We asked 3 people to watch our Documentary so we could get feedback on their opinion.
We let them watch it then asked them 7 questions to find out what they thought. The questions were:
*What do you think of the mise-en-scene in the frame?
*What do you think the strengths were in the documentary?
*What do you think the weaknesses were in the documentary?
*What would you improve in the documentary?
*Do you think it followed the codes and conventions of a documentary?
*Did you find the documentary informative?
*Do you think the documentary gave a fair arguement?
Here was our result...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NecpqgawGc
Sunday 20 December 2009
Thursday 17 December 2009
Final Week - - Lauren O'Donoghue
We have filmed our critical evaluation with three students, it is finall all coming together after months of hard work!
EVALUATION QUESTIONS
1. What did you think of the mise-en-scene in the frame and was it relevant to the interviewee?
2. What were the strengths of the documentary?
3. What were the weaknesses?
4. Did you find the documentary informative?
5. Do you think it gave a fair argument of both sides?
6. What would you do to improve the documentary?
7. Did it follow the general codes and conventions of the documentary genre?
Thursday 10 December 2009
Week 12 - Lauren O'Donoghue
We finally finished our documentary :-D
Nearly everything is done now, all our paperwork is up to date, our posters and radio trailers are finished, all we need to do now is film our final part of our evaluation, and then its all over!
Nearly everything is done now, all our paperwork is up to date, our posters and radio trailers are finished, all we need to do now is film our final part of our evaluation, and then its all over!
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Friday 4 December 2009
Voiceover Character Profile - Adele Kyriacou
Today we tracked down the elusive Andy Popperwell to be the narrator of our documentary, and it sounds fantastic as he has recieved pronounciation and uses standard english. And that is precisely why we chose to use him. He speaks with such elegance and puts emphasis on words at the right places that are typical of a documentary. It gives a sense of formality to the documentary that would otherwise be scarce as it is filmed, edited and directed by three amateurs. We did write quite alot of material for our voiceover and Andy was quite stunned at the amount but, we wanted to make sure we had more than enough to be on the safe side. Because whilst editing, i can change my mind at different times with what approach i want to go about with.
We are very happy that we were able to use him, the only thing is, i have leanred that a lot of people are also thinking of using him for the same advantages we did. We do like to take a different approach to things rather than the typical components people are using with their documentary, but because he is simply so fantastic who can refuse! We will sure enough buy him a card to show our thanks once this is all over!
We are very happy that we were able to use him, the only thing is, i have leanred that a lot of people are also thinking of using him for the same advantages we did. We do like to take a different approach to things rather than the typical components people are using with their documentary, but because he is simply so fantastic who can refuse! We will sure enough buy him a card to show our thanks once this is all over!
Thursday 3 December 2009
Week 11 - Katie Geraghty
Now we have all of our footage, we have begun working on our radio trailers. We are now doing radio trailers individually as this is more beneficial when it comes to marking and would be too hard to separate our roles.
We're also finalising our drafts of our posters and getting up to date with our paperwork, aswell as starting our evaluations.
We're also finalising our drafts of our posters and getting up to date with our paperwork, aswell as starting our evaluations.
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Score Notes - Adele Kyriacou
The music we decided to go with is titled "Changing World". This involves a simultaneous idea, ironically, as with our documentary our tone is to enable the world to see the world with both eyes open. So it was very fitting indeed. Its quite slow-paced and that, that matches the codes and conventions of a typical documentary. Other music we listened to, didn't quite have the tranquil feel to it as this, as i believe it helps easy viewing. We found with our target audience, documentaries are not their all time favourite thing to watch. So with the help of this music, we are hoping to ease them into a state where they are interested in watching it.
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Final Cutaways - Lauren O'Donoghue
After adding additional cutaways to our documentary, i edited the final cutaway documents.
