Proposal

Needs and Opportunities ; 

I need to first tell the audience what a high school therapy dog is, and differentiate the difference between a therapy dog and a service dog. The main point of my project would show the day in the life of Cleo. I think it would be a fun and entertaining way to show what Cleo’s job is during the day.

Audience ; 

My wide audience will include hopefully most of the world. This video will hopefully be entertaining, but at the same time educational and informative.

for kids: they will think it’s entertaining to see what a therapy dog goes through everyday.

for teenagers: teenagers just love cute animals. It’ll be fun to see what the dog goes through in a normal day, but at the same time, they are (hopefully) mature enough to understand the concepts of a therapy dog vs. a service dog.

for adults: adults want to see what a therapy dog goes through, so when their kids are exposed to these types of dogs, they won’t be afraid of harmful events.

Product ; 

I am hoping to produce a 3-5 minute video of Cleo’s life, with possible interviews in the beginning of the video of Ms. Sherry explaining what a therapy dog is. My goal is to get at least 100 views (a lot for me, since I have no videos yet and maybe a couple subscribers)

Reality Check ;

I am going to need my mom’s camera (easy access for me). The thing I worry about are the people I am going to find, and also having a reasonable sound system. I might have to invest in a mic, or maybe borrow somebody’s. If I use my mom’s Canon 5D Mark II, then I think I could add an external mic easily. However, for her smaller Fujifilm x10, it would definitely be a lot harder (almost impossible, but the audio system is generally good).

For the actual “day in the life of…” part, I will need no mic on the camera because I will have voiceovers.

It won’t be a huge problem for me to attempt to get 100 views on my video because I have various social networking accounts with lots of followers.

tumblr: 5.4k+, 1k+, 50+ (on all my different blogs, approx. amount)

polyvore: 2.4k+

(I can also get my mom to post my video on Facebook for me)

approx total: 9000 followers (maybe with some repeats)

Also, it might take me the whole year to produce the video, so I’m not exactly sure how the views would work, but I can always try to finish the video earlier.

Why this Project? ;

I really want to do this project because I love filming things and I think it would be a great experience for me to start out with a “day in the life” video, since it takes no additional complicated equipment for audio. Since I have little experience editing videos and adding in sound, this will be a great beginner’s project.