Initial IdeasKiya Persad

Street Art: Vandalism or Art Content – Use film footage of people spray painting murals on walls, with an interview going on in the background. To hide identity I will blur out the faces of people being filmed for this. Cutaways of train track graffiti, e.g. tags.Interview graffiti artists to get their view on the topic.Talk about Banksy, his form of art is spray painting walls anonymously, yet he is regarded as a highly established artist.Talk about police. Do they bother to stop people anymore? - what are the sentencesSpray paint at Southbank and StockwellPositiveart.co.uk – murals in gipsy hill.

Street Art: Vandalism or Art The target audience would be people aged 15 – 25 that are interested in street art. This is because it will give them further knowledge on the subject and they will already have an interest on the subject. (Primary) My secondary target audience will be anyone who likes art as it will show them that street art is considered an accepted art form.

Street Art: Vandalism or Art Style – It will be filmed like an observational documentary as it will involve a lot of cutaways and footage of places with street art while I’m interviewing people. I will also interview people as they are spray painting and use their speech as a voiceover.

I will include a Perspex sheet at the end where the artists I have interviewed spray over the sheet to make it look as if they are spraying the camera.

It will have a voiceover where I occasionally speak to explain what is going on. It will be edited so that the cutaways explain everything happening in the documentary.

Other people I interview will include a company called ‘positive art’. This company are hired to paint murals on walls to make the space look brighter.

They do workshops with young people to paint in the community and get rid of the stigma behind street art.

Street Art: Vandalism or Art Conventions – I will use a traditional sign on to start my

documentary with a voiceover. It will be a voiceover rather than me talking to the camera. This will be to keep the focus on the content not just on one person. I will use fast paced editing with some cutaways of screenshots. There will be footage of around London in between interviews to show time passing. This footage will be sped up in a montage style. It will also include dialogue being put over the footage of the interviews with the people who are spray painting. This will be to add visuals to the documentary so that it is more entertaining to the audience.

Street Art: Vandalism or Art Purpose – This documentary will be to show people that street art is more than just tags and vandalism, which is what it is often viewed as.

Street Art: Vandalism or Art Length – The documentary will be between 5 - 10 minutes because it has a lot of content to cover. It will also be because the target audience will be people aged 16 – 18 so they will stay focused for this amount of time.

Street Art: Vandalism or Art Research (Primary) – I conducted a focus group with three 17-18 year olds. I used this age group in my focus group as it links to the ages of my primary audience. We discussed how street art is often linked with young people because of ‘the perception that young people vandalise properties with tags and graffiti’. We also spoke about how murals are seen as ‘beautiful artwork’, even though they are used with spray paint, they are considered different. For example, Banksy’s murals are viewed differently to murals in street corners where people have been employed to spray paint the area, to add colour to the area.

Street Art: Vandalism or Art Research (secondary) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37410164 This article talks about how one of Banksy’s street art pieces was being put into a gallery. “Sam Fishwick, a graffiti artist from Liverpool, dismissed the idea of a street art gallery. "It's not street art any more if it's hung up in a museum," he told the BBC.” This shows that street art can be seen as vandalism but that idea is dismissed when people such as Banksy create a piece.

Females in the Music IndustryContent – It will involve interviewing females who want to be in the technical side of music, but find it hard as it is something that is more accessible for men. Will include cutaways of venues and live performances as well and interviews of males and females wanting to be in the industry, such as females in my music class and professional technicians.

Females in the Music IndustryThe target audience would be people aged 16 – 21 as this will be the age group of people being filmed and people who will be effected by the topic.

Females in the Music IndustryPurpose – The purpose of this documentary will be to highlight and raise awareness of females trying to get into the technical side of the music industry and how they are viewed.

Females in the Music IndustryStyle – It will be filmed in an observational way. It will interview a lot of people and include a lot of vox pops to get ideas from members of public on the subject. It will be participant led by the people involved in the documentary. This will be to keep the focus on the topic and people involved.It will involve panned shots of venues to add relevant cutaways of the topic.Even though it is a participant lead documentary, it will still include interviews with professional technicians to give information on the topic from within the industry.

Females in the Music Industry

Conventions - I will use a traditional sign on to start my documentary with a voiceover. It will be a voiceover rather than me talking to the camera. This will be to keep the focus on the content not just on one person.

It will also include vox pops to gain an idea on the general public’s view of the topic.

Females in the Music Industry

Length – It will be about 5 minutes long as it will have interviews and vox pops to be shown, but there will not be that many cutaways so the information can fit into this time slot.

