Documentary Planning - Synopsis of the Documentary

Documentary Planning - Synopsis

Mine and Steven's documentary, is an insight into what school life is really about. We thought that we should target this documentary towards the older demographic like parents so they can see what their children go through when they go to school. However, from the questionnaire responses that we have got back, we have found out that we would also need to target a digital, free-spirited and creative individuals around the ages of 15-20 year old's as well. 

Me and Steven made some other questionnaires trying to get responses back from the audience about what they would like to see within our documentary. We have got 13 responses from this questionnaire. We would their responses into consideration but me and Steven would have the final say on what we want to have within our documentary to make it look professional. These are what the audience believe that we should use when we create our documentary.

•  Most of the responses that we have got said that we would want to get 'new information and learn' from documentaries (Uses and Gratifications Theory - Information and Learning). So me and Steven want to add in as much information as possible so that the audience would learn something new about the school and the area.
• The audience believed that we should include a 'voice over' during the documentary so that the audience would get a better understanding of what it is going on.
• A 'variety of camera shots' is what they wanted as well, as they want to show the areas around the school and get a better understanding of what the school is like.
• 'Fly on the wall footage' could be used because they want to see some raw footage of what it is like within a classroom or within the corridors of the school.
• 7 people from the questionnaire said that they would like some 'interviews with teachers' because they want to know from a teachers point of view what the school is like. Some of the interviews would be scripted like with students talking about the school and some will not be scripted teachers about what is like working at a school everyday. We would do this so that the audience would get a real insight to the school is like. 
• Some of the audience wanted to have facts appear on the screen during the documentary because they want to learn more about the school.

Me and Steven have to decided between us what we should include within the film but also taking into consideration what the audience would like to see as well. We would want to try and make the audience have a preferred response of the feeling of happiness throughout the film and this is why we should take their thoughts into consideration if that is what they believe to give them a better understanding of what school is really like and how happy children are when they are at the school.