Research records

Information source?  What information did you select from this source?   Why did you select this information?
phobialist.com | Accurate names of phobias | To find people with these phobias, if possible
wikipedia.org/wiki/phobia | Definintion of phobias. The science behind it. | Useful for an introduction
Maury Povich | Reactions that people have | To expect their reaction if we were to film someone
// | Reactions that people have | Useful, related content
10 most common phobias | Spiders, being judged, flying, anxiety, enclosed spaces, vomitting, cancer, thunderstorms, death | Facts to help support documentary
http://www.hypnotheraphykettering.co.uk/ | How phobias can be treated | Could be used to film someone confronting their fear/phobia
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/48376660.stm | Facts/statistics about phobias | Supports information
phobias-help.com/phobia_statistics.html | Whether women have more phobias than men | Who would be suitable to film
National Geographic (YouTube) | Professional help, serious treatment | Where informatiuon can be found, professionally
Frankfuiedi.com | Where the term phobia established in the 18th Century | Record of how long people have suffered from phobias
wikianswers.com | Where phobias came from | Introduction information
kidshealth.org | What age you can be to develop phobias | Inform our auidence
about.com | Are phobias real or made up by the media? | Ask auidence
disabled-world.com | Sme phobias are genetic influences| Ask auidence who experiences these
yahoo.answers | Death by phobia shocks | Inform audience about shocks

Research

Our Primary research consists of interviews with someone who is affected by their phobia so much that it stops them from leaving the house, a counsellor (Deb Instone) and a psychiatrist, these people have first hand experiences with phobias and know first hand how they are affected by them and why they are affected by them.
Our secondary research consists of archive footage from video game trailers such as dead space and F.E.A.R as we thought that sometimes phobias can stem from things that don't really exist,and facts from the various websites in our research records such as Phobialist.com

This is to help us find out how phobias affect people, why and how they develop by looking at by looking at footage from documentaries of people who suffer from them.



as well as what the most common phobias in Britain are with this websitehttp://psychology.about.com/od/phobias/p/commonphobias.htm

 , we also used images from google of the most common fears in the U.K such as spiders, clowns etc.

Formal proposal

Formal Proposal

                                                                     

The topic we decided to choose was from a range of ideas including house pets, fast food, tattoos, phobias and piercings. After brain storming and discussing reasons for and against we decided that phobias would be the most interesting topic for our documentary. The main reason we chose phobias is because it appeals to most people simply because they have a phobia of some sort.

The type of documentary is a mixed documentary. The channel we chose is channel 4 because it shows a large amount of documentaries such as dispatches, so people expect to watch a documentary on this channel. We wanted our documentary to show on a Monday at 8:00 because we feel this is a free slot with little competition from other documentaries and when we looked at the most common time people watch T.V. on a Monday we discover it was between 7 and 9. The target audience we think would be most interested is age 16-30 this is simply because we feel the documentary has a mature theme but will appeal to a wide range audience.

 For our documentary we will need a good amount of facts on phobias such as how many people in the U.K. are scared of spiders, how many people suffer from phobias in the U.K. and why most phobias develop including primeval phobias. We will definitely need to interview people with strange phobias and even people with normal phobias, it would also help maintain interest in our documentary if we confront people with their phobias and get a great reaction shot of them scared.

If we had enough time it would be great if we could help someone overcome their phobia, this would add a great story line to the documentary but it would take a long time for someone to overcome their fear.  We could also ask people why they think they have developed their phobias and then narrate all the facts as to why people develop them.  

The documentary running time is 27 minutes the reason for this is we feel an hour would be too long for this topic as everything that’s important we will cover in the 27 minutes. The people we would like to interview vary from a doctor with some insight on why phobias exist, people who are effected by phobias, someone who works with tarantulas at a pet store, someone who works at go ape that has first hand experience of people with a phobia of heights and perhaps get Fay to meet face to face with a snail! We will definitely need to film a tarantula but I am aware of a pet shop we could visit to get some footage of the eight legged fur ball.      

We will probably have the interview over lapping instead of just a five minute interview with one person and then the next; this should help maintain interest and quality for our documentary. Some of the props we could use are that persons phobia if possible and perhaps interview someone in front of the green screen ask them a question about an experience with their phobia and then react it and have the video playing in the background with the person narrating what happened almost like a crime investigation but this could either be for comedy if that persons phobia isn’t serious or for a more serious phobia.

