Commission Unit: Final Pitch

To day we had to pitch our ideas to Helen and Simon so that they could then choose which documentaries they thought should get commissioned. 

Millennium Road Pitch

The documentary will focus on 4 generations all living on Victoria Hill Road, how they celebrated the entering of the 21^st century, did any big events happen to them in the past 10 years, what were their goals and aims for the new century and were they achieved. Victoria Hill Road is named after the Victorians and has a joining road called Stuart Close which was named after the Stuarts who came before the Victorians and this is why Stuart Close leads into Victoria Hill.

The style of the documentary will be interview, archived footage and natural observation footage.

I will unravel all of the 4 individual’s stories in order to show how the noughties have changed them.

The 4 generations will be:

A child who was born in 2000 and is now 11 and starting secondary school. What big events have happened in their life?

Someone who is in their mid to late 20’s now and so was a teenager in the 10 years of the noughties. What kind of teenager they were? Do they think the stereotype of teenagers change? Has a teenager’s role in society changed over the 10 years?

Someone who is 40 now so back in the noughties they were 30 and had children? Were they scared about parenthood? How did they deal with it? Do they think parenting techniques changed over the 10 years? What are their ambitions/ plans for their children’s life? Is there more pressure these days to plan and save for your children’s future extremely early?

Someone who is 70 now and so was in their 60’s back in the noughties and retired. What have they done with their new found free time? How have they coped with the constant change in technology?

My opening and linking sequences will be travelling up the road and entering the different houses and I will use music from the era where necessary. At the end of my documentary all of the generations will get together showing that neighbours still exist and even though they are very different ages and lots of different things have happened to them in the last 10 years they can still all relate and respect each other and be friends.

The unique selling point of this programme is the fact that it focuses on people in the noughties and covers a range of different events instead of just focusing on one event which happened in the noughties.

This idea should be commissioned because it is unique and shows the noughties through the eyes of those who lived it.