legal and ethical constraints in factual television production

Analysing the competiton

The final idea i have decided to pick is Gaming Addiction for this piece of work i will be finding a tress different competitors that may get more viewings and income than my documentary because the brief states it’s going to be shown on BBC Three. To find out my competitors stats i will be using B A R B to find out the income of the show and general statistics about the show such as views. The channels i will be focusing on to find my competitions on such channels as BBC1, BBC2, ITV 1, BBC3 and Channel five. B A R B is a organisation that provide official viewing data to the audience form 26 million different households

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-08-17/russell-brand-from-addiction-to-recovery-seen-by-500000-viewers-on-bbc3

http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30?      

(Obsessive compulsive cleaners)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dont-blame-facebook

My first program i am  looking at for being similar to my documentary idea is Russell Brand from Addiction to Recovery. In my own opinion i think that the  documentary  target  audience  is  meant  for  young adults from the ages of 16-24 as they have been proven to be addicted to drugs more than any other age group. The program was aired on BBC3 as a lot of young adult watch BBC3 for the number of different shows. The show was aired at a prime time where the viewing numbers is at its high every day at 9:00- 10:00 in the evening. Before playing the show the narrator that introduces the show’s said "one time special". Russell Brand from Addiction to Recovery is a factual documentary with self-involvement in it to show his emotions about the topic at hand and to help others notice that drugs are bad for the body and mind. The ratings for the documentary wasn't as high as other documentary because it’s not a topic that people would care about from how one man gave up his drug addiction for his career even thought the topic isn't spoken about from much people Russell Brand wanted to help and show people that it can be done bringing in 500,00+ viewing statistic  

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-08-17/russell-brand-from-addiction-to-recovery-seen-by-500000-viewers-on-bbc3

The Comparison:

This documentary is very similar to my documentary because he is talking about his addiction for drugs however i will be talking about addiction towards gaming and the specific genre that gets people hooked to the game. This documentary is also my competition because of the channel it was aired on and the topic in general. This documentary is about addiction to drugs like I said before however because my documentary topic is about gaming this is my composition because of the addiction elements to the topic because the main reason is to show awareness to people about the addiction and how to tidy your act up if you have an addiction 

The second program i will be looking at is obsessive cleaning disorders. This show is one of my competitors but not as similar to the first Drug addiction one however they do have some of the same aspects such as the addiction toward making your house spotless. i have chosen this documentary as one of my main competitors because of the elements of the show they show a before and after of the house one its "dirty" in their mind and when its clean for others. the viewing stats for the show places in as channels four top 10 one of the most popular shows broadcaster getting over 1 million views for one episode per week

My Comparison

This show is a lot like mine because they talk about a cleaning addiction where people tidy there house up when it’s already tidy. The show it’s self comes on around 9:00 in the evening and attracts people with an interest on how people live with an addiction. i have chosen this documentary because they style of the documentary is personal involvement where the presenters try and help the people who like to keep cleaning because they have and addiction where if they see and anything out of place they have to mend it 

My third competitor is the Gadget Show this show gets about 50,000+ views because of the updates in technology that keeps changing every week. Every episode is different from the other they may not even talk about tech they may talk about games this is why this is my final competitor because of the element of surprise. The show is aired at 8:00 on Monday evenings coming on once a week however it is repeated on Sunday at 8:00 in the morning. This show is not a documentary but is a factual TV show. This is one of the reasons why i have picked this show as a competitor because how present the fact with point quote and evidence to prove to the audience

My Comparison

This show is a lot like my documentary topic because in generational they both fall under the upcoming tech categories. However the main reason this show would be similar to mine is the amount of involvement with in the show for example when they do the experiment it’s usually a test to see show the tech or the games deals with the pressure and the consumers. The show its self is aimed to around 16-24 year old the same as the brief because i think personal that is the age range where people are more involved with technology 

Content Research

Main questions for the documentary

http://breakingmuscle.com/family-kids/wired-kids-how-screen-time-affects-childrens-brains

Why is gaming so addictive?

1.       What is addiction?

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/addiction/Pages/addictionwhatisit.aspx

This link is about addiction and what it is because my main topic is about addiction for gaming I through t I could use a question that would first explain the meaning for addiction and how you can tell if some has got an addiction.

