Out of The Dark

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Initial Response to the brief

The Brief

Is to make a documentary on Sexual heath awareness Establish it as part of a series however only showing a five minutes extract of it.

Research and Planning

As we all know most young people are sexually active and unaware. We want to educate young people on Sex education covering all areas that young people are too embarrassed to ask. In Order to do this we watched a whole load of documentaries dedicated for young people to access information that adults are too embarrassed to talk about. To get a glimpse of the practicalities and the techniques used of the documentaries, and to see the typical target audience.

The Concept

In Our series we want each episode to cover a specific and different areas. So each episode of the series will cover an issue presented by a presenter wanting to present the issues we as a nation are concerned about, and we chose one to highlight sexual health awareness. So our concept is  to educate young people about safe sex and the options that are available to them. According to a recent article on the guardian 'Young people are increasingly likely to end up with sexually transmitted infections...those aged under 25 are most at risk because they are often vulnerable and lacking the confidence to negotiate relationships.



Audience Profile:

Name: Orrin Duhaney
Age: 18
Occupation: Student
Hobbies & Intrests: Plays football for the college team and listens to music and likes spending time with his girlfriend.
Social networking sites: He constantly updates his Facebook wall with photos of his days out. He also keeps in touch with friends and browses through videos and friend's pages.
He recons that he doesnt need to learn anymore about sexual health awarness, as documentary makers we are well aware that teenagers think they know everything. So its our job to find different ways to keep them engaged and learn  new things while they are watching the documentarty. Thats why we have chose Orrin to target as he is a representative of the majority of teenagers that think they know everything there is to know about sexual health awareness.

 
Name: Aziza Hassen
Age: 16
Occupation: Student
Hobbies & intrests: Likes going out with her friends and socialising. She likes to listen to music and compose her own music, and she constantly updates her Facebook wall with photos of  herdays out. she also keeps in touch with friends and browses through videos and friend's pages.
 Its also important for us to target audineces as young as Aziza as she quotes 'in this society many young people do everything now sexually at an even younger age'.  this is why it's important to target younger audiences too. 

Day 1-Intro

Hi my name Sara, am excited about starting an new media assignment. As me and my group (which is made up of Diana and Daniel) want to make a documentary about sexual awareness. We started off today by researching documentaries that are similar to that of ours. We found it particularly helpful looking at channel 4’s website as there was previous shows on issues to do with sexual health such as ‘Teenage Embarrassing bodies’ and ‘The sex education show vs. Pornography’. That looked at similar issues we as a group want to project to our target audience, which are teenagers aged 16+ up till early 20’s. We as a group brainstormed ideas for issues to tackle sexual health problems.
Here are some of the links to the resources we used to conduct our research.

http://sexperienceuk.channel4.com/
http://www.channel4embarrassingillnesses.com/teenage-bodies/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6932