Sunday 17 October 2010
Research for documentary.
Dear Valerie
As you acknowledge, JK Rowling isn't available. i'm fowarding you'r email to a colleauge who looks afetr world book day and who might be able to give you a lead.
Best wishes
Mark
We rang public libraries for information, and to see if we could have possible interviews, emailed publishers such as J.k Rowllings publisher.
Formal proposal
Formal proposal for documentary
Title: How things changes – The book age
Topic of documentary: Books
Type of documentary: Mixed with a full narration throughout
Style of documentary: Informal, informative... using lots of short clips and will also be fully narrated
Channel and Scheduling: ITV1 Wednesday 8pm
Target audience: 17 -30 years old
Primary research needed:
- Finding interviewees for the programme
- Finding locations for the filming
- Finding props for mise-en-scene of the interview
Secondary research needed:
- Get extracts from The bli
- Still photographs, music, relevant documents e.g maps, official reports or surveys: newspaper and magazine article books
Narrative Structure:
- Non Linear single strand
- Open narrative structure
Outline of content:
- Do people prefer to read the book or watch the film?
- Has the standard of English decreased over time?
- Why is it that people don’t read anymore?
- Do children learn slower or faster?
- How blind people learn to read
- How children with disabilities learn to read
- Adult Literacy
- Why people enjoy reading books? Why they don’t?
- Are autobiographies more popular than novels... why?
INTERVIEWS
- Young children
- Teenagers
- University students
- Young adults
- Blind Children
- Local Authors
- English teachers
- Primary school teachers
- Learning mentors
- Interview with a well known film director who has adapted a book into a film
- Interview with learning specialists
- Interview with historians who have researched literature
CUTAWAYS
- Extreme close up: people writing
- People shopping in book stores
- Young children reading books
- People working into libraries
- People in libraries
- Pupils being taught in schools
- Stereotypical groups
- Panning across books
- Archive material
Monday 4 October 2010
Target Audience : Questionnaire result conclusions
How old are you?
We asked thirty people how old they were on our questionnaire, as you can see the majority is sixteen to twenty, with thirty and over being second which tells us that our target audience must be within this age range.
Male or female?
The majority of our target audience would consist of women however there are only ten more women then meaning showing that we could still have a mixed target audience.
Occupation?
The majority of our target audience would be mostly made up of students as students was the most popular.
What is your favourite colour?
We have a vareity of colours which means that we would most likely use the most popular during our documentary to catch the target audiences eye. Our main colours would be pink, purple and red as these were the most popular.
What is your favourite song?
we asked our target audience what their favourite songs are so we could use these as music beds during our documentary, we got many different choices showing that our target audience is a wide range and we had a multitude of songs to choose from.
What is your favourite TV channel?
From the pie chart above you can see that ITV is the most popular channel for our target audience so we would put our documentary on ITV to get the most viewers.
What time of day do you normally watch TV?
Our target audience mostly watches Tv in the evening, so we would put our documentary on in the evening, we would aslo have to look at scheduling to make sure that it does not clash with anyone other popular prime time Tv shows.
What day do you normally watch TV?
The majority of the target audience watch Tv monday to friday, with a few watching all week. This would mean to gain the most amount of viewers we would schedule our documentary during this period of time.
Do you read?
Majority of our target audience do read which would mean that many would like to watch a documentary based on this topic, however many also say no which gives us contrast and an angle to work with.
Do you prefare Films or books?
From this bar chart we can conclude that most of the target audience prefare films, which means during our documentary we can explore why this is.
What do you do in your spare time?
We asked what our audience does in their spare time, so we can use this why people don't read as much as they did twenty years ago.
Why do you think reading became less popular?
We asked thirty people how old they were on our questionnaire, as you can see the majority is sixteen to twenty, with thirty and over being second which tells us that our target audience must be within this age range.
Male or female?
The majority of our target audience would consist of women however there are only ten more women then meaning showing that we could still have a mixed target audience.
Occupation?
The majority of our target audience would be mostly made up of students as students was the most popular.
What is your favourite colour?
We have a vareity of colours which means that we would most likely use the most popular during our documentary to catch the target audiences eye. Our main colours would be pink, purple and red as these were the most popular.
What is your favourite song?
we asked our target audience what their favourite songs are so we could use these as music beds during our documentary, we got many different choices showing that our target audience is a wide range and we had a multitude of songs to choose from.
What is your favourite TV channel?
From the pie chart above you can see that ITV is the most popular channel for our target audience so we would put our documentary on ITV to get the most viewers.
What time of day do you normally watch TV?
Our target audience mostly watches Tv in the evening, so we would put our documentary on in the evening, we would aslo have to look at scheduling to make sure that it does not clash with anyone other popular prime time Tv shows.
What day do you normally watch TV?
The majority of the target audience watch Tv monday to friday, with a few watching all week. This would mean to gain the most amount of viewers we would schedule our documentary during this period of time.
Do you read?
Majority of our target audience do read which would mean that many would like to watch a documentary based on this topic, however many also say no which gives us contrast and an angle to work with.
Do you prefare Films or books?
From this bar chart we can conclude that most of the target audience prefare films, which means during our documentary we can explore why this is.
What do you do in your spare time?
We asked what our audience does in their spare time, so we can use this why people don't read as much as they did twenty years ago.