Cutaway of Romford shopping strip - We decided to use this as the voiceover speaks about members of the public. Romford is always busy and a variety of different people of different ages and cultures walk through the strip everyday. So by filming the strip, we are representing a mixture of different people, which is essentially what 'the public' is.
Cutaway of Tesco - In my subject research I found that youths are very discriminated in certain situations. The Tesco express outside our college is a prime example of this. The sign says 'Only two students allowed in at a time', so students are left to queue up outside, regardless of whether they are in a rush to get something to eat because they have to go back and do work or not. We thought this was very relevant, especially as adults are allowed to walk freely in and out of the shop. This therefore bases an assumption, or at least angers students as they are treating them as if they are criminals and will steal something just because they aren't classed as 'adults' yet.
Cutaway of students walking in and out of college - We used this as obviously we are talking about young people, and our college is a place that inhabits many students. It is just a general impartial cutaway that leaves the audience to make their own decisions. The shot was relevant to our documentary when talking about youths of today and how they are portrayed in society.
Cutaway of News board/Newspaper cuttings - We used these as cutaways as we thought they were very relevant - news article about youths, and also negative. Especially when it came to John Murphy speaking about whether he thinks that journalists give an objective recollection of events.
Cutaway of Romford shopping strip - We decided to use this as the voiceover speaks about members of the public. Romford is always busy and a variety of different people of different ages and cultures walk through the strip everyday. So by filming the strip, we are representing a mixture of different people, which is essentially what 'the public' is.
Cutaway of Tesco - In my subject research I found that youths are very discriminated in certain situations. The Tesco express outside our college is a prime example of this. The sign says 'Only two students allowed in at a time', so students are left to queue up outside, regardless of whether they are in a rush to get something to eat because they have to go back and do work or not. We thought this was very relevant, especially as adults are allowed to walk freely in and out of the shop. This therefore bases an assumption, or at least angers students as they are treating them as if they are criminals and will steal something just because they aren't classed as 'adults' yet.
Cutaway of students walking in and out of college - We used this as obviously we are talking about young people, and our college is a place that inhabits many students. It is just a general impartial cutaway that leaves the audience to make their own decisions. The shot was relevant to our documentary when talking about youths of today and how they are portrayed in society.
Cutaway of News board/Newspaper cuttings - We used these as cutaways as we thought they were very relevant - news article about youths, and also negative. Especially when it came to John Murphy speaking about whether he thinks that journalists give an objective recollection of events.
Location + Mise-en-scene Notes - Adele Kyriacou
Location is a vital part of filming and interviewing speakers as the mise-en-scene has to be constructed and manipulated to our advantage for emphasis whilst filming. First interview with Andrew Rosindell was infact filmed in Westminster at Parliament and the room he chose for us was quite regal and looks certainly fit for a member of parliament, which is exaclty the image we wanted to evoke. John Murphy however, due to timing and his schedule, had to be filmed at his own home but overcame this situation by just really paying attention to the mise-en-scene we had at hand. For example, he is a journolist so we placed a laptop, notebook and pen in front of him.
I was quite disappointed with the mise-en-scene in Sgt Dave Norton's interview as they are very hard to get hold of, when we finally got hold of him and had a piece of his time, it was the one day we had encountered him without his uniform on, he had a fleece on. Which granted, did have the metropolitan police badge on, but it still isn't typical of a police officer. Plus, the room we did do it in didn't include any props that connote to his role, but unfortunately as mentioned, we did have some bother in obtaining an interview with him on numorous occasions so we had to just take it and get on with it. Material lacking props is better than no material! Whereas with the two teenagers we interviewed Rhys Ward and Billy Cartawick and the charity fundraiser, Natalie Lawrence, it was easier to construct the mise-en-scene in the frame. With Rhys and Billy, they are often stereotyped as troublesome teens, often because of the way they dress. We wanted to encapsulate this by their clothing. So we told them to wear what they usually wear when they encounter the problems they face on a day-to-day business, such as new-era hats and tracksuits. The location also evoked the image we wanted to create by filming on the streets. Same goes for the interview with Natalie, she is a fashion student that also attends our college, so we used a fashion room ro interview her in. Concerning everything else in the frame we weren't able to control as such, as there was nothing we really wanted to enforce as part of the theme, so we told her to just wear her normal clothes, etc.
