Documentary Unit: Pitch Feedback

Today Mary and I gave our pitch presentation to our tutors. It went very well due to our being organised and very detailed in each aspect of our documentary. Our tutor's only concern was that it may be too interview heavy, so we will need to make sure that we can get hold of gay pride footage, get lots of cutaway shots and hopefully include our central character attending an LGBT group for the first time for an exciting new experience (rather than him just telling a story of his life).

Here is our proposal that was given to our tutors, this summarises our pitch...

Title: Teen Spirit (Working Title)

Topic: Homosexuality

USP: Reflecting and comparing what it is like to grow up as gay in today’s society, to how it used to be in the past, to the older generations.

Genre:  Community – constructed.

Treatment:  Our documentary will provide an insightful look into what life is like for gay teenagers and will reveal surprising facts about society’s perception of the gay community today, taking the audience on an informative journey to open their eyes to the reality of the society we live in. Amongst the main storyline about our central character, Carl Kitto, we will explore areas of gay pride, other gay teenagers, LGBT groups and older generations points of view on homosexuality.

With the information and stories we’ll provide in our documentary, we will be able to answer our hypothesis question of “Do we really live in an evolved society, or is prejudice still an issue?” with the answer that our society has clearly come a long way with it’s opinion of homosexuals, but we still have a way to go. We think that this documentary will be a very effective one. By combining facts, statistics, upbeat and downbeat footage, emotional stories and helpful, supportive information to a teenage audience, it will have everything we need for it to be a strong piece of work.

TV Listing: “Do we really live in an evolved society, or is prejudice still an issue?” In this documentary we take a look into the life of a homosexual teenager and his experience of coming out, discrimination and finding love. Does his generation really live in an improved, more excepting Britain?”