Running order

Documentary: The Human Canvas
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Thursday 9pm - 9:30pm
Duration: 24 minutes ( excluding advert break 3 minutes)

Duration - Shot description
20 seconds - Reactions of public when shown images of extreme tattoos. We don’t see what the people see; we just hear and watch their reactions
15 seconds - Opening Titles
30 seconds - Voiceover introducing the topic over images of tattoos and piercings. Camera movement over images: zoom in/out, pan, spin. Voiceover also explains about the survey we have used
30 seconds - Interview with Demi about why she likes tattoos so much and what she wants to do when she is older. Also ask who her idol is to introduce Travis Barker into the next section
30 seconds - Voiceover introducing Travis Barker, brief history. Over still images of him at gigs and in person with some of his music playing in the background
10 seconds - Archive footage of Travis Barker performing song
30 seconds - Back to demi talking in more detail about tattoos and the equipment she uses. Zoom onto tattoo equipment over the interview, and her own designs
1 minute - Bad sides of getting tattoos & piercings. Head teacher interview and shop manager. Showing the infected piercings and tattoos for reactions
30 seconds - Voiceovers explaining some articles that are to do with tattoos/piercings. Use camera movement and pan over them
15 seconds - Vox Pop of why people get their tattoos/piercings
30 seconds - Voiceover giving a general view about why people get their tattoos. Still images of extreme tattoos/piercings and some of just one tattoo or piercing.
getting her tattoo done.
1 minute - Voiceover giving a general view about why people get their tattoos. Still images of extreme tattoos/piercings and some of just one tattoo or piercing.
2 minutes - Interview with Amy Winehouse about her tattoos using cutaways of her performing live
1 minute 30 seconds - Archive footage of famous people talking about their own tattoos and piercings and why they got them. Cross cutting between different interviews
1 minute - Voiceover explaining tattoo artists recent technique of 3D tattoos. Still images of 3D tattoos ranging from nice to extreme
30 seconds Voiceover saying some people regret having tattoos because of future effects
45 seconds - Interview with Ashleigh’s mum about how she regrets her tattoo, use cutaways of her tattoos through the interview
45 seconds - Another interview with Head Teacher about him employing teachers who have extreme tattoos and what he would do
10 seconds - Extremists walking down a road in a group
3 MINUTES - ADVERT BREAK
10 seconds - Extremists walking down a road in a group
20 seconds - Voiceover saying we have interviewed a local tattoo artist about what he thinks about people getting tattoos
2 minutes - Interview with tattoo artist. Using cutaways to his equipment and pan of his shop and designs on the wall
25 seconds - Montage of famous people with tattoos and piercings. Zoom onto picture of David Beckham
2 minutes - Interview with David Beckham. Ask him why he has tattoos of his children’s names. Cutaways to archive footage of football matches and training sessions
1 minute 40 seconds - Voiceover explaining why some people tattoo names onto themselves. Images of lovers tattoos and kids names tattoos. Camera movement over them
30 seconds - Voiceover to explain what the youth see in ‘tunnel’ piercings, why they get them and what made them so popular. Cutaways of different sized tunnels. Archive and actuality footage
1 minute - Interview with a general piercer about tunnels, what started the craze. How do they feel about it. Cutaway to archive footage of people flashing tunnel or getting it done
30 seconds - Voiceover about what piercing girls would get. Cutaways of belly piercings, ears, nose, top of ear – still images
1 minute - Interview with hairdresser/ piercer woman talking about how realistic girls piercings are and that they look nice. Cutaways to actuality footage of someone getting their ear pierced
55 seconds - Voiceover concluding the narrative leaving the public open to debate whether they want or don’t want tattoos or piercings. Montage of extreme tattoos and piercings with voiceover over the top
50 seconds - Closing credits super imposed over the previous montage