Pitch

Documentary Of Let’s

Play Culture

Improvements to Blogs

• Make the blogs more visual with pictures

to show progress and make it more

interesting to look at.

• Make the structure of the blog easier to

read and to make it look pleasanter.

• More colourful, such as different

coloured headings to make it grab your

attention.

Documentary Style • The documentary style

that we are planning

to use is a talking

heads for when we ask

the public what let’s

players they watch

and what genre they

prefer to watch.

• Voice of god to go

over montage footage.

• Natural footage of

narrator talking to

audience in gaming

environment.

Genre • The genre of the documentary is Let's

Play/Gaming which would be directed

towards everyone, through above 12 due to

some of gaming content (such as Horror

and Violence) and bad language from some

of the Let’s Players.

Outline of Documentary

• Beginning:

Natural footage of narrator just finishing a game and talks to the audience about Let’s Plays and asks why they have become so popular.

Then followed by the titles.

Montage of Let’s Plays and gaming videos with voice over the top.

• Middle:

Talking heads (interview the public and ask them which let’s players they watch, and why/what genre they prefer to watch

• End:

Coming up ->

YouTuber interview tease

Look at Let’s Players Fanbase (Showing convention footage)

Location and Characters

• Location:

Home ( for narrator footage) and at school

(for talking heads)

• Characters:

Narrator

Random people in the public (all genders

and ages, but mainly above twelve to fit

with target audience of the documentary)

Research • Free to Play: The Movie:

Free to Play is a feature length

documentary that follows three

professional gamers from around the

world as they compete for a million

dollars prize in the first DOTA 2

international tournament.

• Charlie Brooker: Videogames

Changed the World:

From Pong to Grand Theft Auto,

Charlie Brooker delves into the

history of videogames and pulls out

a selection of it’s most significant

titles.

• Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe:

Charlie Brooker sets his caustic

sights on videogames. Expect acerbic

comment as he looks at the various

genres, how they have changed since

their early conceptions and how the

media represents games and gamers.