Legal and ethical constraints in factual television production

Analysing the competition

 have chosen 3 factual television programs that are close to the documentary I am doing, the 3 being chosen are a on a program called panorama, watch dog and .
The first show is Panorama, it comes on every week at 8.30 on bbc 1 but doesn't have a set day that it's aired as it switches between Mondays and Sundays. The main episode that is being discussed is the episode called  video game addiction, the layout for this episode is slightly like how i want to do my documentary as I want to have different games being played while the voice over talks, i would like to have interviews with people who play games for a living and also interviews with people who just play games for fun. According to digital spy 2.3 million watched the episode. I think my documentary can beat this episode by mainly using humor and making my a bit more interesting by adding nice music and having the voice over be different to the normal boring male older voice over.

Video game addiction
The second show is Watch dog, it comes on bbc 1 on Thursdays every week at 8 pm.
The viewing figures for the show are 3.90 million viewers watched the episode that came out on Thursday 6th of November. The similarities between my documentary and this show will be that they will both be short and to the point, with game play a different styled voice over and interviews with people who play games themselves. My show will be able to beat it as it will be a big longer and have more than just one certain game being the focus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCBDUsCc9GQ
The third and last factual tv is a documentary called free to play, as it is a documentary film it doesn't have a broadcast time or channel,  the film have over 5.5 million viewers over the weekend of its launch. The similarities between this documentary and my one is that there will be a voice over and constant game play. My documentary will be shorter than this one and will have mainly game play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZYMI1zB9s

Five key question for my final idea

What makes a game 'appealing'?

1) Does good controls make games more fun and better than others?

http://kotaku.com/one-small-tweak-makes-vita-remote-play-so-much-better-1639603875
Having a game that has horrible controls makes a game less fun to play as the play can not get the best precise controls having a game with bad controls doesn't allow the player to enter the game's world, without being able to freely move and be able to stop at any point needed or they wanted to. Looking at the link before the Sony PlayStation 4's version of destiny the controls for PlayStation Play was bad because of the way the Sony vita had been made missing 4 buttons the Playstation 4 has. Not having these controls meant that the game had to remap out the controls for the Vita and most of the time it didn't work until destiny came out and helped to show the games the right path by mapping the controls out right.

2) Which of the top selling games are fun?

Best selling games

Simply all of the top selling games are fun, they all most of the time are fun and if they were not they wouldn't be on the top ten list of games and despite most of the games on the list coming out before 2010 the games are the biggest brought game of their time the top selling game selling well over 140 million copies.

3) Do graphics matter to make a game more enjoyable?

(Most lists of top ten games are not from the 2005+ er)
http://www.gamesradar.com/best-games-ever/
Graphics are a part of gaming but are not really that important when it comes to making a game more enjoyable, in fact on most of the top games of all time most of them again came out before around 2008 as most people enjoy games from the past more than the games of today.

4) Does the enjoyment of games depend of player?
http://uk.askmen.com/top_10/videogame/top-10-video-game-remakes_1.htmlThe enjoyment of games depends of the player for example if someone plays call of duty and loses all the time they are not going to enjoy it or like it as they can't seem to win but if they play a game they can play like forza or mario kart or most other racing games they will feel more accomplished and that will allow them to get more enjoyment out of the game. Also the enjoyment of some games that are older may depend of the age of the player as if I was to play a game that came out in 1998 and then play the remake of that game in 2014 i would most likely want to keep playing the remake of the game. Using the link as an example punch out (Wii) was on this person's favorite's list because it was enjoyable for him and most likely reminded them of the arcade machine of the same name.

5) Why are games played?
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/why-do-you-play-video-games-540006/
Games are being play because its an enjoyable experience for any users it leads to people who are more relaxed than others. sometimes its to take out the rage that one might have, other times its just there to be there and it might just be the reason one can be still for more than half an hour.

Rationale

Initial Ideas Focus Group

The first video is my first idea which was 'what makes a game "fun.'' But before I changed the topic idea from why are many of the games played so violence to what makes a game fun? The video guilty was alright but I could had spoken a louder and maybe thought a bit longer about what I was going to say.











In this video I receive feedback for my first idea, and this helped me to add the ideas to my final choice of documentary. This video's audio is pretty bad as we only had a flip camera and didn't get to boost the sound, I could have spoken louder and the video should have been a bit longer.








In this video I explained my second idea for a documentary which was What kind of effect do cartoons have on children. Again I didn't speak very loudly and I could have had it a bit longer.










This is the feedback video for my second idea. I didn't speak very loudly and we could have made the video and questions a bit longer.











This is the video for third idea which was Are we at the end of 'good' music. This was the last video regarding the ideas that was made. Again I didn't speak very loudly and I could have had it a bit longer.

This is the video for the feedback on my third idea. While this was being filmed I didn't speak very loudly and I could have had it a bit longer.

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Initital Ideas