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!

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!

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

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.

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'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!!

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.

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

Confessions of a Traffic Warden

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/confessions-of-a-traffic-warden/4od#3010299

Kidnapped by Kids

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/kidnapped-by-the-kids/4od#3014992

The boy who was born a girl

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-boy-who-was-born-a-girl/4od

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!