Running Order

Documentary: The Truth Behind the Slap.

Channel: Channel 4

Scheduling: Thursday 25^th November   8.30 – 9.00

Duration: 27 minutes (including advert break)

Vox-pops asking ‘do you prefer girls with or without makeup?’ and ‘how does makeup make you feel?’	12 seconds
Opening titles	20 seconds
Voiceover  explaining how girls are obsessed with makeup, over different makeup cutaways, Voice also leads into the next interview ‘makeup sales woman’	30 seconds
Interview of professional (House of Fraser) with cutaways of the different stalls in the shop and all the big named makeup brands.	1 minute 20 seconds
Interview with Cheryl Jones (an Avon sales representative) about income from selling make-up, cutaways of Avon makeup, pictures of Reese Witherspoon (Avon celebrity endorsement.)	1 minute 3 seconds
Montage of archive images of celebrities wearing no makeup. Voiceover is explaining how female celebrities are regularly penalised when wearing no makeup.	12 seconds
Interview with someone who doesn’t wear makeup, cutaways of people putting makeup on and different types of makeup.	30 seconds
Archive footage from music videos of men who wear makeup. Voiceover is explaining how it has become more common for men to wear makeup.	13 seconds
Interview with a male who wears makeup, Cutaways of him applying his makeup.	40 seconds
Interview with Katie Price on how make-up makes her feel confident,  Archive footage of her getting her makeup done of Katie from ‘What Katie Did Next’	2 minutes
Archive footage of catwalk make-up, pictures, celebrities at the Oscars, voice over explaining its not just everyday people who need make-up to make themselves feel confident.	40 seconds
Interview with Rihanna about how make-up is a big thing in her life and how it makes her confident enough to face the paparazzi and makes her stand out more, Cutaways to archive footage of her in concert and archive of clips from her music videos. Pictures of her without makeup.	2 minutes 30 seconds
Speeded up film looking around all the makeup in John Lewis , voice over talking about shops like Beaties and John Lewis and all the ranges of different make-up products.	20 seconds
Montage of shots of different make-up brands that use models to attract buyers. Images of  Mac make-up models, Estee Lauder, and film outside Mac makeup in Liverpool. Voice- over asks ‘But is the expensive makeup any better for our skin?’	20 seconds
Interview with a MAC make-up expert about whether expensive makeup is any better and why people associate bad skin with makeup. Cutaways of MAC make-up, pictures of acne, and other expensive make-ups, clips of adverts for makeup.	2 minutes
A close-up of some one applying makeup with the programme title faded.	5 seconds
ADVERT BREAK	3 minutes
A close-up of some one applying makeup with the programme title faded.	5 seconds
Montage of graphs from a survey e.g how long it takes girls to do their makeup, how often and why do they feel the need to put all of these products onto their faces.	30 seconds
History of Makeup (re-enactment of 18th century (Gregorian) make-up over the top acting) Voice over ‘ why has makeup always had such a big impact’	1 minute 30 seconds
Interview with a historian about 18th century make-up- why was make-up such a big thing... men’s makeup.	1 minutes 30 seconds
Montage of images, celebrities, different kind of music lovers – Indie music and Goths.  About men wearing makeup, to make them feel more confident.	30seconds
Vox-pops of men asking whether they think it is normal for men to wear make-up because they are not confident enough without it.	30 seconds
Archive footage a clip of Katie price going on a T.V show without any makeup on. Voice over will talk about girls actually looking better without their makeup and how we should all feel confident to bare it all.	1 minute
Interview with a skin specialist about how not taking your makeup off correctly will make your skin worse and how  wearing no make-up can make you feel better, how your skin will benefit and how troublesome things like acne will clear up, Cutaways of girls taking their make-up off.	2 minutes
Montage of all the celebrities who get involved with the ‘no makeup campaigns’ and how wearing no makeup shouldn’t be something that all girls dread.	20 seconds
Interview with 3 people why they prefer not wearing makeup.	1 minute
Vox-pops asking boys whether or not they think girls look better without make-up and whether they think it makes girls more confident.	1 minute
Montage of images from topics used in the whole documentary e.g. of makeup from the 18th century, Avon and all other makeup makes, clips of catwalks and music videos etc with a voiceover concluding narrative about how makeup does generally make us feel more confident with our selves and it has for over 300 years and will continue to do so.	30 seconds
Closing credits over a montage of pictures of people applying make-up, girls smiling with make-up on catwalk models.	40 seconds
TOTAL TIME	27 minutes