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Planning: plan/original images/drafts/rejected drafts

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  planning ideas For the creation of these documentary posters and ideas, I first started off with researching documentaries and popular mysteries today. The main mystery which came up and which I have seen frequently and even tried, which is randonautica. This app has been used by many teenagers including me when your bored on a Friday night however, this app has dangers and it needs to be shown to those who are tempted to use it. When planning my designs, I considered how real documentaries are presented to audiences, especially those that deal with sensitive or potentially disturbing topics. I decided that my covers would be aimed at an older audience, as the documentary may not be appropriate for younger viewers. Because of this, I planned for the documentaries to be broadcast on BBC after 9pm, which is typically when more mature content is shown. This influenced my design choices, as I felt I could use more intense visuals and themes to better communicate the risks...

Finished products

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Research

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  Research- I’m going to do basing my documentary off an app called Randonautica, this app can be downloaded and became a big thing in 2020. The main purpose of the app if giving people a location close to the area they are, people can then travel to this location to find hidden gems and explore new areas. However, many people used this app and found many disturbing things. “By prompting users to focus on a thought or intention before generating a location, the app subtly frames whatever they encounter as potentially meaningful. This creates a powerful feedback loop: users expect something unusual, and their perception becomes heightened, making ordinary or ambiguous situations feel eerie, significant, or even supernatural. In this way, the app experience is less about the location itself and more about how the mind interprets it.” Several cases linked to Randonautica contributed to its reputation as unsettling or dangerous, though many were amplified by social media story...

Statement of intent-

  Statement of intent AS-media I’m going to be making a documentary about the app called randonautica, this documentary will be displaying the dangers of these new “mystery” and exploring apps. The main purpose of this app is done by calculating an area in a place around your location and then putting down a pinpoint on the map for the users to go there and explore, these areas given can be decided on the topics you have put in such as “mystery” “spiritual” and “abandoned”. This will be included many of the case linked around this app which are disturbing and need to be displayed so people can avoid getting into situations like these. The main mysteries revolving around these apps include leading people to abandoned and dangerous areas where people can be trespassed, once in these places people have found dead bodies, human bones/remains, missing people, ritual and gang ears where sacrifices are given etc. The main reason this app became popular was because of people wantin...