Analysis and evaluation of social action video

Promotion:

To promote my social action video, I posted it on my Facebook and Snapchat, as well as on the YouTube page. My social medias are all private so only people I know personally can see it, however the YouTube page is open to the public. In the description of my video, was the link to my surveymonkey and I asked people to complete my survey after watching the video.

Protection:

To keep in line with Ofcom’s broadcasting code, I protected the under 18s by asking their parents permission to use them in my film, and I had all of my actors give their signatures to say they don’t mind me using their face and/or voice in my film. I also ensured that nothing in my film would put any under 18s in danger.

Surveymonkey:

Overall, I got 17 responses on my survey. Even though it’s not a lot of people, I was still able to collect some good feedback and data from it. I was also able to find a good range of opinions about my video and the topic in question. I think that 17 is enough people to be able to make an overall conclusion on how successful my video was at spreading awareness.

My first question was asking the viewers to rate my video out of 10, I included this so I could find out how well my video was received. The average rate for my video was 7.5 so I’d say that overall, my video was well received. Although I did receive a 1 star rating and a 4 star rating, but I understand that my video is about a touchy subject.

Out of the 16 people who answered this question, 50% said that they thought my video was an accurate representation of mental health, which is great if people feel like they can relate to it and understand what someone can be going through. However, a conflicting nearly 20% of people said that my video wasn’t accurate at all. I find this odd that there can be such a variation of people’s viewpoints, however this proves what I was trying to portray, people experience mental health in completely different ways, so the people who thought that it wasn’t accurate might just experience mental health differently to those who said yes. However, those 20% of people might not have any mental health struggles so they simply might not be able to relate.

The reason why I included this question is so I could understand what people liked and didn’t like about my video and what they thought was relatable. Most people left really positive comments and there was some constructive criticism scattered about. For example, someone commented saying that it’s not that normal to sleep with the light on, I filmed those scenes with the lights on so you were able to see the action in the shot. Overall, I thought that the responses to this question were very useful because people said that they thought I portrayed mental health well, and if they didn’t think I did, explained why.

Understandably, nearly 50% of respondents said that they’d hope that the stigma would decrease with the help of videos like this one. This is understandable because no one really knows what is going to change something so profound as views on mental health, yet it’s reassuring to know that people are hopeful and optimistic. However, nearly 20% didn’t think that videos would help decrease the stigma, with nearly another 20% saying ‘Absolutely not’ to the question. Those results surprised me because I know that it’s impossible to know what will definitely help, but I thought that people would be more optimistic towards their viewpoint in helping promote the idea of discussing mental health.

The majority of people are saying that society needs more than just a video to change people’s perspective and outlook on mental health, I’d agree with them there but I believe that making videos about the topic is a start. However, a few respondents said that they thought that a video about mental health would decrease the stigma as it is shedding light on the topic which is something the world needs.

I was really shocked to see that no one said that they would talk about their own feelings and experiences with mental health. Nearly 30% said they would talk to their friends about it more and 35% said they’d do both. Sadly, around 30% say that they won’t try to talk about it more and break the stigma.

On the whole, most of the comments left were really positive. I wanted to include a section for people to leave their own comments because I wanted people to be able to express any other thoughts or feelings in a way that the rest of the survey didn’t allow it. I received lots of praise and some constructive criticism as well, which I think is really beneficial.

One thing I did receive were quite a few comments from I can only guess internet trolls or just some horrible people I know and they weren’t giving constructive criticism, they were insulting me, my actors and the course I am enrolled in. I didn’t include these whilst evaluating the overall comments because I do not believe they are relevant to my evaluation.

Facebook:

I received a lot of support from people on Facebook about these negative comments but I still don’t see any worth in these comments.

However, underneath my video, I didn’t receive any comments but I did get 9 likes on my Facebook page.

 

Snapchat:

I posted the link to my Snapchat and I received over 80 people reading the post but whether they clicked on the link and watched the video, I don’t know.

YouTube:

I posted my video to the BTEC media channel on Friday 26th January 2018 and I received 170 views and 4 likes (as of February 3rd 2018), 8 days after it was published.

