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Introduction
I have thought of three ideas for my production. My first idea is teenage shopaholic’s and I wanted to see how shopaholic’s spend money on things which they do not need and how it’s affected them. My second idea is teenage pregnancy and how its affected teenagers in the long run after experiencing being pregnant. My third and final idea is graffiti and how it has affected an area and whether or not it is seen as art or vandalism. I have chosen teenage pregnancy for my final production.
I have chosen teenage pregnancy for my final idea because this topic is extremely popular and even though there are already documentaries on this subject I feel that this subject is a big problem at the moment and it will only help people who are in this situation to think twice in the future. As the percentages are going higher and higher every year I feel that this will help my production because I will have valid information for my targeted audience and this will give lead on to me having a strong production at the end. I also feel that the information I have got will be relevant towards my targeted audience, because of all the facts and figures I will include in my documentary I will make it very factual and straight to the point. I will not be biased in my documentary although there are not many good points about being a teenage parent, I will try and make it eye catchy and make sure it is interesting through out my who production.
My idea which I have rejected is teenage shopaholic, I have not chosen this idea because I do not think I will be able to put it all together and it would be difficult to get interviews with people because they will be busy or just not reachable and for a successful documentary interviews are important to gain someone’s personal opinion. I have also rejected graffiti because it does not have a wide audience, not everyone has a great interest in vandalism so it will not meet the brief. I feel that there will not be enough information given out to the targeted audience and the audience for the topic is more of an older audience rather than teenagers although more of the younger generation do graffiti.
Going back to my chosen idea, which is teenage pregnancy I will need to consider the limitations of what I have chosen. I will have to consider the target audience viability, make sure it is focusing on the main point not tracking to another topic, duration, content and representation of the whole idea. All these limitations will need to be kept in mind throughout the whole production because I need to meet the BBC3 brief and meet the remit of educate, inform and entertain in order for my production to be successful.
In order to have a successful final production. I will need to consider the followings before going ahead with the production: audience viability, content viability and technical viability.
Technical viability and audience viability are the most important things I will have to keep in mind and will have to reflect my idea’s back on this because if my target audience is not accurate this whole production will be a failure because it will not then meet the brief, also keeping in mind the technical viability I will need to make sure I have everything I need for this production in order for the production go smoothly but overall I feel that I can handle producing this production as long as I have prepared myself well enough. With my content viability as I have done enough research for me to start my production and the interview’s I have thought about will fit it very well with my production.
As a conclusion for my final idea, I have chosen teenage pregnancy because it targets well towards its actual targeted audience which will meet the brief and I think has a lot of potential its final outcome as this is one of the main concerns today about teenagers becoming pregnant at such a young age and looking to see how they coped with the situation, as this has a niche audience.
For my pre- production stage I will do a story board as to how I would like my production to flow and go by, I will also arrange when to have my interviews and what types of equipment I will need to use for my productions and need to arrange all the timing this will need to be done so my whole production will run smoothly.
I have thought of three ideas for my production. My first idea is teenage shopaholic’s and I wanted to see how shopaholic’s spend money on things which they do not need and how it’s affected them. My second idea is teenage pregnancy and how its affected teenagers in the long run after experiencing being pregnant. My third and final idea is graffiti and how it has affected an area and whether or not it is seen as art or vandalism. I have chosen teenage pregnancy for my final production.
I have chosen teenage pregnancy for my final idea because this topic is extremely popular and even though there are already documentaries on this subject I feel that this subject is a big problem at the moment and it will only help people who are in this situation to think twice in the future. As the percentages are going higher and higher every year I feel that this will help my production because I will have valid information for my targeted audience and this will give lead on to me having a strong production at the end. I also feel that the information I have got will be relevant towards my targeted audience, because of all the facts and figures I will include in my documentary I will make it very factual and straight to the point. I will not be biased in my documentary although there are not many good points about being a teenage parent, I will try and make it eye catchy and make sure it is interesting through out my who production.
My idea which I have rejected is teenage shopaholic, I have not chosen this idea because I do not think I will be able to put it all together and it would be difficult to get interviews with people because they will be busy or just not reachable and for a successful documentary interviews are important to gain someone’s personal opinion. I have also rejected graffiti because it does not have a wide audience, not everyone has a great interest in vandalism so it will not meet the brief. I feel that there will not be enough information given out to the targeted audience and the audience for the topic is more of an older audience rather than teenagers although more of the younger generation do graffiti.
Going back to my chosen idea, which is teenage pregnancy I will need to consider the limitations of what I have chosen. I will have to consider the target audience viability, make sure it is focusing on the main point not tracking to another topic, duration, content and representation of the whole idea. All these limitations will need to be kept in mind throughout the whole production because I need to meet the BBC3 brief and meet the remit of educate, inform and entertain in order for my production to be successful.
