BBC3 Commissions

Our group is focusing on the 'My Hero' story, where we have to create a documentary for BBC Three. We went onto the BBC Three website and looked at their commissions page to look into the type of target audience, tone of the film, etc, we would need our documentary to fit.

Audience

BBC Three focus more towards young audiences between the ages of 16-34 years old. It is also a mixed genre channel which makes appeal to a wide range of people.

Key priorities

"- The channel needs to be disciplined about focusing on the young - its centre of gravity will be 16-34 year olds: people who are young in spirit and mindset.

- BBC Three is 'Never Afraid to Try New Things' and thats why we will continue to innovate with breakthrough comedy, stand-out entertainment, brave documentary and intelligent factual formats. Our content needs to have potential to innovate across platforms.

- BBC Three should provide an environment for the development of new ideas and talent and for existing talent to take risks, becoming a genuine laboratory for BBC One and BBC Two."

As we are going to film a documentary for BBC Three, we wanted to make sure that our documentary fit their criteria.

"We are looking for ideas for single documentaries like the hard-hitting India:A Dangerous Place To Be A Woman and Petrol Bombs and Peace: Welcome to Belfast, as well as series that can shine a light on domestic and international issues such as Stacey Dooley's three part investigation into drug trafficking."

Tone

"BBC Three content is modern, distinctive and relevant - though not exclusively - to our core 16-34 year old target audience. The tone of the channel is warm, personal and surprising with real take-out value."

Overall we are now able to get an idea on what type of documentary to create for the BBC Three.