Documentry: Ideas Update
Today we had our first session with Zoe where we learned more about how and why documentry's get commissioned (which I ahve made a seperate post about). We aslo got to run our enitial ideas past her and get some key feedback.
We ran zoe past the two main ideas our group has been toying around with which I will detail bellow.
1. A documentry surrounding animal shelters.
- This is my personal favourite idea so far, and it revolves around the idea of a documentry based around an animal shelter. I thought we ould look at statistics of animal abandonment and young pet owners. And have young people see how many rescue animals theor are before buying privately bred animals.
Feedback from zoe was very useful. She liked the concept but suggested that we needed a slightly different angle. She said it needed to better fit the edge and target audience of a BBC3 documentry. She suggested getting young people more involved in the project, capturing theor reactions to abused animals might be something to look in to.
2. A documentry surrounding volenteer workers.
- This was the second idea we had and it revolved around volenteer workers. Such as elderly carers, farm/alotment volenteers, coast gaurd volenteers etc.
Zoe said this idea had a lot of potential, she suggested that to better appeal to the BBC3 target audience we should focus it more on young volenteers or follow young people that haven't volenteered before and putting them in an unfamilier situation e.g. an old peoples home (a peer suggested a charity that might be able to help). Displacement makes great entertainment and it could form a sucessful narative.
So after today's successful session we now have a clearer idea of what we need to do and how we can expand/improve on our current ideas; and I will continue to update this blog as our thought processe develops.
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