script proposal

               Live on the edge – documentary series following British teens.

                               Documentary – Shannon Griffiths

Duration:

1 x 30 minuets

Format:

Documentary series

Premise:

A documentary – following the lives of two different teenagers for a week, living different lives both from the same council estate tower block in Southampton.

Contents:

Fly-on-the-wall contents following the two teenagers through everyday life, one teenager a good student who studies hard and one a drug taking yob. We’ll be talking to their friends, family, neighbours and police. A variety of visual sequences – of fly-on-the-wall to interviews. The audience will see the two teenagers talk to previous offenders and successors.

Also with:

-       Reconstructions

-       Interviews with victims of knife crime

Structure:

-PART 1- The first few scenes will introduce the audience to the two teenagers and what there about and who they are.

After that the audience will see what the teenagers get up to in their everyday lives.

The teenagers will meet one another and attempt to interview one another so they can get a more in depth insight into one another’s life.

- PART 2- The teenagers will meet and talk to previous convicts, that have learnt to change their life of crime.

The audience will see reconstructions of knife related crime.

The teenagers will talk to victims of crime in their neighbourhood.

They will also be asked to talk to other people such as their family and friends to see what they think of their life in and around knife crime.

CONCLUSION – we interview the teenagers about what they have learnt and how it will impact on their lives.