Finding an idea

The very first step of my major project is – of course – the idea. The last few weeks I always carried my notebook, exchanged ideas with friends and fellow students, and tried to connect various thoughts to a realistic concept.

The basic conditions were very clear to me:

I want to do a web series because I think it’s the most suitable concept for our current time younger generations. Furthermore, I personally love the internet and its possibilities. With YouTube being one of the biggest and most widespread entertainment sources of my generation, it is the perfect platform for my intentions.

I want to do it in the form of a documentary. Personally, I am way more excited about factual productions, simply because I know that everything I see is really happening. These are the formats I personally love the most, so I tend to create them myself, simply because I am most interested in them

Organize my Ideas

After questioning my personal interests and what I am most excited about, I came up with a couple of different Ideas. Most of them contain my second favorite hobby: traveling. Combining traveling and filmmaking is not as easy as in sounds – most of the obvious Ideas are already existing or simply boring. So, I tried to combine some of my ideas, to come up with something new and interesting. So far, my thoughts looked like this:

A web series, about traveling to different underrated destinations. Cities, that often aren’t tourists first choice, because they look uninteresting at first glance or have a bigger neighbor stealing their attention. This documentary-style web series takes the viewer to various places all over the world and reveals exciting attractions, food, culture or history. Simply to show the average traveler that you don’t have to visit a tourist hot spot to have an unforgettable vacation.

Production research

I already gathered plenty of knowledge from internships, my college in Germany and some private films. But this time it will be based on intensive research, long-term planning, doing interviews on my own and creating a journalistically valuable piece of entertainment. This will be the first time I have to manage video and audio production, as well as editorial execution in a professional matter.

Topic related research

I will need to do plenty of research for the places who will be featured in the series. Thinks like history and culture of the country and city the episodes will take place in are essential knowledge to find out what sights are interesting and which people are worth to be interviewed.

Business-related research

Who would be interested in commissioning the idea?

• Companies which have tourism-related content as their business models, such as TripAdvisor or Airbnb.
• Tourism departments or city marketing

Who would be the audience?

• YouTube users interested in culture or traveling
• People who like to travel a lot
• Due to the internet as broadcasting platform people from younger generations
• Citizens of the featured cities

Why would anyone give you money to make it?

The series would be an excellent tool for tourism marketing because the show features destinations that normally lack attention from the masses

What would be the delivery Platform?

As mentioned before, I am aiming to a younger audience who may be interested in traveling. Online streaming services like YouTube or Netflix as well as social media websites would fit my audience perfectly and are the platforms I personally have the most experience with.