Initial Idea :

To begin with me and my fellow group members sat down and discussed what we thought would make a documentary entertaning. We decided that if we had the main presenter of our documentary walking through a busy town centre asking people to do a survey, which would feature questions such as their favourite mobile phone, this would be our first scene, which would then lead onto our second scene, which would be our interview, we also said that we would feature cutaway shots to give the documentary a more proffesional look and feel.

We then discussed the main codes and conventions of an interview and which ones would be best to incorporate in our own interview

We decided to use cutaway shots and also interviewing techniques we had picked up upon such as displaying the question being asked on the screen before the interviewee answers the question, and them immediately cutting to their answer. The next step was to decide on where the interview would take place, due to lack of time and easy accesibility, our media classroom was used to hold our interview. With the basic layout and plan for our interview set up, all there was left to do was to find someone within the group who was willing to be interviewed.

TV Scheduling -
The schedule for each day can be broken down into clear segments and there are different categories for these segments and each one has its own target audience so the channel will play something appealing for the viewers when they know they will be watching the tv.
These categories include-
Daytime tv
Early morning
Prime time
Night time
Each one of the segments has its own target audience as early morning viewers is aimed at workers you have to get to work and there children to school, Daytime television is aimed at house wives as most other people will either be at work or college and these are mainly the only type of people that will be home in the day, prime time tv has something for everyone as this is the part when most people will be tuned into the tv. Night time tv is mainly for students as they are most likely to be watching at this time.
I think that the most popular genre’s on tv today are soap opera’s and the news and the people who make the schedule for these genre’s know when there target audience will be watching and this may be one of the reasons for there success because if it was on in the day time people would not be able to view it.
Each terrestrial channel also has its own target audience as certain types of people will watch some channels but not others so when making something that is going to air on the tv they have to consider what channel there target audience will be watching and try and air it on that channel.
For bbc1 the target audience will be middle age or middle class people
For bbc 2 the target audience is educated people
For itv1 the target audience is quite broad and reaches the biggest number of people which is the working class target audience
Channel four has a target audience of students
And channel five is a problematic channel as they are trying to compete with itv1 and have as many viewers and try to give something for everyone.

Tv channel schedule is taken up a lot of the time with repeats and each channel has a different percentage of the time that takes up repeats
For bbc1 10% of the schedule is repeats
For bbc2 20% of the schedule is repeats
For itv1 30% of the schedule is repeats
For channel four 30% of the schedule is repeats
For channel five 40% of the schedule is repeats

Channel four and channel five have imported programmes in there schedule as there is not as much studio space to the other channels and this also means that it is cheaper to import.
The term watershed means the channel can show more mature things to a older audience as younger people would have gone to sleep this occurs around 9pm every night.
We wanted to put our programme on channel four in the evening but we would make this decision after we did our target audience research and we hoped that the answers they gave us to the questions would reinforce what time and channel we wanted to put our programme on.