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YouTube: Career choice or hobby?

State where and when? : Monday 26^th January Channel 4, 10.30 pm

Over the past decade, YouTube has become an extremely popular choice of entertainment being viewed for various reasons such as sports, gaming, music and short films. 3 up and coming producers bring us a fantastic documentary that looks into a constantly asked question whether YouTube is a popular career choice or only a hobby that you can make money off in the meantime.

Elizabeth Anderson from the Telegraph sat down with the 3 filmmakers; Arun Dey, Chloe Henry and Rory Oakley as we find out what was it about YouTube that caught their interest.

Elizabeth: Afternoon guys so how did

All 3 of you come together for this project?

Arun: Well we were put in the same group for

Media and initially worked very well together so when

It came to gathering a team for a documentary it was

only natural that we came together.

Elizabeth: So how did the topic of YouTube come up?

Chloe: Well it’s a popular website that many people use it’s an interesting topic that would be deemed enjoyable for most people

And also people who may not use YouTube or don’t know much about it would definitely learn a lot of things about YouTube and would be very tempted to start using the website for the various reasons we state in the documentary.

Elizabeth: Any familiar faces featured in

The documentary?

Rory: Yes we have two YouTuber’s named Elise Hollins and Charlotte Whitsey, Charlotte specializes in costume play and Elise specializes in daily vlogs. As well as this we interviewed Julie Maitland and asked for her verdict on the topic, she gave us a great interview.

Elizabeth: Does the documentary make you look at YouTube in a different way now?

Arun: Yes most definitely you don’t realize how much effort YouTubers put into their videos it’s something that takes a lot of time and patients. Also it’s shown us all that YouTube is website which carries multiple purposes and that truly is a great thing; it makes life so much easier.

Elizabeth: I can certainly agree with that. Is there any advice that you would give to up and coming YouTubers and people interested to get involved with video making?

Chloe: We would say you should deffo go for it. It’s a fun route of production and aswell as this it allows you to positively channel your creativity into something you love.

Elizabeth: And finally guys I have to ask this,YouTube positive career path or just a hobby

Chloe:I’m gonna say a hobby which can be

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“OVER 6 BILLION HOURS OF VIDEOS ARE WATCHED ON YOUTUBE EACH MONTH”

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12/12/14

Today we plan to add our script to the documentary and possibly record some extra background footage.

10/12/14

Finished recording the script, now currently about to intertwine the script with our clips.

Documentary script

Script for documentary 

                                      

With more than 1 million unique users visiting YouTube each month, it’s definitely the most popular video sharing website on the Internet. 

Over 6 billion hours of videos are watched each month- which is almost an hour for every person on Earth. 100 hours of video are uploaded every minute. 80% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US. The number of daily subscriptions is more than 4 times since last year. 

YouTube reaches more US adults aged 18-34 than any cable network in the US. Millions of subscriptions happen each day. The number of people subscribing daily is up more than 3 times since last year, and the number of daily subscriptions is more than 4 times since last year. 

We’ve asked a number people at the Sixth Form College Solihull to see whether they have YouTube as part of their lives.

(Interviews play) 

YouTube has also had its fair share of general users some ranging form everyday to rarely at all.

(Interviews play)

Everyone also has their own personal favourites.

(Interviews play)

We have also interviewed two local YouTubers  here with us. They’re called Charlotte Whitsey and Elise Hollins.

(Interviews play)

YouTube has also found new popularity as career. Examples include Justin Bieber, famous pop artist, Karmin, who specializes in covers, TheFIneBros, famous for their “Reaction vids”, FilthyFellas, a weekly discussion on the weekends premier league football action with a range of you tubers,gamers and musicians,finally Doug Walker a.k.a The Nostalgia Critic, famous for his movie reviews.

There are a lot of Youtubers who even aid people in making a career from it. But what do the people think?

(Interviews play)

In conclusion, YouYube definitely a great career for people to have but not one that you can solely rely on.

(End) 

Target Audience

Our Target Audience
Our target audience specifically targets young or middle aged people, typically computer friendly and those who have a specific interest in YouTube. We say this specific group of people as they can engage with it and relate in a positive way, whats a positive aspect of our target is that it doesn't exclude any races or either gender it still leaves our target audience still very open.  May be used to encourage people to start posting and get involved within the youtube community.

Other technical decisions include the range of clips that we've selected. These are the range of clips that are most relevant to the documentary.