In order to have a successful final production. I will need to consider the followings before going ahead with the production: audience viability, content viability and technical viability.
Technical viability and audience viability are the most important things I will have to keep in mind and will have to reflect my idea’s back on this because if my target audience is not accurate this whole production will be a failure because it will not then meet the brief, also keeping in mind the technical viability I will need to make sure I have everything I need for this production in order for the production go smoothly but overall I feel that I can handle producing this production as long as I have prepared myself well enough. With my content viability as I have done enough research for me to start my production and the interview’s I have thought about will fit it very well with my production.
As a conclusion for my final idea, I have chosen teenage pregnancy because it targets well towards its actual targeted audience which will meet the brief and I think has a lot of potential its final outcome as this is one of the main concerns today about teenagers becoming pregnant at such a young age and looking to see how they coped with the situation, as this has a niche audience.
For my pre- production stage I will do a story board as to how I would like my production to flow and go by, I will also arrange when to have my interviews and what types of equipment I will need to use for my productions and need to arrange all the timing this will need to be done so my whole production will run smoothly.
Monday, 28 September 2009
I found that the topic graffiti does not appeal to my target audience because they do not do graffiti themselves so they wouldn’t be interested in the topic and because of the area they live in does not have graffiti their not really intrested in knowing about it but thinking about it could happen to them they would consider wathcing a documentary. I was told to look at the art side of graffiti instead of just the negative points of graffiti. To make this appeal more to my target audience I could look at an area which is more like their area and talk about how that type of an area has changed from being from a high standard to a low standard. I was told it is always aimed mainly at the male gender than the female. My audience would want to know is graffiti related to crime or a piece of art and what is done about it. My audience would like for me to film my documentary in both area’s in a nice clean area with high standards and an area with low standards with lots of graffiti. My audience thought that graffiti is a crime but is also a piece of art but if people dislike it it is a crime. There are places where graffiti is aloud therfore graffiti is seen as art, and people send out their messages through there graffiti.
My focus group has affected the viability for my idea by telling me that my topic is more male based and it would appeal more to the males than females because males do graffiti more than females. I though I could discuss the matter in different locations to show the audience what graffiti says about an area, and to look at the area’s where graffiti is aloud because it is seen as art in that area.
My male audience said that this topic would not interest them in any way because the sound of teenage pregnancy is just referred to women because the females are the people that actually have to go through with the whole process, but to make it appeal to both male and female genders to discus the male’s view on it and see how they feel about their girlfriend becoming pregnant, how they feel, what they think about it and if they would want to keep the baby or not and show how it does not effect men has much as women because they’re not the one’s going through with it the females are. I also found that the male gender would watch a documentary but only to make sure they do not end up in that state. I found that if this documentary was to happen it should send a strong message because this is something which changes your life. My audience would like to know facts and figures about this topic which would shock the audience and make them think sensibly, and showing a real life situation which a couple have gone through would really grab viewers attention. To show the negative sides of having a baby, their education will go down hill and all the extra costs which your parents would have to pay for because you are unable to pay because you do not have a job. The documentary should be balanced and not biased. The tone of the documentary should be a sympathetic tone, my audience would like to see this because what it would be more realistic and you need to look forward the future what ever has happened, has happened, what should be done next.
My focus group has affected the viability for my idea by telling me what I could add to my topic which will make a successful documentary. I was told to make this topic appeal more towards the male audience as it would attract the male audience because the females are who go through the whole pregnancy. I thought I could discus more about the male gender and how they are affected by this and how they feel about the whole situation. I think this would be a good documentary if I was to go ahead with this idea as I wouldn’t find it difficult to find someone in this situation because it is very common underage pregnancy.
About the documentary appealing to my audience I found that it would appeal to them because everyone has their own spending habits but it is not something you can compare. It appeals to more females than women because women tend to buy a lot more then men although men do shop but avoid having to go out and shop. From my audience research I found out that my audience would like to find out why they spend so much money and what are the outcomes of it, is there a personal reason for them shopping so much, my audience would also want to know how much they spend on average on each shopping trip. My audience would like this to be presented by people having their own opinions to say and would like people who have experienced some of this sort to discus it. From this discussion I found that my audience are not shopaholics them selves but they would watch a documentary on shopaholics because they would like to see what exactly shopaholics get up to and why they are the way they are.
My focus group has affected the viability for my idea by telling me what I could add to my topic which will make a successful documentary. I was told to make my documentary appeal more to the male audience so more people would watch it rather than just women. I think this would be a bit tricky to put together as I would need to find someone who is a shopaholic and ask them to discuss their experience as a shopaholic and how they over come the situation.