2. Brief
• Our task was to produce a five minute
documentary including interviews, cutaways and
footage. We are also required to produce a print
and a radio advert.
3. Type of
Documentary
• Historical/Issues in society
• The reason why we believe this documentary goes
under this category is because, its about how
technology has changed overtime, and also how
technology has caused problems, for instance no
freedom to play out with friends.
Documentary Modes:
• We will be using „Expository‟(Voice of God) and
„Interactive‟ (appearance of the narrators)
4. Storyline
• We are going to do a five minute documentary
about how childhood has changed over time.
During these five minutes we will be discussing how
childhood has changed in regard to how much
freedom a child now has compared to 50 years
ago.
• If we was filming the whole hour we will be including
interviews with retired teachers and the manager of
toys R us. We will also be visiting primary schools to
get a better idea of 21st century children.
5. Introduction
• We will firstly introduce the idea of how childhood
has changed by recreating footage of children
skipping and playing football in the 1950s.
• We will then show a child playing Xbox to highlight
how technology has deprived children of the
freedom.
• During this time there will be music and voice of
god which will enable this documentary to appear
more realistic.
6. Sound
• These are the non-diegetic sounds we are going to
use in our five minute documentary.
These soundtracks will be used at the beginning
of the documentary and, we are also going to
use voice of god which is non-diegetic.
7. Viability
• It will be viable as we have already got the
equipment to film and real life photos to use in our
documentary. We have also got permission from
our Principal to film part of our documentary in a
retirement home. However, further research will
include looking at other documentaries to get a
better idea of the layout and techniques used in
other documentaries.
• Our documentary will be globally viable as
everyone has a childhood. Our documentary will
also be filmed in a multi cultural location and
therefore would appeal to a wider audience.
11. Unique selling
point
• After looking at other historical documentaries, such
as the guardian’s „Children at play‟, and
‘Panorama: addicted to games‟, we noticed that
the director chose to use footage and interviews to
describe one particular moment in history. Our
documentary will not only use interviews and
footage for one point in history but many points in
history. This will thus relate more to a wider
audience. This is our unique selling point.
13. Location, props
and costumes
• Location; Lea valley high school/ Avon
Lodge
• Props; Footage/pictures, computers,
camera, tripod and IMovie
• Costumes; Smart clothes
14. The locations
Lea valley high school- This will be
the location where most of the
interviewees will be filmed. Here
will be introducing the
documentary and interviewing
teachers and students.
Avon Lodge- This will be the
location where we will interview
senior citizens. In order to film we
will get permission from the staff
of this retirement home.
15. Historical Backgrounds
• “All Must Have Prizes” By Melanie Phillips suggests that
childhood has changed because institutions lack
authority. Before, teachers were able to physically
punish their students where as now if you touch a child
it will be seen as a crime.
Statistics:
• 63% of parents believe that games are a positive part
of their child’s life.
• ¼ of all video game players are under 18.
• VTech are now offering game consoles to children as
young as 9 months old.
16. Questionnaire
• To find out what our audience found interesting in a
documentary, we gave out questionnaires to students
between the ages of 15-18.
We found that most of
our audience
preferred to see real
life footage in a
documentary .
Furthermore we found
that our audience
preferred the idea of a
childhood
documentary rather
then a documentary
about piracy, and they
voted the preferred
name to be the battle
of the childhoods.
17. Target audience
• Our main target audience are teenagers aged 15-
18 however we also hope to attract older
audiences .We will achieve this by allowing both
younger and older audiences to relate to the idea
of changing in childhood.
• Younger audiences’ can relate the documentary to
their own childhood and at the same time realize
the difference between their and their parents
childhood. Older audiences’ have the chance to
relive their childhood while understanding what the
younger generation experience.
18. Allocated roles
• Arturo will be operating the camera while Georgina
and Hollie are narrating.
• The roles of director and editor will vary depending
on who is available.
19. Documentaries which
inspired us
• Documentaries such as:
• Panorama
• CBBC-Evacuation
• These documentaries have inspired us because
they are about children who go to school in the 21st
century. From watching this we wondered what life
was like for our parents generation.
20. Which channel will
feature our documentary?
• Channel 4 is well known for their popular documentaries
such as the “Children of 9/11”.Everyone has had a
childhood, therefore everyone would be able to relate
to our documentary.C4 would want to commission our
documentary because there would be a lot of viewers
of all ages watching it. We have chosen this channel as
the Simpson and Hollyoaks are held before we intend to
preview our documentary, this will ensure that teenager
and adults will already be tuned in to C4 before our
documentary begins.
21. Marketing
• To market our documentary we will do a radio
advert and a print advert which will ensure that
audiences are aware of our documentary. We will
feature our radio advert on Capital Fm as it is seen
as a highly rated UK number 1 hit music station
which a majority of people listen to. Therefore more
people will be aware of our documentary.
• Our print advert will feature pictures of the old and
new childhood although we need to research types
of layouts. We will also feature the time of when our
documentary will be commissioned at 7:00pm.
