Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Monday, 29 September 2014
topic research post 12b
we also found some other statistics online that show similar figures, I gathered more than one source so I am able to cross reference the results to make sure they are reliable for my documentary. Getting the truest statistics is very important so we are able to give the audience the correct information.
video made my abigail cooper- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wkuhkxn5T8
Task 11-Proposal
GENERAL
The topic of our documentary will be
mobile phone usage, and in particular whether such devices have become a luxury
to modern day society. We aimed to investigate this using the exploratory mode,
with a mixed documentary with an informative but informal style. We feel this
is definitely most appropriate to our potential target audience, as too much of
a formal style of documentary would likely turn viewers off and makes potential
audiences feel more isolated. We aim for a warm and relatable feel to our
documentary to appeal to more people than perhaps it would have otherwise; this
will make our audiences listen to our message more than using a clinical
approach similar to a David Attenborough documentary.
SCHEDULING
We have chosen to release our
documentary on Channel 4, at 8 o’clock, because the channel has many
documentaries aimed at the younger viewers and in general has a larger audience
of young adults. Channel 4 has already had many TV documentaries which appeal
to the audience of young adults such as ‘Body Shockers’, Secret life of
Students’ and Sexting Teacher’, which all target a particular age range of 16
to early 20s. Channel 4 also has branch channels such as E4 and 4music, which
are again aimed at young adults. The majority of E4’s programmes are aimed at
teenagers/young adults and the same with the music channel ‘4music’ has chart
music. which this particular target audience will listen to. We have set the
time of the documentary to be at 8 o’clock as it seems like the most
appropriate time as we figured out that from around 6:30-8pm there are a number
of soap operas on TV such as ‘Hollyoaks’ and ‘Emmerdale’, and we thought the
numbers of people watching such soaps would be quite high; this broadens the available
market for our documentary, as more people will likely be available to watch
than otherwise. Contrastingly, from 9-11pm, many regular TV series are
featured, so people of our target audience will give their attention to them.
Furthermore, this is when the watershed is, so the majority of our target
audience will likely flock to programmes of a more adult nature, so we decided
to settle in the middle so that we could reach as wide an audience as possible.
TARGET
AUDIENCE
More specifically, we think our target
audience will be in the age range of 16 to early 20s. We feel these are the
people most affected by mobile phone usage and are the first generation who
have grown up pretty much surrounded in such technology. We feel as a result of
this that they will be more intrigued by the documentary itself than much older
audiences (such as the elderly, aged sixty and above), who may feel polarized by
an area they may not feel particularly familiar with; however, it is important
to note that this is a stereotype and may simply be a result of media
representation of the older generation. However, the point still stands that
the younger generation will be most attracted to this documentary.
AUDIENCE
PROFILE
Friday, 26 September 2014
Progress diary
By mind mapping different ideas of topics it has allowed us as a group to identify which ideas have the most potential and relevance to our target audience. We feel the activity of weighing out the advantages and disadvantages has lead to us picking our current topic of 'mobile devices: luxury or necessity?' We felt by picking this topic we were able to use a range of vox-pops available at college. Overall as a group we are equally as enthusiastic about the topic idea and feel we have come to the right decision. Also we have chosen this to be our topic question as us as students feel that we can relate to others opinions on mobile phones and we will gather a range of accurate results with any research we do throughout the project as we are within an environment which represents our topic specifically.
post 9- Refection entry
There is two slides on this EMAZE, go to middle right on slide, hover over orange rectangle and click.
Thursday, 25 September 2014
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Monday, 22 September 2014
post 1-welcome
Hello, we are Abby, Sophie and Tom
We have been put into a group of three, were will be working together for the next A2 year in order to make the first 5 minutes of a documentary, based on a subject of our choice. We hope to work well as a group and hope that all our individual skills come together and we can all learn new things from one another.
We have been put into a group of three, were will be working together for the next A2 year in order to make the first 5 minutes of a documentary, based on a subject of our choice. We hope to work well as a group and hope that all our individual skills come together and we can all learn new things from one another.
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