Youtube Millionaires

Script

Narrator (N) = George?

N:  More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month          

N:  Over 6.8 billion hours of YouTube videos are watched each month on YouTube – that's almost an hour for every person on Earth.

N: 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

N: Welcome to a documentary that tells the stories of the young men and women making vast fortunes from making videos for YouTube.

N: From playing games to recording their daily lives - these characters have gone from working in Subway to driving Lamborghini’s in less than 12 months.

N: Welcome to the fascinating world of YouTube Millionaires.

N: A question that is most commonly raised is how are they earning these vast fortunes?     

N: They earn it through the YouTube Partner Program and this has only been in place for the past 7 years.

N: Their are now over 1 million creators from over 30 countries earning money from their YouTube videos.

N: Thousands of these channels are making six figures a year.

N: The YouTube partner program has generated hundreds of million dollars for their partners.

N: One person who has benefited the most from this is a YouTuber called Felix Kjellberg. More commonly known as PewDiePie.

N: He is the most subscribed person on YouTube with 24 million subscribers.

N: Around 250 million people watch his videos each month.

N: He earns an estimated £10 Million a year.

N: So why do so many people watch him on YouTube?

N: We asked (X amount) people if they know who Pewdiepie is?

N: Whilst their are thousands of people making six figure sums on YouTube their are also thousands of others waiting in thew wings to be the next YOUTUBE MILLIONAIRES!

N: This films meets some of the next generation of wannabe YouTube Millionaires.

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Idiots Guide

- Observational Documentary:  Documenter follows the person to observe the events in their life. Equipment could be informal, usually no interviews and no voice overs. Long takes used. For example: MTV Cribs, 16 and Pregnant

- Reality TV: Television programmes in which real people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative. Usually they have multiple fixed cameras. For example: Big Brother, Britain's Got Talent

- Docudrama: A dramatised television film based on real events. For example: Moonshiners, The Men Who Built America

- Wildlife Documentary: A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on film taken in their natural habitat. For example: Frozen Planet, The Stalking Jaguar

- Docusoap (Real Life Soap Operas): A documentary following people in a particular occupation or location over a period of time. For Example: The Wedding Show, Driving School Police

- Fixed Rig Documentaries (Multiple fixed cameras at filming locations): Its a location covered in fixed cameras. For example: One Born Every Minute, 24 Hours In A&E

- Single Camera Documentary: They give someone one camera to film usually their life or a week in someones life. Usually a single camera is used for this type of documentary. For example: Katie, Peter Andre 

- Interactive: The audience interacts with the show by ringing in and engaging with the show directly. For example: Seven Days

- News reactive documentary: They try and put out a programme about something that has happened in the news. For example: Mandela

- Chat Show: Where they chat to guests about their lives or things in the news. This is usually studio based and they use fixed camera. For example: Jeremy Kyle, Jerry Springer

- News: They talk about current affairs in the world. Based in a studio with a fixed camera. The only time it isn't in a studio is when they are have a reporter in the field who is reporting on something like the weather or there is a news story in a certain town/ city they may be there on the scene. For example: Look North, Sky News