Looking for Material

We wanted to have a variety of clips from well known TV shows such as: Family Guy, The Simpsons & South Park because these programmes show the violent behaviour influencing young children today. These would be the cons to our balanced arguement and would also help to support our arguements as evidence.

However to make our arguement balanced and not biased, we wanted to add the pros to the arguement showing viewers the morals and lessons that can be taught through television programmes that can relate to children.

Most of the topics and discussions in programmes such as The Simpsons talk about the views of religion and ethics. Characters are given circumstances, that could be percieved in real life, and an entire episode will be dedicated to the characters choices to show the audience the difference between right and wrong.

Episodes that explore different topics are: 'Homer vs. Lisa & the 8th Commandment'
'The Day the Violence Died'
'She of Little Faith'
'Itchy & Scratchy & Marge'

These episodes can supply the younger viewer with life knowledge and teaches them how to act in a situation. It also explores different religions to show that there are different subjects other than Christianity that can be discussed.

Further Research & Evidence

We have been looking at different documentaries to see how they are shot and how the shots are significant to the subject of the documentary.
The journalists that i have looked at are:

Louis Theroux - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZFR4DbC5o
Nick Broomfield - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YIWZjjEDz0
Micheal Moore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxbRm2dS1F8

All these journalist bring to light the importance of their subject through their documentaries.

Nick Broomfield
Broomfield's early style was very 'Cinema Verite': the juxtaposition of observed scenes. He would not provide much explaination by way of voice over or text, rather letting the film talk for itself.
Broomfield's films often consist of a minimal crew, maybe one or two cameras, so the films often are of handheld quality which are good techniques for the film's reality.
With Broomfield's "Aileen", Broomfield shows the audience that although Aileen knows of her crimes she still has the timid behaviour, of whispering or crying, to sometimes suggest her innocence. This comes across to the audience as harsh yet honest reality of the situation and reminds the audience that the people featured are not actors but real people.

Louis Theroux
Theroux's films often subject around topics that are heard in society but are not discussed. The most popular are his 'Weird Weekends' and 'When Louis Met..' which observe him staying and learning about the lifes of significant people.
For example of one of these films, "When Louis Met.. The Most Hated Family in America" shows Theroux's thoughts and behaviour towards the family almost at once and would suggest that will only show his biased opinion against the family however he does bring their thoughts and beliefs to the audience so that they can decide for themselves. These techniques help the audience to gain a more balanced opinion about the people that he meets.

Micheal Moore
Moore's topics of critisising include globalization, large corporate companies, George Bush & the American Health Care system. Because of his contraversial topics and film content, he has sparked the film making industry to show that no subject is unmentionable.
Micheal Moore's "Bowling For Columbine" shows some comic sides to the situation in America and gun posession however he dabbles into the serious side of the subject to bring the harsh relity of America's freedom with guns to show the audience why the situation is a problem.

First Draft of Documentary

This is our experimental draft of our documentary that will give us the basis for development towards our final product. We have experimented with voice overs, adding text over shots and adding shots inbetween interviews.

We want to keep the film on a balanced view so that the film does not come across as bias or one sided. As seen, we have included only the disadvantages to TV but by conducting new research we have the needed research to complete the advantages to TV. We want to include experts, parents and children to gain their views, whilst having a balanced arguement.

We feel that this draft can help to mould our ideas into developing from this film, such as adding music, more text and including a variety of interviewees.