Based on the majority of my feedback, I think that I did a decent job at promoting the concept of mental health. I thought that my message was clear and that I was able to separate the days well. If I re-did my project or had the opportunity to make another video similar to this one, I would definitely include the influence of social media on teenager’s mental health because I believe that the constant competition of who has the most likes on social media and photoshopped images can sometimes bring out those hidden mental health problems, or create some issues.

Your products fitness for purpose: I hope that people seeing my video will encourage them to either talk more about their experiences with mental health, or to at least talk to a friend about their mental health. My aim was to promote the idea of discussing mental health as I believe that some people are either too scared to open up about their struggles or that people simply don’t know where they can find help; where my video also provides details.

Effectiveness of communication: I created a survey on surveymonkey to promote my video and to gather as much data as possible for my pre-production research and my post-production evaluation. As for my communication after making my film, I promoted it on my Facebook and Snapchat. With both surveys, I made it clear on my social media that I wanted people to answer my surveys. Also, based on my survey responses and feedback I’ve received, people seemed to understand what my video was about and what I was aiming to communicate.

Appropriateness with audience: As my target audience was teenagers, I tried to keep my video aimed to that audience. I did this by setting it in a college, having my cast as all teenagers and including scenarios that teenagers can relate to in terms of school and fitting in. In my surveys, I also used language and wording that is simple for teenagers to understand. Even though my video is about a serious topic, I didn’t want my video to be dull and depressing so I added small aspects of comedy, such as Matt falling down the stairs.

Compare with intentions and rival productions: My script was an original concept and I wanted to keep it as original as I could so I wouldn’t have any rival productions. Compared to my first plans and first script draft, my film ended up changing slightly in terms of actors and where the scenes were placed, but I still wanted to stick to the initial morals as much as possible.

Effectiveness of content: According to the majority of comments on my post-production survey, my film seemed to touch upon the right topics and I was able to portray mental health in a way that people thought was accurate and relatable.

Impact (measured and hypothetical): My survey results indicated that over 60% (as seen in the diagram below) of respondents will either talk more about their mental health struggles or talk to friends and family more, which is the outcome I wanted from my social action video. In an ideal world, I’d want mental health to not be a taboo subject but for now, this is a start hopefully.

Technical and aesthetic qualities: I used my iPod 5 to film all of this film and a boom microphone to record sound. I didn’t use any special effects whilst filming but in terms of editing, I used sound and visual effects for the flashback scenes and this is because I wanted their to be a distinct difference between the real life scenes and the flashbacks/thoughts in Matt’s head. I used a faded white visual effect, as well as a warped transition between real life and Matt’s mind, and an echoed sound effect to convey this. As for other sound effects throughout the film, I used an alarm clock and a clock ticking to help convey the idea of it being morning.

 

Cast:

Matthew Brierley –  main actor

Trinity Turrell – girl by bike rack

Theo Warrington – boy by bike rack

Kai Bass – boy in sociology class

Scott Dalley – boy in exam

Jenny Costan – girl in exam

Ruben Pol – talking boy in exam

Leah Jackson – talking girl in exam

Trinity Turrell, Beth Parker, Freya Parsons, Harry Bing, Sydney Goddard, Carrie Liddell, Fari Chiketa, Olivia Denyer, Theo Warrington – people smiling/laughing at the end of the video

 

Crew:

Emily Burrage – sound and costume supplier

Matthew Brierley – voiceover

Esme Allan – voiceover, camera operative, editor, director

‘Mindgames’ – social action video about mental health

Production Diary

Week 1:

I started to film some shots for my film on Friday 29th December 2017 including my main actor Matt. We filmed a couple of shots of him playing games and revising, but I want to start filming more on the weekend of the 6th and 7th January. My plan is to film the outdoor scenes at the weekend, if the weather is dry and sunny. I plan to film outside Matt’s house and on the street, and inside his house filming his whereabouts.

One thing that went wrong in the filming process is that my camera charger was faulty so my camera died, so I was only able to film a couple of shots. Next time I go to do filming, I will fix my charger or buy a new one, to ensure that my camera has enough power to film more footage. Also, I would give us more time in the day to film, as opposed to trying to fit it into one afternoon.

