Actual Final Proposal

This is my final idea for my documentary that I decided to film as my main project.

Working Title: Society on Gangs: Birmingham

I chose this title for my documentary as it refers to the theme of gangs which was my main idea to focus on for my project. The title is forward and gets straight to the point. It immediately lets the audience know what the documentary is about, and gives whereabouts of the location of where filming took place. As Birmingham is a very urban and metropolitan city it is recognised as a place where gang and criminal activity take place quite frequently whilst also being the second most populous area outside of London, this would thus give me my main theme for my documentary and a practical location to focus on.

Channel for Broadcast: Channel 4

As Channel 4 is a popular broadcasting channel due to its diversity and commercially wide appeal. It's universal coverage makes it immediately regcognisable across the UK. It is also often known to host both more edgy documentaries than the BBC and Five.
I thought my documentary would be best suited on this channel and it would get popular views due to this. Channel 4 is known for broadcasting various genres of television programmes and in particular controversial and hard-hitting documentaries that generate vast amounts of audience feedback and make a huge impact on the audience themselves. For example documentaries such as: The Family, Mum; Heroin & Me, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, are a prime example of a list of many documentaries that involve reality and drama. I thought my documentary could be classed in this category as it involves both of these elements plus much more.


Target Audience/ Age Group: Adults, Adolescents, Teenagers, 14 - 34

I chose these age groups as my target audience as I felt that they were the most likely to watch a program that looked into the problems of crime and gangs in society particularly because this is the age group most likely to be affected by this issue. It is also relevant to the lives of young people in today's society and by the element of reality this thus makes my documentary as relatable to today's youths as possible. Being amongst this age group myself I also found myself drawing upon personal experiences to be able to film my documentary and put it across to my age group/ target audience.

Genre: Investigative Documentary
It is not often you generally find young people particularly watching documentaries in today's society. From the results concluded from my questionnaire I found that there were a number of reasons for this. For example some of the comments made were that: they didn't find doc's interesting, they didn't engage the audience's interests or concerns, etc. This influenced my decision to film an investigative documentary where the audience found out issues along the way that they didn't know, were concerned about, related to them and found particularly interesting.

Style: Narrative, Archive Pictures, Voice overs, Interviews to Experts, Interviews to Vox Pops.

I felt that this was a typical style for documentaries and tried to follow the codes and conventions of this. A narrative is included through a main feature reporter that can be seen throughout the documentary, this familiarises the audience with this reporter. I purposely used a reporter with a similar age to myself and target audience.