Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Pre-production for 9 minute factual programme
Ideas for what to include in our documentary “Does the media represent students, do they over exaggerate?)
1: Include plenty of interviews to find out people’s opinions on the matter or argument, or find out important information that can count towards the conclusion of our documentary. Make sure we interview different types of people like age difference or male or female or different races. Keep a fair balance with people we interview for both sides of the argument.
2: Get loads of footage that can relate to our documentary. For example when we are introducing the argument we could do voice over commentary while the video is showing footage of students coming out of College.
3: Have one or two presenters depending on how many roles we have with in our crew and how much work there is for the presenting role of the documentary.
4: keep the documentary professional by dressing sensibly, not laughing or pulling faces or looking bored during interviews and recordings. Very important for whomever plays the role of the presenter or presenters.
5: Because our documentary is based a lot about the media it would be a good idea to use newspaper articles, or video clips from the T.V or internet to relate to during our documentary.
6: ORGANISATION, I have learnt my mistake about this rule from my last year in college. Keep organised and up-to-date individually and as a group and nothing can go wrong.
Extensive research into our Chosen idea for our documentary on “How the media represents students”
Research
Key Points
· Existing research has found most media stories about young people are negative
· Stories involving young people are most commonly about crime; gangs; education; and social exclusion
· Young offenders are likely to receive negative coverage
· The media often reports stories in a sensational way
· The media does not always represent reality
· Most young people feel the media represents them as antisocial and a group to be feared
There has been some research looking at how young people feel about the media, and about how they are represented. In 2006 the British Youth Council did a survey to find out young people’s views on how they are portrayed by the media and by politicians. The survey had over seven hundred responses from 12-25 year olds.
Amongst the key findings were that 98% felt that the media always, often or sometimes represents them as antisocial. More than four out of five thought that the media represents them as a group to be feared. The respondents felt this may cause older people to be afraid of them, and may alienate young people causing more antisocial behaviour. The survey respondents wanted their achievements to be recognised, and to be given positive attention. They also thought that the media represented the majority of them on the behaviour of the minority.
Ways we can prove the evidence above could be for us to do a simple questionnaire asking people how they feel the media represents them and other similar questions.
I have found from research on the internet that most journalists when covering areas about students are under pressure to find and write up negative news articles about students because they say that only negative news sells these days.
Here is an online article by “The independent”.
With the headline of 'Hoodies, louts, scum': how media demonises teenagers
Research finds negative stories in the press make teenage boys frightened of each other.
This article basically backs up what ive been saying in the paragraphs above but adds some new interesting information which is that the majority of teenage boys are scared of other teenage boys who dress in hoodies or tracksuit bottoms because of how the media stereotypes these teenagers into bad people.
The article also revealed some shocking facts which were that 85% of 1000 teenagers who took part in an interview said that the media portrays them in the wrong way. Most of this 85% of teenagers also said that reality T.V shows such as X-factor and Britain’s got talent portrayed teenagers in the right way.
The main story of this article however would be the fact that it tells us that a large majority of teenagers they questioned all said that the media is turning teenagers against each other causing them to be scared and wary of each other which in many cases just causes more problems socially.
Riots
‘A teenager who set fire to a south London pub during the August riots that swept across England has been sentenced to four years in prison.
The blaze started by the 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the Great Harry pub in Woolwich in ruins and caused £3.5m worth of damage.
Police said it was "pure luck" that nobody died.
The teenager had pleaded guilty to arson, being reckless as to whether life is endangered, during a hearing at Inner London Crown Court in September.’
The blaze started by the 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the Great Harry pub in Woolwich in ruins and caused £3.5m worth of damage.
Police said it was "pure luck" that nobody died.
The teenager had pleaded guilty to arson, being reckless as to whether life is endangered, during a hearing at Inner London Crown Court in September.’
· Teenagers are often used in newspapers as they sell to a wider audience and it’s usually bad!
· Journalists use ‘reckless’ teenagers in the news as it sells more news, for example if the headline of a newspaper was something like ‘teenager helps man across the road’ it wouldn’t sell as many as ‘teenager beats old man’ but this shines badly on young people.
Unemployment
· 1 million young people unemployed.
· A lot of media blame young people for this as we’re the ones unemployed – although a few newspapers/news channels are on young people’s side in saying it’s the economy.
‘Youth unemployment reached 991,000 last month, the highest figure since comparable records began in 1992, and experts believe it is inevitable that the politically-sensitive one million mark will be breached today.
Britain's young people face having their lives "blighted" by unemployment, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has warned.
Mr Clegg said the figures "cannot be ignored" and the country cannot emerge from the economic crisis without tackling the "fundamental problem".’
Britain's young people face having their lives "blighted" by unemployment, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has warned.
