Documentary - Second Group Meeting (22/03/2021)

 Second Group Meeting

This meeting was a catch up with Beth in our breakout rooms to see how we were getting along. We explained our ideas to Beth and she fed back to us her thoughts and helped to guide us. 

Heather and I had had a discussion about contacting organisations such as Sisters Uncut, who are a feminist organisation that fight for those who experience sexual, domestic, gender-based, and state violence (Sisters Uncut, 2021) and who have been particularly vocal with the passing of the recent Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. We decided upon contacting Sisters Uncut, Kelly Tolhurst (the local MP for Rochester and Strood) who voted in favour of the Crime Bill (Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill:Second Reading, 2021), Extinction Rebellion. We also decided to go on social media platforms and try to reach out to people. Beth also reminded us to reach out to those in our circle, particularly those who are passionate about democracy and those who have opposing views and/or are indifferent. 

As a group, we expressed our views on protesting to each other to understand where we each stood on the topic. It was found out that Heather and I were more interested and passionate about the topic than the other members of the group who appeared mostly indifferent. We started to think about the reasoning behind the reasoning behind protesting and began to think about answers to questions. Why do we need protesting? We need protesting as it gives people a voice, especially minority groups, and can evoke change. Without protests where would we be? Without protests, a lot of things (e.g. gay marriage in the UK) would be illegal, the populations' (especially minority groups) voices wouldn't be heard and there would not be debates around many topics and issues. Why are they important? Protest are important as they give a voice to the people and can create change. Why now? There has been a rise in protesting and media coverage surrounding protesting in recent years. 

We decided upon finding archival footage, shooting our own footage and finding footage from social media when it came to content for our documentary. Through doing this, it will allows us to have a range of footage that we can use in our documentary. Archival footage is good for emphasising the historical impact of protesting, our own footage allows us and the audience to form an emotional connection with others who have similar and differing views to us, and footage from social media allows the content to become more intimate as your viewing the events through someone else's eyes and experiencing it alongside them. In addition to this, many 16-24 year olds use social media and often view the world through their use of smart phones, which makes it more relevant to BBC 3's target audience of 16-24 year-olds (Campbell,  2021)

Bibliography:

Campbell, F. (2021) BBC 3 Commissioning. At: https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/bbc-three (Accessed 23/04/2021).

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Second Reading (2021) Elizabeth II. At: https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/981#ayes (Accessed 23/04/2021).