 

Week 2:

I managed to get all of my filming done with the time that I had with my actors. However, I realised that I made an error, when my camera was telling me to ‘charge’ the battery, as I have bad eye sight, I read it wrong and it was actually saying I needed to ‘change’ the battery, so I need to buy a new battery for my camera. As I had to film on the day I had chosen, (Sunday 7th January) and I had no working camera to film on, I used my iPod 5 to film. To keep the quality consistent throughout my entire film, I filmed everything on my iPod.

On January 8th, I filmed the scenes by the bike racks with Matt, Theo and Trinity, and Emily did sound. One thing I had to do was wait until people had walked up the path to college. Another thing I had to manage was the battery life of my camera because the cold air of outside can quickly reduce the battery life. This was filmed in around an hour which was great because we often had to wait for the path to be free of people.

On January 9th, I used members of my Rock Challenge dance group to film the exam scene. This was tricky to organise because I had to take time out of rehearsals to utilise the actors and working out a day that would be appropriate for our rehearsal schedule. Also, finding actors that were free and willing to be a part of it, during a dance rehearsal, was difficult.

 

Week 3:

I spent around 3 lessons editing my video, as well as an extra 2-3 hours on a Tuesday where I came into college on my day off to do some editing. I initially started editing on Adobe Premier Pro CS5 but as this is a new software, and I did the majority of my editing in free periods, I didn’t understand how to use it and there was no one to ask for help in the time frame I had. Therefore, I resorted to using iMovie because I have been using it for a few years and I know how it works. Also, there were some effects on it that I knew how to use, such as the flashback colours, sound effects and transitions.

I was able to finish my pre-production planning by January 26th. On January 26th, I uploaded my pre-production and made some finishing touches to my video before uploading it.

Pre-Production for ‘Mindgames’

Script:

Storyboard:

 

Budget:

 

Copyright material:

 

Secondary information:

 

Actors permissions forms:

 

Locations permissions forms:

 

Location survey:

 

Risk assessment:

 

Shooting schedule:

Prezi Presentation

This is the link to my Prezi: https://prezi.com/p/inwpz18qicmw/

Notes:

Slide 1 – Introduction

• Welcome to my presentation for my social action video about mental health.
• The aim of my social action video is to raise awareness about mental health in teenagers.
• The purpose of my market research was to identify my target audience and to work out what to focus my video on.

 

Slide 2 – Primary Qualitative Research

• Focus groups are when a group of people meet up to discuss a specific topic or campaign. There are usually 5-8 people in a group.
• I conducted 3 focus groups to gather a range of data and to work out what my target audience is.
• From doing my focus groups, I found out that people don’t know much about the statistics revolving around mental health, which I think proves that teenagers aren’t educated enough on the topic.
• I also think that people liked the activities such as organising celebrity photos, the wordsearch and the names of different mental health issues.

 

Slide 3 – Primary Quantitative Research

• After conducting my 3 focus group, I was able to create a questionnaire to gather some quantitative research.
• It is important to quantify the range of responses because it’s the most effective way to gather as much data as possible.

 

Slide 4 – Target Audience

• From my survey, I was able to determine that more girls answered my survey than boys, and that the age range that answered the most was 14-17 years old.
• Therefore, I will aim my video to that age group.

 

Slide 5 – Secondary Research

• From conducting secondary research, I found out facts that I included in my focus groups, such as that anxiety is more common than depression, and that 25% of children between the ages of 13-18 will suffer with some sort of anxiety disorder.
• My bibliography (found in my main blog post and Prezi) shows the websites I got my information for my focus groups and Ofcom for my industry codes of practice.

 

Slide 6 – Evaluation

• I think that for my project, this research task has been very useful because it allowed me to gather more facts together and to understand people’s perspectives more.
• My survey and focus groups have offered me a variety of opinions and they helped me to understand more about how people think of mental health.