One interview I am disappointed with is the one with youth worker Lorri Garnell, which came as quite a suprise anyway. We were going around the college with the dictaphone getting recordings for our radio trailer, and when we came across Lori and she gave such an insightful opinion on the youth of today, with also things we realised some of our speakers hadn't covered - the influences which causes teenagers to get such a negative press. So we immediately asked her if we would be interested in allowing us to interview her, she permitted and we ran to get equipment and then ran back. Because of this tight time allowance and as it was very spur-of-the-moment, we weren't any decent rooms vacant and we had to use the kitchen. We felt that what she had to say though was so good we had to interview her, but at a price it seemed!
I was quite disappointed with the mise-en-scene in Sgt Dave Norton's interview as they are very hard to get hold of, when we finally got hold of him and had a piece of his time, it was the one day we had encountered him without his uniform on, he had a fleece on. Which granted, did have the metropolitan police badge on, but it still isn't typical of a police officer. Plus, the room we did do it in didn't include any props that connote to his role, but unfortunately as mentioned, we did have some bother in obtaining an interview with him on numorous occasions so we had to just take it and get on with it. Material lacking props is better than no material! Whereas with the two teenagers we interviewed Rhys Ward and Billy Cartawick and the charity fundraiser, Natalie Lawrence, it was easier to construct the mise-en-scene in the frame. With Rhys and Billy, they are often stereotyped as troublesome teens, often because of the way they dress. We wanted to encapsulate this by their clothing. So we told them to wear what they usually wear when they encounter the problems they face on a day-to-day business, such as new-era hats and tracksuits. The location also evoked the image we wanted to create by filming on the streets. Same goes for the interview with Natalie, she is a fashion student that also attends our college, so we used a fashion room ro interview her in. Concerning everything else in the frame we weren't able to control as such, as there was nothing we really wanted to enforce as part of the theme, so we told her to just wear her normal clothes, etc.
One interview I am disappointed with is the one with youth worker Lorri Garnell, which came as quite a suprise anyway. We were going around the college with the dictaphone getting recordings for our radio trailer, and when we came across Lori and she gave such an insightful opinion on the youth of today, with also things we realised some of our speakers hadn't covered - the influences which causes teenagers to get such a negative press. So we immediately asked her if we would be interested in allowing us to interview her, she permitted and we ran to get equipment and then ran back. Because of this tight time allowance and as it was very spur-of-the-moment, we weren't any decent rooms vacant and we had to use the kitchen. We felt that what she had to say though was so good we had to interview her, but at a price it seemed!
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Week 10 - Lauren O'Donoghue
This week, while editing we realised our documentary would benefit from a few more cutaways, so we hired out a camera and went around the college and the local shops and got some more footage of teenagers and other relevant shots.
There's no harm in having a bit of variety to choose from!
There's no harm in having a bit of variety to choose from!
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Editing - Adele Kyriacou
Another long session today editing, and I am desperately lacking structure so i'm creating a plan devised along with the questions we asked the Interviewees along with the voiceover plan we have drafted. A very long process but it will all be worth it when i sit back and watch our creation unfold!
Monday 23 November 2009
Wasted Youth Script - Lauren O'Donoghue
This is a script for our documentary. As our ideas are constantly developing, like the storyboard the final structure of the documentary may differ from this script. However, we will use this as a good basis that will help structure the documentary more easily.
