience to explore with him on this which will lead to a showcase of past studies and research done on the adverse effects of excessive television viewing and how it correlates to obesity.

There will also be interviews with professionals throughout the docudrama and some of the theories and points will be narrated through a re-enactment of a scene by Dobby.

Treatment 3

Author Name: Carmen Wong

Title of Show: Pounds OFF!

Format of Show: Reality Television Show

Target Audience: Children, teenagers, Adults, General public

Opportunity or Problem Addressed: To display the negative effects of obesity

Desired Response: Create awareness through using the reality television show to serve as a platform of testimony that will help prove the adverse effects of obesity. Encourage exercise and a healthy lifestyle.

Logline: Catch the contestants of Pounds OFF! on a race to win RM 500 000 and the title of the ‘Pounds OFF!’ champion. Join them as they face challenges to overcome their weight issues and to practice a healthier lifestyle. Watch as the contestants embark on a journey of physical and mental transformation.

Theme: Reality-based, comedy, drama,

This reality show is inspired by shows like ‘Biggest Looser’ and the movie ‘Super Size Me’. This reality show will be slightly different from the Biggest Looser where the contestants are challenged not only on the aspect of their weight issues but also other aspects like their lifestyle, social life and so forth.

Treatment: This reality show will conduct a season of 14 to 15 episodes. The contest will be based on a weekly knock-out style. This show will start with 12 contestants and they will go through weekly challenges as individuals and as a group. The reality show will feature 3 judges who will judge each contestants performance every week preliminary to eliminations. The show will be hosted by 2 hosts (a male and female) throughout the competition. The weekly challenges can range from a wide variety of different things and also shot on location at the studio and also outdoor locations.