TrianglProductions is creating a documentary targeting students aged 11-20. The documentary will use a fly-on-the-wall style and focus on the experiences of sixth form (years 12-13) students to appeal to the target audience. It will follow one stressed 17-year-old student preparing for exams and show her teachers and peers. The documentary aims to look more closely at sixth form life than similar shows that only cover years 7-11.

1. TrianglProductions

3. Target Audience
Our audience survey shows
that a majority of our target
audience are aged between
16-20 - 50% and 31% of or
target audience are aged 11-
15
Chart: Age of our target audience
We will appeal to our target audience by focusing more on
the students than the teachers, this will allow for more
relatable situations for our audience as most of them are
still of school age or would’ve just left school.

4. Target Audience
Using the results from our target
audience research we have discovered
in order to appeal to them based on
what they have said. we should use a
voiceover as 71% of our respondents
would prefer this,we will also use a lot
of fly on the wall style footage. We will
focus more on sixth form students
however we will show some footage of
students in years 9-11 as this is what our
target audience have said that they
want.
Chart: Target audience research

5. Genre.
Observational Participatory
➔ Long takes dominate
➔ No interviews
➔ No voice overs
➔ Subjects pretend that
they aren’t being filmed
➔ Synchronous sounds
➔ Location shooting -
handheld cameras
➔ Documentary maker’s
presence is hidden
➔ Documentary maker interacts
with the subject
➔ Lots of interviews - usually
informal
➔ Archived material is used
➔ Documentary maker can be
seen by audience
➔ Synchronous sound
➔ Long takes
➔ Location shooting - handheld
camera
➔ Voiceover usually the
documentary maker

6. Characters
Student
The episode will focus on a
17 year old girl (year 12) who
is very stressed about her
exams.
Teachers
We will see some of her
teachers who are very
worried about her.
Voice Over
We are planning to use a
voice over as a guide through
the documentary, they will
never be seen.
Friends and peers
In our observational footage
we will see her peers and
briefly see how they are
doing at school.

7. What are we influenced by?
More than 50% of
our target audience
enjoyed the
Educating Series

8. Visual Style
Mise-en-scene
As we want to focus more
on the sixth form students
we will be using the
common room and
classrooms more than
places like the playground.
The students will be smartly
dressed to show that they
are in sixth form.

9. Visual Style
We plan to use a fly on the wall
style for the majority of the
documentary meaning that
there will be a lot of long shots,
but we will also experiment
with mid shots for the
interviews.
Camera

10. Visual Style
we will mainly use continuity
editing as for a documentary it
is a convention to create a
construction of reality. We will
also use cross cuts to give
different opinions to the
audience. another technique
that we plan to use is a
montage at the beginning of
the episode to show what is
coming up in the episode.
Editing

11. 47%Other similar shows of this style only look into
life in the lower school (years 7-11), however
we intend intend to look more closely into the
school experience for sixth form students.
Years7-8
Years9-11
Sixthform