Audience Research

For our Religous documentary idea we have decided to do a survey asking people in our college a couple of question so we can identify the different types of faiths present in our college and we based the question around the UK census done in 2011. This is what we have come up with:

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

Christian

Islamic

Hindu

Sikh

Buddhist

Judaic

Other

               None

 

2.       How important is your religion to you?

               Very

              Quite

              Not very

 

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

 

Positive

 

Negative

South African television

I have researched South Africa as a possible site for my documentary idea. Local South African television is made up of 3 channels; SABC 1, SABC 2, SABC 3. I have looked at the differences between each of the 3 networks.

SABC 1: More Family based, documentaries on children, family life, educational. Films, mostly drama and action, also plays music. Made up mostly of two languages, Zulu and English.

SABC 2: Drama, Soaps, Shows that may have played on television 20-30 years ago. most of what is played is either in Afrikaans, Setswana, Venda.

SABC 3: More Women based, women talk shows, cooking and baking, foreign programmes, documentaries from around the world eg American, British etc.

South Africa would be a difficult site for a documentary on technology. There are not many documentaries shown on any of the 3 Channels that show anything on technology so it would be a tough audience to target.

VICE and The New York Times

A documentary about the New York Times and the decline to print journalism. A debate between an old-school New York Times jounalist, David Karr, and the VICE people. Karr questions them why they would want to work with CNN. An encounter between a news provider who has a younger audience and an old school what works in the news world today and what storeies should be published, mainly arguments abpout why they would choose to work with CNN answered that CNN liked their audience and their work. There is a problem with mainstream news today, there is not a lot of interesting stories being published for example ''Surfing''. Journalism printing is declining because of the lack of interesting stories that are being shared through news platfroms in contemporary society. Karr's argument is why VICE is going to work with CNN when New York Times do something similar with posting a wide range of interesting stories.

VICE New York Times

Production Research and Planning

Looking at how technology is represented in the media in TV shows such as the Gadget Show. The Gadget Show is a British Television series which focuse on consumer technology and which brand of technology is the best to use as well as what has been improved in certain products and comparing them with other products in the same category. For example, Apple's iPad vs. Sony's Xperia Z tablet. This show analyses how these devices or new technologies have benefited society with convergence of different media.

 

 

TechTv which is an American television comapany that involves shows and news about technology, computers and the internet.

Documentary Ideas

I have given some thought into my ideas and what I plan to do with either of them. I have decided that for my first idea "what irritates about where you and how could it be improved?" I have thought about comparing 2 different areas where I have lived e.g Cambridge, UK and Johannesburg, RSA. the ideas is to use these two places and show how lifestyle differs between the both of them and maybe interview people to discuss which one they feel most comfortable or enjoy living in and why they like it. The idea is mainly to try and get people who have lived in both places to compare them and weigh them up.


My second idea "Use of technology in Media and the impact its had in society" I want to show how different forms of technology have changed media in recent times and how much of an impact it has made in society. Also examining new forms of technology and how they work in the media.

Documentary Ideas

I have so far come up with 2 ideas for my documentary project. These are:

1. What irritates about the place you live? What could be done to improve it?
2. Change in Technology?

1. For example, I live in Cambridge, United Kingdom. There are a numerous amount of people who complain about living here. It would really interesting to find out more about the reasons why they do not like living in Cambridge and their views on what could be done to make Cambridge more appealing.

2. How tecnology has changed in recent years different types, convergence etc.

Radio Times

Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, founded and originally published in-house by BBC Magazines from 1923 to 2011 when the BBC Magazines division was merged with the into Immediate Media Company.

They also have their websites where you can view listing for TV Programmes.

http://www.radiotimes.com

This was the first ever published issue of the Radio Times in 1923.