Studio Production- Briefing Notes Research

As Assistant Producer I need to create the briefing notes for the presenter to read over to become more familiar with facts. All that I have researched is relevant to the script and hopefully will allow the presenter to understand where the story has come from and to have back ground information to expand their knowledge.

Domestic Violence-
Claire's Law-

•     The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme goes live nationwide on 08 March 2014, giving members of the public a ‘right to ask’ Police where they have a concern that their partner may pose a risk to them or where they are concerned that the partner of a member of their family or a friend may pose a risk to that individual.
• ·      If an application is made under the scheme, Police and partner agencies will carry out checks and if they show that the partner has a record of abusive offences, or there is other information to indicate that there may be a risk from the partner, the Police will consider sharing this information.
• ·      To make an application people need to go to a police station themselves where police staff will make details of the enquiry. They will then create a safe means of contacting you. They will need you name, DOB and address. (Met Police )
• ·      At least 1,335 disclosures have been made so far, police figures obtained by the Press Association show. (26th Jan 2015 BBC)
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Violence against Men

• ·      White Ribbon Campaign-http://www.whiteribboncampaign.co.uk/
• ·      DV Men-http://www.dvmen.co.uk/
• ·      Living Without Abuse-http://www.lwa.org.uk/

Statistics for Domestic Violence in the UK (http://www.lwa.org.uk/understanding-abuse/statistics.htm)- 

• Will affect 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men in their lifetime 
• Leads to, on average, two women being murdered each week and 30 men per year 
• Accounts for 16% of all violent crime (Source: Crime in England and Wales 04/05 report), however is still the violent crime least likely to be reported to the police.
• Has more repeat victims than any other crime 
• Is the single most quoted reason for becoming homeless (Shelter, 2002)
• In 2010 the forced marriage unit responded to 1735 reports of possible forced marriages
• 38% of domestic violence is against men 

Social Experiments-

Graffiti- 

The Street Art Tour- Free Tours By Foot

·      London

·      Name-Your-Own-Price, pay what ever you decide

·      London Graffiti and Street Art tour

    “Alternative, trendy, and recently gentrified, London's East End is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in town - and Free Tours By Foot is ready to help you discover the art, history, and outrageous stories that help make the East End the vibrant part of London that nobody wants to miss!”-Tour’s description (Free Tours By Foot)

Cost of Tagging-

•      'Graffiti' refers to any drawings, scribbles, messages or 'tags' that are painted, written or carved on walls and other surfaces.
•      Graffiti is vandalism and it's become a really expensive problem. Removing graffiti costs the UK over £1 billion a year. We and other agencies have to remove graffiti from walls, street furniture, telephone boxes, bus shelters, monuments and even gravestones. (http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200089/street_cleaning/422/graffiti)
•      Figures estimate that the cost of graffiti removal throughout the country is over £1bn a year, with the London Underground alone earmarking up to £10m per annum to replace glass tagged with unattractive markings.(http://www.rentokil-hygiene.co.uk/news/2014/graffiti-removal-costs.html)
•      Is part of the Criminal Damage 1971 Act
•     As well as Anti-Social Behavior 2003

Becoming Legal-

•      There are ‘free walls’ that mean graffiti will be legal on them (http://www.thesite.org/crime-and-safety/in-trouble/graffiti-9130.html)

Banksy-

• One of the most famous Graffiti Artist in the world
• 26th Feb- Political Messages spray painted in Gaza, 4 new pictures. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31649701
• Banksy walking tour in Bristol
• ‘On his way to becoming an international icon’ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-story-behind-banksy-4310304/?no-ist  
• Organisation called ‘Pest Control’ authenticates the Banksy work http://www.pestcontroloffice.com/whatispco.html They are the only people that are able to authenticate Banksy, they have forms that can be filled in for people that believe they know a Banksy picture.
• “The $20 Million Graffiti artist that wants his art to be worth nothing”  http://www.forbes.com/sites/daniellerahm/2013/10/22/banksy-the-20-million-graffiti-artist-who-doesnt-want-his-art-to-be-worth-anything/
• He’s known for going around the world creating his controversial pictures, in 2010 a film was created about him called Exit through the gift shop, which examines the relationship between commercial and street art.  

Believed to be from Bristol and born in 1974 http://www.biography.com/people/banksy-20883111

Photoshop-

The shocking truth-

• Medical associations believe there is a link between the alterations made by photoshop that are unrealistic. This unrealistic view appropriate body image- especially among impressionable children and adolescents.
• A large body of literature links exposure to media-propagated images of unrealistic body image to eating disorders and other child and adolescent health problems.  

