Formal Proposal

We created a formal proposal in lesson  which covered everything from the type and style of the documentary to what equipment that we would need.

Formal Proposal

Topic: Video Games

Type of Documentary:

 Mixed – contains interviews, narration and observation

Style of Documentary:

 Entertaining but includes information

Voice over which will be a young male/no presenter

Channel Scheduling:

Channel 4

9:30pm

Thursday 23rd January 2014

Target Audience:

16 to 35 core audience

16-50 target audience

Female and Male

Primary Research:

Research into potential interviews. For example we want to interview people who play video games in Liverpool One and Liscard.

Possible locations for filming.

Secondary Research:

Research into the history of video games, archive material, magazine articles and newspaper articles

Research into how popular video games are and the health issues

Narrative Structure:

Single Strand

Non-Linear

Open

Outline of Content:

Background of Video games

People’s health within Video games

Interviews with shop owners, parents, people who repair video games, game companies, game designers, gamers, addicts.

Possible places to film would be Liverpool One, Liscard, and Shops that sell video games

Cutaways- people playing video games, people in game shops, game console, and merchandise

Resource Requirements:

HD Digital Camera & memory card

Computers