1. Pitch Document
Synopsis:
My webisode idea is about football hooligans. The name of the webisode is going to be
called ʻThe North Standʼ and set in cambridge. The firms will be from un- named teams
ʻCityʼ and ʻUnitedʼ. The main character is called Danny who is 18 years old and goes to
college. We meet the main character on a monday morning, as Danny goes to college with
cuts and bruises all over him and tells his friends about his hooligan weekend. In this first
series, as he is telling them, there is a flashback showing you exactly what happened. It
starts by him walking through an under passage wearing his team colours, when a firm run
at him and we see him getting “Battered” . The firm is called ʻThe City Psychoʼsʼ, when he
is on the floor another firm helps him up and fight with the city psychos. This firm that
helped him is the one he will be sticking around with for the rest of the webisode. The next
load of series would show no flashbacks, but only what happens after the story he told his
friends. Danny then finds him self getting closer with his new found firm who saved him on
that day where he got battered called ʻThe UCʼ (united casuals) and he starts to fade away
from his friends. They spot this and in each webisode series they would show him getting
into fights and being moody around his friends and only talking about fights. His education
goes down hill and his personality shows drastic changes, this then makes him grow
issues at home and with his friends and leads him to stealing. It then comes to a point
where he is not hanging around with his mates anymore and is only interested in his firm.
By the end of the last ever series we would ʻif we were doing itʼ hope to make it tense as
its a battle of his friends trying to take him from the firm before itʼs too late.
Rationale:
I think that my webisode idea will appeal to a wide range of audiences and not just the
target audience which is, action film fans, football hooligans fans and also a young adult
audience. It has a lot of realistic things such as family distributes and friend issues as well.
Another reason for me thinking that it will appeal to the target audience is because there
has not been a football hooligan webisode before, so all the hooligan film fans will
probably rush to have a look at this. I think that it fits to the brief as it will have all the
attributes which the brief is looking for. In our research we asked 15 people both boys and
girls, what there favorite genre was out of ʻFootball hooligansʼ and ʻSilent comedyʼ and
from this we saw with a majority of the vote winning by 11 to 4 was ʻFootball hooligansʼ. 3
of the 4 who voted silent comedy were girls. This showed us that football hooligans genre
was a favorite by far with the people we asked. I have now taken the research market
audience into account and this has made me more confident in doing the football
hooligans idea.
Contingency Plan:
There are quite a few issues that we are likely to face when it comes to making our
webisode as it is about football hooliganism violence so there are going to be many things
that we either canʼt do, or that are going to be hard to do, this includes finding a suitable
location like the common, but we have to see how easy it is going to be to do it there as
there is always people walking past and also on the common is where cows are
sometimes put. Another issue that is likely for us to come across, is the amount of people
we can get, because for a firm battle you need quite a lot of people so we might have to
come up with a plan to get around this, for example, make it so its not actually a meeting
and a few people of each firm accidentally meet up.
By Jahmal Crowe

2. By Jahmal Crowe