Brainstorm ideas and initail idea

Brainstorming.

1. Catholic church
2. Student drivers
3. Football hooligan's
4. Gaming
5. Obssesive Compulsive Disorder
6. Music Industry
7. Hippy culture
8. Coffee
9. Language
10. Subliminal messaging

The ideas we discussed;

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

It is an interesting subject which may a attract young audience as well as people interested in psychology in general. Two members of our group study psychology as one of their A-levels so they have some knowledge in this area which may increase reliability of our documentary. However, if we decided on this idea, we would need an expert (possibly a psychiatrist, or at least a psychologist) to add authenticity. Otherwise, the documentary would not seem as authoritative (which we aim for). It would be more reliable and valid if we got a person with OCD which would be difficult and may be a breach to their confidentiality.

Football Hooligans

This seemed like an exciting idea which would be interesting to investigate. It would extend our personal knowledge on the psychology which is helpful for other subjects as well. It wouldn't be to difficult to find an expert on the psychology behind the behaviour as the subject is very widely used recently. This topic effects many young and old so the range of opinions would be something we could research into. There are many famous fights which have been filmed which we could used for archive material. However finding a real hooligan would be dangerous and if we were to do this the person would have to be kept anonymous with blur and voice effects.

Coffee

At first coffee seemed like a dull idea however as we decided to research some more information about it, it seemed to be the best of the three because there are many things we thought we could include in the documentary about coffee, for instance coffee addicts, various types of coffee, people’s habits (morning coffee etc.), sociological effect of coffee on relationships (e.g. when people ‘go for a coffee’ it might mean they want to catch up), unusual coffees and the list goes on. It would also be easy to find people talking about coffee because almost everyone this beverage. Moreover, if most of the people drink it, then our target audience will be broader (and we mainly aim at people at the age of 16 and more, and/or business people). In the town centre there are many coffee shops we could go to film how different coffees are being prepared and ask an ‘expert’ (someone who’s worked there for a long time) questions ‘coffee-related’. As our 10% archive material we could use short clips from coffee factories (‘’How It’s Made’’ etc.)