Wasted Youth Script
Wasted Youth Script
Voiceover
As a society, (cutaway of Romford shopping strip - public) we are becoming increasingly preoccupied with the negative things highlighted in the media about youth. (cutaway of ‘no hoods’) Binge drinking, drug-taking, street violence, gang culture and general lack of respect seem to be the issues most readily grabbing the headlines. (cutaway of newspaper stands)
Voiceover
62% of the public believe that the number of crimes committed by youths is on the rise. However, youth homicides
declined by 68% between 1993 and 1999 and are at their lowest rate since 1966.
(Homicide graphs)
Where have these misconceptions come from? (cutaway of youths)
Andrew
Police Officer (Havering College sign cutaway)
Natalie (montage of cutaways - different selections of teenagers)
Voiceover
Do you think the media give an objective recollection of events when informing the public of todays youth?
John Murphy (cutaway of a selection of newspaper headlines)
Rhys Ward
Natalie Lawrence (cutaways of Jack Petchy awards/logo)
Voiceover
76% of the public say they form their opinions about crime from what they see or read in the news, more than three times the number who state they get their primary information on crime from personal experience. These misconceptions indicate something is going drastically wrong. So are the news media presenting an accurate picture of youth and crime?
(graphs to back up research)
Billy Cartawick
Voiceover
Research from the charity Catch 22 (cutaway of Catch 22 logo) showed that two thirds of adults overestimated the level of youth crime, while 10% of adults believed as many as two out of every five teenagers were criminals. In reality only 5.7% of young people are involved in crime.
So who are the people to blame for this negative stereotype that the youth have been placed with?
(on screen text)
These studies highlight how the public demonise youths, regarding them as a danger to us and themselves
and believing that we need protection from them. (cutaways of teenagers, college)
Natalie Lawrence
Negative views are damaging. The question we must ask ourselves is if you treat people a certain way,
will they eventually behave the way we continue to expect?
(cutaway: 'two students allowed in at a time' sign)
Ultimately we risk forcing them to live up to a negative image that is actually based on the actions of a very small minority. (cutaway of students queued up outside Tesco)
Andrew Rosindale (cutaway of students coming in and out of college)
Billy Cartawick
Voiceover
If we continue with this portrayal, Will we be responsible for standing in the way of a historic opportunity for the youth of today and indeed our society as a whole?
Break title - WASTED YOUTH
End of part 1
[[UPDATE on DECEMBER 8th]]
-- As shown, the script varies and misses out Lorrie as an interviewer, as this was a last minute interview we were not expecting her in our documentary.
Additionally, as we have another interviewer, all our footage exceed the time limit so we had to cut out some of the voiceover and research.
Negative views are damaging. The question we must ask ourselves is if you treat people a certain way,
will they eventually behave the way we continue to expect?
(cutaway: 'two students allowed in at a time' sign)
Ultimately we risk forcing them to live up to a negative image that is actually based on the actions of a very small minority. (cutaway of students queued up outside Tesco)
Andrew Rosindale (cutaway of students coming in and out of college)
Billy Cartawick
Voiceover
If we continue with this portrayal, Will we be responsible for standing in the way of a historic opportunity for the youth of today and indeed our society as a whole?
Break title - WASTED YOUTH
End of part 1
[[UPDATE on DECEMBER 8th]]
-- As shown, the script varies and misses out Lorrie as an interviewer, as this was a last minute interview we were not expecting her in our documentary.
Additionally, as we have another interviewer, all our footage exceed the time limit so we had to cut out some of the voiceover and research.
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Week 9 - Lauren O'Donoghue & Katie Geraghty
Yesterday we finally got hold of Police Officer Dave ... .
We planned to film him tomorrow which should be good as we finally get to have a police officers opinion on the matter.
This is needed because now we'll have even more of a variety of speakers in our documentary which are appropriate.
We'll keep you updated on how everything goes and the process of the next few days and weeks.
Enjoy!!!
We planned to film him tomorrow which should be good as we finally get to have a police officers opinion on the matter.
This is needed because now we'll have even more of a variety of speakers in our documentary which are appropriate.
We'll keep you updated on how everything goes and the process of the next few days and weeks.
