Questions for Interviews

This presentation shows the questions we produced for our interviews.

Running Order

Documentary:Tales of Tableware

Channel: BBC One

Scheduling: 5:00pm-5:30pm

Archive Footage-Pot O’Gold; A fork, a knife, a spoon (musical-men sat around a table signing about cutlery)	10 Seconds (Start at 1:15)
Opening Title (with background music)	10 Seconds
Fade to black screen with quote (with background music)- 'God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks – his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating'. -St. Peter Damian	10 Seconds
Arc Shot of people dining with voice Over	10 Seconds
Montage of public responding to questions about what they already know about the history of cutlery	10 seconds
Cut to interview with Historian talking about pre-historic times when there was no cutlery like we have now Cutaway to image of tools used in prehistoric time	15 Seconds
Cut back to interview with Historian (evolution of cutlery-when it was first invented)	45 Seconds
Cut to a montage of  images of ancient times of people using chopsticks with voice over explaining	20 seconds
Cut to interview with cultural historian talking about the use of utensils in different cultures Shots of old utensils in museum from different cultures (with text) background cultural music	30 seconds
Image of map (cartoon?)- marker where we have just been, jump to Italy, then France and then England with voice over explaining the fork	30 Seconds
Establish shots of restaurant with voice over	10 seconds
Interview with General Manager talking about restaurant service	20 Seconds
Cut to Titanic First Class Dining Scene	10 Seconds
Back to interview with General Manager	15 Seconds
Archive Footage of etiquette with sound	15 Seconds
Interview with waitress	15 Seconds
Cutaways of waitress laying the table whilst explaining what they're doing	10 Seconds
Customers dining with voice over	15 Seconds
Section on social class and how only the upper classes would dine silver service whilst lower classes would eat using only their hands	5 Minutes
Next Segment
Narration introducing the nest segment by changing the subject-pan away from the restaurant fade to black	10 Seconds
Voice over, shots of house, and dining room	30 Seconds
Short cuts of people being asked about what they know about cutlery phobias	30 Seconds
Zoom in on cutlery draw with no spoons with voice over	10 Seconds
Cut to interview with Liam Payne	30 Seconds
Cut to article headlines about phobia	5 Seconds
Back to interview	20 Seconds
Cut to interview with psychologist explaining phobia	15 Seconds
Cutaways of childhood photos	10 Seconds
Back to psychologist	1 Minute
Interview with mum who suffers cutlery phobia including cutaways of meal times in their household and how she copes with the phobia	2 minutes
Next Segment
Narration introducing the development of cutlery	30 Seconds
Section on how Cutlery has become more of a fashion statement than necessity	1 minute
Interview with John Lewis cutlery sales rep	30 Seconds
Cutaways of Cutlery being sold in shop	20 seconds
Back to interview	15 Seconds
Shots of different cutlery designs available with top 3 most popular designs countdown	30 Seconds
Fade with voice over saying that it is no longer just knives forks and spoons which we use to eat with	20 seconds
Clips from advertisements of sporks and the rotating fork with sound	20 Seconds
Interview with member of the advertising team at pot noodle	20 Seconds
Images of the adverts	10 Seconds
Back to interview	30 Seconds
Section on how advertisers use ‘free’ cutlery to increase sales of product. Montage of different people answering survey question agreeing they would buy the product if it came with free cutlery, including graphs with data from companies such as Kellogg's	3 Minutes
Next Segment
Narration introducing the next topic – alternative uses of cutlery during a montage of images of alternative cutlery use	30 seconds
Interview with Peter Lee, a spoon player from Britain’s Got Talent	15 seconds
Cut to footage of Peter’s audition	10 seconds
Back to interview with Peter	15 seconds
Voiceover with clips on screen of other alternative uses of cutlery	20 seconds
Interview with Osian Batyka-Williams about his chair made entirely out of cutlery	15 seconds
Footage of him sat in the chair, discussing its design	15 seconds
Interviews with the public asking them their thoughts on the chair	30 seconds
Cut to interview with artist discussing the use of forks in painting	15 seconds
Footage of people in a classroom creating paintings using forks as paintbrushes	10 seconds
Interviews with students about their thoughts on using forks to create art	20 seconds
Panning shot of the students’ pieces	10 seconds