Pitch Answers

• Your idea and why it is important to your audience?

Our idea is to make a documentary about how childhood has changed. it is important to our audience as teenagers can understand how lucky they are and adults can re-experience what childhood was like for them.

• What type of documentary would it be?

It will be a historical documentary which also explores the issues in society.

• What other documentaries inspired you?

The documentary Excluded inspired us as it is about children who go to school in the 21st century. From watching this we wondered what life was like for our parents generation.

• Is it viable? prove it. How will it be filmed/managed?

It will be viable as we have already got the equipment to film and real life photos to use in our documentary.

• What locations will you use? Who will you approach to interview?

The locations we will use include the school and possibly a retirement home. We will be interviewing senior citizens, teachers and students.

• How will the five-minute extract fit into a larger whole?

We have decided to film the beginning of our documentary. This will introduce the idea of how childhood has changed by getting real footage and pictures to show just what a persons childhood was like in the 20th century compared to that of a 21st century child.

• What research will be required in order to be well informed?

We will be researching online and also gaining information from our parents and grandparents to get a clearer insight into their past. We will also need to research other documentaries to get a better idea of what techniques and layout to use in our documentary to attract the audience.

• Who is your target audience? Include audience research

Our main target audience are teenagers but we would also like adults to view it as they may be able to relate to it. Over 70% of the teenagers we asked said that they would watch a documentary about childhood.

• Why would C4 or another channel want to commission this documentary?

Channel 4 is well known for their popular documentaries. Everyone has had a childhood, therefore everyone would be able to relate to our documentary. C4 would want to commission our documentary because there would be a lot of viewers of all ages watching it.