Unit 27 Assignment 2

Individual Idea
Topic/Issue
My topic is how the media has negative influences on todays society, (print, TV, film music videos). I want it to show 

• The issues surrounding girls aged 9-18 and boys 14+ 
• The conflict of messages within the media i.e. being told to be yourself vs. being told to be skinny and blonde
• The controversy around size 12 being plus size
• The impact Photoshop can have on the vulnerable (both genders)
• Perception of a perfect body (both genders)
• Fad diets
• The opinion of those who are affected

- "About half were worried only about gaining more muscle, and approximately a third were concerned with both thinness and muscularity simultaneously. Meanwhile, less than 15 percent were concerned only with thinness. Those statistics reflect a major difference between boys and girls when it comes to weight concerns: whereas girls typically want to be thinner, boys are as likely to feel pressure togain weight as to lose it." 
- Nearly 18% of boys are highly concerned about their weight and physique, JAMA Pediatrics
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I hope it informs people of how the media can affect young people, the fact it can lead to depression and other disorders can raise awareness and make parents/carers check up on their kids as it could happen to anyone and to show people the knock on affect. 

Research the target audience
Teenagers 14-18  would watch similar programmes to this because they're the target audience.
My idea would be popular with this audience because it's something that's relevant to them and it's a topic that some of them may have been/are going through or others may be completely in the dark about it so it will be good to inform them.
For example, the Stacey Dooley documentary which is about young people on boozing holidays in Bulgaria got 11 thousand views. This was popular because it's an interesting topic that hasn't really been touched on and it's relevant to young people.

Constraints:
Some problems for my production could be finding people to talk to who are affected by the topic, and finding someone who's willing to talk about it to get over this I'd need to find a few people of both genders so that it's not just about one type of person.
Also I'm not a psychologist so I don't know how this kind of thing can fully affect someone and all the information given has to be true so I'd have to do a lot of research to gets facts or speak to someone who knows what they're talking about.
Another thing is that I do have a few things I'd want to cover and I'd have to make sure that it doesn't drag on too much so I might have to condense my ideas and only discuss a few topics.

Genre 
This is a factual documentary programme, the typical conventions of these kinds of programmes are;

• Facts
• Statistics
• Interviews with relevant people: experts and normal people
• Opinions of more than one person
• Examples of the topic

To make mine more creative I'll make it engaging for a young person to watch. I know what makes a programme boring and what makes me turn off so I'll aim to keep the attention of the viewer. I'd do this by not giving loads of information at once, and when information is delivered try to include a visual so it's easier to take in. 
As well as this, use terminology that's easy to understand, the tone has to be appealing to a teenage audience, part of which is young so using big words you'd find in an ITV documentary wouldn't work.

Guests/Crew needed 
For my programme I'd need a presenter, to act like a reporter, 2 at most. I'd need participants as that's what my documentary will rely on so as many people I get to talk to about the topic as well as someone older - ideally someone in psychology so that there's expert opinion in there. 
I'd need a camera operator, two sound people, editors,  and someone to clap at the start of recording. As I'd be using a boom pole I probably wouldn't need individual microphones as everyone will be in close proximity.

VT needed        
For my VT I have a few options, all of which would easily fit into the documentary at any time. There's a video of a woman having a photo-shoot and in the video they Photoshop her showing how easily you can change the way someone looks, I could use this as it's relevant. I also could use an interview with someone as a VT.

Outline structure 
Step by step.

• Introduction into the documentary
• Small montage of what will be shown and topics discussed
• Presenter discussing the issues of the media in front of a green screen, can cut to a VT that's relevant to keep it engaging
• Photo shop that's used in print - magazines like Vogue and GQ
• Interview on the opinions of this (including expert)
• Conflict messages, for example Meghan Trainor and Beyoncé in music videos
• Beauty perception in both male and female societies
• Speak to people affected by this and measures they've taken (fad diets etc)
• An overview of how the media can have a negative affect on young people with an expert explaining the psychological affects or facts found as a visual
• Outro

Group proposal
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cqSh9Ba403KCdIhRQxhbYUzjW5rk8gMN6JCvE-tpgFI/edit?usp=sharing

Unit 27 Assignment 1