Pre-Production Planning

Subject:

My social action project is based on mental health, more specifically how it affects teenagers and students. I’m mainly focusing on anxiety and depression, but I’ve included other mental health disorders such as OCD, PTSD and bipolar. My aim is to raise awareness to others that mental health doesn’t have a specific look or persona; anyone can suffer with a mental health disorder.

 

Existing media:

There are lots of adverts out there to promote the idea of normalising the discussion of mental health.

This advert promotes the idea of being able to openly talk about mental health. One man returns to work after being absent with a mental illness and the other man has loads of images about what will happen if he asks how he is. However, when he eventually asks how he’s feeling, the tone becomes more positive. The message is that mental health should be openly spoken about more.

 

This awareness video symbolises how many students are suffering in silence with a metal illness, but the don’t often feel comfortable opening up about it. Many students believe that their teachers won’t understand what they’re going through. However, what is so powerful about this video is that the lead boy takes a stand and expresses what he’s going through. The video concludes with a girl beginning to stand up as well, which could symbolise her being inspired and speaking up as well.

 

Focus Groups:

I held three focus groups with three different sets of people in order to collect data and research for my project. Two of the groups included teenagers aged between 15-18 and the other included a 19 year old and my parents. I used mainly teenagers because they are my target audience and as I am a teenager, it was easier to obtain members for a focus group.

I began every focus group with the same question of:

‘What does mental health mean to you?’

I wanted people to give different responses in their answers, but most people seemed to agree that mental health is taking care of your mind. One girl in my third focus group did say that she understood mental health as being freedom to think and believe what you want and that no one can judge you for believing something different to them.

My first focus group had an activity where I had photos of five celebrities and I wanted people to organise them into piles based on whether they suffer (or have suffered in the past) with a mental disorder. All five of them had suffered with a disorder, and the point of this exercise is showing that mental health doesn’t have a ‘look’ to it; you don’t have to be constantly sad to be depressed or be nervous all the time to have an anxiety disorder.

 

 

 

I then progressed to ask them a series of questions in a quiz like format. These questions were based on statistics of different mental health disorders. They were:

• What is the age where 50% of mental illnesses are established?

• What is the age where 75% of mental illnesses are established?

• What % of adolescents suffer from a mental health issue in a given year?

I then went on and gave them a wordsearch with words associated with my topic on, such as ‘support’ and ‘anxiety’. This was just a fun activity to end the focus group with and as it included words like ‘counselling’ and ‘support’, I hope it was a revelation that there is help out there for anyone struggling.

Below is the link to my first focus group:

My second focus group is the one that included a range of ages, from 19-50. After asking them the opening question, I asked them three quiz questions but they were different to the ones from the previous group, these ones were:

• What % of adults will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives?

• How many different types of anxiety disorder are there?

• True or False? – Depression is more common than anxiety.

Once they answered the questions, I gave them a list of different mental disorders and asked them to list them from most common to least common. The 5 disorders I chose were anxiety depression, PTSD, OCD and bipolar. The answers I got were based from a 2016 survey. Unsurprisingly, their answers were incorrect and as I thought, they ranked depression above anxiety. Unfortunately, my camera ran out of battery at the end of this focus group, but I can confirm that the correct order is: anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar then OCD as the least common.

Below is the link to my second focus group:

My third focus group includes ages ranging from 15-18, after asking the opening question, I gave them a quiz with different questions. The reason why I asked different questions is because I wanted to include a variety of responses in my research. These final questions are:

• What % of young people will experience depression before the age of 19?

• What % of mental health disorders have manifested by the age of 14?

• What % of the NHS budget is spent on children’s mental health?

After that I did the same activity as I did with my second focus group, and had them organise different mental health disorders and they listed the disorders as: depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar then PTSD.

 

Questionnaire: 

I created a surveymonkey asking people about mental health. I asked 10 questions and I posted the link for my survey on one of my social media platforms and received 17 responses.

1. What is your gender?

I had 9 girls, 4 boys, 1 gender neutral person and 3 people who identified as ‘other’ answer my survey. I can’t guarantee that more girls answered because it correlates with the number of people suffering from a mental illness, more girls just chose to answer the survey than boys or any other genders.