Enjoy!!!
---- We've just filmed police officer Dave and one of his students. They were asked a range of questions we had written specifically for the Police force. We did get footage of both, but we feel that after watching it through we'll probably just use Dave's interview answers as they were very precise coming from a senior Police Officer rather than a student who hadn't had much experience on the roads. We also got a few cutaways done here and there as we thought we were lacking in them. Next, to capture it! We'll keep you updated!!
Thursday 12 November 2009
Week 8 - Lauren O'Donoghue
This week the editing has started!
Time for more tiring work.
We're also trying to get ahead with some paperwork at the moment, so we've been coming up with some ideas for the questions for our post documentary audience questionnaire.
Time for more tiring work.
We're also trying to get ahead with some paperwork at the moment, so we've been coming up with some ideas for the questions for our post documentary audience questionnaire.
Thursday 5 November 2009
Documentaries Researched - Katie Geraghty
The Obama Deception
http://freedocumentaries.net/media/218/The_Obama_Deception/
9/11 Truth Documentary – Grave Implications
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMfHxoM07YM
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/confessions-of-a-traffic-warden/4od#3010299
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kidnapped-by-the-kids/4od#3014992
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-boy-who-was-born-a-girl/4od
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Week 7 - Lauren O'Donoghue
We've interviewed John Murphy this week. It was very interesting to hear things from a journalists perspective, as if anything, the question we're asking is criticising the media, so we were looking forward to the response we got from John.
It was also beneficial to us as, as a journalist himself John told us about his experience as a journalist and also gave us a few tips on camera work. He gave some very interesting answers to the questions so we're looking forward to seeing the footage of him!
It was also beneficial to us as, as a journalist himself John told us about his experience as a journalist and also gave us a few tips on camera work. He gave some very interesting answers to the questions so we're looking forward to seeing the footage of him!
Monday 26 October 2009
Week 6 - Adele Kyriacou
Yesterday, we went all the way up to Westminster to interveiw Andrew Rosindell. Were all really happy with how everything has come out. It didnt take us long to set up, and then we got on straight away with filming him. He gave us some really good answers and were really happy with how its all came out.
Just got John Murphy our Journalist to do now, which has all been arranged to film Tuesday. Looking forward to doing that aswell as having to do a Police Officer and a head teacher which should be good!
As a speaker, Mr Rosindell carried himself beautifully, he answered every question thoroughly and with precise facts and his own background knowledge to support his claims. We're all really pleased with the footage and i should be capturing it sometime this week to check the sound/quality etc. Right now, we're focusing on our questions for John Murphy on Tuesday. Should be so interesting to interview someone of a high position in the media industry. We're looking forward to what he has to say on the matter.
Just got John Murphy our Journalist to do now, which has all been arranged to film Tuesday. Looking forward to doing that aswell as having to do a Police Officer and a head teacher which should be good!
As a speaker, Mr Rosindell carried himself beautifully, he answered every question thoroughly and with precise facts and his own background knowledge to support his claims. We're all really pleased with the footage and i should be capturing it sometime this week to check the sound/quality etc. Right now, we're focusing on our questions for John Murphy on Tuesday. Should be so interesting to interview someone of a high position in the media industry. We're looking forward to what he has to say on the matter.
Saturday 24 October 2009
Interviewee Profiles #1 - Lauren O'Donoghue
Andrew Rosindell
Andrew Richard Rosindell (born on 17 March 1966) is a British Conservative Politician. He is the MP for the Romford constituency in Greater London aswell as an International Director of the European Foundation, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Flag Group, and a member of the Flag Group itself. Before entering politics on a full-time basis, Andrew was a freelance journalist and Public Relations consultant and before becoming Romford MP he was a local councillor on Havering Council. He has been quoted as the "Future mayor of London" and called a "Local Champion". 'He is Mr Romford, in tune with his voters and viewed as a local son and 'our MP'
John Murphy
John Murphy is a BBC Radio Current Affairs executive.
