Synopsis for Under Age and Under Pressure

After much deliberation i finally decided that i really wanted to create something different to what the rest of the class were producing. Hence, i began my planning for my documentary, which was going to highlight the dangers, risks yet astoundingly common, Under age drinking.

After looking at my brief:

7. An extract from a new documentary tv programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

•A radio trailer for the documentary.

•A double page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary.

•A newspaper advertisement for the documentary.

I decided that it was best to begin my preparation for such a large project almost immediately. This was my synopsis.

"The title of my documentary is going to be called “Underage and Under Pressure”, a documentary highlighting today's new-age of young binge drinkers and what drives them to think alcohol makes them more ‘socially acceptable’. I am hoping that my documentary will highlight how young people start with drinking in streets, to house parties and then onto pubs and clubs. In my documentary I will hope to show how easy it is to get into clubs and pubs without any id. I also hope to include how this problem has always been around, but just on a much more un-documented and smaller scale and how landlords combated this in the past. Also I would like to get an interview with a past/present pub landlord, fellow underage drinkers and hopefully a figure of authority.

I plan to do the majority of my documentary in the streets of Dartford and Dartford town center amongst my interviews which will take place in separate settings. However, I also plan to create a newspaper advertisement and a radio trailer for the documentary, in which I hope to include either pictures or quotes from the sound over to entice the target audience into watching my documentary. To create my radio trailer I will use the Radio Broadcast room to record my original choice sound over, however I will then transfer this to the computer and edit it, adding special effects sounds and adding quotes from my documentary. The newspaper advertisement I will create on Photoshop. "

I feel that my documentary did mainly follow the majority of this early planning, with slight changes and substitutions to the plan occurring along the way.