The music should influence fear into the audience with screams in the background and generally dark music if the phobia is one that most people have a fear of. But I feel we could have upbeat sections as phobias might be scary to that person but for everyone watching they will be amusing depending on the significance of the phobia. We believe that a documentary about phobias will attract a large audience and will have a significantly appreciated content.

Brainstorm of content

This is our brainstorm of content with ideas of what we can include in our documentary and whaqt we plan on doing.

Scheduling the documentary

Scheduling is important as we want the right audience to watch our documentary.
Inheritance: To inherit an certain type of audience e.g put a programme on after Coronation  street the audience will think 'might as well keep watching'
Pre-echo: If we put the documentary on before Coronation street the audience will turn over earlier ready for Coronation street and catch the end of our documentary.
Hammocking: Put our documentary in between two good programmes.

Different channels started for different reasons, BBC1 was aimed at families so programmes are more lighthearted, BBC2 was aimed at intelligent people and a niche audience so programmes on BBC2 aren't generally popular however when a programme for example 'The Royle Family' become popular they move to BBC1. ITV is the same as BBC1 and is aimed at families, C4 is aimed at students and educated people and C5 is the same as BBC1 and ITV but isn't as popular as when it first came out it tried to be like C4.

Our documentary will be about phobias and we are airing it on C4 as it is a very informational documentary and we are airing it at 8:30 to ensure we have an audience wanting to watch it because it's not on to late, our age range is 16-49 years old as many people of that age range have phobias and may be interested in finding out why they have the phobia that they have. The day we have chosen is Monday as most people come in from work and just want to relax and watch T.V.   

Interviews

graphs

This graph shows that the people who answered our questionnaire that their favourite channel is ITV, but we will be putting our documentary on C4 because C4 is a channel aimed at an intellectual audience and is a channel that mainly shows documentaries.

This graph shows that the people who answered our documentary preferred the third font so we will be using either font three or a font that is similar to font three.

This graph shows that the people who answered this question most of them are high up in the scale and only a few are OK with what they are scared of.

This graph shows that the majority of people asked to fill out our questionnaire are female with only a few male candidates filling it out, meaning that their is a shift as our data may be similarities in fears but only because of the fact our poll was answered by mainly females.

This graph shows that the age range is mainly in the 16-21 with only a few in the other age ranges, this is due to the fact we handed out our questionnaires in college and most of the people were students and only a few staff asked.

This graph shows that the favourite colour was red so we will be using this colour for the colour of our font for our documentary.

This graph shows that only a few people would be put off their food if something gross was shown on a documentary so to air on the side of caution we are going to make sure what is included on our documentary isn't going to make us lose any viewers.

This question was in relation to a picture of mugly the mutt and the majority of the people who answered replied with no and only a few said yes, we had however expected a result like this.

This graph shows that many people have a phobia but they are not willing to talk about it, only a few said yes and the other column was were people stated about a weird phobia they had e.g boats.

This graph shows us that the most popular answer was spiders which is in the top ten most common fears in the UK, so it is more than likely we will get a person on our documentary who is scared of spiders.

This graph shows us that the most popular music type is rock however we won't be using this type of music in our opening titles as we don't think it will fit in very well with the theme of our documentary.

In this question we had 5 pictures on the paper and the people who answered the questionnaire had to pick which one they thought would go best with the theme of our documentary, the most popular one was background 3 so we will be using either that picture or one very similar to it.

this graph shows that the majority of the people who answered the questionnaire had not had help with their phobia so we decided that ion our documentary we would show the effect of getting help from a professional and how it would benefit the person involved.

This graph shows that most people have only 1-2 phobias with a few in the other categories, however we understand that some phobias develop later on in life and as the majority of people who answered our questionnaire were 16-21 it fits in with the trend.

This graph shows that the people who answered our questionnaire think that a serious voice will go best with our documentary so we will be using a serious voice over. 

This graph shows us that people are more likely to watch our documentary if we include interesting clips, we will be including all of these categories as we are doing a mixed documentary but we will make sure we have interesting clips.



This graph shows us that even though a lot of people ranked how they felt about their phobia as an 8 it wouldn't stop them from going outside, but there are some people who are badly affected by what they are afraid of but this group is smaller than the No group.

This graph is almost evenly spread, the other column was for people who were unsure and had put N/A as their answer.

This graph shows us that most people would laugh in a situation were their friends or someone they know is reacting to what they are afraid of, and it's because of this graph we decided to not only test someone reacting to their fear but also to test their friends reaction when they see how their friend reacts.

This graph shows us that the most common phobia was spiders, which fits in with some of the data we collected as having a phobia of spiders is in the top ten for the UK.