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Contents
Task 1: Brainstorm on social issues
Task 2: Research on other action videos
Task 3: Research on own video
Task 4: contact details and angle for own
production
Task 1:
(This should have been done in the idea process you now need to write it down
for example you looked into an issue and did not like it, or you are realized it
was too difficult these ideas need to be noted now)
Idea 1:
ABC to Read-
An issue concerning in Berkshire schools of teaching children how to read and
improve literacy skills.
It affects the local community of Berkshire County.
Interviewing the volunteers and the children that they have helped.
Yes, it has been done before only on a national and global scale as of Sports Relief
and Comic Relief.
It would be very easy for us to cover the social issue as it concerns on a global
scale but we are focusing it on a local issue.
Idea 2:
Youth Crime-
An issue concerning in the Berkshire area of how to stop and decrease the
percentage of Youth Crime.
It affects the local community of Berkshire County.
Interviews with members of public, youths and the police.
Yes, it has been covered as The News has covered on the issue as well as the
Thames Valley Police.
It would be a challenge to get all of the information on different points of view on
the issue including the police, as they cannot always be allowed to give statistics
of youth crime.
Idea 3:
Homelessness-
An issue concerning in the Berkshire area of how to decrease the amount of
people being homeless.
It affects the local community of Berkshire County.
Interviews with members of the public and the homeless people living on the
streets.
Yes, Comic Relief, Sports Relief and The News have covered it on a global issue
and there have been charity video that deal with helping homeless people off the
streets promoting the social issue.
It would be easy as there are multiple centres that help homeless people get food
and skills they require to earn a living that will eventually get a shelter.
Task 2:
Compare two social action video similar to yours
(Look at LO2 Brief on website for guidance on what should be covered)
Task 3:
Your research should focus on:
Background on the Social issue itself:
The information on the social issues of children learning to read in schools is that:
o By the time they are 11, almost 1 in 8 children leave primary school without the
expected level of reading required for them to cope with the secondary curriculum
(Department for Education, 2013).
o About a third of six-year-olds are struggling with their reading after their first year
at school. About a quarter of seven-year-olds are still struggling with their reading
after their second year. (Department for Education, 2013).
o Half of 15-17 year olds entering public sector Young Offender Institutes were
assessed as having the literacy levels equivalent to that expected of a 7-11 year
old. (Government Green Paper, Transforming Youth Custody: Putting education at
the heart of detention February 2013)
o In 2012, disadvantaged children in West Berkshire had the worst attainment in
England at primary school level (Ofsted).
o Educational attainment in Reading especially is below average in Key Stage 1 and
2 (Children & Young Peoples Plan 2011-14).
o Around 25% of the children, we support come from poor backgrounds and
research shows that there is a direct link between poverty and illiteracy. Research
in Berkshire confirms that low levels of literacy correlate with high levels of
unemployment, over-crowded households and poverty (Berkshire Community
Foundation: Overcoming Social Deprivation).
o 27% of Reading children live in the 30% most deprived areas in England (Reading
Borough Council).
o Roughly, 85% of children diagnosed with learning difficulties have a primary
problem with reading and related language skills.
o Reading difficulties are neurodevelopmental in nature.
o Neurodevelopmental problems don't go away, but they do not mean that a
student (or an adult) cannot learn or progress in school and life.
o Most children with reading difficulties can be taught reading and strategies for
success in school.
o When children's reading problems are identified early, they are more likely to
learn strategies that will raise their reading to grade level.
Assisting Berkshire children to read (2013) Available at
http://www.abctoread.org.uk/about/why-we-are-doing-it/ (Accessed: 21 February
2017).
reserved, Wg.F. rights (2002) Difficulties with reading. Available at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/readingdiffs.html (Accessed: 21
February 2017).
If there is: Who is involved with the group? What effects has the group had on
the community? How has it helped certain individuals? Does it already have an
action video to help its cause? (Upload these if there are)
Not just celebrities themselves that can make a difference as there are some
charities that focus on raising money to fund children that are in unfortunate
situations or in a underdeveloped poverty stricken countries to get an education
by funding money from the public and businesses. In order to build schools that
may be free or cheap for families to send their children to earn the education that
they truly deserve. Sports Relief and Comic Relief are examples of fundraising
charity that have a two-hour long show in order to raise money for children in
poor areas as to build schools.
There are national holidays in the calendar for the UK which involves the issue of
getting children to read is World Book Day, which is held every year and it
consists of schools giving out vouchers for 1 which allows them to buy a book of
their choosing out of a set of books for 1. World Book Day encourages children in
schools around the UK to get into reading and chose a book that involves a
particular interest they have and it encourages children to improve their reading
skills, as they will be reading content that they are interested in.
