Interviews...

On Monday 28th September, me and my classmate set out for Cleves junior school.
When we arrived we proceeded to interview a group of students and teachers. We interviewed two head of years, four students all in year six and a deputy head.
From the four students we discovered that they had matured from violence in cartoons thinking that they were "stupid and not very interesting" and had progressed onto more mature programmes. These responses surprised me because i was expecting positive attitudes towards cartoons, but these children seemed to have a thorough dislike for the cartoons that we asked them about.
When we started interviewing teachers they shared our views about children watching cartoons, one teacher told us behind the camera "the younger children are more influenced by the cartoons they watch, we often see during breaks little groups of boys play acting martial arts or throwing air punches often trying to imitate something they watched on the television, but personally I've found as they progress through the school years that they often move away from the more influential cartoons onto more mature programmes and i can say as a teacher I've definitely seen a change through their work, they become a lot more focused and their school work becomes a better quality, of course you do get the occasional student who doesn't settle down but that's very rare."
Overall we were very pleased with the responses to our questions, even if some of them were unexpected, they gave both positive and negative sides to the documentary providing us with a good balanced argument. Now we have uploaded our footage onto the apple macbook we can start the process of editing and adding factual information.

Arranging Interviews

Now that we have decided what type of people we will be interviewing, me and my classmate have decided to conduct the interviews at Cleves Junior School, which teaches students from Year 3 to Year 6.
We both decided that this would be an ideal location because it meant that we could gain different sides of the arguments from teachers and students, we also thought that the school would ideal because we had both attended the school at that age.
We first made contact with the school through e-mail to the headmistress, who then forwarded it onto the head year 6, Mr Russ.
We then exchanged several e-mails with Mr Russ explaining our documentary and what we planned to do, arranging a date to arrive at the school and a time.
We arranged to meet Mr Russ on Monday 28th September, where we would interview a group of students and teachers that Mr Russ had selected with our questions.
After arranging the time and date we then had to plan our questions, making sure that they were different for student and teachers.

http://www.cleves.co.uk/

Archive Searching

In this double lesson, me and my classmate started to search for clips from children cartoons that are renowned for violence. These cartoons include The Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park. We chose these cartoons because they are very popular with children and teenagers and throughout each episode portray a measure of violence.

When we were searching for the clips we wanted snippets that would create a balanced argument and back up the points we were making through the documentary, meanwhile we were looking at these clips we had to keep in mind what type of people we were interviewing and which side of the argument they would be on.

At the end of the double lesson we had chosen a selection of clips from the three cartoons that we hope will balance the argument, unfortunately due to the website we could not put up the clips we had selected for our documentary instead i have put on a pictures from each clip we think will end up on the final version of the documentary above but this may change.