The group brainstormed documentary topic ideas, posted pictures of their inspirations along with strengths and weaknesses on a blog, and chose to focus on social media and education as it had the fewest disadvantages and they could relate to it best. They worked effectively together to generate a wide range of ideas and eliminate all but one topic. Going forward, they plan to conduct audience research through questionnaires and focus groups to identify engaging elements for their intended viewers.

1. Progress
statement
Initial planning and ideas

2. Summary…
 We brainstormed together to discuss different
ideas that we could use for our documentary
topic.
 We took pictures of our inspiration for our
ideas and posted these on our blog, along
with the strengths and weaknesses of each
topic to make a final decision.
 We chose our final topic – Social media on
education – this had the least disadvantages
and we felt we could relate to this most,
benefitting our research and planning.

3. Strengths
 We worked effectively as a group and came
up with a wide number of ideas. We also all
got inspired by several things meaning our
range of ideas was also wide.
 We communicated together to eliminate all
but one of our ideas.
 Different software was used during this – Prezi,
meaning we gained more creative skills and
more knowledge into the different uses of this
software.

4. Weaknesses/areas to improve
 Despite our strengths, we have an area
where we could improve.
 Instead of just placing the pictures of our
inspiration on a post, we could have
further used our knowledge of different
types of software and presented the
pictures in a more exciting way.

5. What to do next…
 The next stage of planning will be
audience research.
We plan to use questionnaires and focus
groups to find out what will attract our
intended audience so that our
documentary will include elements that
they’ll be interested in.