Monday 9th September 2019
Documentaries
BBC Knife Crime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmfzJsyjFM
- This BBC documentary follows Dwayne Brooks covering knife crime issues majorly from incidents in London.
- He talks about his own personal experience involving his friend who he saw being stabbed back in the 90's.
- The Documentary uses footage of Brooks walking along city streets, corners and alleyways sometimes at night to give you an idea of where knife crime violence can happen and to give the audience a sense of reality as this can happen anywhere at anytime and to anyone even for the pettiest reasons as shown during the programme.
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Monday 16th September 2019
Local Change
- Current issues in the community where people are unhappy
- Change the negative problem into a positive outcome for everyone
- Surveys, Questionnaires, Interviews, Workshops
Save the National Media Museum
- Local campaign, in Bradford,
National Change
- A change in a country where issues are addressed to the members of public to get rid of the problem or improve the issue.
British Heart Foundation
- Working on getting everyone in the country to live a healthy lifestyle with a working heart.
Global Change
- Wider Scale
- Issues that many people are affected by
Greenpeace
- Global campaign to protect the earth and find responsible solutions for environmental harm.
Kony 2012 and Food for Thought Documentaries
The Kony Documentary, was between the two of them, the one that I enjoyed watching the most because it drew me in more as it was interesting to watch and something that I haven't heard about before and it was really shocking about what Kony has done to children and the sorts of things that he gets them to do as well. The food for thought documentary was just constantly negative because they were closing down the business because of all the other corporations that are surrounding their business in Covent Garden. Also the Kony one actually had a good and positive outcome as so many people are now aware of the problem but then the Food for Nothing one didn't and as the documentary itself didn't interest me I didn't enjoy watching it especially after a grim ending.
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Monday 23rd September 2019
Stop Killing Our Children
- The documentary was about road danger and being more careful when your driving
- Used a lot of peoples experiences to try and portray their bereavement over what's happened in their lives.
- They used lots of statistics to reinforce the shocking figures of road accidents and deaths.
- Techniques they used were collating lots of newspaper articles together on the screen to show how many deaths and accidents there have been.
- They used pictures of people from when they were alive as their relatives talk about them and their accidents to back up the sadness they feel.
- Also talks about injustices from some road accidents and how it has had effects on them from being denied not once but twice at times.
Shawshank Redemption Doc https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-the-shawshank-redemption-humanizes-prisoners/
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Social Action and Community Media Productions
Jesy Nelson: ‘Odd One Out’
This BBC Three Documentary is a global change production because it is about Jesy’s online experiences with social media which most people around the world have access to and it is all about the effects and bad sides of social media than can emotionally destroy people to the point where they actually end up taking their own life. The purpose of the production I believe was to show people who are struggling from online trolls or cyber bullying that there is something that can be done to help themselves like talking to counsellors or someone that they trust and just having that conversation. Also, I think the purpose was to give an eye opener to parents and adults, who may not be aware of the bad sides of social media, to check on their kids and to show what other people have been going through from online bullying.
Techniques that they used in the documentary were showing the constant, relentless abuse that she was thrown at when she was performing on The X Factor and after that as well. It is quite a distressing watch at times as she describes the moment she attempted to take her own life through overdosing on pills because of the negative comments back in 2013. They also go to groups where there are people who have thought about/attempted suicide before and discuss their own individual reasons which will hit the audience seeing and listening to about ten people, in a circle, discuss their personal but similar experiences. Nelson also goes to the home of a family whose daughter Sian did commit suicide after she was bullied to the point where she felt she had no other way out. The documentary has and will have impact on the audience because seeing how far people are pushed emotionally because of people’s stupidity online and how devastating it is for those victim’s families as well. They also film Jesy in areas where people do sometimes go to relax or clear their minds, such as by the sea in Brighton, when she’s reflecting directly to the camera or on a voiceover maybe to show how far she’s come since then which is why she’s now making the documentary.
