Unit 4
- 1. Unit 4: Content Research - My Documentary Planning Topic and Title The title of my documentary is going to be: Chance to Shine. I will obtain polarized opinions by introducing in my documentary a question that enables me to obtain polarized opinions. The question will be: Why cricket is a game of mixed ethnicities at a pro and semi pro level but in some schools level it’s been segregated? In my documentary, I will be interviewing Wasim KhanCEO of Street Chance and ex-cricketer, Eric Ferebee secretary of Battersea Cricket Club and David Dobbs teacher at Chestnut Grove School that deals with my issue. Mode of Address The style or mode of address of my documentary is going to be investigative, serious and a few critical modes attached to it. The reason why my documentary is going to be serious is because it’s a focused subject matter that people need to know about and understand the ethics or morals of my documentary about the issue. Purpose The purpose of my documentary is to inform, educate and raise awareness of how to find ways for young teenagers from different ethnicities to play cricket together as one community. Today’s schools, obsessed with academic league tables, prefer to concentrate on more scholarly subjects. This means shunning cricket, which is seen as taking too long to play compared with other sports. Finally, cricket has also fallen victim to the ubiquity of football, which now dominates the sports media and is the primary sporting obsession for most youngsters. Audience My primary target audience for my documentary Chance to Shine are teenager’s age 15-19 only male who plays cricket and are interested in any sport area. The aim of my documentary is to increase aspiration, promote mutual respect, and enhance relationships in schools. The target audience gets addressed through the use of cutaways that represent target audience by having young people in the video clips. The secondary target audience for my documentary are people age 35-50 male who are cricket fans because it’s like a good old times in British Empire - Victoria's times only played by gentlemen’s and the excitement to it.
- 2. The subject matter is about segregation in cricket at school level. The reason why I have decided to choose this subject matter for my documentary is because I am, personally, interested in this subject so I can produce an effective documentary for my Media Production course. Yet also, the subject matter is captivating and relates to my target audience. It is a focused subject matter and it is current so it meets my aims. Most importantly, the conventions of my documentary are: - Non-fiction as I will be documenting an aspect of reality. - My documentary is not a biased type as it contains a variety of other personal opinions from different individuals. - I will be also using archive footage for my cutaways from the secondary resources such as the Internet, or newspapers. - Two expert opinions to make it believable and more realistic connoting that the documentary and the issues are for real in today’s society. I will also convey that the documentary is a current and new issue. - Voice over narration, which will help me include more information in my documentary and display my cutaways during a voice over narration which will make my documentary more fascinating. - Cutaways where I will be displaying relevant images or pictures in my documentary. Viability Viability means the capacity to operate or be sustained. My documentary is viable or in other words, do-able as I can arrange interviewers with the contacts that I have to make for my documentary. Prior the interviews, I will construct professional and relevant questions for my interviewees. I am also able to conduct VoxPops. In my documentary, I will be presenting the introduction and conclusion myself of my documentary and the characters. I have to mention that, my documentary is the viable because it is just for 5 minutes and I have by now developed my idea thoroughly to understand and acknowledge exactly what I am going to be doing to meet my aims and purposes.
- 3. Mode of documentary The Mode of my documentary is participatory and investigative. The reason why I am going to participate in my documentary because it is much more better as I will know what to do or what to say for my own documentary. Yet also, my character may not be available 24/7. Whereas, if there are any errors in my documentary for the scenes that I am in, I can easily do them again. Likewise, the reason why my documentary is going to be investigative is because my aim is to find out the reasons behind segregation in cricket at school level? They will provide me with polarized opinions. As I am from ateenage life stage too, I can relate myself to my target audience when planning and producing my documentary. Personally, I like documentaries that are investigative and participatory which makes the documentary realistic and interesting for myself, as a viewer. Therefore, because I know that this mode of address or mode will appeal to my target audience I will use it for my documentary. Presenter I have decided to present my documentary because it is my independently filmed documentary; I know what the story is about in depth and what I am going to be doing? I want to present the documentary at the beginning where I will introduce my documentary to my target audience. I want to be able to present the show as my target audience will be aware of whom the presenter is and having too much Voice Over throughout the documentary can possibly result in losing my target audiences' interests or concentration. Personally, I like to see the presenter in documentaries being present in it as it feels like we are being talked towards by the presenter which makes the documentary interesting. At the beginning of the documentary, I will be talking about the introduction of the documentary explaining what/why I am doing it. I will then include cutaways that are relevant to my subject matter. I might also have some background sound relevant to the documentary such as a song or tune.
- 4. Locations For my documentary, I have got a variety of locations where my interviewees are most available and the setting represents the issues or subject matter of my documentary. For example, I have to interview Wasim Khan for my documentary, which is more likely going to take place in an office. However, I have arranged an interview in a cricket club with Eric Ferebee who is a secretary of Batteresea Cricket Club. This location is the best as it relates and appeals to my target audience. At last, my third location takes place in academic premises where there is a school teacher David Dobbs who will participate in my Vox Pops. A recent article or development that relates to my area of focus Significantly, the key area of focus for my documentary is that I will be investigating the rights and wrongs of segregation in cricket at school level. Relevant links for my documentary that is relevant to my area focus: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gametheory/2013/03/class-and-cricket http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/interviews/charlotte-edwards-im-gutted-cricket-is-not-in- the-olympics-7888025.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6398835.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2011/feb/24/local-cricket-islington http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/poke-me/poke-me-why-football-not-cricket- should-be-our-most-loved-game/articleshow/16557362.cms Facts and figures/ statistics for my documentary 1) Content Analyses indicate that up to 75% of schools in UK have segregation in cricket at school level which suggestive that more than half of school in UK plays football. 2) 6% of students in UK at school or colleges predominantly middle to lower class people expressed a belief that cricket is not taken seriously in schools and the government doesn’t really care about it in regards to football. 3) In 2010, a survey by street Chance, a charity that promotes the game in schools, found that less than 10% played “meaningful cricket”—at least five competitive matches a year. The organisation is working hard to increase that number. But while it has had success at the primary level, particularly by linking schools to local cricket clubs that offer facilities and coaching, it says that getting cricket back into secondary schools is much more challenging.
- 5. 4) Today’s schools, obsessed with academic league tables, prefer to concentrate on more scholarly subjects. This means shunning cricket, which is seen as taking too long to play compared with other sports. Finally, cricket has also fallen victim to the ubiquity of football, which now dominates the sports media and is the primary sporting obsession for most youngsters.