Females in the Music IndustryResearch (Primary) - I created a survey for people to fill in. 90% of people who answered the survey thought that upbringing effects children’s later careers. 70% of the people asked thought that it is harder for females to get into this industry. 76% also said that they thought the engineer side of music is predominantly males.

Females in the Music IndustryResearch (secondary) - http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/buzz/Where-are-the-female-producers-/441236-3375892-format-xhtml-dldi16/index.html‘The obvious absence of female producers often goes unnoticed, until a direct question is posed. American singer/songwriter Regina Spektor, when questioned, admitted to the BBC that she had “never even seen the names” of female producers on her record company shortlist.’

Without a Phone For 24 HoursContent – It will involve someone having their phone taken away and it will show how their life would be different if they had no phone to communicate with people or talk to people with.

Without a Phone For 24 Hours

Target audience will be people aged 16 – 18 as this will be the age of the person in the documentary and they will be able to relate to the person being filmed.

Without a Phone For 24 HoursStyle – It will be filmed in the style of a vlog, as it will be like the person is documenting their life for 24 hours. This will be similar to a diary documentary as it will involve the person documenting their life for 24 hours and I will edit key parts of footage. This will create a social experiment type of documentary. It will not feature a voiceover as it will be participant lead by the person involved in the documentary. I will speed up some footage if they are going from place to place in a montage style.

Without a Phone For 24 HoursConventions - I will use a traditional sign on to start

my documentary with a voiceover. It will be a voiceover rather than me talking to the camera. This will be to keep the focus on the content not just on one person.

Without a Phone For 24 HoursPurpose – To show people that they can live without

their phones and to show how people are used to living life through their phones.

Without a Phone For 24 HoursLength – It will be about 5 minutes long as it will only need to show snap shots of the persons life. Also, because of the target audience, who are a social media generation, studies have shown that short, punchy documentaries will keep this generation more engaged.It will be around 5 minutes as I will be splitting the 24 hours into about a minute for every few hours.

Without a Phone For 24 HoursResearch – I conducted a focus group with a group of 16 – 18 year olds. This is age group links to me wanting to create the documentary to a social media generation. This is because they are the most influenced by their phones so they would relate to the documentary more. This is why it was useful to use this age group in my focus group. We spoke about how people are used to having their phone to communicate to each other and how people are used to ‘living their lives through their phones’.

Without a Phone For 24 HoursResearch – Buzzfeed conducted a similar experiment to see how people lived without their phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMs9GzY6vkE

Dieting: Why is it so popular?Content – Talk about places like weightwatchers and how they’re promoted in society. Talk about how adverts always promote fat free products. Talk about how dieting can go too far, e.g. cutting out entire food groups in order to get ‘the perfect look’. It will also include cutaways of adverts and posters advertising diets or dieting programmes.

Dieting: Why is it so popular?

Target audience – It will be based for 17- 19 year olds. This is because it is something that is in the media a lot and this generation is considered a social media generation so they will see this content a lot and be affected by it.

Dieting: Why is it so popular?Style – It will be an observational documentary. It

will show how dieting is portrayed in the media and how people react to it. This will be shown by using cutaways of WeightWatchers meetings as an example of a group of people being affected by dieting. I will overlap these cutaways over the interviews between experts to make it more visual than a plain interview.

Dieting: Why is it so popular?Conventions - I will use a traditional sign on to start

my documentary with a voiceover. It will be a voiceover rather than me talking to the camera. This will be to keep the focus on the content not just on one person. I will interview people who go to conventions like WeightWatchers, and organisers of sessions to see their views on the topic and why they want to diet.

Dieting: Why is it so popular?Purpose – To show how dramatically people will

pursue dieting to feel that they fit into society. I feel quite passionate about this as dieting is always promoted in society in magazines by celebrity endorsement. It will heavily affect young people in my target audience as they are influenced by social media and celebrities.

Dieting: Why is it so popular?Length – It will be about 5 minutes long. This is

because I can have around a minute of vox pops to get the general publics views. I will also use include about 2 or 3 minutes for interviews between experts and key people to gain a good idea of their views and opinions.

Dieting: Why is it so popular?Research – For dieting I conducted another focus

group to gain an idea on my specific target audience’s opinions of the topic. In this focus group there were four 17 – 19 year olds. We spoke about how young people are ‘more affected by dieting adverts as they see it in social media’ and how they are ‘influenced by celebrity endorsement’ so are more likely to follow dieting techniques if a celebrity does that diet.

Dieting: Why is it so popular?Research -

https://simple-nourished-living.com/diet-plans-weight-loss/

This article talks about how a lot of people who diet believe that losing weight will make them happy and solve their problems.

‘Diets are not designed to be continued for a lifetime’