Proposal

Write a brief outline for the production (a concept overview)

The loose idea for our documentary is interviewing people who work at Game and those who buy video games and those who don’t about whether or not they think that the current price is a fair price for the amount of content and time you get of them. 

Identify the genre and format of the concept, i.e., how will it be presented? (Format; expository, interactive, observational, performative, reflexive. Genre; docudrama, docusoap, infotainment, ‘reality’ TV, educational, wildlife, special interest, makeover).

The format of our documentary is an interactive documentary as we will be interacting with multiple groups of people through interviews. The genre that it will be is infotainment as its purpose will be to gather opinions of whether the public do think that games are too expensive but also to give some knowledge about games and what it intales to develop them.

Who would be your target audience? (remember primary and secondary divide and also to use terms such as demographics etc.)

The primary demographic for our documentary is teens and young adults as they are the target audience for video games as whole genre, however as most teenagers don’t have a job they rely on their parents to pay for or towards the video game so the secondary demographic for it is parents and carers as they can learn whether or not what they are paying towards is worth the money.

What would the aim of the documentary be? What do you hope to achieve by producing a documentary centered on your chosen idea?

The aim of this documentary would to give viewers an insider knowledge about whether the people who work in the gaming industry think that current games cost too much and whether that the people who buy games think that they are too much to keep spending money on multiple times a year. We can hope to achieve that people watch this start to question whether they are spending too much and whether they need to be buying as many games as often as they do.

Where will you need to film? Will you need to travel to a location / various locations?

The primary location that we will be using is the store Game, as the people who work in there are involved in the gaming industry so they should know whether the prices of the games are a fair representation for the time and effort and the cost that it cost to develop the game and the cost to hire a team. A secondary location we can use could be the streets of Great Yarmouth interviewing pedestrians who walk past.

Who will you need to be part of the production? Will you need other crew? Will you need experts / witnesses?

We won’t need any experts to be included in our team because we already know what we need to, however we may get someone to be in our documentary as we are not comfortable with being in the documentary ourselves, so we will get other people to interview instead.   

Write some sample interview questions (only applicable if you intend to have interviews - this includes talking heads where the interviewer is not present on screen).

·         Do you play video games?

·         If you do, how often do you play video games?

·         How much do you spend on video games?

·         If you don’t, why don’t you play them?

What equipment, props and costumes will you need to produce your idea? Do you already have what is needed? What will you need to buy in?

The equipment we need is a Canon DSLR, tripod and a microphone. No props or costumes are needed as we are interviewing people from college so there is no acting involved just their own opinions.

What is your proposed budget for this production?

We don’t need to spend any money for anything in our documentary as we are filming at one of our houses and at the college so no entry fee is needed anywhere, however we do need to spend money on a bus ticket for getting to college which comes to a total of an estimated £6.00.