Final major Initial Ideas - IDEA 3

PRODUCT

A documentary about travelling/gypsy community in the South West mainly in Dorset

TARGET AUDIENCE

[if !supportLists]· [endif]People who live in the south west and mainly in Dorset

[if !supportLists]· [endif]The gypsy and traveller community as a whole

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Fans of hard hitting documentaries such as Channel 4’s Dispatches

IDEA

The documentary will be based on the gypsy/travelling community in Dorset, it will focus on different people but mainly on families who are part of the gypsy and travelling community. There will be many parts of the documentary including what the community represents and what misconceptions people have about the community and negative representations people have even though they are just trying to make their way in the world. The documentary will go over the origins of gypsy/roma culture, where it came from how it originated in the UK and what the difference is between Gypsy and Travellers are. The next part of the documentary will showcase the groups of the travellers and gypsy’s, I will be interviewing them about negative stereotypes that are seen by people and influenced by mass media, I will also be following them through what they do throughout the day to make ends meet and represent them in the most positive way that I can that will hopefully change the perception of them by a big majority of people. I will also be interviewing them about their own personal stories and if they have ever been threatened and hard hitting questions like that.

STRENGTHS

[if !supportLists]· [endif]The documentary is subjective to Dorset so would bring in a huge audience of people who live in Dorset who have a misconception about what the gypsy and traveller community do.

The documentary will be very interesting to make and I will be able to capture stories that the subjects have.

WEAKNESSES

• It may be very touchy subjects that I will be interviewing the subjects about I wouldn’t want to be too immoral when interviewing the subjects so would have to overcome this.

• The subject of the documentary has already been done many times in other documentaries it might seem recycled.

OPPORTUNITIES

A main location where the documentary will be set such as one of the subjects caravan and some of the subjects locations they go to.

• Various other locations where I will be interviewing more subjects about day to day things and what they do etc.

• Will need camera equipment such as Sony HXR, Black Magic cameras, Canon DSLR cameras. I will use these as well as other equipment such as tripods, audio equipment such as TASCAM recorders or microphone extension cables for the audio as well as lighting equipment such as Flolights or 2K lights.

• I will need a crew of about 3-4 people to help me film to make it a multi-camera production.

• Will need a creative suite in the form of Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop as well as sound editing such as Adobe Audition.

• Will need a good soundtrack for this short film, in the style of hard hitting documentaries such as panorama and dispatches

THREATS/BARRIERS

[if !supportLists]· [endif]It may be very touchy subjects that I will be interviewing the subjects about I wouldn’t want to be too immoral when interviewing the subjects so would have to overcome this.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Finding people who would want to be in this documentary and getting filming permission and permits to wherever I will be filming.

Making sure equipment is fully charged and I have spare batteries for all of the equipment etc.