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Production Schedule

Crew list

Narrative Arc

Proposal

Aims

The aim of the documentary will try to make the audience reflect on their own lives and get to ask the question if they are truly happy. The documentary will aim to connect with the audience on a more personal and emotional level and the ask the question why. This is opposed to constantly giving out facts and statistics which would outline the enormity of the issue.

Content

The majority of this documentary will be based on my own journey, which would mean that the camera would follow me to various people and places to talk about the issue. We will aim to present information in interviews with therapists among other experts. The content of this documentary will be heavily dependent on who I go to see and who I talk to about becoming happier. One main

Target Audience

The target audience for this documentary is 16-24. I ideally want the audience to know enough about the subject, which would allow the documentary to launch straight into my own personal journey. The documentary will appeal to the target audience because we want to personify the subject by bringing it to a more personal level. We want the audience to be able to identify with the subject which would allow the appeal to stem from asking themselves if they are truly happy. Furthermore, the subject is very broad which would widen the range of our target audience instead of having an audience that only have a specific common interest.

Format

The format of this documentary will be in a performative documentary mode, I want to revolve this documentary around my own personal journey in finding happiness. Whilst i may encounter different people through my journey, its main focus will always be on me, this in turn will hope to make the audience feel more emotionally connected with the documentary. Also by using a performative mode, it does allow the documentary to have a more specific focus which is needed considering it will only be around 5 minutes.

Genre

The genre for the documentary will take a more investigative focus point. Whilst it will be more educational in the sense that we will have some experts, it perhaps will take a more subjective approach to the topic. Happiness is a subject that can be thought of in many different ways, which is why we aim to exhibit one persons journey, hoping to open the eyes of our audience to their own journey.

Style

The style of my documentary will have a more relaxed approach, because this will hopefully allow the audience to connect better with the presenter. Whilst i do want to remain professional throughout i would rather maintain the style that there is only one other person following me with the camera, i don't want the audience to feel like its staged. Hopefully by using this style it creates a trusting relationship with me and the audience which will engage them a lot more.

Analysing the Competition

The Japanese Love Industry

What is the show’s channel, broadcast day and time slot?

Where The Japanese Love Industry is shown on the multi-media platform of Vice, when this show was broadcast-ed/released was on 11th October 2016,, this shown was not placed in a time slot because it’s a online viewing platform, this is were the documentary was uploaded for the viewer to watch to their timing.

What are the show’s viewing figures for the past week?

The viewing figures of the vice program The Japanese love industry was not available online. as to view this content you have to pay to view the figures.

What similarities does the show’s format and content have with your own?

How the Japanese love industry will be similar to our documentary is that we will be going into personal lives to found out about what makes them happy, as we see this in the documentary where the presenter personally gets to know the people that work in the love industry, What other similarity that this includes is the following around of the presenter to find information, as we will do this to collect information.

How would your show beat it in terms of viewing figures?

How own documentary may beat the viewing figure of the documentary is that is will not be explicit as this documentary , as this will also the public under the age of 18 to watch our documentary without mentally or physically harming them from the visual content.

Asian Provocateur 

What is the show’s channel, broadcast day and time slot?

The day that Asian provocateur was aired was 26th October of 2016 online on the BBC I-player platform, on the channel of BBC three which has moved on to produces online content, as there only make content to upload on a multi media platform.

What are the show’s viewing figures for the past week?

The total viewing figure that the Asian Provocateur have gain through the whole series just under 6 million viewing figures, on average the viewing figure that each episode makes is around under a million.

What similarities does the show’s format and content have with your own?

The elements that Asian Provocateur has that would be similar to the documentary that I will produce, is the camera language that is done is ruff, as it has a look of realism because it follows around the presenter with the activates that he does, as I will have this in my documentary follow around the presenter and watch and learn from the activities that he does to become happy.

How would your show beat it in terms of viewing figures?

How would my show beat the  Asian provocateur is that i will have the format changed to be more unique, as i will have two presenter, one of the presenter will be on the go camera man and the first presenter will be the main character that will do and ask more of the questions, as the seconds one will contribute when he can and show his opinion about the information.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04bx517/asian-provocateur-mums-american-dream-3-brother-dinesh

The Superhuman World of the Iceman

What is the show’s channel, broadcast day and time slot?

The channel that The Superhuman World of the Ice man was placed on was Vice it is a online multi media platform where video, new, music and other content is uploaded to the side and updated a all times, The show did not have a a time slot because it is not live TV as this is uploaded and viewed by other by choice. This documentary was uploaded on 16th of July 2015

What are the shows’ viewing figures for the past week?

The documentary viewing figure that came from vice the main viewing platform of the documentary was not available online. as to view this content you have to pay to view the figures of The Superhuman World of the Iceman.

What similarities does the show’s format and content have with your own?

Were the shows have the same similarities is from the filmmaker, as the filmmaker goes out and learn new techniques of what the iceman does, and what he love to do is challenge his body. Where in will be inculcated this similarity is that I as a filmmaker will be going out and learning new techniques of how to be more happy from experts.

How would your show beat it in terms of viewing figures?

What I would do to make the documentary more unique from the Superhuman World of the Iceman, is that I as a filmmaker will place step by step of what the experts had said to become happy. I would include the experience that I had learnt from the making of the documentary that the audience can learn at home.

  Based on this research, what broadcast day and time would best suit your documentary magazine show? 

The documentary should be posted and/or uploaded on the Wednesday, this was because from the research i found, typically the similar genre has also been posted on a Wednesday. In terms of the time of day, the documentary should be uploaded in the morning, this would allow the target audience to watch it across the day and potentially share it on social media.

Secondary Research: Legal and Ethical