research 2

There are 37% of 16-18 year old students in CWC College and 63%  19+. My idea is already an existing competition on BBC however, I want to base it only on college students. On ''The Great British Bake Off''' programme most contestants and judges, presenters were 19+, therefore I believe the 19+ year old students would be more likely to be involved in this activity than the younger people in the college.

'' How the Great British Bake Off changed Britain

In just three years, a homely BBC television talent show has transformed a nation’s view of baking. How has the alchemy of flour, butter, eggs and sugar turned to gold?''

 Three years and 23 days ago, something happened that changed Britain forever. At 8pm on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday, two and a half million of us tuned into the first ever episode of The Great British Bake Off, a new “talent” show on BBC Two. Amateur contestants, armed with butter, eggs and flour, stood with their wooden spoons above their mixing bowls and waited for that now famous Klaxon call: “Ready, set, bake!”

Since that evening, life hasn’t been the same. Although Britain has always been a nation of bakers, we have become a nation obsessed. We bake morning, noon and night. We bake for dinner parties, clubs and office competitions. We spend a fortune on edible glitter and piping bags, our evenings poring over the Lakeland catalogue and the rest of our time daydreaming about cupcakes. We read baking books in bed. We watch baking on television, with shows such as Lorraine Pascale’s Baking Made Easy and Eric Lanlard’s Baking Mad stoking the national fixation started by Bake Off judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood (a Telegraph columnist whose recipes you’ll find in his booklet, Delicious Pies & Puds, free in today’s and tomorrow’s papers).

Today, the British baking industry is worth £3.4 billion. We even have a week dedicated to the pastime: Monday marks the start of National Baking Week, a charity initiative designed to get even more Britons making their own buns. So, as we count down to the series four finale on October 22, it’s time to take stock of the ways in which Bake Off  has transformed our lives. ''

constraints

• finding a location to bake.
• finding 2 participants.
• not being able to take equipment home.
• availability of crew and participants.
• pay for ingredients and cooking equipment for the actual recording day.

how to deal with constraints

• create a scheduling calender, so we can both fit in the availability of both participants and crew.
• having to already have some ingredients ready for the bake off, we check what ingredients are missing and make a list of all the ingredients to buy.
• Having my own camera and tripod at home, I am able to record at any location.

research 1

With many young people in the UK, most have admitted to consuming alcohol at an early age. Secondary research have found that the people who have their first drink at the age of 14 or younger are six times more likely to develop alcohol problems than those who don’t try alcohol until the legal drinking age.

Here are some of the factors affecting the risk of developing a drinking problem:

• Race and ethnicity. Some racial groups, such as American Indians and Native Alaskans for example, are more at risk than others of developing alcohol addiction.
  
  
• Genetics. A teen with an alcoholic sibling or parent is four times more likely to develop a problem with alcohol than someone without such a family history.
  
  
• The presence of mental health disorders. Alcohol problems often go hand in hand with mental health problems such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia.
  
  
• Personality traits. Teenagers who believe alcohol makes it easier to socialize, for example, tend to drink more than those who don’t believe that alcohol loosens their social inhibitions.
  
  
• Influence of family and peers. Teens are at greater risk for developing alcohol-related problems when alcohol is readily available at home or among their peer group, and if drunkenness is acceptable.
  
  

·         Gender. Men are more likely to drink heavily than women, but women become addicted at lower levels and shorter duration of use.

Through my primary research I’ve found that  59% of males at CWC College is more likely to drink at a younger age than females, Therefore I think my idea should be aimed mainly for males.

• Underage and binge drinking is risky and can lead to car accidents, violent behaviour, alcohol poisoning, and other health problems.
• Drinking at a young age greatly increases the risk of developing alcohol problems later in life.
• Talking to kids early and openly about the risks of drinking can help reduce their chances of becoming problem drinkers.

constraints

• finding a child to star in the advert.
• availability of the child.
• limited equipment.
• not being able to take equipment outside.
•  parents refusing their child to star in the advert.
• location

how to deal with constraints

•  I would make a permission slip to parents/guardians to ask if their child can star in the advert.
• ask a teen instead if no parent allows their child to act in the advert.
• having my own camera and tripod at home, which will allow me to record anywhere.
• to make a shooting schedule (calender) that would fit in with the actor and the producer/director.
• to plan the best location of where to shoot. (research)

America's medicated kids essay

Louis Theroux documentary ''America's medicated kids'' is a controversial issue that follows one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Louis investigates the effects of putting children in medication who have obsessive compulsive disorders and the impact that medicating a child has in a family.

The footage's that are displayed in the documentary allows the audience to identify what its going to be about. The camera shots and framing has an effective hand-held technique that follows Theroux through interviews, tours and even a shot of the psychiatric centre shows that the genre of the documentary is going to be about health, wellness and medication. This shows that the documentary is more likely to be an observational documentary because the camera, microphone and film crew seem not to be disturbing the scene or even to be noticed by the participants.
Throughout the entire documentary, the camera constantly shows an establishing shot and close up shots to show where the interview is going to take place and a close up to show the seriousness of the conversation (e.g when Louis was talking to Hugh's mother). Everyone that was featured in the documentary wore ordinary clothes including Louis, himself to make him seem more approachable and relaxed towards children.
 
Within the documentary, most of the sound that the audience hears are diegetic sound where everything they hear is coming from the footages they see in the camera frame. Long clips usually show the important part of the documentary with no music in the background making the audience listen to what their saying and what is happening, however, there are some voice overs and background music playing when an interview is not taken place. During interviews, the use of the editing technique are often used to show Louis Theroux reactions to what the interviewee is saying making the audience to form their own opinion of the situation themselves.

To compare Louis Theroux documentary to a scientific documentary, Louis work is more related to society and social groups within a community whereas a scientific documentary has a much broader topic to debate about, for example, human, body and mind, space and the outer world etc. A scientific documentary is more like a correspondence documentary where they would use a lot of CGI graphics to demonstrate a fact, historical events and have a lot of interviews with professors, they use narration and voice overs as well as captions to create a factual documentary.
Louis delivers his work through interviews, hand-held camera techniques and being ''one'' of the group to have an insight of what goes on in a social group, he uses no captions and forces the audience to focus on what is happening in the footage therefore making them feel more involved. It seemed like Louis's intentions was to explore and to show the audience something important or otherwise overlooked; devoted to a cause or to people, trying to make a difference.
Compared to scientific documentaries, directors and producers main intentions to make people believe in something whether it be a person, an event, places of significance or a natural phenomenon, they all want you to believe in the facts and as audiences we are expected to be told the truth, no lies or distortion.

Context of viewing or distribution
Its easier to recognize a documentary's genre though its content of viewing (channels). Louis Theroux's documentaries are usually aired on the BBC TWO where most of the other documentaries like ''The Natural World'' and ''Life on Earth'' are always aired on the same channel.
A scientific/philosophical documentary are more likely to be aired on the discovery channel where they are more serious about events and conspiracies revealing about the complex world that we live in.