‘Dying to be Barbie’- “The numbers are stunning: Four out of five 10-year-olds say that they're afraid of being fat. 42% of girls in first through third grade wish they were thinner. And, half of girls aged 9 or 10 claim that they feel better about themselves when they're dieting.” (Rehabs )

Justin Bieber Photo Shopped-

• An estimated 10-15% of people with anorexia or bulimia are male.
• Men are less likely to seek treatment for eating disorders because of the perception that they are “women's diseases.”
• Among gay men, nearly 14% appeared to suffer from bulimia and over 20% appeared to be anorexic. (ANAD)

Dove Self Esteem Project-

• “Our mission is to improve the self-esteem of more than 15 million girls and young women by 2015” Dove website
• 'Our own global research shows that only 4% of women worldwide consider themselves beautiful. and this anxiety begins at an early age'. Dove
• “The Dove Self-Esteem Project was founded in 2004 to ensure the next generation of women grows up to be happy and content, free from misconstrued beauty stereotypes and the burden of self-doubt. The Project delivers self-esteem education to children (primarily girls) aged 8-17 years old through lessons in schools, workshops for youth groups, and digitally across a number of channels.” Dove (http://selfesteem.dove.co.uk/)
• They offer a wide range of articles to help support the next generation of people.
• They talk about the issue with the media on their website, supporting the view that celebrities being edited cause people to look at an unrealistic ideal.

The Ideal Body Type-

• Approximately 95% of women are unhappy with their bodies and diet to achieve their ideal body type.
• Only 5% of women process the body type that is portrayed by the American media
• Studies show that the more reality TV someone is to watch the more likely they find apparence important.
• 95% of women have eating disorders between the age of 12-25
• Only 10% of people with eating disorders seek help https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-body-image
• An study conducted by the Badley University (USA) found that after reading a womens magazine that 70% of women felt depressed.

Voting

How many young people are interested in voting-

• Only 41% percent of first time voters are certain they will be voting in the coming election
• Young people are not voting as they believe that the government does not understand them, 58% feeling that the current Prime Minister, David Cameron does not understand them well, 34% not at all, 17% fairly well and 6% very well.
• The leader believed to connect with the younger voters most is, Ed Miliband, 41% fairly well, very well 8%, 39% he does not understand them very well or at all 19%.
• But different areas provide different statistics
• The issues being put forward to being voted forward are not what the first time voters are interested in.
• Asked to name the issues they were most concerned about, 69% included the cost of living, 62% affordable housing, 58% unemployment and the same proportion said the NHS.
• Despite low levels of engagement, overall first-time voters are almost twice as likely to support Labour as Conservative. In December the Green party was on 22 per cent among 18-24 year-olds – tied with the Conservatives for second place. (http://www.britishfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Voice-of-a-Generation-report.FINAL_.Embargo-6.5.14.pdf)

Date of May elections-

Thursday 7th May General Elections

South Thanet Information (UK Polling Report )-

A coastal seat, snaking around the eastern coast of the Isle of Thanet and then south into Dover to include the historic Cinque port of Sandwich and the rural villages inland from it, including Ash and Wingham. The main centres of population is the ferry port, fishing town and coastal resort of Ramsgate, the more genteel seaside town of Broadstairs and Cliftonville, a residential part of Margate. Thanet suffers from the economic problems often associated with declining seaside towns, and has some of the most deprived wards in the otherwise generally affluent Kent.

• Historically is a conservative area
  
  

2015 Candidates

• CRAIG MACKINLAY (Conservative)
• WILL SCOBIE (Labour)
• RUSS TIMPSON (Liberal Democrat)
• NIGEL FARAGE (UKIP)
• IAN DRIVER (Green)
• AL MURRAY (FKUP
• RUTH BAILEY (Manston Airport Independent)
• NIGEL ASKEW (Independent)

Al Murray’s Politics- (New Statesman )

He's offering a bunch of "common sense policies for common sense people", including:

• "1p a pint" and "1p a glass of wine (fruit-based drink for the ladies) too".
• The pound will be revalued as being worth £1.10.
• People turning up at A&E when it's not an accident or an emergency will "be sent to a random hospital department" to be treated instead.
• Deliberately making the UK "a whole lot worse" so that immigrants stop wanting to come to "the greatest nation on Earth".
• Bricking up the Channel Tunnel. ("With British bricks, of course - but probably have to get some Poles in to do it. Common sense.").
• School places allocated by "street raffle".
• Alex Salmond to be made first minister of Norwich, "so he can understand what being ignored by the rest of the country is really like".
• Pledging that the UK will leave Europe by 2025, and the Solar System by 2050.
• National service, "but only for those who don't want to do it"

These are the end result that were then sent to Jamie Terry the presenter, they include some website names so that if Jamie would like to he could look more into what the notes say.

Briefing Notes