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Title: BNP, Barnsley’s new party?

Audience: The documentary is aimed at people who have an interest in politics or current affairs. Mainly people who are over the age of 18 will watch this programme as this is the voting age.

Duration: Our programme will be an hour long documentary, this is the average time documentaries last and will be the right amount of time in order to portray a balanced side of the debate as well as shots of the town and protests.

Channel: The Channel that is most suited for broadcasting Channel4 we discovered its suitablity by looking at the channels statement of promises online, the channel promises to show programmes which discuss current affairs it also promises to show thought provoking programmes as well as promoting individual film makers.

Features: Our programme will include unique features such as voice pop’s where the narrators voice is laid over the film, so the narrator is invisible. We also are having the interviews done by an unseen interviewer.

Synopsis: After this year’s local elections the BNP recorded its highest amount of votes ever, the town of Barnsley had the highest percentage of the vote with one in every six people voting for the for the BNP. The party has anti gay, anti black policies which make them the most controversial political party at the moment. The current chairman is Nick Griffin. This programme aims to portray the town of Barnsley illustrating the views of the people of the area both for and against the party. alot of bad press have come about barnsley due to the fact they voted very highly for the BNP. We aim to convey both parties including the anti fascism movement. In our documentary we hope to begin with establishing shots of barnsley with a voxpop narrator reading facts and figures, we will also face to face itnerviews with members of the public and official people as well as protest footage.

brief planning group

For this media project we are going to film a documentary on the BNP. We are going to try and include interviews with current members of the BNP so they can get there opinions across. We are also going to interview different members of the public to see what their view are on this political party, see whether they agree or disagree on these particular views. The reason for making this programme is the dramatic increase in the popularity of the party in the local area of Barnsley.
The Channel that is most suited for broadcasting Channel4 we discovered its suitablity by looking at the channels statement of promises online, the channel promises to show programmes which discuss current affairs it also promises to show thought provoking programmes as well as promoting individual film makers. A similair programme to ours which is currently being shown on this channel is ‘Dispatches’ which is a similair syle documentary which deals with political and current issues.
The broadcast time for this documentary would be an hour long slot on channel four at nine o’clock. This time is after watershed yet is not too late, most documentaries are shown around this time. However the other channel’s programming schedule would have to be checked as if there are two political documentaries on at the same time you are practically halfing your viewing figures.
We also felt that as this was a documentary about the BNP and politics that our target audience would be anyone really who was interested in politics but mostly directed at the people who are of legal age to vote as they may be interesting in the issues that are brought up in this documentary, so this is 18 plus there isnt really any limit to the age the target audience could possibly be.

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channel to be shown on

http://www.channel4.com/about_c4/promises_2001/promises_intro2.html

This is channnel4s statement of promises which we felt made it most appropriate to broadcast our documentary on. The fact that it promises to show current affairs programmes that are both innovative and thought provoking meant we felt our programme was best shown here.