Interestingly, no females answered saying that they have ADHD, although over 10% of respondents said they have it, meaning they’re all male. The same is with bipolar, bulimia and anorexia. Also, shockingly 0% of females said they felt comfortable talking about their struggles in today’s society; with nearly 56% saying they didn’t feel comfortable at all.

When it comes to males, every single one said that they thought they suffer with a mental illness, bu aren’t sure. One thing that really did surprise me is that 100% of males said that they thought they suffer with anxiety and 75% said the same thing for depression. Males seem to feel more comfortable talking about their struggles than females, however 100% of males said that if the stigma was removed around mental health, they’d at least consider being more open.

2. How old are you?

The average age range of people answering my survey are 14-17 year olds, as nearly 59% of respondents were in that age range, whilst 12% are 10-13, nearly 24% are 18-21 and 6% are over 21.

3. Do you suffer from any mental illnesses?

Interestingly, no one answered this question with ‘No’, which I think proves that most people suffer with a mental illness and that there is no ”look’ for mental health, anyone can be suffering. However, just over 50% of people said that they did suffer with a mental illness, whilst just under 50% said that they think they do, but have never gotten diagnosed.

4. Which out of the following mental illnesses do you have?

Obviously I couldn’t list every single mental disorder, so I chose 9 as that’s still enough choice for people. A lot of people think that depression is more common than anxiety, however 82% of people who took my survey said they suffered with some sort of anxiety, whilst 65% said they had depression.

Even though OCD and PTSD are types of anxiety disorder, I categorised them as separate disorders because generally, when people say they have ‘anxiety’, they mean either GAD (generalised anxiety disorder) or social anxiety.

As you can see below, the disorder that came up the least number of times are ADHD, bipolar, anorexia and bulimia, with only nearly 12% of survey takers per disorder, whilst anxiety is the highest with 82%.

One thing that I would improve on if I was to redo this is that I would re-word this question. I don’t want my survey to come across like I want people to self diagnose themselves. Perhaps if I included the word ‘doctor’ so people would know to answer differently. I would rephrase the question to be ‘If your doctor has ever diagnosed you with a mental disorder, which out of the following do you been diagnosed with?’

5. Do you feel comfortable talking about your struggles in today’s society?

Sadly, only 3 out of 17 people answered ‘Yes’ to this question, whilst 6 said ‘No’ and 7 said ‘Not really’. I believe that the majority of people don’t feel comfortable because of the stigma that comes with mental health.

6. Have you ever seeked help for your mental illness?

11 people answered that they have seeked help for their mental illness, which can range from having counselling to just sharing your feelings with a friend or family member. 5 people said that they haven’t seeked help for their mental health. This could be due to people being afraid to, or it may simply be because they don’t feel the need to.

7. Do you think the influence of academia has impacted your mental health?

 

Unsurprisingly to me, 47% of people answered that the influence of academia has impacted their mental health. As the average age of people answering my survey are aged in their GCSE or A Level years, education is a lot more daunting and stressful, which can very easily impact someone’s mental health.

Some people weren’t sure about whether it had or not, whilst only 12% of people (2 respondents) said they they didn’t think academia had affected anything related to their mental health.

Surprisingly, nearly 50% of people answered that academia had definitely had an impact on their mental health. I want to focus my video on that because that is a very high statistic and I want people to feel comfortable and not affected.

8. Do you know anyone who suffers with a mental illness?

Over 75% of people who took my survey answered that they know someone with a mental illness, whilst the 25% was evenly split between people not knowing anyone with a mental illness and not knowing if they did. This is more evidence that so many people, teenagers included, suffer with a mental illness.

9. Have you ever directed a friend or been directed to any useful people or websites to help with your mental health?

Nearly 60% of people said that they’d never been directed or directed anyone to any people or websites. These services can include counselling sites, a real life counsellor or a phone line, whilst 30% of people who answered my survey have directed someone and another 30% have been directed.

10. If the stigma around mental health was removed, do you feel more comfortable talking about your experiences?

Over 40% of people said that if the stigma was removed, that they might feel more comfortable opening up. Sadly only 29% of people said that they would definitely feel comfortable if the stigma was removed. And nearly 30% don’t think it would make a difference.

