The two initial ideas I thought of when doing my coursework was a documentary and a tv news programme. I eliminated the idea of doing a music video as I wanted to explore other ideas and experiment on narrative and create a storyline that would have limited my ability to do so if I chose to do the music video. There was another option to do a short film but I helped produce a short film with two students from class which was shown at the school film festival which was successful.
The documentary appealed to me the most because it creates a sense of rawness that is not often shown in the media. The ability to see a reality documentary in it's raw state is what I admired the most and hope to reflect this idea in my own documentary by re presenting teenagers in our day and age.
TV News programme
I had a couple of ideas for the TV news programme that I was interested in doing.
- The first idea was a tv news programme that imitated an existing programme like CNN or BBC news. This would allow to use convntions whilst also challnging existing convntions- creating new ideas to make it more youthful by engaging with my targt audience who I concluded would be people from aged 15-25 a demographic of working students with education and a social life outside of school.
- The second idea was to create my own tv news programme with people discussing news. The purpose of this idea would be to discuss news instead of the tradition of reporting just feeding people with news, by discussing you provide a welcoming approach to the viewer as you are able to engage with them. The broadcasters would also allow people to contact the studio if there are any topics that the person wants discussed on the news. This idea was to challenge codes of conventions whereas the first idea was to use existing codes of conventions.
Although I was interested in doing a TV news programme I realised that I wanted to do a documentary. I liked the concept of documentary films, allowing people into their world, if it is a third world country then cultural exchange would be the central focus, undrstanding how other people live and understanding their culture. A documentary also allows the people to interact with the viewer by telling their story which can be quite senistive and traumatic for the audience.
- Focusing on a particular lifestyle of an individual in a western culture, the focus would be on a teenager around the age of 16-18 who is underpriviledged, living in a hostel and have to find a way to achieve their dreams of going to university and the situation (environment) that they are in- filming the journey of how the tenager is able to work hard and not allow the place they live in to define their destiny in life.
I got this idea from the OprahWinfrey Show, a girl named Khadijah Williams was a homeless girl moving from shelter to shelter with her mother, attending 12 schools in 12years and living out of garbage bins among prostitues. Although she was living in these conditions she made it paramount that she succeed in her education and has now graduated and is attending Harvard University.
2. Another idea I had for the documentary was to reinact the life of a celebrity similar to the programme from Rags To Riches. This would show how celebrties endure hardship and work hard in order to become the people thay are, a side that is not oftn shown to th public.
I could have a person impersonate a celebrity and reinact an aspect of their day to day life.
3. I had another idea to do a documentary which would focus on teenagers and their school life. This is the idea I would be likely to do because it is easier to film students in school and show a representation of teenagers that is not usually shown in the media. As a director of the film it would enable me to put my input into the film and also through the use of certain shots would be able to show teenagers in a certain light
Chosen idea: documentary on teenagers
Topic: Talent of the youth
Target Audience: Teenagers/Young Adults/Adults: 16- 40
TV Channel : Channel Four or BBC One
Titles:
Youth of Today
Shaping the future
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