John joined the BBC World Service in 1992, where he got the chance to make all kinds of programmes in news and current affairs after a stint with Radio france International in Paris.
In the latter part of his broadcasting career, John has been a regular producer for Crossing Continents, making programmes throughout Europe, in Africa, in the USA. He has won a One World radio documentary award for a programme which examined what happened to the rape victims of the Bosnian conflict, and some of the children born of those rapes.
An insight into Johns work:
Here's an article John Murphy wrote about the case of Baby P
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7708398.stm
John Murphy is a BBC Radio Current Affairs executive.
John joined the BBC World Service in 1992, where he got the chance to make all kinds of programmes in news and current affairs after a stint with Radio france International in Paris.
In the latter part of his broadcasting career, John has been a regular producer for Crossing Continents, making programmes throughout Europe, in Africa, in the USA. He has won a One World radio documentary award for a programme which examined what happened to the rape victims of the Bosnian conflict, and some of the children born of those rapes.
An insight into Johns work:
Here's an article John Murphy wrote about the case of Baby P
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7708398.stm
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Week 5 - Katie Geraghty
Were really happy, we've managed to film both sets of teenage interviews that we planned on doing as soon as possible. The 2 boys Billy and Rhys who are stereotyped for wearing hoodies etc, and their point of view on things. Aswell as Natalie Lawrence, a teenager who represents teenagers in a good light and raises money for charity's etc etc. We took some pictures during our filming process too.. Look ahead!
We rung Andrew Rosindell's (Romford MP) office numerous times and finally got through to his P.A and pitched an idea. She then got back to us confirming that we can interview him on Thursday at Westminster!
Filming the Boys!
Filming Natalie!
We rung Andrew Rosindell's (Romford MP) office numerous times and finally got through to his P.A and pitched an idea. She then got back to us confirming that we can interview him on Thursday at Westminster!
Filming the Boys!
Filming Natalie!
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Storyboard - Katie Geraghty
We made a draft storyboard so we had an idea on how our documentary would look once we'd edited it. Also this would help the editor as a guideline while thinking of what to put where.
Monday 19 October 2009
Week 4 - Adele Kyriacou
We've got loads done this week.
We've been trying to organise lots of speakers as soon as possible!
We have just confirmed John Murphy, A Journalist from BBC.
We are all set for filming on the 20th October.
We've also confirmed an interview with two teenage boys on the 20th to get their view on the issue after we film John Murphy.
We've been trying to organise lots of speakers as soon as possible!
We have just confirmed John Murphy, A Journalist from BBC.
We are all set for filming on the 20th October.
We've also confirmed an interview with two teenage boys on the 20th to get their view on the issue after we film John Murphy.
Saturday 17 October 2009
First cutaway ideas - Lauren O'Donoghue
Cutaway Ideas:
A Pan of a ‘High Crime Rate’/Neglected Borough (further research will establish which borough/s)
Cuts of different newspaper headlines regarding ‘Youth Crime’ - Zooms and Pans
Fixed shot of the back of youths in hoodies walking through a shopping centre
Medium close up of a magistrates/crown court
Medium shot of a youth offering an old man/woman a seat on public transport
Medium shot of a youth helping someone with a case/pram up a flight of stairs
News Footage ‘Another youth has been stabbed’ ‘Crime rate rises..’
‘Victim branded A* student is seen in picture holding guns’
A Pan of a ‘High Crime Rate’/Neglected Borough (further research will establish which borough/s)
Cuts of different newspaper headlines regarding ‘Youth Crime’ - Zooms and Pans
Fixed shot of the back of youths in hoodies walking through a shopping centre
Medium close up of a magistrates/crown court
Medium shot of a youth offering an old man/woman a seat on public transport
Medium shot of a youth helping someone with a case/pram up a flight of stairs
News Footage ‘Another youth has been stabbed’ ‘Crime rate rises..’
