Secondary Research

Proposal

 Proposal

Write a brief outline for the production (a concept overview)

The loose idea for our documentary is interviewing people who work at Game and those who buy video games and those who don’t about whether or not they think that the current price is a fair price for the amount of content and time you get of them. 

Identify the genre and format of the concept, i.e., how will it be presented? (Format; expository, interactive, observational, performative, reflexive. Genre; docudrama, docusoap, infotainment, ‘reality’ TV, educational, wildlife, special interest, makeover).

The format of our documentary is an interactive documentary as we will be interacting with multiple groups of people through interviews. The genre that it will be is infotainment as its purpose will be to gather opinions of whether the public do think that games are too expensive but also to give some knowledge about games and what it intales to develop them.

Who would be your target audience? (remember primary and secondary divide and also to use terms such as demographics etc.)

The primary demographic for our documentary is teens and young adults as they are the target audience for video games as whole genre, however as most teenagers don’t have a job they rely on their parents to pay for or towards the video game so the secondary demographic for it is parents and carers as they can learn whether or not what they are paying towards is worth the money.

What would the aim of the documentary be? What do you hope to achieve by producing a documentary centered on your chosen idea?

The aim of this documentary would to give viewers an insider knowledge about whether the people who work in the gaming industry think that current games cost too much and whether that the people who buy games think that they are too much to keep spending money on multiple times a year. We can hope to achieve that people watch this start to question whether they are spending too much and whether they need to be buying as many games as often as they do.

Where will you need to film? Will you need to travel to a location / various locations?

The primary location that we will be using is the store Game, as the people who work in there are involved in the gaming industry so they should know whether the prices of the games are a fair representation for the time and effort and the cost that it cost to develop the game and the cost to hire a team. A secondary location we can use could be the streets of Great Yarmouth interviewing pedestrians who walk past.

Who will you need to be part of the production? Will you need other crew? Will you need experts / witnesses?

We won’t need any experts to be included in our team because we already know what we need to, however we may get someone to be in our documentary as we are not comfortable with being in the documentary ourselves, so we will get other people to interview instead.   

Write some sample interview questions (only applicable if you intend to have interviews - this includes talking heads where the interviewer is not present on screen).

·         Do you play video games?

·         If you do, how often do you play video games?

·         How much do you spend on video games?

·         If you don’t, why don’t you play them?

What equipment, props and costumes will you need to produce your idea? Do you already have what is needed? What will you need to buy in?

The equipment we need is a Canon DSLR, tripod and a microphone. No props or costumes are needed as we are interviewing people from college so there is no acting involved just their own opinions.

What is your proposed budget for this production?

We don’t need to spend any money for anything in our documentary as we are filming at one of our houses and at the college so no entry fee is needed anywhere, however we do need to spend money on a bus ticket for getting to college which comes to a total of an estimated £6.00.

Risk Assessment

Location Reccee

Production Schedule

Shot List

An Introduction to the News

I watched BBC News at 10:00 on the 13th June, 2016. The topics that were discussed in order were the Orlando shooting, EU referendum, the scandal between Goldman Sachs and the BHS and finally the Euros. The visuals at the start are important as it shows the whole globe and in the background main cities within dominant countries, also around the globe are what could be seen as sonar which goes well with the audio they play over top of it as when they are flowing and bouncing is goes well with the beat of the music.
The newsreaders that were presenting when I watched it were Huw Edwards, male, 54 and Kate Silverton, female, 45.The role of the newsreader/presenter is to be the authority for the audience watching, so that they are the ones proving the audience with the information about current affairs hat are going on. The skills necessary to be a newsreader/presenter is to be able to quickly read what is shown in front of you in a way that the audience can easily understand you, another skill is to be able to change the tone in your voice depending on what the story is you read, such as a happy or sad event and another skill is to be able to adapt in case any of the stories originally on the schedule get replaced by ‘breaking news’ headlines.
The stories that are being presented in the news in a particular order is called the ‘running order’. The story that is chosen to be the first story out of the many is called the ‘lead story’ or ‘lead’ and is chosen as it is the most important current topic to talk about, the order in which the following topics are chosen is due to the interest that they will get from the audience. The final news story discussed is often known as the ‘and finally’ which is normally a more positive topic to end on after most topics discussed are often more negative.  It’s important to act quickly with the news as it is always changing so you need to be ready to change as well to the newest story that had come in. The term ‘slow news day’ is when there is a lack of interesting and engaging topics for the audience to hear about. News values means how much prominence a news story is given by a media outlet, and the attention it is given by the audience. Galtung and Ruge’s news values include: immediency, familiarity, amplitude, frequency, unambiguity, predictability, surprise, continuity, elite nations/people, negativity and balance. Current news stories that include these news values are EU Referendum (immediency, familiarity, amplitude, personalisation and unambiguity), the Euros (elite nations/people, frequency and continuity), the Orlando shooting (negativity and surprise) and Glastonbury (balance).
There are many different types of bias in the media. The first is bias through selection and omission, which is when an editor can express bias by choosing whether or not to use a specific news story. Within a story, some details can be ignored, others can be included to give readers or viewers a different opinion about the events reported. Only by comparing news reports from a wide variety of sources can this type of bias be observed. The next is bias through placement which is, where a story is placed which influences what a person thinks about its importance. Stories on the front page of the newspaper are thought to be more important than stories buried in the back. Television and radio newscasts run stories that draw ratings first and leave the less appealing for later. The next is bias by headline which is where headlines are the must-read part of a newspaper because they are often printed in large and bold fonts. Headlines can be misleading: conveying excitement when the story is not exciting; expressing approval or disapproval. The next is bias by photos, captions, and camera angles, which is where pictures can make a person look good, bad, sick, silly, etc. Which photos a newspaper chooses to run can heavily influence the public's perception of a person or event. On TV, images, captions, and narration of a TV anchor or reporter can be sources of bias. The next is bias through use of names and titles, which is where news media often use labels and titles to describe people, places, and events. In many places around the world, one person's friend is another person's enemy. The final one is bias by choice of words which is where, people can be influenced by the use of positive or negative words with a certain connotation. People can also be influenced by the tone that a newscaster uses when saying certain words.