Brighton Student Union Election Question Time 8 3 12.mp3

This is a Podcast I made Burst Brighton University Student Radio Station; this is a special Student Union Election episode for the University of Brighton Student Union, This is the a recording from Thursday the 8th of March 2012 SU election Question at the Moulescoob campus café Rumblin’ tum.

Brighton Student Union Election Question Time 8 3 12.mp3

ENJOY!

Week 13: Review

Review

17/1/12

Looking back at last week’s documentary idea “The Lost Friday” and listening to what Nicola Lee author of “Green lit” had to say in the Skype lecture I found myself looking back and asking where the people, just having a story on people who may miss a birthday or an anniversary wasn’t enough, the real story maybe about the political implements that made the island jump 24 hours in the future last year, to put

Over this semester I have created some good ideas for shows and programmes but all the shows need improvement, and all need a special angle or story focal point to get them to jump off the screen, and over the last 12 weeks the one thing I have learned more than anything is that any news story can be made in to a programme, but it is the characters that make the story come to life, a human story is better than a factual piece. 

Another point I have learned is how to write a proposal, how to try and keep concise and to the point with what I want to say.

Route 66

During the summer of 2011 I took a trip along one of the greatest roads in America, Route 66. Along the way I saw some brilliant sights and took in some of Americas rich history. The road is over 2,400 miles long and construction started in 1926 from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California.
For a program id love to hear the sounds of Main Street USA. The Music, The Stories, and just the sound. it is one of my most treasured memories and something id love to share with people, and hear other peoples tales on the famous road.

For example Episode 1 would be:

Starting the series in Chicago, Illinois, where it all began, where once a great fire burnt half the city to the ground, and where Gangsters run the streets. its also a city of Blues, Jazz and Pizza pie. Leaving the "Windy City" and hitting the open road, rows and rows of fields, through Joliet, Dewight. Pontiac, Lexington, Bloomington, Lincoln  and Springfield where the  President of Amercia Abe Lincoln was born, lived and worked, Then 300 miles down the road St Louis. along the way I met Shea a 90 year old man who has been collecting Route 66 memorabilia since the road was constructed from old phone boxes, to road signs.

Week 12: Documentary

Lost Friday

29/12/2011

The story of “the Lost Friday”, In which the whole country of Samoa will leap forward 24 hours in to the future, when the country puts its head to rest on Thursday 29^th of December 2011 they will wake up a full day a head on Saturday the 31^st of December 2011.

The entire nation has deciding to shift across the International Date Line so it is in line with key trading partners such as Australia and New Zealand, which are a full day ahead of Samoa.

 The decision to keep the country behind a day has been left for one hundred and nineteen years,  Samoa is currently 21 hours behind Sydney but come new years eve, it will be 3 hours ahead, and being one of the first to celebrate 2012 instead of the last.

My ideas for a documentary, in which we show what happened when an island leaps 24 hours in to the future, and speak to people who have a birthday or anniversary that simply vanished.  The documentary will take place over a 48 hour period the day before and the day after the shift in the IDL.

Week 11: Working with Children

My New family

12/12/11

It is nearly 6 years since Gay men and women can have children we follow the new family dynamic of parenthood, whether the child is biologically related to one of the parents, or if they have adopted the child from any age, does it make a difference how the child is raised, or is it all genetics? The program will check in with the two families at various over various parts of the year (Christmas, birthdays, school events)

The program will follow two children:

Name: Toby

Age: 5

Parent’s status: Civil partnership (Tim and Tom)

Brief: Toby is biologically related to one of the gay couple, but neither of the two men knows who the father really is. Toby goes to school and is a normal 5 year old boy, but what does he think of his?

The second family we will follow is

Name: Sarah

Age: 13

Parent’s status: Civil Partnership (Julie and Jane)

Brief: Sarah was adopted at age 8 by Julie and Jane, they chose adoption instead of artificial insemination because they didn’t want it only being part of on the mothers, and how does her family dynamic affect her school? 

Week 10: Ethics and Casting

ASBO to Olympics

04/12/11

Summary:

ASBO to Olympics is a show in which a group of young outcasts, who have been neglected by the schooling system and come from a rough background, are put up for one month and trained as athletes at Millfields. While they do their studies, they use the discipline that they will be getting out on the track and apply in the class room.

Casting:

The ‘Students’ will be between the ages of 15 to 18 each of the ‘students’ will be given a physical psychiatric evaluation and a councillor before the filming will start. The guardians/parents of the students will be informed of what the show is about and what the end result of the program will be; being that hopefully they will come out more well rounded and better behaved members of society, and have a chance to take part in specialist events at the Olympic stadium. Filming the events in the school will be challenging to both the crew and cast with some of these children showing very much unpredictable behaviour (giving the show a jeopardy factor), a conversation that the parents/guardians will have is that anything that is said on camera maybe used in the right context.

The ‘Teachers’ who have trained the ‘students’ will be the best athletes that Great Britain has to offer, while not putting the ‘teachers’ in danger they will be told that the students will be unpredictable and at times badly behaved, a team of security and councillors will be on hand to help the teachers. Unlike the ‘students’ they can leave the set at any point if they feel that they cannot do their task.

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.