Running Order
- 1. Running Order Documentary: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Channel: BBC2 Scheduling: Wednesday, 6pm – 6.30pm Duration: 28 minutes Montage (bins being emptied, items being dropped at tip, recycling centre.) Introducing topic with narration, brief overview of programme. 30 secs Opening Titles 20 secs Vox Pop with people in the street asking question: ‘do you recycle?’ 30 secs Quick montage introducing alternative ways of recycling (using eBay, depop, sculpture making, using charity shops, car boot sale footage) with narration explaining that recycling isn’t just about different bins. 20 secs Establishing shots of a charity shop, narration gives statistics on charity shops in the UK. 20 secs Charity shop interview with staff of the shop focusing on the different items that they receive, how they price items and some of the interesting items that they have received over the years. Intercut with shots of items inside the shop. 90 secs Interview with a customer in a charity shop asking questions about why they visit the shop and why they buy the items that they buy. 60 secs Shots of car boot introducing next topic of the programme 10 secs Vox Pop asking car boot salesmen ‘why do you sell at a car boot sale?’ 20 secs Interview with car boot organiser. Discusses why they started it, how many visitors it gets per week, and also how many sellers it receives. 90 secs Archive footage of old car boot sales. Narration talks about their growing popularity. 30 secs Shots of recycling centre. Tilt from the sky down into one of the large refuse containers. Narration moves the topic back to traditional recycling methods. 30 secs Interview with manager of recycling centre about the day to day running of the plant and how different materials are recycled. Intercut with various shots of the plant in action. 150 secs Archive footage of the ‘How it Works’ Recycle Now video. Narration reads recycling statistics. Facts superimposed on screen. 30 secs
- 2. Shots of different artwork on display at the Creative Recycling Gallery, Manchester. Narration explains that as opposed to recycling conventionally, the artists turn used items into art. 30 secs Interview with gallery co-founder, Glennis Andrews, asking why she founded the project and when it was established. Also poses the question on whether she founded the gallery based on a love of art or a love of recycling. 90 secs Montage of sculptures in the gallery. 20 secs Fast motion footage of a sculpture being built by the artists. 20 secs Footage of Glennis Andrews explaining what a certain piece of art means in the gallery and what the inspiration for it was. 20 secs Interview with gallery co-founder, Fiona Norton, asking what her favourite piece of art is in the gallery, which major projects she has contributed to and also whether she thinks the gallery is personally helping the environment. 90 secs Archive footage of polar ice caps, graphs made by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) showing climate change. Narration reads climate change statistics. Music bed using Earth Song Instrumental (Michael Jackson). 30 secs Interview with environmentalist about the effects of recycling on climate change, greenhouse gases and the ozone layer. 60 secs Footage of an avid water recycler going through his day to day water recycling routine. Shots of him reusing collected water. Narrator explains that although some people may find it strange, water recycling is a very viable form of helping the environment. 30 secs Interview with the water recycler asking about when they started to recycle water, whether they feel their life is massively different than before and whether they have received any negative backlash from people who know about their take on recycling. 90 secs Montage of people buying and selling online using sites such as eBay and Depop. Shots of various different items auction pages and people bidding and also listing items. Narrator explains that whilst most people may feel that water recycling is too involved or would change their life too much, buying and selling second hand items online is something a lot of people do often and can even be considered recycling. 30 secs Vox Pop asking passers by on the street ‘have you used eBay? What did you buy?’ 30 secs Interview with a highly rated eBay user who uses the service almost daily. Discusses what are the most bizarre items they’ve ever bought or sold second hand, how they decide to price their items and whether they personally consider it a form of recycling. 60 secs
- 3. Archive footage from the popular Channel 4 programme Grand Designs showing recycled materials being used to build eco friendly and self-sufficient houses. Narrator explains that this phenomenon, much like eBay, has came about during the modern era due to advances in technology. 30 secs Interview with the owners of an eco-friendly, recycled materials home on the day to day life living in one, how much it cost and what are the key materials that were used in the construction. 120 secs Footage of the home owner giving a tour of the home’s interior. 60 secs Various shots of bins being emptied, bin trucks coming down streets. Narrator explains that simple tasks such as just correctly using a designated bin makes a lot of difference. 20 secs Interview with member of the local councils recycling team about the significance of using local recycling sites and more niche schemes that you can get involved in. 90 secs Montage of local recycling centres and community projects using recyclable materials. Narrator explains to check local council websites in order to see what you can do locally. 30 secs Vox Pop asking ‘do you feel recycling is important to saving the environment?’ 30 secs Facts about recycling superimposed over a variety of shots of the content shown in the programme. Narrator reads statistics and climate change projections. 30 secs Closing credits superimposed over a montage of shots of different forms of recycling and also archive footage of nature. 40 secs TOTAL TIME: 28 minutes