Aims and Intentions

I will be producing an explorative documentary which will analyse the stereotypes that are associated with millennials. I will broadcast my show on Channel 5; Channel 5 commonly presents factual documentaries, I will use this and the commission statement and combine the idea of a controversial, hot topic that targets 18-35 year olds.

My audience will be both females and males that fall in the category of ‘millennials’. Viewers of the show will be in the C1/2 socio-economic grouping, which are working-class people coming back from a week’s long shift at work or education to then sit down, relax and watch an informative documentary on who they are and distract themselves from their everyday career norms.

In documentaries it is commonly known to have a young male voice, this is what I will have in my show. You can find that Channel 5 uses male narrators, therefore I want to keep the familiarity of the channel to viewers. The use of this non-diegetic sound will also create a sound bridge between my cuts so that I will be able to link scenes together. I will also keep with the convention of the technicality of realism where I include diegetic sounds and lighting. Therefore, using characters in my show who will be millennial aged, giving anecdotes will allow viewers to trust the show and its objective of an analytical research of ‘millennials’.

My representation of ‘millennials’ as a cohort will be realistic and factual. To achieve this, I will use an array of camera shots to create empathy between characters and audiences by using direct mode of address; using medium close-ups/ eye-level shots. I will present the show in a chronological order using continuity editing and ellipsis to ensure all key parts of anecdotes are heard. Furthermore, the convention of ‘interviews’ in documentaries is something I want to explore. My aim is to use the camera as the eyes of the audience on the characters; the show becomes intimate and more personal to those who are watching.

Following the brief, I will produce a lifestyle magazine that will promote my documentary to the correct audience. The magazine will be specially made for busy millennials, a vast content of sport, beauty, music, news, gadgets, fashion; conventions of a lifestyle magazine. I will use the same title, font and colour from my show in the magazine, so it creates a brand that viewers will recognise and associate with. The front cover of the magazine will be a character from my show, the shot will be a medium close-up as this shot will be common in my documentary. Using a character from my show on the front cover implies the importance of the show and why readers should watch it. The double page spread will be the convergence between my audio-visual production where the use of direct mode will be carried out from the show into the magazine.