"People may spend hours each day and night surfing the internet or playing games while neglecting other aspects of their lives" for this question i am basing my answers on this quote from the NHS.

for example if i ask a gamer and ask them to describe their daily routine with a computer, if the results are similar to the t quote i can then go on to another question asking them how do games make people addicted to them after a while.

I want to ask what is addiction because I personally would like to find out as i do play games for a long period of times when it’s the holidays however when its school days i don't really play games.

Because i want to find this out it can all tie in to the same question but as a sub heading because i don't want to lose focuses to the main question.

I will be using this question to set a foundation to the documentary because the main aspect is to find out what an addiction is and then find out more about gaming addiction 

2.      What makes a game addictive?

http://www.video-game-addiction.org/what-makes-games-addictive.html

This question can be seemed as very vague because it does not state what the genre is or the age group therefore people may take the question in the wrong way the aim of the question is to find out the key aspects to the addiction in games like this link said "beating the score, getting a high score, beating the game, discovery and relationships with people you meet on-line" the last part to the quote is a bit strange "relationships" for this point they mean the people you become friends with or even if you join a team you don't want to let them down and you want to win as a team 

I will be using this question to follow up the foundation because the aim of the documentary is to first find out what an addiction is in general and then continue to do more investigation about the gaming element. This question is there to link to the interviews and would then be followed up by clips because i will ask vex pops what make a game addictive if its killing, levelling up or just being better than your friends.

3.       What genre is played that get people addicted to them?

http://www.video-game-addiction.org/most-addictive-video-games.html

Because currently focusing on addiction and addiction towards games i haven't yet set a genre i want to put the focus on after explain the addiction. For this i have choose MMO and MOBA these two are the leading genre in sales as well as players therefore in my own opinion and facts from this website these two are were addiction lies  "World of War craft" and "Ever quest."

With more than 10 million registered players all over the world, Blizzard Entertainment's "World of War craft" (WOW) is often called "World of War craft"

As you can see in the quote its self they state the number of sales and where the addiction is this is the reason i have chosen the two genres and how the game affects the people who play

4.       Is gaming detrimental for the body after a long period of time?

http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet24/ip.pdf

This question is going to follow up the experiment as the test subject will be staying up for a number of nights playing MMO and MOBA genre games. In this PDF it shows you the effects of gaming do to the person after doing an experiment similar to mine they first explain what gaming is then explain the experiment then summaries it then tell you the result of the experiment and from there you can then notice the change the person had gone through from start to finish 

This question is going to be used in the documentary because this is when the experiment would take over the interest of the viewer. However this question would be the foundation for the experiment to start. This question is only going to be mentioned with fact and figures to point my point about how gaming can affect you after a long period of time 

5. How can people get over the gaming addiction?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/10451600/Five-tips-on-beating-video-game-addiction.html

This question is the conclusion to the documentary in forming ways that you can beat a gaming addiction or any other addiction "Time yourself, read a walkthrough of the game, Find some cheats, look around: are friends real or virtual?, start playing games with your friends and not alone" these are the points that i would like to put out for overcoming a gaming addiction as i feel myself they have and the necessary point for example "find some cheats" if you find some cheats for a game that you have already completed you would then get very bored and stop playing the game and then to fill that time you can go out or do anything active away from the computer 

This question will be the final question and will be the outro to the whole documentary; this question is to tell people how to how they can see an addiction in people and how they can overcome the addiction all together with or without any help

Rational

Focus Group

 This video idea was about how gaming effects the mind and how people get addicted to gaming. The general feedback I have gotten from the idea is making me pursue the idea compared to the other ideas because the feedback suggest that it would be a captivating subject to talk about as nearly everyone plays some sort of game in their life time. The feedback was mainly suggesting how I can improve the way I would give the audience. Also the main feedback was a lot about the experiment like how I would keep the health and wear being in tack during the experiment

 The second Idea didn’t really go as well as the first one because it seemed like a topic that was interested but was not visited enough to make it appealing. However the feedback that I had got was really good because the topic was hard to talk about it would have more facts and figures to make it interested and aimed at the higher target audience

 The third idea was my last one and was about self-healing vs. medical treatment out of all the feedbacks given this one had the most positive results because it seemed like a topic that was interesting and people would watch because everyone has had medical treatment latest once in their life time however the feedback did have some negatives for example finding an interview with someone who believes in self-healing is very rare

Ideas For My Documentary