After much consideration, we have finally decided on a subject to base the documentary on. Our initial idea was snowboarding or winter sports, but we somehow incorporated this idea into Youth Culture due to it's relevance to keeping the youth off the streets. It will be an extremely informative expository documentary on how the media portrays the stereotypical image of the younger generation, involving the views of the older generation. We have planned to launch the documentary on Channel 4 as this broadcasting company airs similiar programmes to ours; the most well known being the ongoing series of 'Dispatches'.
Another contributing factor which influenced us to choose youth culture is the London riots which took place in August 2011. This is because events of this size can quickly change an older person's views on the youth, making them feel uncomfortable in even the safest of public places. It involved extremely negative behaviour being used by thousands of teenagers, and due to the media's strong coverage of it has become one of England's biggest mishaps in the 21st Century so far.
The documentary itself would be broadcasted from 9pm onwards due to the watershed being bypassed at this time. This was put in place to safeguard young children from being presented with explicit images or language on the TV.
Our target audience is 18 and above. This is because many younger people have yet to experience the life of a teenager, whereas people over this age will have a better understanding of the subject as they have been through it themselves; proving that things do indeed change over time. 30 years ago, teenagers would be put into work or further education and have a considerably less amount of time on their hands than we do today. We aim to show the older generation how we, the teenagers, are not as bad as they believe.
Our primary research into this subject is mainly taken from the interviews we have conducted to make sure we have an accurate response on the subject. Due to targeting teachers and people alike, we can get a range of answers from people who spend their lives with the younger generation; and therefore having a better understanding of what is important in their lives and what is not.
We have gathered the secondary research from information archives online, such as old and new news articles, archive video footage from online newspapers, and footage from news broadcasts.
The structure of the documentary's narration will be based on the most important parts of the documentary. One example of this would be talking through the general stereotype of the younger generation whilst showing footage of teenagers showing a positive attitude to society. We aim to show a balance of the respectful and positive side of the younger generation, whilst contrasting material that shows the stereotypical and negative side of them.
The resources that we require to create the documentary to the highest standard we can include high spec video cameras, modern editing software, microphones and tripods which are being supplied to us by Priestley College.
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