Audience research questions

1. Would you be interested in watching a documentary about addiction?  e.g. gambling, sex, shop-lifting, self hariming and gaming

2. Does the documentary idea interest you even further because it focuses on less covered addictions unlike alcohol or drugs?

3. Which one of those addictions would you be most interested in watching.

4. Would you prefer it to be helping people out or to be purely observational.

5. Would you prefer it to focus on a specific person or a group.

Production Plan

Monday - Walked around and asked some people questions about our documentary while they were being filmed. This was part of our audience research. We also filmed the outside of betting shops and got some footage of online roulette.

Tuesday - We began the cutting and editing of the videos we got yesterday. Later on, we got an interview with a gambler that we met outside Coral.

Wednesday - Updated our blogs.

New documentary idea

Title: What's your addiction?

Synopsis:

Our new documentary is going to be about addiction; but neither drug or alcohol addcition. These are two widely covered areas about addiction and it would be boring to do a documentary about them. We decided to go for a make-over approach in which our program helps people get rid of their problems. The five part documentary deals with the different addictions that are listed below.

These are the different addictions that would be covered;

• gambling
• sex
• gaming
• self-harming
• shop-lifting

Gambling would be the first addiction tackled in the series.

Change of documentary idea

My group and I have decided not to carry on with our original documentary idea. This is because John Kamyuka, the athlete which the documentary's first episode was about, tore his ligaments. He flew back to Botswana immediately after the rather unfortunate incident.