Internet Youth TV Station

For this project we had to come up with 10 ideas for an internet tv station. Either 10 channels or 10 programs within a channel, and these ideas needed to be aimed at a youth audience, for me a youth audience was about 12ish to my age.

My big idea was based around the blackberry messenger being encrypted so it can't be intercepted, and using this form of communication to send video, that way I could show tv programs that wouldn't be otherwise available. Within Britain this isn't required, but in less liberal countries like China they censor a lot of stuff that I know I would have wanted to watch from about age 12 onwards. Also, we were told to consider our demographic, and the Chinese youth is the largest youth demographic.

So I decided to invent a television network that would be broadcast over BBM in China, with 10 channels, each one specifically showing one sort of thing that would not be allowed to be broadcast in China.

The channels were:
-Forbidden Music (playing music that's been banned/illegal in china)
-Ugly Obscene (playing shows like Jackass)
-Crime Learn (playing documentrys about crime)
-Fulon Gong (guided meditation, exercise workouts and spiritual guidance on the banned faith)
-Discovery News (News that would not be told to the chinese public)
-Tibet News (news that relates to Tibet that is forbidden)
-Taiwan News (news that relates to Taiwan that is forbidden)
-Porn (fairly self explanatory)
-Gay Porn
-Lesbian Porn (these two extra porn channels are there so that nobody sees something they don't want to see. Further specialisation within the Original Porn channel could also be done in the future)

Here's the final artworked version of my idea:








I used the chinese flag as a basis for the logo, and then changed the stars for eyes, as for me these are linked with big brother (I quite liked the name BBTV, because it could also be read as big brother tv, and I have a bit of a thing for big brother) and then I found out what the chinese characters for the different tv channels I had were and put those in the bottom right corner or each ident.

I used the blackberry website for inspiration for how to present my channels. I used a white background instead of black though because Black is associated with death by chinese people, so I used a white background instead but then for the text about each channel I put it in a black box, because it's sort of the death of censorship and control, and it also allowed me to use the same style of typography and font colours as the blackberry website without going overly death-y for chinese people.

I really liked my idea, I was one of very few people who had 10 ideas as well, but I didn't get that good a mark and I'm now referred to as the corrupter of the Chinese people. This isn't true, watching porn doesn't mean your corrupted, and I'd imagine if it's the biggest youth market in the world there's a lot of money to be made out of it.