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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.