Proposal

Aims

I intend to engage the audience with my documentary, it will show my personal experience as I am currently in care and will be talking about how I manage my life. I think my story will appeal more to the target audience (16-24 years) as I am 17 years old and I am preparing to leave care and cope in the outside world. I am hoping my documentary on my journey through the care system will touch a chord with the viewer and will show my current situation and how I deal with my life on a daily basis.

Content

In this documentary you see me interviewing several professionals on their views on how a care system works. I will have to blur some people out within the documentary as their situation may reqiur privacy. I will have VOX Pop during the beginning and middle asking them if they know how care system works and how some children deal with it in there daily life. 

Target Audience

My target  audience is people around the age of 16-24 as this age group will have some have knowledge on what it is like to live in a care system. This may be because some of their friends ore family may have entered it. I would also like to target the audience that do not know much about this topic as it is a niche topic that not many people can talk about.  

Format

The type of format I will be using is personal mode of address to the viewer as I will be participating in this documentary as I have gained a lot of experience from being in the care system for over decade. 

Genre

The documentary mode that I will be using is participating as I will need to participate in this documentary because I have a great knowledge and experience of the care system since childhood and it is also because I have been living in a care system for almost a decade. Therefore this would be best for me to participate as I can show the audience how I deal will it daily to daily basis.

Style

The type of style I will be using is a Docu soap as I will be filming and what goes on with them (this is including me). the type style I will also be using is special interest documentary as I am talking about a documentary spoken about. Therefore this documentary would only appeal to specific audience who may be interested it or who does know much about care system.

Three Competition Programmes

Please Don't Take our Child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN8YlE7ZaU8



The title of this Panorama documentary is called 'Please Don't Take Our Child'. This programme is usually aired during the weekday (Monday- Friday). This video above was last shown in August 2009 and is normally shown on BBC One. There are no viewing figures, however the Youtube views total 120,079. This documentary is similar to mine as it highlights how a family in crisis is trying to prove that they are not irresponsible parents and that they do not want to lose their child into the care system. My documentary will be more engaging for the audience as it will show my personal experience as I am currently in care and will be talking about how I cope from a day to day. I think my story will appeal mor to the target audience (16-24 years) as I am 17 years old.

Tough Love

http://www.pbs.org/pov/toughlove/

The title of this documentary is called Tough Love. This programme was last aired on July 6, 2015 at 10pm on POV which is an american television programme. This documentary is similar to mine as it talks about child who is about to go in care and the parents battle with the authorities to keep their child and prove that they are capable parents. My documentary will be more effective than this one because it will be based on the my personal an present situation and will arouse the curiosity of the viewer.

Jeff A Personal Documentary

https://vimeo.com/63285097

The title of this documentary is called Jeff: A Personal Documentary. The last time this documentary was approximately 3 years ago (2013). The viewing figures are debatable  for this documentary however there is evidence of a viewing figure 8000 on the website called Vimeo. This documentary would certainly be a challenger as the presenter talks about his personal journey which mirrors mine. My documentary will be able to compete, as my personal perception of life in care will show my experience.

Legal Ethical issues

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