Questionnaire results shona

This graph showing the results of our questionnaire gives us an insight into our target audience, it showed that the majority of people would prefer to watch a documentary of this style on Channel 4, this helps us decide where to broadcast our program. We also found the results that the majority of people who would be interested in watching this program would be 18-25 year olds, we can adapt our program so that it would appeal more to people of this age range by doing things such as interviewing people of this age group.

Statistics and Facts natalie

Statistics and facts to be included in our documentary.

· ‘Barnsley has always been an old fashioned Yorkshire town. People have never had foreigners living next to them it’s a backlash.’
As reported by the Times website on the recent increase of votes for the BNP
· Young people’s attitudes are still reflective of the views of the older generations.
· ‘All or mates wanted to vote. Get ‘em out. Foreigners. There dangerous. Their too horrible.’
Quote from a young person on the BNP as taken from the newspaper The Times.
· There’s been a rise in ANTI-BNP protesters in Barnsley with leaflets and posters circulating with quotes such as ‘vote anyone but Nazi.’ Also ‘reclaim our town for democrats’ campaign held two rallies in town centre, in response to the BNP having regular presence outside the Alhambra shopping centre, for the past few years on a Saturday.
· BNP gained the highest percentage of the vote in Barnsley.

Shot Log Ist draft (guide) natalie

Shot log
· Establishig shots of barnsley
· Shots of Bnp rally at alambra. Ask for interview which would be shot in medium/close up
· Insert shots of anti or pro posters
· Newspaper articles and statistics overread
· Interview day to day people medium shots/close ups
· Anti facism group supporter interview medium shots ( if possible)

questionairre shauni

Age
11-18 18-25 30-50 50-70 70+

Gender
Female Male

Are you interested in politics?
yes no undecided

Would you watch a political documentary?
yes no maybe

What channel do you watch most frequently?

1 2 3 4 5 satelite channels

Are you on the electorial vote and able to vote?

yes no

Treatment group

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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