I created a pie chart to represent how many people who took my survey suffer from the given disorders. This is a visual representation of how people responded:

 

This pie chart shows that 9/17 people who took my survey are female and that shows that more females are inclined to take my survey opposed to males. I didn’t send my survey to anyone in particular, I posted it to my contacts and still more girls answered than boys.

 

Target Audience:

My social action video is going to be aimed at teenagers and students because I’d find relating to that age group a lot easier than any other and I can write a script based from teenage experiences. Also, it’ll be easier to find actors in that age range as I can use people from my media and drama class. In my survey, the most commonly answered age range is 14-17, with over half of the respondents are in that category, so statistically, that is the best age range to target my film towards.

 

Legal/ethical issues:

A legal issue I have to take into account is how I would protect the under 18s in the making of this film. The topic is very personal and I want to make sure that no one is forced to do or say anything they don’t want to. Also, I plan to ask everyone before I film them whether they want to be involved in my project. That takes into account whether they mind sharing personal experiences and whether they mind being in front of a camera or not.

 

Industry codes of practice:

This is to do with the Ofcom Broadcasting Codes. The following sections apply to my production:

1. Protecting the under 18s

As my film is about a very sensitive topic, I want to make sure that if I incorporate any under 18s, that they are treated with respect.

2. Harm and offence

It states that ‘condones or glamorises violent, dangerous or seriously antisocial behaviour and is likely to encourage others to copy such behaviour’, which is also linked to section 1 about protecting the under 18s. The section then goes on to say ‘Methods of suicide and self-harm must not be included in programmes except where they are editorially justified and are also justified by the context.’  These link to my video because I am trying to raise awareness for these serious mental health issues. Also, I don’t want anyone to try and deal with their illnesses in any negative fashion.

3. Crime, disorder, hatred and abuse

‘Material which contains abusive or derogatory treatment of individuals, groups, religions or communities, must not be included’. This is relevant to my video production because I’m trying to raise awareness, and I don’t want to offend any particular groups or people.

8. Privacy

This is important because if I decide to use any real, personal experiences, I would keep the person involved anonymous and most likely acted by another person. Also, any cases I would use would be anonymously used and portrayed.

 

Aims/issues to be addressed:

The issue I want to address and raise awareness for is mental health, more specifically anxiety and depression, in students and teenagers. I would like for more people to feel open about discussing their mental health struggles because I don’t believe enough people understand how serious mental health is and what it can do to an individual.

After my video is released, I would like to create another survey about whether it changed people’s perspective on how they view mental health and whether it can make someone feel more confident about expressing their feelings.

 

Equipment/props/costumes:

Equipment: The equipment I need would be a camera, a tripod and a shotgun microphone.

Props: I don’t really need any props for my piece, some standard household things like a clock may be needed, but nothing that I’d have to go out and buy.

Costumes: My actors won’t be required to wear anything specific, they may however need to wear the same clothes for multiple shoots.

 

Cast and crew:

For crew, I am planning on using myself as the camera operator and I will likely use someone from my media class to help with sound and setting up the equipment.

Casting wise, I will probably search from my drama A level class to find a couple of people to use, however I am unsure as to who yet.

 

Budget/timeframe:

As of now (November 2017) I haven’t had to spend any money on this production. As for timeframe, I hope to get this finished by January or February 2018 but that does depend on how well planning, shooting and editing process goes.

 

Bibliography of all sources:

For my focus groups, I used specific websites to collect data for my quizzes (as different websites tell you different answers) so these are the websites I gathered my information from:

• https://www.nhs.uk/livewell/mentalhealth/Pages/Mentalhealthhome.aspx
• https://adaa.org/about-adaa/press-room/facts-statistics
• https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics/mental-health-statistics-most-common-mental-health-problems
• https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics
• https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code (Ofcom)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questionnaires

Survey monkey

Paper

Google forms

Polldaddy (in WordPress)

 

Analysis of results:

Tally results (if on paper)

Pie charts etc…

Analysis

Define target audience!!!

