Cutaway List

As our documentary needs to be both engaging and informative various cutaways needed to be filmed. Importantly they need to show some correspondence with our topic of child internet safety, below is a list of the cutaways filmed.

Medium shot of Romford town centre.
High angle shot of Romford town centre.
High angle shot of a child on a social networking site.
Ardliegh green school sign - shot zooms out.
Medium shot of children leaving school.
Medium shot Metropolitan Police station.
Police lamppost/ signs.
Close up of fingers on a mouse pad.
Shot of a Facebook profile.
Panning shot of students in a computer suite.
Shot of computers in a shop (PC world)
Children on the street.
Over the shoulder shot of a child accessing the internet.

Radio Trailer Music

Below is the music i have selected for my radio trailer. I choose this music because it suites the genre mode and also is easy to narrate over.

Radio Trailer Music by emmanuelolobio

Radio trailer script 1st draught

Radio trailer script

Intro music – yet to be determined

Voice over:
How safe are our children on the internet?   
The Internet has become an ever growing communications medium for children. In the UK nearly 95% of children have access to the Internet through some means. 

Child safety is currently under scrutiny due to the growing increase in child grooming and cyber bullying over the Internet. Figures released by the online protection agency for children reported that Nearly 10% of children had been approached by peodaphiles and desirables online, compared to just 2% in 2003. 

Speech from Bert Jones Labour councillor of goodmayes .

Voice over:
HCCTV asks the question “are we just being paranoid or are our children increasingly vulnerable in this age of technology” and if so "how can it be monitored" 

Speech fromBert Jones Labour councillor of goodmayes .


Voice Over:
So tune in to HCCTV on March 5^th at 8pm to watch “Child Internet Safety” .

The broadcaster in which our documentary could be aired through is BBC News night. The BBC offers a wide range of factual programs including documentaries. I feel our documentary would be best suited to the BBC’s family of channels as one of their aims is to “Offer more distinctive factual programming to audiences, ensuring that even more intellectually ambitious mind can be stimulated also”. BBC News night documentary style is similar to our documentary as my textual analysis shows. The BBC as a broadcaster is well respected and has gained the trust of viewers therefore our audience can trust the information provided in our documentary.  BBC 2 Broadcast a news night documentary daily, also they enable viewers to access hundreds of documentaries online through its website BBC iPlayer. This therefore would attract my target audience who use the internet on sites like iPlayer, you tube etc. iPlayer would allow viewers to access documentaries that are aired on channels like BBC2, and 4 at any time and then can watch a whole series of documentaries thus increasing the accessibility and convenience of our documentary not only on TV but also on the web.  Below is a screenshot of BBC iPlayer it is on the section of the site that shows all factual programs including documentaries like news night

Filming Location

In order to create credible cutaways that were linked to our subject matter we needed to film children with their parents. We knew that the best way to film large groups of children would be at schools. So one of our filming locations today was Ardleigh Green primary school, we filmed outside and also the signs. Another filming location was an local internet cafe in Romford, this was another ideal filming location as it allowed us to gain cutaways of computers in use and also an interview from the owner. Finally the third filming location was Romford metropolitan police station, we used this location for establishing shots which will also be used for cutaways.

BBFC Classification

The British Board of Film Classification is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified  films in the UK for nearly a decade. The decisions on classification are based on the BBFC’s published and regularly updated Guidelines. The Guidelines are the product of extensive public consultation, research and the accumulated experience of the BBFC over many years. These categories are U, PG, 12A, 12, 15, 18, R18. They reflect current views on film, DVD and video game regulation.

As a group whilst constructing our documentary we need to establish the age certification of our media product. In compliance with the regulations of the british board of film classification we rated our documentary a PG. A PG or 'Parental Guidance' is general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for very young children Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. We feel that our documentary fits into this age classification as it does not contain reference to drugs, violence, bad behavior, sex, nudity, obscene language including but not limited to swearing. Although what sets it apart from a U, which is a universal and is suitable for all ages is that the theme could be scene as problematic and intense at times. 

Although most documentary's follow the pattern of suitable to all ages, there are some notable documentary's with a certificate of 12, 15 or 18. For example Michael Moore's documentary 'Bowling for Columbine' was rated a 15 by the BBFC due to the use of profanity, violence gore and reference to drug and smoking. This is a bleak contrast to our documentary and shows how they can range in certification like films.