Why do you think reading became less popular?
We asked our audience why they think reading became less popular so we could use this as a bases to go on, for research.
Do you remember the first book you read?
The majority of the target audience can't remember their first book, however many can so we can use this as yet another basis of research when asked how did you learn how to read.
When did you last buy a book?
Most of our audience don't know when they last bought a book showing many people do not buy books as often as they used too.
Has the standard of english decreased since the popularity of reading fell?
Many believe that the standard of english has decreased therefore this would give us another foundation to base our research on.
Do you prefare reading electronic books or paper books or why?
Many of our target aduience prefare paper books ratehr the electronic books, which is in contrast to the revolution of technology, we can use this as yet another foundation for research.
What do you associate with reading?
There are many different things associated with reading, most of our target audience associate it with relaxing, we could ask why? Why does it relax them?
Do you remember the first book you read?
The majority of the target audience can't remember their first book, however many can so we can use this as yet another basis of research when asked how did you learn how to read.
When did you last buy a book?
Most of our audience don't know when they last bought a book showing many people do not buy books as often as they used too.
Has the standard of english decreased since the popularity of reading fell?
Many believe that the standard of english has decreased therefore this would give us another foundation to base our research on.
Do you prefare reading electronic books or paper books or why?
Many of our target aduience prefare paper books ratehr the electronic books, which is in contrast to the revolution of technology, we can use this as yet another foundation for research.
What do you associate with reading?
There are many different things associated with reading, most of our target audience associate it with relaxing, we could ask why? Why does it relax them?
Friday 1 October 2010
Target audience: Questionnaire
How old are you?
Bellow 10
11-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
30+
Male or female?
Occupation?
What is your favourite colour?
What is your favourite song?
What is your favourite television Channel?
What time of day do you normally watch Television?
What day do you normally watch Television?
Do you read and why? (if not why?)
Do you prefer films or books?
What do you do in your spare times?
Why do you think reading became less popular?
Do you remember the first book you read?
When did you last buy a book? What was it?
Has the standard of English decreased since of popularity of reading fell?
Do you prefer paper books or an Electronic book? And why?
What do you associate with reading and why?
Between my group we will produce thirty answers so we can conduct conclusions in the decisions we will make for our documentary
Initial Plans
Title: How things change: The book change
Target audience: 17-30 mixed gender
scheduling: Wednesday at 8pm on ITV, this will hammock between two popular shows
Target audience: 17-30 mixed gender
scheduling: Wednesday at 8pm on ITV, this will hammock between two popular shows
Brainstorming of content for documentary
Topics
Do people prefare to read books or watch films?
Has the standard of English decreased over time?
Why is it people don't read anymore?
Do children learn slower or faster?
Why people enjoy reading? Why don't they enjoy reading?
Are autobiographies more popular the novels...why?
Archive material:
Films were people learn to ready, footage of old adverts.
Cut aways
Extreme close up of people writting
shopping
young children reading
pupils being taught in schools
sterotypical groups
pan across books
Interviews
Young children
teenagers
students
adults
local
english teachers
learning mentors
authors
directors
learning specialists.
Do people prefare to read books or watch films?
Has the standard of English decreased over time?
Why is it people don't read anymore?
Do children learn slower or faster?
Why people enjoy reading? Why don't they enjoy reading?
Are autobiographies more popular the novels...why?
Archive material:
Films were people learn to ready, footage of old adverts.
Cut aways
Extreme close up of people writting
shopping
young children reading
pupils being taught in schools
sterotypical groups
pan across books
Interviews
Young children
teenagers
students
adults
local
english teachers
learning mentors
authors
directors
learning specialists.
title brainstorm.
To come up with our title, we decided to brainstorm various things accosiated with reading. We decided that our documentary would be called Once Upon A Time. To get this we went through a lot of ideas....
The writter
Words
The Abc
The plot
unchanging
paper generation
book shop
genereric change
scripted
book evolition
chapters
library
new decade
in my days
illiterate legend
how i learnt
reading
story
tale
book
open book
closed book
read you like abook
don't judge a book by it's cover
bookworm
bookshelf
chapters
blurb
spine
happily ever after
best sellers
page turner
Once upon a time.
The writter
Words
The Abc
The plot
unchanging
paper generation
book shop
genereric change
scripted
book evolition
chapters
library
new decade
in my days
illiterate legend
how i learnt
reading
story
tale
book
open book
closed book
read you like abook
don't judge a book by it's cover
bookworm
bookshelf
chapters
blurb
spine
happily ever after
best sellers
page turner
Once upon a time.
Brainstorming: Ideas for documentary
In our groups we were asked to come up with ideas to base our documentary on. we came up with the following
Shopping
Friends
Cars
James Bond
Reality TV
Internet
Ice Cream
food
trains
education
Travel
Books
Disney
Animals
Singing
Relationships
The media
Sports
Drugs and alcohol
piercing
Sterotypes
Music
We deicded to us books as a topic. We started to brainstorm of what we include
Title ideas:
Shopping
Friends
Cars
James Bond
Reality TV
Internet
Ice Cream
food
trains
education
Travel
Books
Disney
Animals
Singing
Relationships
The media
Sports
Drugs and alcohol
piercing
Sterotypes
Music
We deicded to us books as a topic. We started to brainstorm of what we include
Title ideas:
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