''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: