For my documentary, I want to create an informative, interesting insight into an art form that many may not know about. Most people are aware of famous puppets that are present in the media (i.e the muppets, sesame street, etc) but people don't think about the puppet makers or puppeteers, and this is what I aim to expose in my documentary. due to the documentary being such an unusual topic hopefully, it will effectively hold the audience's interest and entice them to watch more. As well as this, I want the video to be visually appealing and not be a regular "dull" documentary. To achieve this effect I will use bright colors where I can (e.g Backgrounds and buttons of the website). through the use of media language, in particular intertextuality, I will require a certain level of cultural competency at the start of the video as I will include snippets from the muppet show (a famous puppet related television show from the 80s). After my audience research, I attained the fact that my target audience is a middle-aged 40-50 age bracket, who will remember the Muppet Show. This use of intertextuality will engage an audience who already have an interest in puppets and will make them watch the documentary to learn more. Furthermore, I will also be paying homage to these Muppets and Muppet performers who inspired me. My documentary will not follow the conventions of a cliche documentary as such. It will not have a presenter who would usually narrate the whole thing. A common convention I noticed in my research of puppet documentaries was that they didn't have external narrators or presenters. In the puppet industry, the puppeteer is often forgotten about as the puppet takes the limelight so the documentaries are often a celebration that just focuses' on the puppeteer themself with no one else to steal the screen time. This is something I will replicate in my documentary. The color palette will be bright and vibrant with the highly saturated colors of the puppets I make. This will create a welcoming, friendly mise en scene for my video. The two social groups the feature in the Documentary will be my parents and I. The documentary is part of a series of short documentaries called "Teen Interest" It highlights young people who have interesting unusual hobbies and aims to let the audience learn more about them. A common feature of the series is to interview the parents to let them share their views on what it was like bringing up a child with unusual interest.
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For my website, I want to reflect on the puppetry industry context in the visual aesthetics of the website. For example, having a fur fabric border background (inspired Being Elmo documentary website). I will feature hidden links on the website that lead to interviews with myself giving some more detailed, tutorial information on the puppet characters I have made. These will act as easter eggs and will offer the audience that looked at the website something else that the documentary didn't feature. Furthermore, users of the website with a refined knowledge can access a special set of features that others can't. There will be a visible feature video of how to make a quick, simple, fully functioning puppet at home. In order to make a sense of brand identity, the color scheme of the website will be predominantly based around the puppets that are seen in the documentary. Finally, I will have a page of merchandise for T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and hats. That follows the same color scheme as the website which further anchors a sense of a brand identity due to the cross convergence of color and style.
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