FMP Initial Research Theme My FMP will be

FMP Initial Research

Theme My FMP will be on racism in football and the personal stories of people effected by football racism along with what big organizations are doing to cut out the problem. I have chosen this story as theme of my FMP as it has become more apparent in recent years. I used this story for my FMP to see how racism effects footballers from professional football down to grassroots football. I have also decided to use this story as it is newsworthy. This means that the story is relevant to what is going on in football at the minute. The theme appeals to my target audience as the audience my FMP is aimed at is people above 15 and people who are interested in football. My theme appeals to people as the story is newsworthy so people take an interest in what is in the news.

Theme For my FMP I am doing an article with an ex-professional footballer and an article with a spokesman from the PFA. I am doing two articles in order to illustrate how racism effects professional footballers in one of the articles and in the other, what is getting done to remove racism from football. I am also doing an infographic on race related events in recent seasons and the amount of arrests in certain seasons. I have structured this by doing some bar charts and a time line with the events that have occurred. I am doing a video on a grassroots footballers who has faced football racism and get his story and his experiences. I am also adding statistics to the video as cut aways to give a broader outlook on what is actually happening in football.

Target Audience The target audience for my FMP will be people aged over 15 who have an opinion on racism in football and how it should be tolerated in the modern game. This is so the people viewing my content are old enough to have made there own decision on the topic and can contribute with there own feelings rather then following a popular agenda without any other knowledge. The gender of my target audience isn’t specific. Male or female, my FMP is accessible for everyone. However, naturally, my FMP will be accessed my more males then females but like previously stated, the gender isn’t important compared to the message the FMP is trying to get across. The target audiences interests for my FMP will have to be football as the topic is racism in football. However, the piece will not only be limited to people of a certain club as it is about a general topic in the sport. The interests will also include people who are interested in finding out ways of how racism and discrimination is being tackled in the sport that covers the whole globe.

Research Through my research, I found an ex-professional footballer who has an interesting story to tell about his experiences of playing in the 80’s. I have also managed to find the email of a spokesperson of the PFA to get a response of what the organization is doing to help stop football racism and support people effected by it. I have also researched different statistics to use on my infographic in order to make it relevant to theme of my whole FMP. The format I will be using for my articles will be the four paragraph rule. This is because I have used it before and feel confident in using it to produce a good piece. I will also use this as it makes it easy to add all the vital information needed in the piece without missing anything out.

Audience Feedback “Fmp is good because it is topical and newsworthy especially with the events that have happened this season with Raheem Sterling” “It is good that you are including the story of people who have been effected by football racism to give an outlook on what they have gone through” “All the pieces you are doing are good because they are relevant to theme of your overall FMP so it is all tied together nicely”

Professional Practice I will be following the IPSO Editor’s code as it the code what all journalists have to follow in order to abide by the law and conventions. The Editor’s code will impact my content because I will have to find content which isn’t copyrighted as well as making sure all my content is accurate. Other codes that I will have to follow will be things like privacy and children. This means that I have to respect peoples privacy and if i make an intrusion into someone’s privacy, it needs to be justified. The children code means that all children under 16 can only be interviewed if you have the consent from a responsible adult.

Professional Practice I need to make sure I don’t break the defamation law or the copyright law in my FMP. This means that all the information I add to my piece needs to be accurate and make sure it doesn’t injure the reputation of the people involved. I also need to make sure all the music and pictures I may use are royalty free so I don’t get caught out with the copyright law. I will ensure that my work is accurate by mainly using the quotes of people that I interview and properly researching the person before my work is fully finished to make sure everything is accurate and correct.