Mr Clegg said the figures "cannot be ignored" and the country cannot emerge from the economic crisis without tackling the "fundamental problem".’
Former foreign secretary David Miliband admitted that youth unemployment started to become an issue under the previous Labour government from about 2005, but said the problem had snowballed in the past year.
He told The Times: "You do need extraordinary measures if you are going to eat into long-term unemployment.
He told The Times: "You do need extraordinary measures if you are going to eat into long-term unemployment.
Gang violence
The words "girl gang" conjure up images from 1950s pulp novels and drive-in movies, where teenage hellions and "lust-cats of the gutter" clawed at each other (sexily) and every now and then someone almost got stabbed. But in today's New York Post , Brad Hamilton writes, "Sister gangs are popping up all over Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx with names such as the Harlem Hiltons, Hood Barbies, Billion Dolla Beauties, Gun Clappin Divas and 2 Gurl Gunnas, police say." This is no sexploitation B-movie; the violence is real and deadly. And in some cases, the internet is where the fights start. The Post also ran a first-person piece from "Kim," a 16-year-old, about her life in a "crew" (headline: "Confessions Of A Switchblade Sister"). Kim says:
After my mom kicked me out, I joined up. If you want to get by, you do. To be a part of the crew, you have to get beat up or cut someone. Then you're protected. They're your family.
I got into some fights. Some girl was talking about me online. She called me a punk and a slut, so I decided to fight her. I was in this building and somebody called and said she was on the block. I thought she would come after me. I ran outside. I pulled out her tracks [hair extensions] and made her body hurt. Everyone said I beat her up. But I was scared - I thought she would come after me.
Like Mean Girls! But so much scarier. Gossip has been around forever, but now, online beef is turning into real-life violence. And there's another layer to the girl-on-girl violence: A former cop and youth mentor tells the paper that guys are to blame. "[Girls] are in this because of the boys… They'll hold a gun for a male gangbanger, but they generally won't shoot."
Inner-city violence isn't new, but it's interesting to think about the effect technology can have on rivalries. I've heard teenage girls in my neighborhood discuss another girl who was "talking shit on Twitter." Unlike talking shit in homeroom, what's posted on the web has the ability to go far and wide (the Amber Cole video, for instance). And as we all know, people will write things on the internet that they would never say in real life. With Facebook, FourSquare check-ins and Twitter, girls are finding new reasons and ways to hurt — and sometimes kill — each other.
Synopsis
This documentary shows the media through young people’s eyes, using interviews, photos and never seen before footage. We will take you through the riots, gang violence and personal opinions on the media from a range of different people and ages.
The main argument we will be informing to the public is if the media represents teenagers with more negatives than positives and if they are stereotyping a majority of teenagers incorrectly.
The documentary will be explaining both sides of the argument to the audience, on one side its mainly young adults and parents who are saying the media represents the majority of young adults incorrectly, and on the other side its media personnel, journalists, and media consumers who are disagreeing with the argument.
Apart from just interviews with the public to find out their opinions we shall also be including a lot of research we have found on the internet and from news articles here are some of the key points we will be going into detail with during the documentary.
· Existing research has found most media stories about young people are negative
· Stories involving young people are most commonly about crime; gangs; education; and social exclusion
· Young offenders are likely to receive negative coverage
· The media often reports stories in a sensational way
· The media does not always represent reality
· Most young people feel the media represents them as antisocial and a group to be feared
Documentary Proposal
1. | Topic · How the media represents teenagers, kids, students, young adults |
2. | Important questions that need an answer (three or more)
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3. | Three talking heads (who I will interview formally) · I will formally interview students from around the Henley college site · The Henley police force · The local Henley media office. · Members of the public (over 21’s) |
4. | Voice-over narration (what I will say about the topic through a narrator) · I shall summarise and review interview results after interviews have been done with each different category of person. · I shall explain in more detail the research we have found from online and use it to relate to with our interviews. · |
5. | On-location footage (what I will show while narrating) · When narrating I shall show footage of students who doing their business around the Henley college premises because students have a strong link to what our documentary is all about. |
6. | The Twist(something cool to impress audience) · A survey will be handed out students in our college where we will collect the data and put it into a graph that will show some amazing statistics on how Henley college students feel about the documentary. Could have a very strong impact with the audience. |
7. | How I plan to “get it done”. · Firstly go out and get the interviews with the people we have planned to interview using the questions we have prepared beforehand in the script. · One we have the interview results we can mould our documentary around them to make it all fit together easier. · We would then get the location narrating done once we have added all the extra information from the interview results to the script. · Then we could shoot our video feed for our voice over’s to be used with. · We would then finalise by editing all the footage into the right places and finished. |
Storyboard for our factual programme
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This is the introduction caption, where the presenter shall present to the audience what our documentary is about and what the argument is within it, We shall also inform the audience what will be coming up later on during the documentary.