‘Victim branded A* student is seen in picture holding guns’
Thursday 15 October 2009
Subject Research Notes - Lauren O'Donoghue
62% of the public believe that the number of crimes committed by youths is on the rise. However, youth homicides declined by 68% between 1993 and 1999 and are at their lowest rate since 1966.
76% of the public say that they form their opinions about crime from what they see or read in the news, more than three times the number who state they get their primary information on crime from personal experience. http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/media/factsheet.html
Research from the charity Catch 22 showed that two thirds of adults overestimated the level of youth crime, while 10% of adults believed as many as two out of every five teenagers were criminals. In reality only 5.7% of young people are involved in crime.
A survey, carried out for the Philip Lawrence Awards, reported that today’s young people have an extremely positive effect on their communities, with 48% undertaking voluntary activity.
ARTICLES ABOUT YOUTHS AND THE MEDIA:
Speakers? - Adele Kyriacou
IDEAS FOR SPEAKERS:
*MP
*Journalists
*Youths
*Youth worker
*The Public
*Teacher
*Parents
*MP
*Journalists
*Youths
*Youth worker
*The Public
*Teacher
*Parents
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Brainstorm - Katie Geraghty
Monday 12 October 2009
Week 3
Documentary Proposal
“Are young people today portrayed as a generation to fear in contemporary society by the news in the media?”
Today’s apparent “Wasted Youth”
In this topic, we plan to explore the idea that if the news in the media continues to portray the youth of today as problematic, will they or have they already fulfilled the appointed role that is expected of them by society?
We will identify the circumstances in which this perception has been created, by reports of crime and violence amongst young people and how this influences the train of thought of the public and how it has altered their reactions to youths today.
An extract taken from an article at http://www.telegraph.com/ titled ‘Violent youth crime up a third’
A senior official at West London Youth Court, in Hammersmith, stares despondently at the growing stack of criminal files piled in front of him, each containing what he says are the stark details of a child's life going to waste. "The youth justice system simply cannot cope," he tells me. "We are being swamped. We are being asked to deal with a problem that is of society's making and all we seem to be able to do is apply a sticking plaster to it."
This implies that the situation is not being dealt with, it is just being covered up and thus getting worse.
* GANG-POLICE PROTECTION QUOTE taken from http://www.24dash.com/news/Central_Government/2007-05-23-Don-t-label-youth-groups-gangs-report
"Our own research on the experience of black young people in trouble with the law, called Just Justice(1), showed that none of the young people in the study trusted the authorities, and particularly the police, to protect them. Young people in the study overwhelmingly reported that they would rather turn to their friends and family to help them when in need, and to take justice into their own hands if crimes were committed against them." This seems to be an issue that needs to be dealt with as youth crime, especially serious cases seems to be a result of the fact that youths feel neglected by the criminal justice system and therefore feel they need to take matters into their own hands I.e. committing crimes of a vengeful nature.
In order of finding a conclusion to this popular debate, we plan to interview a series of public figures (a list is as follows) to find out their views on the topic at hand. We will ask them whether they believe news in the media is a dominant factor of portraying youths negatively and ask if they believe that youths are stereotyped in society primarily because of this. We will also interview a number of youths that feel they are affected by this misconception as they are the subject of the documentary and are therefore arguably the most important. There is no better way to find out about the youths of today, than asking them about themselves. Additionally, we will speak to other general members of the public that hold their own and find out whether they feel the media influences these ideas.
“Are young people today portrayed as a generation to fear in contemporary society by the news in the media?”
Today’s apparent “Wasted Youth”
In this topic, we plan to explore the idea that if the news in the media continues to portray the youth of today as problematic, will they or have they already fulfilled the appointed role that is expected of them by society?
We will identify the circumstances in which this perception has been created, by reports of crime and violence amongst young people and how this influences the train of thought of the public and how it has altered their reactions to youths today.
