Week 9

Jamie’s Dream School

27/11/11

Jamie Oliver has renovated a school in which he has invited 20 students from a lower class working back ground who have no GCSE’s and self discipline and paired them with 18 people who have passion and the  intelligence get them to where they are today, the documentary is really heart warming and emotional at times, I related to some of these characters in the documentary as I am from their back ground and have had a tough time in my personal life that has meant I haven’t done as well as I could have.

One issue I found all of these young people had been the lack of self discipline to make them want to learn, and in all fairness so do I, so an idea for a show is where a group of young outcast who have been neglected by the schooling system, put them up for six weeks and have them train as Olympic athletes, while they do their studies with a more creative subjects, like Music and Art in which ever form they like, but with the basics of English and Maths, and use the discipline that they will be getting out on the track and apply that to the lessons they have.

Week 8: Changing the World

21/11/11

Summary:

Lady Meacher chair of the All Party parliament group on Drug Policy Reform has spoken out saying “We need to look at the evidence; we have a lot of evidence from a lot of different countries about what works rather better than what we do in the UK” appropriated regulation of drugs can help cut crime, countries like Czech Republic and Portugal have a lower levels of use of drugs among younger people.

Treatment:

My idea for a program that will change the world is a Comedy Drama called Midnight Munch; it is a late night channel mockumentry staring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost who have their own restaurant which is failing; they stumble upon a new synthetic drug which makes everything “amazing” after they experiment with the new drug they start to use it in their recipes and become overnight stars when a food critic accidently consumes this new drug, the restaurant starts to attracts celebrities from across the world wanting to try their cuisine.  The camera follows the pair as they struggle hide the secret with their new found fame. After they make more of the synthetic substance a drug dealer wants in on this new high. 

Week 7: Magazine Show

Woman’s Hour

11/11/11

1 – Celebrity glamorising sex

                Down the interview Jennifer Hayashi Danns, Author of “the bare reality of lap dancing”  to see what reality of a lap dancer are like and do celebrities glamorise the sex industry?

2 – Children and drugs

                Talk to a mother of a child who has a problem with drugs and social workers and councillors about the issue.

3 – Remembrance day

                Talk to a 90 year old woman who was born on Armistice Day whose husband was in ww2 and also talks to a Husband whose wife is fighting in a war now. 

4 – Greenpeace

                Meet Michael Eavis on the Greenpeace Rainbow as it sets sail with Michael’s Daughter and Glastonbury co-organiser Emily and about all the work they are doing and about the ship and what it stands for.

5 – Wuthering Heights

                Critics discuss remake of an adaptation of the classic novel by Emily Bronte and talk to the Director Andrea Arnold.

I have used the woman’s hour on the 11/11/11 as a template for an idea of the running order I have decided to keep the Arts piece to last as I thinks it’s always to end a show on a light entertaining article and the heaver issues in the beginning, the Remembrance Day feature I have decided to keep in the middle of the show as it’s a topical piece that people will stay tuned for.

Week 6 :Telling the Truth

When Peace turns to Violence

07/11/11

Panorama investigates the Occupy movement currently sweeping the globe, in particular the peace protest in Oakland, California, and what made them turn to violence so easily.  The program will reflect on previous peaceful protest such as the G8 summit and more recent the student protest in January this year. What factors occur to turn these protests from peace to violence? 

I have started to investigate the “Occupy Movement” which started in Wall Street, New York, and many more have sprang up overnight all over the world, outside St’ Pauls Cathedral, I will interview people involved in the movement to get their opinion on the situation in Oakland, but also ask previous Activist that have been caught up in riots, students that was caught in the riots between Police and protesters in January 2011 and who is to blame, someone once was quoted “to understand who is looking for a riot, look who has dressed for a riot”. To hear both sides id interview an officer in the Police force and is tear gas and rubber bullets necessary when it’s a peaceful protest? As Police in Oakland have yet to comment on the beating of Kayvan Sabehgi, it would be important to relay the events.