We will then start our interviews starting with students or people at the age of 18 and under, we have planned to meet some people and interview them at/ outside starbucks depending on if were aloud in or not. The location is also a great place to find other students who we havent arranged to meet who may allow us to interview them.
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We will then do a voice over narration of research we have found to how media has reprsented students/ teenagers in the past. While doing this, the video feed shall show the articles from the papers, or video clips or website print screens that will add visual aid to what the narrator is saying.
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Now we are comparing the results of our interviews with students with the research we have found online to see if our interviews back up what the research online is telling us. We shall be using voice over while comparing the research with the interviews. The video feed shall show photos and video clips taken by journalists and other people working for the media which are then later on used by the media for story's. This video feed will help the audience to see for themselves just how much more negative than posotive news the media covers for students.
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We are back out interviewing again, but this time we will be only interviewing people over the age of 18 to find out if they have different opinions on how the media represent teenagers. We will be interviewing a large variety of differnt people, for example, sex, middle aged, old, race and so on. The interviewing will take place on the high street of Henley because that is where we are most likely to find members of the public aged over 18.
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We will then be interviewing a member of the police force inside the Henley police station (if they let us) or just outside. We will be interviewing the police to find out what theire opnion is on how the media reprsents students. This will be good because if what all the media says is true then the police are the people who have dealings with students the most.
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We will then go back to the studio where we will start a new subtopic on how the media represented students in the Uk riots of 2011. We will use voiceover to explain and talk the audienec through the information and research we have found online about articles relating to the 2011 riots. The video feed shall show pictures and videos taken by the media of the riots and we shall also include articles that relate to our documentary. The video feed shall all be visual aid to what the voice over is saying.
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The final interview for the docuentary we shall be with the Local henley media office. We shall be asking slightly different questions comapred to what we asked the students about the media. The reason being is we want to find out why they get more negative news storys on teenagers than posotive. There will be many more questions but they are in the script.We will be doing the interview inside (if allowed) or just outside the premesis.
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We will then conclude the documentary at the same location that we started the documentary with same presenter briefly going over all the key facts and research we as the audience have found out today and we shall end the documentary leaving it up to the audience to decide which side of the argument they are on.
This is the introduction caption, where the presenter shall present to the audience what our documentary is about and what the argument is within it, We shall also inform the audience what will be coming up later on during the documentary.
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We will then start our interviews starting with students or people at the age of 18 and under, we have planned to meet some people and interview them at/ outside starbucks depending on if were aloud in or not. The location is also a great place to find other students who we havent arranged to meet who may allow us to interview them.
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We will then do a voice over narration of research we have found to how media has reprsented students/ teenagers in the past. While doing this, the video feed shall show the articles from the papers, or video clips or website print screens that will add visual aid to what the narrator is saying.
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We will then conclude the documentary at the same location that we started the documentary with same presenter briefly going over all the key facts and research we as the audience have found out today and we shall end the documentary leaving it up to the audience to decide which side of the argument they are on.
Layout of our documentary
1: We will start with an introduction to our documentary that shall start by being presented by the presenter who shall fill in the audience on what the argument in the documentary is about. The presenter will make sure to introduce both sides of the argument to the audience. We shall give some brief detail to give some background information to the audience on both sides of the argument. We will make sure we explain to the audience what the purpose of our documentary is and what we shall be including on it. We shall be mainly including interviews with different varieties of people to find out their opinions on the subject of the documentary. After a certain variety of people have been interviewed we shall then have the presenter summarising what the interviewees said and be backing it up with information we found from news articles and web pages on the internet.
2: After this we will begin by starting our interviews with the young adults (teenagers, students, 15-20). Some of the information we shall find out from them will be as follows.
A) Do they feel the media portrays young adults with more negatives than positives?
B) Do you behave the way that media portrays teenagers?
C) How do the media affect you when it portrays teenagers in a negative way?
3: Here will be information and statistics taken from newspapers about young people – this will be linking back to the previous interview. For the shot there will be newspapers being thrown onto a table during the voice overs – hopefully the newspapers the information is out of.
4: We would then summarize the interview results with the teenagers and compare them with the information we have found from the internet and news channels, paper articles. We would do voice over commentary for this while the video feed showed images/ videos of students taken by journalists for the media.
5: We would then interview the general public which could be a huge variety of people ranging from male, female, middle aged, old, race, parents of children and ect.
6: Here again will be information and statistics taken from newspapers about young people – this will be linking back to the previous interview. For the shot there will be photos being thrown onto a table during the voice overs – hopefully the newspapers the information is out of.
