''Faith Off''

Faith Off is the working title of our documentary about religion. What we are planning to do is a mini-series where we bring together different faiths and put them against each other in situations and discussion about views in their religion. In the first programme or episode we will introduce what our idea is and also introduce the different religious faiths present in the world today and talk about them. After doing our religious survey this influenced us to go down this route. We were interested in how despite people saying they had no religious belief, they still thought of religion to be a more positive than negative force with 73% of our target group (student at our college) saying religion is a positive influence in the world. This may be our way of investigating as to why people think this way. In the follow up programmes or next episodes we plan to bring two people from different faiths together to discuss why they think that more people say religion is positive rather than negative in contemporary society, and also to talk about what makes them apart of their particular religious group or faiths. The idea is to use the 8 people from the people who answered the questionnaire (1 from each faith).

Our two ancillary products is what we are using to promote our programme. One of the ancillaries is a Poster. The poster we have decided with the help of looking at 4creative, which is a way in which channel 4 promotes and markets their TV programmes. The poster idea involves taking a selfie, a picture with each of the 8 people and combining them in strips of different parts of their face to make one face. The poster idea was influenced by a programme on Channel 4 titled 7 days who used this same method for the poster.
here is the of the Seven Days poster:

 

 

Our other ancillary product is a magazine article, giving an in depth detail on what the programme will be about. For this we looked at different magazines that had advertised religious programmes so we could get and idea of how it works. We looked some magazines like TV Choice and we found they advertised some religious programming like the new TV programme called Pilgrimage With Simon Reeve and another programme called The Bible. We saw how these programmes were advertised for example, they were some written parts where the actors gave an insight to the programme as they had experienced it first hand. This is what we could also do as we could interview our chosen group of  8 people and interview them and ask about what they thought about being in the programme and what they've learnt, mainly about experience, and we could gather images from the programme and send it to magazines like TV Choice. However we also looked at The Radio Times and we decided maybe this would be the best magazines to advertise our programme as it can give us a 2 page slot which magazines like TV Choice cannot and we are required to do this. Radio Times would be the better option.

 

 

Radio Times magazine:



 

TV Choice Magazine:

Finidings in Research

We have put the data of the people who have responded to our questionnaire together and have made an interesting discovery.
For our questions this is the information we obtained from our 3 questions:

1.       What is your religion?  (Even if you are not currently practicing)

Christian - 50%

Islamic - 9%

Hindu - 1%

Orthodox - 5%

Buddhist - 8%

            Other - 9%

               None - 17%

 

2.       How important is your religion to you?

               Very - 30%

              Quite - 33%

              Not very - 37%

 

3.       Do you think that Religion is a positive or negative force in the world?

 

Positive - 73%

 

Negative - 27%

 

 

Our interesting discovery was how many people thought religion was a postive influence in the world today. Most people who said they were not religious still thought it was a positive influence in the world today. Another result that was quite interesting was how important the religion was to the people. We had more people saying it was note very important to them than people saying religion was very important to them. Most of these came from people who said they were christian. This may agree with the article about the church becoming extinct as it is becoming less of an influence, de-instituionalised.

Brief

An extract from an original documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

• a radio trailer for the documentary;

• a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;

• a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.


This is from the specification of our examination board, OCR, and we have decided to do the last 2 options; A double page magazine spread and a newspaper article