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Revision of Pitch
Original Pitch:
"My initial idea is to create a three-minute opening sequence for a BBC Three documentary on an investigation into conspiracy theories. It will include a look into why people believe conspiracies and how we are led to believe them through social media, leading to the recent conspiracy theory on the coronavirus and the spread of misinformation."
Looking back at my original pitch I will keep the same idea that I had planned and improve upon them after the research I have done on audience behaviour and the questions I have asked my focus group.
I was deciding whether or not to focus on one specific topic or cover multiple and I have decided to focus on multiple as I feel like this will allow for me to be able to incorporate interviews and voiceovers more effectively as I will have more content to cover and more to explore.
After doing my generic research I also want to make sure that I use music within the intro and match the pace of editing to it, as I could see in other documentaries this helps to create suspense and make the viewer want to watch on.
"My initial idea is to create a three-minute opening sequence for a BBC Three documentary on an investigation into conspiracy theories. It will include a look into why people believe conspiracies and how we are led to believe them through social media, leading to the recent conspiracy theory on the coronavirus and the spread of misinformation."
Looking back at my original pitch I will keep the same idea that I had planned and improve upon them after the research I have done on audience behaviour and the questions I have asked my focus group.
I was deciding whether or not to focus on one specific topic or cover multiple and I have decided to focus on multiple as I feel like this will allow for me to be able to incorporate interviews and voiceovers more effectively as I will have more content to cover and more to explore.
After doing my generic research I also want to make sure that I use music within the intro and match the pace of editing to it, as I could see in other documentaries this helps to create suspense and make the viewer want to watch on.
NEA Audience Research Summation
During the time I spent researching into audience behaviour within the 16-25-year-old audience and asking questions to my focus group, I learnt a lot of useful information to help keep my documentary interesting and ways to get the target audience interacting with online content that links to the documentary.
After asking my focus groups a few questions, I discovered that they all watch documentaries, some more regularly than others, this ranges from one every two weeks to once every three months. This shows that the intended target audience for my documentary is not as likely to watch documentaries regularly so I will have to make my documentary interesting and cover lots of content in the first few minutes to make them want to watch on.
I also found out from my focus group that they are all very likely to interact with the documentary on social media platforms such as Twitter, to talk about the show and share their opinions, allowing for me to realise how important it is to show the audience how to interact with the show within the first few minutes and on my website.
In my focus group, the favourite genre of documentaries is mystery/murder, so they are all familiar with the codes and conventions which would follow in this genre and the style that I want to portray in my documentary.
During my research which I did online, I found out that 16-25-year-olds consume 69 minutes of live TV a day, this would mean that I would have to incorporate as much into the intro to make it as interesting as possible to keep the viewer watching, as this target audience is less likely to watch TV live and more likely to use streaming platforms like Netflix.
From doing this research on my focus group and using statistics from online I have realised that I need to offer a documentary that is captivating and provides a platform for the audience to use to express their opinions on the show. I also realised it is a lot harder to get the intended target audience to watch the documentary due to other platforms providing content that is easier to access such as Youtube and the number of different social media platforms as use of entertainment.
After asking my focus groups a few questions, I discovered that they all watch documentaries, some more regularly than others, this ranges from one every two weeks to once every three months. This shows that the intended target audience for my documentary is not as likely to watch documentaries regularly so I will have to make my documentary interesting and cover lots of content in the first few minutes to make them want to watch on.
I also found out from my focus group that they are all very likely to interact with the documentary on social media platforms such as Twitter, to talk about the show and share their opinions, allowing for me to realise how important it is to show the audience how to interact with the show within the first few minutes and on my website.
In my focus group, the favourite genre of documentaries is mystery/murder, so they are all familiar with the codes and conventions which would follow in this genre and the style that I want to portray in my documentary.
During my research which I did online, I found out that 16-25-year-olds consume 69 minutes of live TV a day, this would mean that I would have to incorporate as much into the intro to make it as interesting as possible to keep the viewer watching, as this target audience is less likely to watch TV live and more likely to use streaming platforms like Netflix.
From doing this research on my focus group and using statistics from online I have realised that I need to offer a documentary that is captivating and provides a platform for the audience to use to express their opinions on the show. I also realised it is a lot harder to get the intended target audience to watch the documentary due to other platforms providing content that is easier to access such as Youtube and the number of different social media platforms as use of entertainment.
NEA Generic Research Summation
After analysing three documentaries, there was codes and conventions that were becoming more clear that was used throughout most documentaries. By understanding how these codes and conventions are used, it will allow for me to be able to incorporate them into my documentary.
Common Codes and Conventions:
Common Codes and Conventions:
- Within the intro alone there is a range of different shots used that help to keep the pace of the documentary up and keep the interest of the audience - mid shots are the most commonly used shot for simplicity and can help to keep the main focus in the shot, especially seen in generic research 3.
- In all three of the documentaries, I watched there were short clips from interviews that would be shown further in, that were shown in the intro. these short clips help to keep the audience intrigued with what will come later in the documentary and help to keep the audience wanting to watch on. The interviews are also an effective way of putting across more information to the audience in a fresher viewpoint, from someone like them, which is seen a lot in generic research 1.
- All three of the documentaries used voiceovers to either explain what was on screen or to talk over scenes that didn't have much relevancy to the topic. This is a good technique to use, especially in the intro, as you can quickly get across the point of the documentary about what is to come.
- The narrative of these documentaries, especially generic research 2, follows the presenter on a journey where they investigate to find out what really happened, within this,they incorporate interviews to find out more detail and to get public opinion.
Applying Theory:
John Grierson - Used the term 'the creative treatment of actuality' to describe documentaries, meaning that depending on the style and type of documentary what is produced will be able to satisfy the viewer and enable them to come out learning new knowledge and opinions. This can be applied to my documentary as I want to have the viewers finish watching and having their own opinion on the topic.
Ben Nicols- This theory contains six modes of documentary, these are; poetic, expository, participatory, observational, reflexive and performative. The main modes which will be focused on in my documentary after seeing how they are used in other documentaries will be the expository mode and participatory.
- Expository mode - Known as the 'voice of god', which will be good to incorporate into my documentary as it fits the style and would almost provide the audience with a voice of reason and ability to see different opinions.
- Participatory mode - This will allow for me to involve lots of audience participation by having public interviews to gather different opinions from the public to provide more variety to the documentary.
Saturday, 25 April 2020
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