Initial Documentary Idea

Our Initial idea of what our documentary was going to be about was Cocaine. Me and my group were planning to make a 5 minute clip from an expositary documentary series about drugs, and this particular clip was going to be from an episode about Cocaine. We planned to make it a factual documentary, aimed at teenagers who may be influenced to take drugs. The documentary would inform the viewers of the effects of taking the drug, the dangers of it and more in depth information about the background of it such as where it comes from, how it is made into the substance it is when it is sold and etc. We were going to arrange interviews with social workers and people who work in organizations such as the YMCA etc in order to get real, professional interviews in order to make our documentary seem more realistic. However, after a long period of time of planning our documentary, we decided against this idea of Cocaine, due to reasons such as it may of been difficult to arrange these interviews and if we were not able too, using someone else and having them impersonate a professional role may mean the documentary does not look as real.

After discussing with our teacher what kind of documentary we were planning, we also came to the conclusion that Drugs is quite a common subject to be chosen for documentaries and there has been many of them, so we opted for a more unique idea 'Teaching Teens' inspired by the Channel 4 series 'Educating Essex' in which we would be able to spend a lot more time gathering our clips and it was much easier for us to access the props and backgrounds needed for our interviews and scenes.