Task 6: User Centred Design Approach to a Cross Platform Project

	Gerry, 47, bank manager, married, 2 kids	Daisy, 17, student, lives with her mum
7am	Wakes up to BBC Radio 2	Wakes up to BBC Radio 1
8.15am	Walks to work listening to iPod	Texts her friend to meet en route, listens to iPod
8.45am	Checks email, browses web
1.15pm	Lunch, browses web (sports news, cars, holidays)	Lunch, plays iPhone apps, watches movie/cartoon on iPhone
3.45pm		Walks home, listens to iPod
4.15pm		Browses web, social networking
5pm	Walks home, listens to iPod	Watches TV
5.30pm	Cooks dinner, listens to Radio	Cooks dinner, listens to Radio
6.30pm	Browses web, plays game	Browses web, plays game
7.30pm	Watches TV	Watches TV
10pm	Goes to bed, reads	Browses web, social networking
11pm		Goes to bed, watches DVD

 

Gerry and Daisy cook dinner at similar times and both enjoy listening to the radio as they are cooking. I propose a cross platform project that involves a ‘radio cook-along’ where people can tune in to a popular celebrity chef and cook as the chef dictates the recipe whilst adding their own personal tips, answering common problems and generally presenting the show.

The recipies featured on the show can be accessed via the internet and there are even podcasts that can be downloaded featuring step by step instructions on every recipe.

Every day, the audience are given a choice of three recipes via the internet or radio, which they can vote for throughout the day. Whichever recipe has the highest number of votes by the time the show goes to air is the recipe that will be cooked that day. The audience have a chance to phone in during the radio show, to ask any questions for the chef and can even suggest their own tips.  

This is aimed at all people who enjoy cooking and must cook at around the 5.30pm time. It suits those who like to be interactive, vote for the recipes, phone in advice and ask questions, as well as suiting those who are more passive audience members who enjoy listening to the banter and concentrating on the cooking.

Task 5: How is a Cross Platform Project Structured and Rolled Out?

Task 4: Writing treatment for television genre of your choosing

Get Lost

10 x 30 BBC 3

In a world where a map is one click away, satellite navigation is the new must  have accessory and where mobile phones have made getting stranded virtually impossible, are we letting technology destroy our natural human instincts? Tristan Gooley seems to think so.

In this enlivening factual entertainment format, Tristan gives a group of ‘Nature’s No-Hopers’ a week long crash course in natural navigation- the ancient art of getting from A to B using only the clues that Mother Nature has left for them. The No-Hopers then have to put the skills they have learnt to the test as they are dropped 10 miles from base and must find their way back unaided. 

How will the No-Hopers cope without their preciuos sat-navs? Will Tristan be able to put them back in touch with nature? Will the No-Hopers even make it back to base?!

Tristan has long held a passion for natural navigation and his interest stems from his hands on experience. He has led five expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains in Europe, Africa, Asia, sailed small boats across oceans and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. As well as all this, he has just set up his own natural navigation school on the South Downs. Tristan is a gentle, friendly man whose overwhelming passion for the outside transfers to everyone who meets him. 

If anyone can salvage the No-Hopers from the chaos of the modern world, Tristan can.

Tristan Gooley- the Natural Navigator

Task 3: The Budget

to follow…

Task 2: Treatment for a television documentary.

I’ve Seen Dead People

We rarely consider the impact of discovering a dead body. Those who are unfortunate enough to find a corpse are fleeting characters; rarely do we get to know their names or face, their feelings flit past unexplored and unreported. 

This chilling documentary, produced for Channel Five’s Extraordinary People strand (weekdays 21.00), goes back to the people who have made the discoveries to some of the most notorious murders in Britain. Through interview, actuality and stylish dramatic reconstruction, we explore the effects that discovering a murdered corpse can have on human life. 

We have access secured for our three main contributors, as well the local police authorities who were responsible for each crime scene. We also have secured an expert psychologist who’s role it is to make sense of the experiences and emotions that our characters are going through.

We begin with an introduction to our three characters; their names, age, place of residence, what they do for a living (before and after they made their discoveries). We then make a transition into a more visually stylish dramatic reconstruction, where we set up the scene for each character’s story in turn. A number of dramatic devices are used to build suspense and hold audience attention until the point whereby the bodies are discovered. Once each story has been told and reconstructed for the audience, we are then going to find out how their lives have been changed since. We will take each character back to the scene of their respective discoveries and through interviews with them, the police and a psychologist, the audience will unearth a glimpse of what it must be like to discover a dead person in such disturbing circumstances.

Trevor Saunders, discovered Gemma Adams- the first victim of the Ipswich Serial Killer.

A BIG hello to 2010.

Oh, hi 2010.