Proposal

Aims

The aim of my documentary is to find out the core of procrastination and why people do it. I want to find out if there are any relationships between certain disorders to procrastination to determine whether it is influenced by it or not. By the end of this documentary, I hope my target audience will have learnt about this topic and be able to stop procrastinating and help them understand how it can affect a person in the aftermath.

Content

In my documentary, I will firstly give an explanation about what procrastination exactly is and why we do it. Secondly, I will be interviewing procrastinators and experts relating to my topic to give an insight on how procrastination can effect a person and what it actually does to the brain. I then plan on setting up a short experiment within the school; i am aiming to put a camera in each of the sixth form's study rooms to show what students are doing in their spare time. Lastly, I will interview vox-poppers to get their personal opinion on the topic and then give my target audience some tips on how they can prevent procrastination in the future.

Target Audience

My target audience is the British public varying from the ages of 16-24 of any ethnicity or gender. The interviewees in my documentary are ages roughly between 18-40 due to their occupation which I think is a good idea to use in my documentary so it doesn't look biased. This documentary will also be suitable for any race or gender because procrastination happens to everybody, so everyone can benefit from watching this.

Format

The format of my documentary will be performative and informative because I procrastinate a great deal so I believe I can also benefit from this and I will be displaying a large amount of information about procrastination to my target audience so they can use it to their own ability.

Genre

My documentary will hopefully intrigue and educate my target audience based on the information I am presenting and the experts I will be interviewing so hopefully it will keep my viewers watching because it is a realistic and relatable topic.

Style

I will make me camera shots look professional by using to tripod which keeps the camera steady and focused, this will be useful for my interviews so when it comes down to editing it looks presentable. I will be using close-ups and mid-shots whilst interviewing and also noddies so the audience can see that the topic is serious based on my body language. For the study room experiment, I will attempt to either obtain footage for the original cameras in the two study rooms and set up my own cameras showing a birds-eye view of the rooms. This will be effective in my documentary because I would preview the two recordings next to each other (sped up) as a comparison for my audience to see.
I will not use a lot of graphic in my documentary because I don't want it to look cluttered or un-professional so I intend on only using graphics when displaying facts on the screen and displaying the name and occupation of each interviewee in my documentary. The only sound I intend to use in my documentary will be voice overs when narrating in parts of the documentary and I will be using light background music so I don't distract my audiences' attention away from the documentary itself. I will be using few locations in my documentary- all of which will be different. I intend on using my own home, the school, my interviewee's home, a public street to interview voxpoppers and where ever my expert interviewee's wish to film, e.g. their office, place of work or cafe.