2018 Media Coursework

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Aims and Intensions 'Watch This Space' is a show detailing and exploring progressive ideology and the elimination of negative stereotypes. Although, my show's goal is to break down ideas probably ingrained in the mind-set of older viewers, the target audience for my documentary will be a millennial audience who are interested in starting questions over perhaps controversial topics, thus the audience would probably be aspiring towards a level of high education which will ultimately result in them having some form of influence in society, therefore the socio-economic group that would probably engage with my programme would be B1. Due to the diversity at the heart of my programme it would possibly influence the ethnicity of the audience, introduced by the idea of inscription which suggests an audience tends to view media they find people who look or are classed in a similar way to them. 'Watch This Space' is a lifestyle documentary. The beginning will ...

Media Edit.  Racism, specifically its destruction, is a concept that's become so central to Britain's social system, the improvement of attitudes has been undeniably strong, however still there is a group of people who remain at the bottom of the social ladder through both gender and ethnic pay gaps. 'Watch This Space' is a Channel 4 documentary that explores the stereotypes that cloak the every movement of women of colour, and the film blows apart the stereotypes that keep these women out of important spaces. The modernist lifestyle documentary focuses on the destruction of these stereotypes by firstly pinpointing them, audibly, onto the unknowing faces of ethnic women before changing the narrative completely and exploring the individual narratives of four different women. Now, the director of 'Watch This Space', young and upcoming director Beatrice Ogun met with our film correspondent to tell our Media Edit readers exactly why she has produced this show ...