Social Action documentary

Age range

Under 12                   13-16             17-21             22 and over

Gender

Male                Female

Do you have a smartphone?

Yes/no

If yes, what phone is it? (IPhone, Samsung, BlackBerrys etc.)

Do you have any idea that how long you’ve spent your time on it? (Per day)

1-2hrs                        3-4hrs                        5-6hrs                        7hrs and over

Can you try to not to using it on the next three days?

Yes

No (please state the reason)

Will you still use it if there’s NO remaining credit and NO Wi-Fi?

No

Yes (What will you use it for?

Summary of Final idea

What is your topic?

My documentary is going to be about mobile phone addiction, the reason I choose to focusing on this
topic because it impacts people in all ages' life in both mental and physical aspects. People have spent way too much time/money on mobiles to socialising with friends, playing mobile games or just wanted to get a good expensive smart phone and do whatever they want.

What do you aim to achieve with your documentary?

I am aiming to raise the awareness of the dangerousness of overusing mobiles and motivates their desires to control the time they spend on mobiles.

Initial Research

Mobile phone addiction

Why you interested in the topic?

• I am interested in this topic because it happens everyday in my life and I can see people use mobile phone almost everywhere. 

Why are some of the key issues relating to the topic?

• Cannot be concentrated on study or work
• Cause of laziness
• Mental problems : dependence syndrome
• Affect physical health 

Identify 5 groups people and/or organisation that could be interviewed for the documentary

• Teenagers,
• Children,
• Parents, 
• Teachers, 

Teenage Gangs

Why you interested in the topic?

• I am interested in this topic because there are so many cases you can found on the news, I have a strong willing to change it because I am very annoyed by them. 

Why are some of the key issues relating to the topic?

• Crime
• Robbery
• Public facilities damages
• Noises

Identify 5 groups people and/or organisation that could be interviewed for the documentary

• Neighbours
• School Teachers
• Business owners around the area
• School students
• Parents

NOTES

• looking for new ways to reach audience 
• action plans
• clear, immediate and effective options

Case study 2: KONY 2012 PART II

The purpose of Kony 2012 part 2 is to raise awareness of that Kony was still out there with his army. Also to bring about global changes and strengthen community ties. It provides us information that the result of their action. It's a very persuasive documentary.
This campaign was quite good, but it is not as effective as the first KONY film. There's a lot of factual information has been given in this film, which is quite convincing. I think it lack of detailed real life stories, and it doesn't sound persuasive. The content of film was a bit of repetitive, it's more likely a report then a documentary. It's quite suggestive, they are trying to get people get into actions but I am not sure it's going to work well because I personally don't feel very persuaded by it.
When I first watched this film. I was quite excited at the beginning then I kind of got bored of it. In the middle part of this film I felt sorry for those kids who were abducted.

18/09/2015- The purpose of Social Action and Community Media

The purpose

1. To bring about local, national and global change
2. To change attitudes
3. To raise awareness
4. To create access to media production to non traditional groups
5. To challenge dominant representations and agendas
6. To create and strengthen community ties
7. To provide information
8. To campaign (work in an organised and active towards a goal 
9. To change voting behaviour 
10. To infiltrate mainstream media
11. To build relationship with subject

1. Homelessness

Which of the list of purpose apply?

To raise awareness of homeless, to change attitudes to homeless and to provide information

To strenghten community ties

What is this media form trying to tell us/make us do?

it is persuading us to help homelessness

what emotional techniques do you think they have used and why?

using fact and statistics, images of the situation that homeless people are facing/images of homeless people  and real life stories of homelessness and music

2. Food for thought 
Which of the list of purpose apply?

To change attitude,  to bring about local change and to build relationship with subject 

What is this media form trying to tell us/make us do?

It is trying to tell us not to be greedy.

what emotional techniques do you think they have used and why?

The background music 

3. The Controller
Which of the list of purpose apply?

to raise awareness, to change attitude, to challenge dominant representations and agendas.

What is this media form trying to tell us/make us do?

It's trying to tell us that you are the controller of your own life 

what emotional techniques do you think they have used and why?

the music and set in real life situation , to appealing a thought

4. 
Which of the list of purpose apply?

What is this media form trying to tell us/make us do?

what emotional techniques do you think they have used and why?

Case study: KONY 2012

The purpose of Kony 2012 video is to raise the awareness of Joseph Kony's Crime and promote the Charity 'Invisible Children' and to encourage young people to be brave to take action to what they want to do and what they can do with those children suffering under Kony's LRA on the other side of world :Uganda.
I think this campaign is very effective as a social action documentary. The video is very persuasive, the evidence has given in the video and emotions shows through the whole video. The real life stories of Jacob do affect the video and the way the creator described how his own life linked to Kony, and made young people feel involved by showing their powerful voices. In addition, They've also made people do believe that they can change things and things already get changed, by showing the timelines, letters from Barrack Obama, it just give us the encouragement to try our best and to join them.
When I first watched this video, I was shocked and feel sorry for these children because I just know about this campaign and I got the idea of 'Invisible Children', there are lots of people like me who still not know about who is Kony and what he did. I was also pleased that at least there was someone who discovered this and trying to get the message across globally. I would like to help this charity because they evidence they've showed us is saying it's worth to join them.

social change

Local Change:

Group of thirty young boys and girls assult four people in Thornton Heath attack.

·     Four victims aged 18, 24, 31 and 45 sustained scratches and bruises during attack.

·     Police describes suspects as young boys and girls and it was a complete unprovoked attack.

National Change

Newcastle overnight Metro work compensation fight

·     Four month of overnight noise left sleepless resident demanding compensation.

·     The noise of the work on the metro rail lane made sleep impossible.

·     Over 40,000 passengers who use the line each day.

Blue cross foundation:

Global Change

Four day old girl with nowhere to go.

·     Baby Rahf and her parents are refuguees stuck on the border of hungary.

·     They have no shelter and that are tired and some sick.

They fled the conflict in Syria