Codes And Conventions: My Documentary Proposal

My Documentary Proposal:

My short film is a one-off crime/mystery documentary. My documentary has a target audience of people aged over fifth teen and is also targeted for people of both genders. This show is also targeted for people under the National Readership Survey social grade such as, skilled working class(C2), middle class (B)and lower middle class (C2).  My documentary will feature interviews from locals and historians. My documentary will also feature recreations of the events leading up to the murder of George Harry Storrs.

• Target Audience
• National Readership Survey
• Interviews
• Recostrutions 
• Cutaways 
• Presenter 
• Archive footage 

Target Audience:  
The Audience can be used as a form of primary research. A Television researcher would study a certain audience to understand what their response was to a program. They do this by creating focus groups or airing pilots onto a network. An advantage of an audience is that you can see the response before you air a program. This means that the researcher can make changes to improve to program. A disadvantage of an audience is that the show's subject may only cater for a certain's persons interest. This could mean the programs strengths could be ignored.  My documentary will have a target audience of people aged over fifth teen. 

National Readership Survey: The national readership survey or NRS is a company that provides audience research for print advertising trading in the UK. Their social grade is split into five sections. A-Upper Middle Class, B-Middle Class, C1-Lower Middle Class, C2-skilled working class D -working class and E-underclass/unemployed.