Are there any famous people involved in trying to prevent the situation?
There are some celebrities that work with charities that help disadvantaged
children in learning how to read and write but mainly give them education in
schools. As Angelina Jolie has founded and opened few schools in Afghanistan for
girls as they are deprived of an education or even getting a chance of learning
how to read or write. In the future Jolie wants to open more schools in
impoverished areas. Although there arent any celebrities that specifically try to
prevent the social issue of children not learning how to read but they tend focus
on building new schools for those that poverty stricken and cant afford to go to
school that would enable the children to learn to read and write. The celebrities
tend to try to help to prevent this social issue on a global scale and in poverty
stricken, underdeveloped countries where limited children are allowed to be in
schools.
Klein, R. (2014) 15 Celebs whove opened schools and are helping shape the
future. Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/celebrities-open-
schools_n_4893141.html (Accessed: 21 February 2017).
Department for Education and The Rt Hon Nick Gibb (2016) Government drive to
help more children become confident readers. Available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-drive-to-help-more-children-
become-confident-readers (Accessed: 23 February 2017).
How does the issue affect the community / nation / world?
For our social action project on children learning to read and improving their
literacy skills this issue mainly affects the community on a local scale as ABC to
Read focuses on the Berkshire area but although the generic social issue of
getting children to read and improve literacy skills required for their age is on a
global scale.
Task 4
Contact details and angle
Informative, educational or change of attitude?
Discuss why and how you will achieve this.
Our video will be informative as it is merely raising awareness for the social issue.
We are discussing what the main charity involved in this social action video does
to challenge the problem of children not learning to read and have the correct
level of literacy skills for their age. We will be achieving this by using statistics
and interviewing several of people on their opinions about the issue. Not only are
we raising awareness on the issue we are promoting what ABC to Read does as a
charity.
List of found footage you can use and reference where it has come from
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2c5OJ5Yx0
UniversityLeicester (2010) Primary science - classroom Organisation.
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2c5OJ5Yx0 (Accessed:
23 February 2017).
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3sZtnK7Mrk
Gibbs (2016) B is for book BBC documentary 2016. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3sZtnK7Mrk (Accessed: 23 February
2017).
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jK-jC2__Fw
KaBOOM! (2010) The role of play in the overly-academic classroom.
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jK-jC2__Fw (Accessed: 23
February 2017).
According to the Channel 4 guidelines, when filming children under the age of 16
is that Programme-makers should not encourage or incite under 18s to say or do
things that they would not have done otherwise. Showing off and playing up for
the cameras should be discouraged. means that we should not be encouraging
the children to say certain things as everything that they say must be their own
opinion. When asking the children questions we have to ask simple and easy
questions that they understand what they are being asked to give an opinion on.
According to the guidelines the questions shouldnt be of the following matters of:
sexual matters; personal relationships or private family matters; antisocial or
illegal behaviour they have been involved in or are considering; alcohol or drug
use/abuse; addictions of any kind; their bodies; medical matters; illnesses they
suffer or have suffered from, physical or mental; generally being unhappy, being
depressed, self-harm or having suicidal thoughts; accidents or attacks they have
been involved in which have led to serious harm.
List of social action groups you could interview. Can you follow a
volunteer or member of the project?
For our group social action project, we are planning to interview the volunteers
from ABC to Read, the children that ABC to Read helps, Teachers from Lynch Hill
Primary School in Slough and a Librarian.
Benefits of early reading - why teach your child to read? (no date) Available at:
http://www.teachreadingearly.com/benefits-of-early-reading.php (Accessed: 21
February 2017).
PLC, P. (2016) Why is reading so important? Available at:
https://uk.pearson.com/primary-parents/learn-at-home/help-your-child-to-enjoy-
reading/why-is-reading-so-important.html (Accessed: 21 February 2017).
Assisting Berkshire children to read (2013) Available at:
http://www.abctoread.org.uk/about/why-we-are-doing-it/ (Accessed: 21 February
2017).
reserved, Wg.F. rights (2002) Difficulties with reading. Available at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/readingdiffs.html (Accessed: 21
February 2017).
What shots / cut a ways / footage will you need to film in order for the
social action video to have impact?
We would need to film many vox pops of the library and boards around the school
that promotes reading and books in general as well as a part of a session that ABC
to Read volunteers does with the children at the children just so the audience will
get a chance to see what goes on in the sessions. We also will be featuring
interviews with two of the volunteers and one of the field workers of ABC to Read
to get a feel of what they do and also we will be interviewing two of the children
that the ABC to Read volunteers does the half an hour sessions with to get their
opinion. We will also be using voice-overs and statistics to tie in the social action
video together.
Interviews
Contact details