7: We will be having an interview with the police/a community officer here but as she doesn’t want to be filmed we will have a photo of her and a voice over which will read what she has answered.
8: This will link to newspaper articles about how the police handled the riots.
9: We will the summarise/ conclude everything that we have gone through during the documentary. We will NOT conclude which side of the argument we agree with instead we shall leave it up to the audience with a rhetorical question for them to decide their selves.
Documentary script/ questions to ask during interviews
Description of location and how interview will take place | Questions for interviewer |
1. How do you think the media portrays young people? a. Do you think its right? 2. Does the media change your view on young people? 3. Although the media portrays the minority of young people right do you they could write the stories in a way that the other majority isn’t affected? 4. Do you think that newspapers would sell as many copies if young people were portrayed positively? 5. Do you think gangs are portrayed right in the media? 6. Do you think people would fear gangs as much as they do if it wasn’t for the media? 7. Do you think gangs are as bad as we think they are? | |
1. Do you have teenagers/young adults of your own or have you in the past? 2. How do you think the media portrays young people? a. Do you think its right? 3. Does the media change your view on young people? 4. Although the media portrays the minority of young people right do you they could write the stories in a way that the other majority isn’t affected? 5. Do you think that newspapers would sell as many copies if young people were portrayed positively? 6. Do you think gangs are portrayed right in the media? 7. Do you think people would fear gangs as much as they do if it wasn’t for the media? 8. Do you think gangs are as bad as we think they are? | |
Crew list for our documentary
Producer/ director: charlotte
Contact details: 07786461788
Equipment to bring: Storyboard and other documentary layout sheet.
Interviewer: Matt and Ben
Contact details: 07791539839/ 07769181409
Equipment to bring: Script, possibly mike.
Presenter: Matt
Contact details: 07791539839
Equipment to bring: Script, possibly a mike.
Voiceovers: Charlotte
Contact details: 07786461788
Equipment to bring: layout of documentary, and script, and possibly mike.
Health and safety: Charlotte
Contact details: 07786461788
Equipment to bring: health and safety sheet.
Camera man: Ben
Contact details: 07769181409
Equipment to bring: Camera, possibly mike.
Editing: Charlotte
Contact details: 07786461788
Equipment to bring: Devices with the stored information on. Location must be able to access computer to edit.
Health and safety
Budget sheet
| Production: | Representation of teenagers | Budget Draft Date: | Sheet # 1 | |||||||
| Length: | 9 minutes | Shooting Dates: | 3-7 January 2012 | Page # 1 | ||||||
| Location: | Henley on Thames | |||||||||
| Account # | Category | Specifics | Cost | w/Tax | Budget | Actual Cost | ||||
| 001 | Script & Rights | ~ | ||||||||
| 002 | Producer | ~ | ||||||||
| 003 | Director | ~ | ||||||||
| 004 | Cast | ~ | ||||||||
| ABOVE THE LINE TOTAL: | $0 | $0 | ||||||||
| 005 | Travel | £5 p/d | $15 | |||||||
| 006 | Hotel & Lodging | ~ | ||||||||
| 007 | Food | £10 p/d | $30 | |||||||
| 008 | Camera | Kit, Crew, Expendables | Borrowed | |||||||
| 009 | Lighting | Kit, Crew, Expendables | N/A | |||||||
| 010 | Sound | Kit, Crew, Accessories | N/A | |||||||
| 011 | Locations | Fees & Permits | N/A | |||||||
| 012 | Art Dept | Props, Wardrobe etc. | N/A | |||||||
| 013 | Office Expenses | Paper supplies, fax, internet etc. | N/A | |||||||
| 014 | Petty Cash | £50 | $50 | |||||||
| 015 | Film or Tape Stock | hd camera | ||||||||
| 016 | Lab | Developing, dailies, etc. | ~ | |||||||
| 017 | Insurance | College | ||||||||
| 018 | Editing | ~ | ||||||||
| 019 | Shipping | ~ | ||||||||
| 020 | Still Photos | Photographer, film, developing, etc. | ~ | |||||||
| 021 | Contingency | 10% of production costs | £9 | $0 | $10 | |||||
| PRODUCTION TOTAL: | $0 | $90 | ||||||||
| 022 | Final Post Online | Conform, Color Correction, etc. | ~ | |||||||
| 023 | Final Post Mix | Sound mixing session | ~ | |||||||
| 024 | Marketing | Festival fees, screeners, postage | ~ | |||||||
| POST PRODUCTION TOTAL: | $0 | $0 | ||||||||
| GRAND TOTAL ESTIMATE: | $0 | |||||||||
| GRAND TOTAL BUDGET: | $0 | |||||||||
| ACTUAL GRAND TOTAL: | $90 | |||||||||
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