New Final Proposal for Documantary

The name of my Documentary is Student Stress. I have planned for the Documentary to be aired at prime time on Channel4 at 8pm. I was considering having it as a Panorama report, but when doing research into Panorama I found out that they tend to report on current affairs and big news stories. The subject matter of my documentary, I didn't think, would suit the style of Panorama.

Channel4, however, have a large youth audience. It's this audience to which I am aiming this documentary, as well as parents of students. Channel4's audience has been found to be 16-34 years (mostly males) which covers college students and also possibly parents too.

The genre of this documentary is an investigative documentary. Investigating stress of students an if its a popular trend among students to suffer from stress or is it just a small group. Investigating statistics to back up points raised in the documentary.

The style of this documentary is to appeal to the younger audience, by using a soundtrack by Outkast in the background. The only element I have decided to leave out, that is typically popular in documentaries, is archive footage. I am planning to film shots that I was originally to get archive footage for; like a classroom pan, and shots of trains and buses. I have decided to add the element of talking head, with me talking directly to the camera in the library reading a book, and at a computer to look as if I am doing some research. These shots will be infrequent, I am only planning to do about two of these in the final production piece. I am planning an interview with a college counsellor. When considering the framing for this interview, I have thought about having the counsellor on one side of the shot and her desk and computer/laptop on the other side so it gives her a sense of high importance and status. Framing the more informal interviews with the students is going to be about the same as the formal interview, with the interviewee at one side of the shot and their work on the other.

Subtitles may be difficult to handle, with different shots needing subtitles, for example 'their name', I may need to change the colour of them so you can clearly see the subtitles against whatever is in the shot. For example, a shot which has a white board in the back ground, I should consider a black or dark font, and for dark shots or backdrops I shall need to use a lighter font.