My Video Diary

For my main research I watched lots of different documentaries including different types. I then thought about what I liked most and what I believed work best. I also focused on what genre of documentary intrested me the most and what I think would be the most interesting to do. I also looked at what type of documentaries are aimed at the age of my target audience and took that into consideration when thinking more about what type of documentary I might want to do. After watching the different documentaries I focused on three and picked out what I liked best about them and what worked best before then thinking about what elements I want to use in my documentary. From watching the different types of documentaries in different genres I was able to link the different things that go with each genre that each documentary from that genre included, I know this was really helpful because I knew that when I went to pick my genre I would have a good idea of the things I'd need to include because I watched so many and saw what they included.
My target audience are teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19. I have chosen this target audience because I believe I can work my documentary well to be aimed at this age group because I can relate more to the types of things they want to see or the types of things they might be interested in. My target audience have told me that a documentary should include a story, facts and be about a general issue. Every single person I asked said they would be most interested in a documentary about mental health that followed one person and a group so maybe focused on one persons story but also focused on other people as well. They also said it was important that it had a proffesional on the topic talking about the issue because it made it more reliable and seem more real. Finally they said that an interesting story and something they could relate to was what would make them watch a documentary.
My next steps are to finalise my idea and start to plan who I want it to focus on and what professionals I want to include in my documentary, as well as thinking about whether I want to focus on one main mental health issue or a variety of mental health conditions. After doing this I will then start to plan who the documentary will follow mainly and how much other people will star in it as well as planning the reason the documentary is following that specific person. I then want to start filming.