This document summarizes the key features of factual productions and research conducted for a factual production about Doctor Who. It discusses common styles of factual storytelling like using a presenter or narration. It also reviews existing videos that discuss topics related to representation and gender in Doctor Who, as well as videos with similar styles of editing, framing, and narration. Research was also done on Doctor Who audience demographics and viewership data over the years. This research will help shape the production and target the appropriate audience for a factual video about topics related to Doctor Who.

1. Factual Research

2. Key features of a factual
production:
Many factual videos use a Presenter which is a style of storytelling where the audience
learn the story through a guide. The audience see this person on camera as they take
them through the story in their own words by following a script. Another form of
conveying the information is through narration, they act as an objective storyteller
and is usually seen within genre documentaries. On the other hand there can also be
no narration at all where the story is pieced together using only pre-existing clips of
interviews, found footage, on-screen text and visual graphics.
The recreational or dramatisation of events is often used in historical documentaries
where important events have already taken place and if there is no existing footage to
base it on, it can also be used to fill in the gaps within a story as it is being told. With
the rise in social video sharing platforms a lot of videos on sites such as YouTube tell a
story through the use of Drawings and Animation – This is another creative way to tell
the story. This for example could look like when you flip the pages of a book fast and it
reveals a “moving” scene even though each image is a drawing.

3. Existing Product: Content
(General Ideals of Representation in Media)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP_N
_FoW-I
This video on the Al Jazeera English channel
details how ideology can be hidden within the
media we consume such as the racialization of
crime, Patriarchal narrative on gender, othering of
immigrants/religion and social class. These topics
are along the same lines as what I would go with
for my own factual piece, mostly focusing on
topics which include the controversial subject of a
female Doctor in Doctor Who and the existence of
Black Panther/Love, Simon that possibly walks the
line of entertainment and pushing representation.
Asking the question of whether it is genuine or
pushing an agenda.
Stuart Hall –
Race, Gender, Class in the media
ThinkTank –
Does Representation In Movies Matter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Un
JYJ5E2k
This video on the ThinkTank channel contains a
discussion about how representation is
encouraged and needed in front of and behind
the camera, mainly focusing on the release of
Black Panther and what it does for the black
viewing public as well as the financial benefits
whilst also discussing how there is a severe lack
of female directors and just filmmakers in
general within Hollywood. They bring up the
interesting point that there is value in seeing
something you relate to on screen and it can be
very important in how you and other people
value themselves.

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dU2
RmLX6c
This video discusses the apparent feminist
misandry which may exist within the series with
certain comments as mentioned before through
out and how the show handles certain characters
where the female cast are allowed to make light
of certain traits or stereotype in the form of a joke
or ‘banter’ without the male characters being able
to rebuttal due to some sort of agenda and the
BBC being afraid of receiving criticism because of
it. Essentially portraying that the BBC Liberal
media celebrates women whilst having men be
the subject of jokes instead of celebrating both as
equal parts.
The Dave Cullen Show –
Feminist Misandry Infests Doctor Who
FiveWhoFans –
Does Doctor Who have a Feminist Agenda?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xC4M3
OkX7c
This video on the FiveWhoFans channel asks the question
of ‘Does Doctor Who have a Feminist Agenda’ and
discusses the topics surrounding it. With how people
reacted to the news, and Jodie Whittaker’s comments of
being a feminist as well as the show having a history of
seeing the importance of equality in all forms of life with
the Daleks seeing themselves as the superior life forms
and a complete antithesis to equalist and feminist ideals
with The Doctor being there to stop them. As well as
behind the scenes interviews where the showrunner Chris
Chibnall states that he always wanted his Doctor to be a
women and fans were worried that he never called for
male actors as well. The first series of the revived series is
one of the most diverse set of characters in comparison to
other shows so it is strange that the show is only recently
being criticised for pushing an agenda when it always has.
However under Steven Moffat the lines between pushing
an agenda positively and negatively through comments
made by certain characters which are dependent on how
you personally take them.
Existing Product: Content
(Feminist Agenda in Doctor Who)

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUgX
sAWzOcY
This video discusses how The Doctor
shouldn’t be played by a women due to
him seeing the character as a fatherly
figure for Earth and changing it for shock
value wouldn’t be progressive but instead
extremely forced. He also brings up that
he’d rather have other strong female
characters that aren’t ‘stuffed’ into the
skin of an already established male one.
Paul Verhoeven
Why I don’t think The Doctor should be
played by a woman.
FandomKilljoy
Why I DO think The Doctor should be
played a woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_UnJYJ
5E2k
This video discusses how The Doctor should
and can be played by a women in response
to Paul’s video and argues that the only real
difference between a Mother and a Father is
the gender with them still being a strong
parental figure. She does agree that strong
female characters are needed within the
show but the Doctor’s character and the
established narrative allows for a gender
change as does his personality each time he
regenerates. She makes a point that if other
characters can change gender and race then
why does The Doctor remain a white male.
Existing Product: Content
(Reasons as to why & why not)

6. captainmidnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJx95bL
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Captainmidnight is a YouTuber who focuses
on talking about pop culture but frames it
with a retro 50’s style opening and has old
toy commercials scattered in-between the
topics whilst he uses footage from the
specific piece of media he Is talking about in
the background to better contextualize his
points.
Existing Product:
Style and Editing
Dresrosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky4-
ZUSEe1s
Dresrosa is a YouTuber who like
captainmidnight uses the aesthetic style of
old video tapes as a frame for his content
to add to the appeal of whatever he is
talking about and to separate it from a lot
of other similar videos in the genre. He
blends the opening with footage of a video
game as he narrates about the topic. He
also employs a technique of slightly adding
an effect to his voice at certain parts to
emphasize the point or joke which he
wanting to get across

7. Audience Research AUDIENCE DEMOGRAPHIC AND PROFILE
OF DOCTOR WHO
http://bethkirkbyunit1media.blogspot.c
om/2014/02/audiance-demographics-
and-profile-of.html
DATE: FEBUARY 3, 2014
AUTHOR: BETHANY KIRKBY
DATE ACCESSED: SEPTEMBER 2018
DOCTOR WHO TARGET AUDIENCE
https://georgeakcm.wordpress.com/
2016/10/17/doctor-who-target-
audience/
DATE: OCTOBER 17. 2016
AUTHOR: ALTHRIC
DATE ACCESSED: SEPTEMBER 2018
A GRAPH OF VIEWING FIGURES OVER THE YEARS
https://www.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/commen
ts/6nn4up/a_graph_of_viewing_figures_over_th
e_years/
DATE: 2017
AUTHOR: U/[deleted]
DATE ACCESSED: SEPTEMBER 2018
A GRAPH OF AUDIENCE
FIGURES
http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/
ratings.html
DATE: 2014
AUTHOR: THE MIND ROBBER
DATE ACCESSED: SEPTEMBER 2018
WHO’S WATCHING WHO?
http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/who
s-watching-who-34942.htm
DATE: JUNE 14, 2012
AUTHOR: SIMON BIRKS
DATE ACCESSED: SEPTEMBER 2018

8. Research Summary
To begin my research I looked at the key features of existing factual
productions which will help me build a basis for my own and know what
features to include in it, as well as this I have collected and viewed a lot of
content which will contribute to my own production in one way or
another, for example I have researched videos which are similar in style
and content to the production I am intending to make – these include
videos which contain content which is related to the production and
information on the sort of audience that is not only interested in the series
but by extension who would be the best target audience for my video. As
well as this I viewed videos from other creators that share similar editing
techniques to the style I will be attempting to implement into my own
work whilst still having it be unique to me.

9. Initial Ideas