Final Proposal

Topic

• The topic of our documentary is violent video games and the negative effect it has on young people aged between 12-18

• Our target audience are also people aged between 12-18 as these are the people the subject effects and will be most interested in the documentary. There is also a large percentage of males this age that play video games meaning there is a direct link between them and our documentary.

• We believe through research that we have conducted that our target audience already has a good understanding of the subject and we will be keeping the documentary quite formal.

Target Audience Profile

• Name: Eric• Age:17• Gender: Male• Ethnicity: White British• Class: Middle Class• Hobbies: Socializing online, playing video games, listens to dance/pop music, going out

with friends, plays football• Education: Well educated, goes to college/6th form, Studies IT, Sociology, Core Math's• Lifestyle: Lives at home with parents, has siblings, didn’t play video games until he was

a teenager.

This is a typical portfolio of a possible target audience member of our documentary. We will be trying to make the documentary have a direct approach and link to our target audience and therefore listing interests, hobbies etc. below allows to understand how we can make the documentary both enjoyable and have an impact on the target audience.

Documentary Style

• Our Documentary will be done in an exploratory style.

• We will be using this mode to push through our strong opinions on the negative effects violent video games have on young people.

• Our documentary will be very direct and subjective

What Channel• We will aim to broadcast our documentary on either Channel 4 or BBC

three at around a time of 8:00pm• Our target audience are known to watch TV programs on these two

channels, therefore broadcasting on these channels will appeal to our target audience as they are used to the type and style of TV programs on these channels.

• We are also aiming to broadcast the documentary at these times as through our research we found that are target audience watches the most TV at this time. This is because they are back from school/college and are ready to “unwind” whilst watching TV

• Airing the documentary at this time will also mean its before the watershed; this means that any bad language will have to be censored however this can have the effective of making the bad language seem more dramatic and grab the attention of our target audience.

Content• To understand the negative effects violent video games have on

young people will we conduct several expert interviews. This will help show the target audience the true and dangerous effects of violent video games.

• We will also undertake several vox pops interviews. This will help show the general opinion of the public and target audience and can be used to contrast against the experts.

• We hope to include background footage of violent video games to show the audience the what games we are talking about.

• We also hope to include archive footage from YouTube and other internet sites of young people getting annoyed and “freaking out” over video games. This will show the damaging effects video games have on young people.

Resources

• Camera, Tripod, Microphone, headphone will all be required for the documentary.

• We will need access to an iMac with software such as Adobe Premiere to edit our footage. We may also need Adobe Photoshop and InDesign to create our double page spread

• We will also use software such as GarageBand to create music for our documentary as well as for our radio trailer.