Saturday, 2 January 2016

Analysing the competition

video one: Educating Cardiff,
channel four, 
9:00pm 
1.5 million viewing figure 
Tuesday

video two: The boy who wants his leg cut off, 
BBC 3
9:00pm
790,000 viewing figure 
Monday 

Video three: How to get a council house 
channel four, 
10:00pm
840,000 viewing figure 
Tuesday 


The title of my first show in which i will be analyzing is "Educating Cardiff" this is a factual TV show which follows a school within Cardiff on a daily basis to show their lives and the schools methods in teaching, following the success of the school. This show was aired on "channel four" at 9:00pm on a Tuesday gaining a viewing figure of 1.5 million individuals for one episode on that particular day. The similarities with this show and my documentary is shown with the nature of the show, the nature of the show is about education and teaching the youth in order to leave qualified enough to gain employment. This links into my documentary as my documentary is on the topic of youth unemployment and whether or not the youth are doing enough to become qualified in an industry in order to gain employment, although this is only a minor similarity it is enough to become competition for the show, in order to avoid clashing with this particular documentary I will air the documentary at a time which is more prime time whereby the audience figure is at its highest on a show which has a high viewing figure for example BBC one just after a large soap for example Eastenders whereby the viewing figure is high, the viewing figure on BBC one is substantially higher than that of channel four thus allowing me to gain a higher viewing figure in terms of competitiveness allowing me to successfully gain a larger  viewing figure than that of Educating Cardiff.

The title of my second show which i will be analysing is "The boy who wants his leg cut off" this is a factual documentary following the life of a individual and their story and journey with a particular issue or problem in their life. This particular show was aired on "BBC 3" at "9:00pm" on a Monday evening gaining a large viewing figure of 790,000 members of the public for this one particular documentary created. The similarities with this particular documentary and my documentary is with the particular presence of the show in terms of having the nature of explaining why the individual wants his leg cut off, this is similar to my documentary in terms of the nature of my documentary being used to explain to the audience why the rate of youth unemployment has increased and how it has affected a certain demographic of audience in this case the youth in which it affects. Having this similarity will allow for my documentary to gain a form of competition for this documentary and will allow for it to gain a substantial amount of viewing figures against the rival documentary, as well as this the viewing figure in which the subject reaches is a mass audience as a large amount of people within the youth demographic will seek interest in this in hope of gaining information and tips on how to improve the likelihood of becoming employed, the relate able  context will act as competitive edge for my documentary allowing me to gain a higher amount of viewing figures to that of my rival documentary.

The third documentary in which I will be analyzing will be "how to get a council house" this is a factual and informative documentary which follows the presenter and the methods taken in order for an individual to gain housing from the council. The documentary aims to provide supportive and informative information in terms of gaining housing and sets out with the main objective of educating the audience whilst providing a certain degree of interest. This particular show was aired on "Channel four" at 10:00pm on a Tuesday evening gaining a viewing figure of 840,000 of the general public on that one particular evening. The similarities with this documentary and my documentary lay within the intent of the documentary with its main aim as a source of information, this documentary aims to "Show the audience how to gain a certain thing" this is similar to the intent of my documentary in terms of wanting to educate the audience on "how to gain employment and better increase their chances of becoming employed over other candidates"  This similarity although small is enough to  draw competitiveness from and allows my documentary to have a edge over competitor documentaries,  in order to ensure maximum  amounts of audience viewers to gain the highest competitiveness I will be airing my documentary on a different channel to "channel four" whereby the audience figure is higher for example ITV and or BBC one where the audience figure is high as well as this I will ensure to air it at a earlier more prime time around 8:00pm when the when everyone comes home from work ensuring the highest amount of viewing figures due to the higher amount of people who are up watching, this is more efficient than airing it at 10:00pm when the amount of people watching decreases substantially. This will allow my documentary to have a competitive edge over the other documentary allowing me to beat their viewing figures.

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