LO3-Task7,Treatment

Our documentary is based on different types of stereotypes which we named ‘Stereotypes The good and the bad’.

What’s different about our documentary to the other documentaries is that they haven’t don’t one based on stereotypes and this makes our documentary more interesting to the audience.  The reason to why this would be something the audience don’t want to miss is because it’s something new and something interesting for the views. This is like a message to the audience the ones that think good of everyone and don’t judge by first impression will be looking forward to seeing what people who do disrespect others because of their looks or beliefs. This will also show these that think bad of certain people how they shouldn’t discriminate and how they should respect others life style no matter how bazar it can be.

The target audience that stood out to us and would benefit a lot from it is young adults and adults from ages 15 – 40. The reason why we think it would be best for these age groups is because most of the people within these age groups have loads to say and still need to understand the basics of respecting others and not discriminating them because of how they wish to live their life style. However this documentary wouldn’t be much of an effect to the children younger than the age of 15 as they wouldn’t be as sure or be able to understand everything going on.

The lines of appeal for our documentary is that it gives audience the re-assurance that if they are discriminating, judging and disrespecting others because of how they wish to live their life styles. This would be bad parenting for their children or anyone who is younger than 15 to look up to them as role models. The documentary is on the educational line so it is relevant to the younger adults to learn something new.   

The documentary will start with an realist narrative as the documentary will focus on the stereotyping, it will then have the people we interviewed tell us a few other their experiences as well as facts on stereotype. The aim of the documentary is that it grabs the audience’s attention as the documentary is educational as well as being a message to everyone. The documentary would appear on channels like ‘Channel 5, ITV, Channel 4 and BBC channels’.

LO3-Task6,Genre conventions

Lighting-  The lighting that we will be using for our documentary will be normal light that will come from the building, as we believe that we wont need any sort of lighting and this will just be main light within the building as we feel that we dont need any source of fancy lighting within our documentary. 

Permission for use of location- Most of the filming that we will doing willl be within out school sidney stringer academy and therefore we wont need any sort permission as we are allowed to film within our school and we have permission. Also we will be doing some filming in My house and therefore we wont need permission to record there as it is fine with me to record within my house.

Material structured into an argument –Seeing as our documentary is about stereotypes, which is a controversial topic, we’ve decided to make the documentary a participatory and argumen as many people will  their opinions and therefore we would see alot of people who will be in argument with other people as  everyone will have their own opinion about this matter and this will all techinally  be structured into an argument as everyone will be saying their own opinion about this topic. 

Music -We will se using for our documentary this will be done throughout the doucmentary where appropiate however one of the main places where it will be will be the first minute of a our documentary as we will need to  have music that wil hook people onto this documenatry so that   they want to watch more and this will persuade them to carrying on watching as the music will be tense.

Voiceover-It is very important for a documentary to have voice overs as this is what hooks people onto the show and therefore we will be using  a voice over for our documenatry this will most likely be a male voice as most documentaries use males voices as they are very deep and it is  said that more people will take more attention to a male voice rather than a female voice and therefore in our documentary we want some one who will hook the viewers onto carrying on and watching the documentary. 

Experts-One of the most important factors within a documentary is exper knowledge, this is important and therefore this is why we have to use experts  within our documntary. the expert that we will using within our documentary is going to be people that will ahve knowledge about this  matter, we will also have expert knowledge from a psychologist as we want to know ho this topic can have an effect of people minds and everyday life.

Actuality Footage-another important factor within a documentary is actuality fottage as this means that all the fottage that will be displayed in our documentary will have to be actualy and they must not be made up and therefore this is why we are using actualioty foorage in our documentary as this will make our documentary more  sucessful and for a documentary it is important all the footage is actual and not made up as when people watch documentaries they expect actuality footage.

 Reconstructions-We still also include  reconstruction in our documentary, this will be off people that have prevously been stereo types, this is important for us to do in our documentary as we want to make people aware of the way that people can stero type other , sometimes without even knowing and how this can effect the  person that is being stero typed. 

