Proposal

For my documentary I plan to base it on Social Media

Aims

The question which my documentary aims to answer is 'how does social media currently effect teenagers social life and spare time'. There are five main questions which I aim to get answered in this documentary. I aim to answer this by having a well limited lengthened documentary which will have enough time to show enough information on this subject. The five main questions which I wish to get answered are:

1. When did social media start start taking effect as a whole?
2. What age range does social media effect the most?
3. How does social media effect teenagers psychologically?
4. Who in genders uses it more?
5. How does social media effect teenagers spare time?

Content

In my documentary I plan on showing many aspects which will be viewed as the important content. I plan on containing a lot of interviews in this documentary, by interviews it means that there will be a lot of short interviews and a lot of vox pops. By having vox pops it will result in me receiving a short answer on the subject, the interviewer will be asking short questions to people in the public, the answers that we will get will most likely be closed answers which mean that the answers will mostly contain either Yes or No's. By the short interviews I plan on receiving a more of a developed answer by the interviewee, as these won't be vox pops we will have more time to sit down and have more of a time consumed interview with whoever the interviewee is. By having both of these type of interviews it will show that there are two types of answers that you can get and this will give a good side to the documentary. The other types of content that will be shown in the documentary will also be a lot of graphics, by graphics it means that there will be a lot of graphs and statics, at the beginning of the documentary there will be secondary graphs and statistics which appear on the screen showing facts about social media and towards the end of the documentary there will be primary graphs and statistics as they will be based on the information that has been found out primarily throughout the whole documentary.

Target audience

The target audience for my documentary is going to be 13 - 24. In the brief that we received it said that the documentary should be from 16 - 24 however I feel that it would be a better idea for my subject to based it from a younger audience too and this is because 13 is roughly the age when people start using social media and it is also the age when kids become teenagers so it will be a learning type documentary for them. The target audience is also going to be unisex and this is because both genders use social media just as much as the other and from primary research I have also found out an interesting fact which said that women use social media more than men. In the documentary I would expect my audience to have some knowledge on social media as most of the world are already active social media users and this is because most people have computers and phones which have the availability of social media.

Genre

The genre of this piece of work is going to be a documentary, it will be a short lengthed documentary which will be made just like a well known documentary however will be elegantly different.

Format 

The format of this documentary is going to be in participatory mode, this is because there will be a lot of engagement between the presenter and the subject of the documentary. The presenter is going to go to many different places where they will be trying to find out as much information as possible regarding the subject.