Treatment: 5 Minute section

Title: The Fire Service Today
Audience: Our documentary is aimed at an age range of 18 and above. This is because we believe that it would strike and interest with this age range due to the content and history involved in the documentary, although the content would be suitable for a younger age range.

Duration: The entire documentary would last around an hour (this is including advert breaks), without the advertisement it would last around 45-50 minutes. Our film is a 5 minute section from the documentary which will be located after a commercial break.

Summary/ Synopsis: This would include questions/interviews with the fire-fighters, a tour round the headquarters, work colleges and team work, what is it like working as a fire-fighter e.g the conditions and the anticipation of waiting for a call, best and worst things about the job, what training has to be completed to qualify to do the job. The most important issue to be tackled would be the issue of pay and how their high risk jobs are not reflected in their rate of pay. All these aspects will be linked to the strikes throughout history.
Suggested elements: Instead of using a presenter we will be using a voice over for all elements that a presenter would be needed for example: when the fire fighters are being interviewed, a voice over would ask the questions and they would answer the questions as if someone were there; when speech is needed there will for explanations, introductions or conclusions a voice over would be used instead of a character being on camera. Because it is a documentary, there will be little music to accompany the characters.