Initial Plans

After we decided what topic we were doing our documentary on we needed to write down our initial plans. The topic we decided to do it on was the supernatural which would include things such as physcic readings and fortune tellings including things such as reading palms, tee leaf reading, ouigi boards, horoscopes, supernatural experiences and so on. Within this we will include up to five interviews so we can find out different views and opinions on the supernatural and see if anyone has encountered supernatural experiences and their opinions on physicic readings and fortune tellings. We want to find out wether physcic readings and fortune tellings are accurate or just fake and made up.
As a group we decided that the target audience for our documentary would be 16+ but would also suit the age range 20+, this would give us a wide target audience which would enjoy our documentary. We also decided to show our documentary at 9:00pm every thursday night, we chose this time and day as 9:00pm is an appropriate time to show as children under the age of 16 may already be in bed or have no interest in watching this documentary as it is'nt suited for them, we chose a thursday night as it is through the week and not the weekend, if we were to do it on a friday or saturday then our target audience (16+) will most probably be out doing somthing else therefore would miss the showing of our documentary. For this reason we decided to have it showing on a thursday night at 9:00pm.
The channel we decided to show our documentary on was channel 4, however at first we did think of using sky living as that usually shows supernatural programmes such as 'Most Haunted.' But in the end we decided to go with channel 4 as it it is common for showing different types of documentaries and to watch channel 4 you don't have to have sky or freeview you can simple watch it as its one of the main channels. Also with channel 4 if you miss it or forget to watch it when it's showing then you can also go onnline and watch it on 4od which is a website that shows all the programme's on channel 4, it will stay on the website for a certain amount of days therfore someone would be able to cath up and watch this documentary when ever they like onnline.