An extract taken from an article at http://www.telegraph.com/ titled ‘Violent youth crime up a third’
A senior official at West London Youth Court, in Hammersmith, stares despondently at the growing stack of criminal files piled in front of him, each containing what he says are the stark details of a child's life going to waste. "The youth justice system simply cannot cope," he tells me. "We are being swamped. We are being asked to deal with a problem that is of society's making and all we seem to be able to do is apply a sticking plaster to it."
This implies that the situation is not being dealt with, it is just being covered up and thus getting worse.
* GANG-POLICE PROTECTION QUOTE taken from http://www.24dash.com/news/Central_Government/2007-05-23-Don-t-label-youth-groups-gangs-report
"Our own research on the experience of black young people in trouble with the law, called Just Justice(1), showed that none of the young people in the study trusted the authorities, and particularly the police, to protect them. Young people in the study overwhelmingly reported that they would rather turn to their friends and family to help them when in need, and to take justice into their own hands if crimes were committed against them." This seems to be an issue that needs to be dealt with as youth crime, especially serious cases seems to be a result of the fact that youths feel neglected by the criminal justice system and therefore feel they need to take matters into their own hands I.e. committing crimes of a vengeful nature.
In order of finding a conclusion to this popular debate, we plan to interview a series of public figures (a list is as follows) to find out their views on the topic at hand. We will ask them whether they believe news in the media is a dominant factor of portraying youths negatively and ask if they believe that youths are stereotyped in society primarily because of this. We will also interview a number of youths that feel they are affected by this misconception as they are the subject of the documentary and are therefore arguably the most important. There is no better way to find out about the youths of today, than asking them about themselves. Additionally, we will speak to other general members of the public that hold their own and find out whether they feel the media influences these ideas.
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Week 2 - Lauren O'Donoghue
We've finally decided our roles in the group:
Camerawoman: Katie Geraghty
Editor: Adele Kyriacou
We have also came up with some potential ideas for our documentary
I also thought it would be a good idea to post the checklist so that we can easily refer back to it to remember what we have to do:
1. Brief
2. Voice-over script
3. Preparatory storybaord
4. Documentary genre notes
5. Audience testing notes
6. Subject research notes
7. Score notes
8. Location notes
9. Speakers (Interviews)
10. Questionnaire
11. Evaluation
12. Script
13. Shot list
14. Analysis of a documentary
15. Questionnaire (before documentary filmed)
16. Questionnaire (after documentary filmed)
17. Interviewee profile
18. Documentary interview framing picture
2. Voice-over script
3. Preparatory storybaord
4. Documentary genre notes
5. Audience testing notes
6. Subject research notes
7. Score notes
8. Location notes
9. Speakers (Interviews)
10. Questionnaire
11. Evaluation
12. Script
13. Shot list
14. Analysis of a documentary
15. Questionnaire (before documentary filmed)
16. Questionnaire (after documentary filmed)
17. Interviewee profile
18. Documentary interview framing picture
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Week 1 - Lauren O'Donoghue
Researching framing for documentaries:
The Rule Of Thirds
A Humourous video instructing us of 'The Rules Of Thirds'
The Rule Of Thirds
A Humourous video instructing us of 'The Rules Of Thirds'
Monday 21 September 2009
Welcome!!
Hi Guys, welcome to our Official Blog!!
For our A2 Media Studies we've been asked to create an impartial and creative documentary for the BBC about an issue that we feel affects the world today...
In this blog you will see a 'Step by Step' progression guide, from the planning to the making and research for our documentary..and just how much work goes into it!
Catch You Later!!
Lauren, Katie and Adele
For our A2 Media Studies we've been asked to create an impartial and creative documentary for the BBC about an issue that we feel affects the world today...
In this blog you will see a 'Step by Step' progression guide, from the planning to the making and research for our documentary..and just how much work goes into it!
Catch You Later!!
Lauren, Katie and Adele
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