Our documentary is mixed because it has a combination of interviews, narrative, archive footage and voice overs this is used to support the discussion and used as evidence. The people we are going to interview are car drivers because they know all about the questions we are asking them for example if we ask a non driver ' What was your first car?' they cannot answer it, on the other hand if we ask a car driver 'Do you agree with the pay and display parking prices?' then they will in fact be able to answer the questions correctly and in detail. We are interviewing driving instructors because they will be able to tell us more about learner drivers and how they react to when they first start driving so we will be able to gain a more in-depth look into learner drivers, interviews with people such as the Principal of Priestley College, the man that organizes all the theory test classes in college, these interviews are important because they help us understand why they have decided to set these courses up for the students and how this could benefit them.
The style of our documentary is pretty formal because we want to get across the idea of people learning to drive and this is quite a serious topic. If our documentary style was informal or MTV style then not many people would take it seriously then our topic will not convey what we want the viewers to think or feel about the documentary. We want the viewers to take out documentary seriously and understand what we are trying to portray.
The channel we decided to air out documentary on was Channel 4 because this is a controversial channel and appeals to an educated audience also teenagers and young adults around the ages of 17 to 24 as these viewers will be either old enough to drive or actually drivers.
The target audience is ideal for our type of documentary because the mass of people that are learning to drive are around these ages so this gives us a great target audience however this could reduce the amount of people that watch our documentary because a lot of people are not driving and are not really interested in driving therefore will not watch our documentary. However this documentary could allow people who aren't learning to become interested in pursuing such thing. We decided that young people would be our main target audience because they are the main people in whom want to drive, the fact that many young people want to drive made it important for us to pick such thing.
For the primary research we have created 30 questionnaires and give them out to the public, however we can only give the questionnaires to learner drivers or there would be no point to doing the questionnaire. Then we will receive the feedback from the questionnaires and use the information to create pie and graph charts, this will help us to come to a conclusion of what the viewers want see and how we can make this documentary more realistic. Also we will add the vox pops we filmed to our documentary in between interviews. We've also looked at interviewing a number of different people, including the principle of Priestley College with the enrichment programme he's set up for young learner drivers, the main that is specifically allocated to learner young student to drive, we have also decided to interview a police man, which allows us to get a more hands on approach to how many young people have been involved in a collision. Next we thought it would be able interview a car sales lott owner to find out which car young drivers tend to buy, this would allow us to gather a more in depth understanding of the cars in which people have bought.
The secondary research we will use Internet surveys to help us widen our research and gain more knowledge towards the topic in question, also we are going to use newspaper articles in our documentaries to then be able to gather statistics about learner drivers. Another thing in which we did, was to look at different driving instructor schools, this was because we wanted to know how many lessons a person would take before they felt comfortable in taking both their theory and actual driving test. We are able to look at how much a person on average would spend on driving lessons, thus being able to have this average number of lessons being given to everyone who's learnt to drive. We also decided to look at the high crash risk P Test, this is when people who've passed their test, has crashed, we are able to gather information about the percentage of young drivers who've crashed whilst going solo, this is because they haven't had enough skill experience, therefore the more time you spend with a driving instructor the less likely you are to experience a collision. We also looked at different happenings due to learner drivers, whether this is collisions or just plain unexplainable mistakes.
The narrative structure for our documentary is pretty simple, the idea that we will have a clear exposition means that people will clearly understand what our documentary is about but also to gain a more in depth understanding about learning to driver and young drivers. At the beginning of our documentary will be clear set out interviews with a number of different people, including non-drivers, older drivers and other people set out within the driving industry. By the middle there will be a clear conflict within our documentary, this will happen due to what people in interviews say about our topic area, learning to drive. We will also show the number of fatalities due to young drivers and why they may actually do to cause such things. By this time, we will have gained both sides of the argument, the good and the bad things about young drivers. And by the time the documentary comes to a close, we, the audience will gain a clear understanding of what the documentary was about, and they'll be able to make up their own mind up about learner drivers, therefore the ending is pretty open-ended. This is a good thing, because it allows the audience to be more involved within our documentary. It would also allow people who are undecided about driving to make up their mind whether they wish to want to learn or if they wish to still be an non-driver.
The outline of content for our documentary are:
Interviews with a driving instructor
Voxpops with questions
The man that runs session within college
Interviews with learner drivers from college
Interviews with learner drivers from outside of college
Interview with a non driver
Interview with someone who never learnt to drive
Interview someones mum or dad about their first car and put a photo in their first car
Our research requirements for our documentary are:
A camera
A mic
A tripod
And a green screen
At the start of the documentary, the exposition will be set - learner drivers, is it hard to learn? A montage of clips will be displayed in order to set out how there are various types of drivers, old and young and more experienced than others. There will also be various interviews, vox pops and cut away shots to help establish what the documentary is actually about and highlighting learner driving in general.
The middle of the documentary will contain more interviews, including an interview with a policeman, highlighting his views on whether young drivers are more vulnerable and also commenting about 'boy racers' and how they can cause various crashes and mis haps within the streets. There will also be interviews with people such as the principle of priestley college, parents and their cars, it'll give a clear understanding of cars parents had when they were younger. And we're able to understand what cars were like a few years ago compared to cars today.
The End of the documentary will answer any questions lying such as how easy is the theory test? or how much the driving test has changed over the years it has been running. People will also gain a clear understanding of what this documentary was about, and undecided drivers will then come to a decision if they wish to drive or not. This documentary may also give that understanding to young and immature learner drivers, to be more safe and more aware of their surroundings of the road and also people who aren't on the road. This may then begin to reduce the amount of fatalities due to immature drivers.
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