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

Brainstorm of content for the documentary

In today's lesson we brainstormed what content we could perhaps put into our documentary.

Questionnaire results

Questionnaire Analysis

After tallying up our results from the questionnaire, I produced a questionnaire analysis, using charts.

Questionnaire analysis from JessikahBaard

Audios for questionnaire

These are the audio's for my questionnaire.

Target Audience Research

In today's lesson, we discussed what questions we should put on a questionnaire concerning the subject of video games and documentaries. Once we conducted the questionnaire, we handed them out to people in our target range.

 1. What gender are you?
     Male       [  ]
     Female    [  ]

2. How old are you?
     [   ]

3. What TV channel do you watch the most?
                                                                                               

4. Do you watch documentaries?
    Yes  [  ]
    No   [  ]

5. What type of documentaries do you watch?
                                                                                              

6. How often do you watch documentaries?
    Everyday             [  ]
    Once a week        [  ]
    Once a fortnight  [  ]
    Once a month      [  ]
    Never
    Other                                                                                   

7. Do you play video games?
    Yes   [  ]
    No    [  ]

8. What video games do you play? (genre)
                                                                                                

9. What is your favourite video game?
                                                                                                
 
10.  How often do you play video games?
                                                                                                

11. How long do you play video games for?
      30 minutes    [  ]
        1 hour         [  ]
        2 hours       [  ]
        3 hours       [  ]
        4 hours       [  ]
       other                                                                                   

12. What are your thoughts on video games?
                                                                                                 

13. What is the most you have paid for a video game?
                                                                                                 

14. Do people buy you video games?
      Yes  [  ]
      No   [  ]

If yes, why?
                                                                                                

15. Have you ever bought anyone else a video game?
      Yes   [  ]
       No   [  ]

If yes, why?
                                                                                                

16. Where do you buy video games from?
                                                                                                

17. Do you think that the age rating on video games is correct?
      Yes   [  ]
      No    [  ]

Why?
                                                                                                

Initial plans

In today's lesson we discussed the initial plans for our documentary. Documentary topic - Video games
Relevant topics - Fashion, stereotypes, gender, addiction, exercise, teenagers, age, money, technology, nerds, rolemodels
Target audience - 15 - 50 year olds ( male and female)
Channel - Channel 4
Scheduling - 9:30 pm Thursday (post watershed)
Title - Push the Button