Stacey Dooley: 'Kids Selling Drugs Online'
This documentary was all about the younger generation shifting drugs around in typical areas in London like Croydon and up in Edinburgh and even Maidstone which you wouldn't really expect to hear about drugs, especially with kids as young as 12/13. I’d say it is more of a national change documentary as it is happening up and down the country as one of the young people from Croydon said in the documentary “it’s addictive” down to the amount of money that they are making even in just a day which is roughly about £300. The specific purpose of this documentary was to show people, who aren’t really aware of the problem, kids getting involved in illegal acts as well as adults and how social media platforms are being used as a way for these people to communicate with each other so they can pick it up in discreet locations and how platforms like Snapchat are just letting it unfold without batting an eye because Stacey Dooley went to them after weeks of emailing them to get an interview with the people at the top of the hierarchy and no one would come out and security came out after she arrived as well to show they’re avoiding it.
Particularly in this documentary, whenever she goes to meet one of the young dealers there is a slightly daunting ambience building as it must be quite nerve-racking meeting someone off of the internet, let alone for drugs, so it just offers it that bit extra for the audience to get that sense of realism of what Stacey is doing and what kind of atmosphere and mood there is there at the time. She also uses realism by using non-diegetic sounds when she's speaking to them face to face and it’s just the background noises that are being picked up from the hidden camera that we hear helping to show the audience the reality of the situation that has been allowed to happen. The spoken word content consisted of South London accents and slang that people around there will hear and recognise and relate but maybe not be involved in that scene but it will make it realistic instead of dressed up and unrealistic. The voiceovers and in-between parts where she's talking directly to the audience is her giving her opinion and reflecting on what she's just experienced when she met the two 16-year-old dealers in Maidstone and Croydon. There are also lots of sound effects embedded into the documentary, particularly where she is talking/texting with the drug dealers to meet up with them so that they can discuss the young people's situation and how they got into it and why and there is that typing sound you can hear on your phone.
The documentary makes an impact when you are shown how young these people are who are involved in this situation and then also when she goes to Edinburgh and meets with a group of dealers who have a big stash of weed, cocaine and other type of drugs and then they tell her the value of all of it together which came to about £30,000 or just under.
‘The Met: Policing London’
This Police documentary is all about the Metropolitan Police and gives the audience an insight into what the police have to do on a day to day basis and in each episode, there is a specific incident that the programme follows. It is a local change because it is a documentary that follows the London Police Force and how they operate whenever an incident happens. Series 3, episode 2 follows the murder of 22-year-old Kobi Nelson who was stabbed 14 times by a gang in Haringey, North London and then the documentary shows news reports of more attacks in other boroughs in London. We find out that the murder of Kelvin Odunuyi, who was shot outside a cinema, may have been linked to Kobi’s death making the whole knife crime issue more frustrating.
The documentary uses a lot of aerial shots of major Central London landmarks to emphasise what area the documentary is set and looking into and is effective when using emergency phone calls to 999 when someone is reporting something as it zooms in closer to the areas of Tottenham and Haringey. There is a lot of use of sound and mysterious noise when the phone calls being made and there are subtitles between the victim or witness and the emergency dispatcher. When Forensics and Police Officers are arriving, usually the day after, and start looking at the crime scene and investigating the camera will be in the back seat but close to the Detectives in the front as if we are in their shoes discovering what happened and how with them. The documentary is effective when interviewing the families finding out what happened when they found out their children died and when there is a protest march from Haringey to Wood Green and you see big groups of locals making a deal out of what is happening on their streets as they are angry about the rise in Knife/Street Crime. A lot of the time, the camera will normally only have one person within the frame as we want to see people’s thoughts and expressions on knife crime especially when Cressida Dick, Commissioner, holds a Press Conference discussing what measures they’re going to take to prevent knife crime and the increased income provided by the government to help.
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