2. Chosen Idea
The idea chosen for me to take forward was a
documentary about how sports is utilized in school
for students who are challenged by their studies.
throughout the documentary I want to explore
whether the activity of sport is utilized differently to
students with and without SEN conditions and to
form a discussion on whether students and/teachers
believe students are deprived from engaging in
physical activity.
3. SWOT’s
Looking at the SWOT’s received from my audience, I
was given insight that there are many positive factors
to my idea and a minimal potential drawbacks. This
further enhance my interest in the field, allowing me
to confidently explore this topic.
4. Purpose
The purpose of the documentary is to inform people
on a matter they are unaware on due to simply not
having the needs of other students. If other students
can gain information on how SEN students cope with
their issue, other students should be able to relate
and schools may discover, offering more sports
maybe best for their students.
5. Development/mapping to my idea
The secondary research I conducted helped shaped my
idea. During my research, I found a series of artists who
would be considered as SEN individuals who had
accomplished a lot. This allowed me to connect the idea
of SEN students and sports together. This intrigued a
idea of investigating the opportunities available to
students who find a sense of friction against their studies.
Development of my idea came from the changing of the
title and the total research primary and secondary that I
had conducted allowing me to further widen my
knowledge in my subject.
6. Development of Title
special needs – the importance of supporting us all.
Sports and SEN students: The importance of
supporting us all.
Sports and Students: The conduct of sports
Changing the title a third time allowed me to not pick
out students with SEN conditions and prevented any
possibilities of my documentary possibly
discriminating or making them feel as they aren’t
normal students like the rest.
7. Factors to changing my idea
I realised that it would be very challenging for me to obtain
the views of students with SEN conditions with consent of
both themselves and their parents. Looking further into my
documentary, I found that the school I was looking into was
mostly going to show me the opportunities students are given
to them which helps the studies of students both with and
without SEN needs. This seemed like the better option to take
as the documentary could be more accurate and pleasant for
my audience preventing a sense of controversy to occur. This
then would be in line with the adjusted title “Students and
Sports” as I would no longer be isolating and targeting a
specific field. This will then allow my documentary to appeal
to students as a whole rather than solely students with
learning difficulty.
8. Factors to changing my idea
As my documentary was going to have a more
general exploration about why these students need
moral support, I later had a further encounter with a
group of students part of LSC where they expressed
and argued about how they are not being able to
play/exercise their sport. I gained a sense of empathy
when I realised that I myself am not able to utilize
the schools facilities as much as I’d like to. From
here, I found a more narrow aspect to investigate
allowing me to focus my idea on how sport affects
the lives of these students.
9. Appealing to my target audience
Employment Environment:
There are a total of 3 people living in my household including me, and every
one apart from my primary audience, are full-timed employed. I have an
older brother recently got employed full time to a zero contract
organisation forcing him to work long hours of a minimum of 10 hours a
day. His hours can stretch to 14 hours shift, which he would be steadily
adjusting to. Brother being newly employed full-time allows my
documentary not to focus too much on an older audience, as there is a clear
shift in genres of topics. The parental figure to Irving would ideally be a
mum is a full-time teacher at a primary school. This is due to the
stereotypical idea of females sympathising with student issues a lot more
than male audiences. The prevention of gaining a masculine parental
audience allows my documentary to potentially gain a more intense and
dramatic feel to the documentary. The friends and family connected and
associated with my primary audience (Irving) will ideally work within the
same class. This is so I can grasp a bigger appeal to my documentary
10.
11. Primary Research
Primary research
conducted:
focus group and two
questionnaires conducted
excluding individual
conversations had with
staff of schools allowing me
to gain little knowledge in
the area.
13. History
http://www.society-of-sports-
therapists.org/index.php/about_us/background-aims
A group ‘society of Sports Therapists’ was established in
the year 1990. The forming of the organisation was used
to address, respect and present the growing demands
from sporting and leisure individuals. The demands were
ideally for those involved in the management and care of
injured athletes/sport players. The purpose of the brand
is to help ensure sport athletes were undergoing
adequate and effective training courses allowing them to
function efficiently.
15. Structure 1
The conventions I will use:
Voxpop/public views: presentations of team members or
people who are fans of the sport. Can show whether they
believe sports is necessary to all communities.
Interview/confession: participant lead able to express his
feelings directly to the audience. This allows the
information he expresses about his life is accurate and
reliable as its first hand evidence.
Cutaways – of cast playing basketball, basketball courts
possible extra activities taken place during conversations
we have with experts or members of the public
Graphics – Astons, credits, Diegetic dialogue Non-
diegetic Music
16. Structure
Introduction - presented character introducing the
documentary with cross cutting cutaways of students in
classes instantly demonstrating the topic.
Central point - series of voxpops and public student
views. draw comparisons against the teachers and
students on the topic. engage in physical activity
exploring the topic hopefully allowing audience to be
informed on why physical activity/education is utilized
and controlled in the way it is.
Ending - draw a conclusion with a raise question
allowing the audience to have their own interpretation on
whether thy believe sport or physical activity is used
frequently enough.
18. Distribution
My documentary will be shown on E4 due to my beliefs
that my documentary's topic fits the audience of the
channel, similar documentaries to mine are presented on
E4 and its sister channels, allowing my documentary to
be more suitable for the program and also benefit the
channels views.
As my documentary hold a lot of similarities to
documentaries which were successful on this channel, I
believe my documentary will gain a lot of views and high
ratings which will give my documentary commercial
viability.
7:30pm e4 – 8:30pm E4+1
19. Distribution
Publicity - Flash mob
Advertisement - 30
second TV advert on
Channel 4
Promotion - FBB (Football
Beyond Boarders
21. Similar Documentaries
Looking at documentaries similar to mine, I have
realised that the documentaries tend not to use
archive footage. Being in the current day they are
only exploring current activity. I realised I have the
ability to further fill in the gap and make my
documentary different by placing some archive
footage within my documentary where I will be able
to make comparisons against the way physical
activity is conducted in schools.
23. Legal
To ensure legal implications were considered and
attended to, I have made release forms for:
- Location
- Music
- Candidates 16+
- Parental releases for candidates below 16
