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.
Monday, 19 October 2009
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
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