Questionairre

Having watched a range of documentaries such as Educating Essex, Autopsy and David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet. We decided to conduct a questionnaire to find out what kind of documentaries our target audience (students) likes to watch and what their opinions are of the different types of documentary.

Formal Proposal

Formal Proposal Draft

Focus Group

FOCUS GROUP QUESTION:

Would you rather watch a documentary based on 'The effects of social media on education' or 'The effects of social media on an individuals well being'?

Progress Statement

Post 10 - Initial Ideas

Post 9 - Brainstorm and Inspiration

Post 8 - Reflection

We used our research on theorists to help us choose what style of documentary we would follow for our piece. As well as this we looked at the different types of documentary's to choose which would be the most appropriate for our documentary as this would let us see what conventions we would need to include. Using our research of narrative structure it will enable us to choose how we will set our documentary out in terms of structure. 

Progress statement

Post 7 - Modes of documentary

Purpose of research - Documentary codes and conventions

Post 6 - Documentary conventions

Post 5 - Narrative Structure

The purpose and relevance of this presentation is to help is gain insight into the different types of narrative structure in order to decide what kind of narrative structure our documentary will be. Based on our target audience, it is likely to be a closed, single-strand narrative.

Post 4 - Types of documentary

The purpose and relevance of this research is to help us choose which type of documentary we will choose. It is most likely that we will choose to do a mixed style of documentary as this involves most conventions and will therefore give us chance to be able to include them in our filming. This gives us chance to visually see and read what each type of documentary involves, making our decision easier as we can easily choose which one we prefer the most. We will also have to choose which type to use on the basis of our target audience, however we haven't got to that stage of planning yet, so there is a possibility that our decision could change once we have conducted our audience research - questionnaire, focus group.

Post 3 - Documentary's and Theorists

Post 2 - Course Outline

For our A2 Media Studies coursework we had to get into groups of three. We were given a brief in which we were told that we would have to create the first five minutes of a TV documentary programme on a topic of our choice. As well as this, we need to do a few ancillary tasks including a radio trailer to promote the documentary, a double page spread from a listings magazine that is focused on the the documentary and finally, a blog to hold all our work.

Here is our blog.

Introduction

From left to right: Georgia Coles, Lucy Rutter and Siobhan Ruhan

A2 Media Students

Welcome to our blog!