Interview-Within our documentary we will be interviewing many   many people as we can to get peoples views and opinions on this topic.  Therefore we will be interviewing many people in order get peoples opinions and views about this topic.

Statistics-We will use statistics to in showing how many people will get stereo types to show the emphasis on how bad it can be for people to stereo type other people.

Texts and titles-We will be using text and titles to get importangt information about this topic across and this is important for us to use and this can be used to display interviewers names aswell.

Montage- we will be using a montage of images in our documentary, as we can to emphasise the type of sterao types that will exist in our documentary. 

LO3-Task5,Research

My idea

- Racism towards Muslims- This topic really interested me as I wanted to know why racism is happening towards muslims and what is the root cause of this matter. Why would people be so racist towards a large religious community and also i wanted to find out how being part of racism affect people daily life.

Questions

- How do you think muslims are portrayed in the media?

- What do you think is the root cause of this racism?

-What is multi-culturalism and how is it linked to racism?

The people that I would like to interview in this documentary would be :

- A racist person

- Representations  of ethnicity in the media

- People that have been effecte by racism

 Looking at a few different types of racism based documentaries mean that this really took my interest and therefore i wanted to have more knowledge about thsi topic also the fact that the scholl that i am currently has a lot f Muslims wanted me to futher develope this topic and i was keen to interview peope and find out what people think about this topic.  Also i researched and w watched  some interview and documentaries about this matter and therefore looking at this persuaded and influenced me to think about this topics. one of the documentaries that i watched about racism was video below.

 Watching this documentary really facinated me and therefore i wanted more knowlede on this topic.

After meeting with group-

After meeting with my group we came up with an idea on stereotypes and how people are effected by this, this was simaliar to my topic as this deal with people being steriops typed a certain way for example Muslim could be one as some people will stero type them as terroist and the fact that we all came up with this meant that  it was similar to my topic however this was a more wider topic as this deal with a lot of different matter, and  today society means that many people will stereo type  other people without even  realisin g and therefore this is why me and my group wanted to do  about this documentary as many people will have something to say about this topic  and the fact that we were victims  stero typing meant that we could really relate to this topic.  The reason for why we came up with this idea was because we thought that everyone everyone is constantly getting judged by people that wont know them and being a victim of this ourselves we thought we could relate to this matter.

LO3-Task4,Visual moodboard

Group mood board

This is the group  mood board that we created as a group. All the images that we used within our documentary was thought about as we wanted to create a mood  board that when people look at the mood board then they will have an idea about what our documentary is about.
 

Individual Mood Board

 This is the mood board that I made for my individual idea. All the images that were used within this mood board were thought and whether i wanted to use them  or not as the mood board would represent my idea  and  therefore I had to think about  the images that i was going to use.

  

LO3-Task3,Group mindmap

Group idea mind map-

LO3-Task2,Mindmap individual

Individual idea mind map-

LO3-Task1, Research into factual programmes

 

In my research into this topic I looked at the definition of what a stereo type is as we wanted to know the dictionary definition and knowing this information would help us with making sure we have full knowledge on this topic. 

I also looked at this website which looked at the different types of stereotyping  that will occur and the types of effects that it will have on people, looking at this information meant that it would give us a great insight on the different types of stereo typing and also the effect on people. 

Focus group-

we carried out a focus group to get opinions of different peopel and what they thought about this topic. The question that we included in our focus group were:

1)      What is the first thing to pop into your head when talking stereotypes?

2)      Have you ever been stereotyped and if so what happened?

3)      Have you ever witnessed stereotype-fuelled bullying?

4)      What do you understand by the term stereotype?

5)      Do you think you fit a stereotype? If so which one, and why?

6)      Do you stereotype other people? Negatively or positively?

7)      What do you think the effects of stereotyping are on a person?

8)      Have you ever been ridiculed for what you wear? What sort of response did you get?

9)      Have you ever refrained from doing/buying something because it represented a certain        stereotype?

10)   Have you ever avoided a certain group of people because of how they look?

11)   What classifies a person as emo, punk, gangster, metal-head etc.?