Research for Documentary

Primary Research:

We located very single interviewee in the documentary on college campus. This route was as college is a prime location for to find young people willing to provide their opinion on the subject; enough to pick and choose which footage to use or which will be the most We also found people in the older generation (teachers) who understand the current lifestyle of the youth as are paid to deal with them on a day-to-day basis. The locations for filming  include typical educational backgrounds to provide us with the mise en scene required; places such as college classrooms and corridors as many teens walk through day to day, and in a classroom. The teacher’s interview was in a classroom with a computer and whiteboard in the background for mise-en-scene. This was to portray his role as a teacher and so viewers can clearly get an image of what he did. The student interviews were filmed in a corridor with a poster next to one of the interviewees, which showed off her role in the college council as she explained her personal life. Another interview was carried out outside with brick wall in-sight, giving the impression of a vox-pop style interview from being caught off guard whilst having social time.
There was also footage from a skatepark of youths socialising filmed at a local park, showing their skills off to the camera as to what some teens do in their spare time. Alongside this external filming, there was a typical scene of a busy street with cars on the road driving passed, a series of shots taken to put a mini-film of a reconstruction together, and finally footage from a rave. The rave footage was to show the independence of youths today as they set this event up themselves and also provided a shelter, music, lighting and other equipment. This was to show the “let loose” side of teens and how they can express themselves without doing any harm to other people as the older generation typically think teens do these days.

Secondary Research:

This research equipped us to have plenty of relevant archive material to use within the documentary. There were a few pieces of music gathered which fitted into the documentary and radio advert extremely well, these being ‘Plan B – ill Manors’, ‘Porter Robinson – Language’, ‘Linkin Park – Numb’ and finally ‘Maverick Sabre ft. Professor Green – Jungle’. These songs were chosen for their relevance of lyrics to the visual material, tone to visual material, and lyrics/style to the overall meaning of the points being made.
The visual aspect in terms of secondary information, brought us footage from the London riots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8r8I7ApDQ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7H02HSip_c).
The others were not videos, more images to show a point being made by the voice-over, for support; these being a social networking image, and a screenshot of an online news article relating to an adult’s view on the younger generation in a negative way.
To be added to our original footage, we has statistics shown on screen from the following website (http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/26/drug-use-england-wales-2011-12).