Documentary Practice

Love Expository.pptx

Love Documentary

Script

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[LONGSHOT: Tom – walking down street]

In September of 2012, schoolteacher Jeremy Forrest, a man of 31 years old, eloped with the then 15-year-old schoolgirl, currently under the alias of Gemma Grant. What the pair had undoubtedly hoped would be a smooth get-way soon fell under the scornful eye of the public, after Forrest was arrested and brought into custody just eight days after their escape.

[Clips from news videos, newspaper headlines, news presenters underneath VO]

VO: In late June of 2013, Gemma was arrested and brought into court to appear as a prosecution witness against her lover, all just hours after sitting her GCSE maths exam. She had been arrested because she refused to give evidence against Forrest in trial, while Judge Lawson had other plans. In an interview, Gemma stated the following:

[Text imposed on black screen] “Why would I want to give evidence against him?” “I always thought Jeremy had done nothing wrong. We were in love – that’s not a crime.”

[“We were in love – that’s not a crime.” hangs on screen]

VO: Love is not a crime. But what is love?

[Relevant images and video clips]

VO: Is love spiritual, or chemical? Is love beyond our control? Does Jeremy deserve his five and half year long jail sentence, for acting on what may well be beyond his own control?

VO: Research into the science behind love has found that chemicals released in the brain, such as dopamine, oxytocin and norepinephrine, which are released by phenylethylamine (or PEA), all have impacts on our bodies, and our behaviours.

PEA is the chemical released when we begin to fall in love; we when meet someone we connect with. As well as stimulating the release of oxytocin and norepinephrine, PEA is responsible for that elated feeling of love, while norepinephrine gives us sweaty palms and a pounding heart.

Other chemicals such as dopamine have a more evolutionary purpose. When dopamine is released when in the presence of another, this is to do with the body registering that individual as a potential mate, and is often accompanied by the feeling of lust from a surge in testosterone levels.

[Medium shot on Tom] So with all these chemicals flying around our blood and our brains, is it really fair to say that we are truly in control of ourselves, or does love really
take over?
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Unfortunately after filming this practice documentary, the footage was lost from the camera, having not saved successfully to the SD card. As a result, I used still images where I could as place holders for the lost footage.

After presenting our documentary to the class, we asked for feedback. The feedback in general was positive; however there were two good arguments made in relation to how our documentary could be improved.