Thursday 3 November 2011

Formal Proposal

Topic
Our documentary will be focused upon money in football, covering a variety of aspects including wages, transfer fees, takeovers, TV and merchandise. This is a popular topic and is often up for much debate and so should intrigue a broad demographic of the public, applying to a many different age groups. A lot of people have an opinion on this issue and so we aim to clarify the facts and the figures giving a both sided in depth look at to what is really going on. This in turn will increase awareness and promote the outlining issue of money in football today amongst society.
Type of documentary
It will primarily be a mixed documentary, incorporating a variety of relevant interviews (with players and coaches), voxpops with the general public to gather an opinion, voice over, archive footage and live football match footage that will contribute to mise en scene with the addition of editing and graphics. Due to the extensive research have conducted it will be an investigative documentary.
Style of documentary
 Our style will be very much face paced and hard hitting, due to the nature of the sport. This fits in well with the relevance to our topic and we’ll include editing that enables a consistent flow, linking themes and using editing throughout to create an effect that is both aesthetically pleasing to the viewer and relevant.
Chanel and Scheduling
From our questionnaire results we gathered that the ideal time to show this documentary would be at 9pm, this is a time that suits the majority of TV viewers and we’ll be able to maximise our put to the target audience. We believe a mid week night (say Thursday) would be the best option as a weekend timeslot may impact negatively upon our primary audience (16-25 year olds who are keen on sport) as they may be out and busy. A mid week slot would be available for them and the older generation to so we would be including a wide range. We would air the documentary on Channel 4 as this seems a popular choice for documentaries (e.g. dispatches ect) and it’s image is associated with the right kind of target audience for us.
Target Audience
As I’ve eluded to our target audience will be 16-25 year olds, this is due to the fact this age is the most represented in the playing and interest of football. The discussion and content may perhaps be to complex for younger audiences but certainly older people and people who have long time experience in supporting football (having seen the development of money in it) would be interested.
Target Audience
Our main primary research has been the surveys/questionnaire’s we have conducted in both a word processed and video format. From this research we gathered info on time schedules, content and the right audience targets all of which have proved useful in the planning of the documentary.

Primary Research
In terms of secondary research we found out information regarding the financial income of top players, record breaking statistics and useful facts. Google Scholar proved effective in these findings, as did the website www.FourFourTwo.com
Secondary Research
The narrative structure will be linear, addressing a chronological order when discussing the evolution of wages in football. A voice over (voice of god) will be used to introduce points and state facts.
Outline of Content
Archive footage of players signing for clubs will be used to introduce the theme straight away, followed by titles to signify the beginning of the documentary and topic. The voice over will then commences to introduce the ideas that we will be evaluating throughout.  Then there will be a range of interviews and clips. The interviews will involve both the public (to gather various opinions on strong subjects, e.g. should footballers be paid this much, is the price of … to high?), sportsmen and people involved with sport e.g. professional footballers, coaches, rugby associates (for the contrast from football). We will also get an interview with someone from another profession such as a doctor/nurse so as a popular debate is that these kind of professionally shouldn’t be paid less than footballers. Within these interviews the narrator will state facts and figures that bolster both sides of the argument being made with clips to accompany these. The end of the programme we will draw a conclusion from what we have found out and conducted, this will be accompanied by visual effects and clips.
Resource Requirements
-  Camera

-  Microphone

-  Permit to film games

-  Archive footage of football clips

-  Voice recorder

-  Editing equipment

-  Research

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