Templates for Project
Development Applications
Factual Entertainment
INDEX
TemplatePage No.
- Factual - Market Overview ...... 2
- Factual- Script Analysis ...... 4
- Factual- Next Stage Notes ...... 6
- Factual- Project History ...... 7
1. Factual - Market Overview
There are no prescribed lengths for each answer. Be as succinct/detailed as you feel the question requires.
Project title
Applicant name
Give Details of your Target Audience
(A variety of target audiences are acceptable but applicants are encouraged to be specific in each case - identify your market in terms gender/age/social groups/communities/cultures of interest)
What strategies have you developed for realising the production budget?
(Include such things as government funding, broadcaster pre-sales, corporate sponsorship, private equity, in-kind support, deferrals)
Which broadcaster/exhibitor/commissioning editor has expressed interest in your project?
(Please provide evidence of this interest)
When is this project likely to be broadcast and why?
1. Factual - Market Overview… cont’d
What other strategies do you have for reaching your target audience once the project is made?
(How will other distribution platforms and marketing opportunities be utilised?)
List at least three programs that your project can be compared to in terms of subject, style, genre and audience
Include any other key details that relate to this project’s suitability for funding
2. Factual–Script Analysis
There are no prescribed lengths for each answer. Be as succinct/detailed as you feel the question requires.
What is the premise of this series?
Who or what is the story about?
What is/are the underlying themes?
From whose/what point of view is the story told?
2. Factual–Script Analysis… cont’d
Are there wider/differing/contradictory points of view offered?
What different types of film, footage and visual records will be used in this documentary
(interviews, live footage, re-enactments, still photographs, retrospective interviews, news footage, national archives etc)?
What is the resolution?
What feelings is the audience left with?
3. Factual – Next Stage Notes
Please analyse (in 1-4 pages) the current strengths and weaknesses of your project, and outline the critical work you feel is needed to address the project’s weaknesses in the next stage. The strength and breadth of your analysis and insight at this development stage is critical to your project’s assessment for funding.
4. Factual–Project HistoryThere are no prescribed lengths for each answer. Be as succinct/detailed as you feel the question requires.
What was it that first drew you to this story/project?
Outline the research anddevelopment (including any filming) that has taken place to date:
How has the project evolved in the early stages of development? For example, has the premise been adapted during research? What new discoveries have been made in relation to the subject matter? Have new team members joined the production? Who were the key creatives in the past?