Do I Really Need...

As part of our project production lesson a couple of weeks ago we looked at the ways we think of ideas.

One of the tasks we were set was to come up with an idea for a 15 minute television programme to be aired on a channel similar to BBC3. All we were given to start our ideas was that the title of the programme would be "Do I Really Need..."

With only this and the target audience in mind I came up with the idea of doing a short informative technology/gadget programme similar to Channel 5's The Gadget Show or- looking further back- BBC's Tommorows World.

An example of a show could be "Do I Really Need...Blu-Ray". The show would run in the following format:

• Introduction to blu-ray: what it means/what it is and does/how it developed etc. It would be wrong to assume every person watching knows about the technology.
• The pro's and con's of the technology, including some brief interviews with the public to get their opinion on it.
• The other options currently available (e.g. HD DVD) and whether they are considered better or not.
• The future of blu-ray and general DVD format.
• Conclusion: whether it is worth having/using blu ray.

Other technologies could be: iPhone, HD/LCD TV's, iPod, mobile phone, laptop, a digital camera.

I think this concept could work quite well as a series as there are many areas to cover and also as with the The Gadget Show because technology is always changingthe programme could be revisited after a few months with a new set of technology to focus on.