 

Evaluation of the process

Focus groups

Focus group design

Audio/video evidence

Outcome of activities/capture sheet

Analysis of results

Summary of findings/statements

Feedback and evaluation

More secondary research

I put this question out on social media: ‘Do you think mental health is widely spoken about enough? And if you suffer, do you feel comfortable talking about it?’

And here are some of the responses I received:

• ‘I think it’s sadly still a taboo subject’
• ‘I don’t think it’s widely spoken about properly. Especially that most teenagers suffer when going through exam periods’
• ‘Mental health isn’t nearly talked about enough an it needs to be taught in schools worldwide as it’s something 1/10 people suffer in. I suffer from anxiety and it’s hard to talk about sometimes because it’s apparently something that is a targeted thing for bullying’
• ‘Not spoken about enough, too many suffer in silence. I feel comfortable talking about it because it’s my therapy, I feel comfortable talking to friends that know me rather than a professional who thinks they know me’
• ‘Mental health is very publicly spoken about, then again it depends what country you are in’
• ‘Not widely enough yet but it’s getting a lot better. I’d feel comfortable talking about mine but only to certain people I trust, I don’t trust that everyone has a good enough understanding to be considerate with the information’

Focus groups 1

Focus group 1 plan:

Done with Trinity, Theo, Emily and Mia

Opening question: what does ‘mental health’ mean to you?

Show images of celebrities, guess which suffer from mental health – this shows that mental health doesn’t have ‘a look’, anyone could struggle with them.

On a piece of paper, write down your answers for what you think:

• the age where 50% of mental illnesses are established
• the age where 75% of mental illnesses are established
• what % of adolescents suffer from a mental health issue in a given year

Everyone take a wordsearch, I’ll give you 10 minutes to try and solve it and the winner gets a prize! (a bar of chocolate)

 

Video link:

 

Focus group 2 plan:

Done with Matt and my parents

Opening question: what does ‘mental health’ mean to you?

Quiz, answer the following:

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Focus group 3 plan:

Done at Caitlan’s birthday

 

Opening question: what does ‘mental health’ mean to you?

 

 

Research Task – Mental Health

Students suffering with anxiety and depression

What I want to achieve:

I want to raise awareness for students in schools, colleges and universities suffering with mental health issues, particularly anxiety and depression.

Ofcom broadcasting code:

When making my video, I need to take the following sections into account:

2. This section is about harm and offence, it states that ‘condones or glamorises violent, dangerous or seriously antisocial behaviour and is likely to encourage others to copy such behaviour’, which is also linked to section 1 about protecting the under 18s. The section then goes on to say ‘Methods of suicide and self-harm must not be included in programmes except where they are editorially justified and are also justified by the context.’  These link to my video because I am trying to raise awareness for these serious mental health issues. Also, I don’t want anyone to try and deal with their illnesses in any negative fashion.

3. Section 3.3 says that ‘Material which contains abusive or derogatory treatment of individuals, groups, religions or communities, must not be included’. This is relevant to my video production because I’m trying to raise awareness, and I don’t want to offend any particular groups or people.

8. This section is about privacy, and this is important because if I decide to use any real, personal experiences, I would keep the person involved anonymous and most likely acted by another person.

 

Pre-Production Planning for Short Film

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwcTQa-CAXA

Introduction: I am making a short film using single camera techniques and my own script. My film is comedy and it is making fun of stereotypical college students and shows a day in the life. I am being inspired by the TV show ‘Come Fly With Me’ by David Walliams and Matt Lucas. I will be shooting this film on one camera and will be experimenting different shots, such as panning shots, extreme close ups and long shots.

 

Script:

Storyboard:

Budget:

Music and copyright:

Location:

Secondary Material:

Permission from actors (and credits): 

Cast:

Morning routine boy: Matthew Brierley

Female drama student: Sydney Goddard

Male drama student: Matthew Holley

English student: Trinity Turrell

History student 1: Ella Clark

History student 2: Victoria Willard

Extras: Harry Bing

Charlotte Morley

Charlotte Trimble

Voice overs: Esme Allan

Matthew Brierley

Sound: Esme Allan

Matthew Brierley

Sydney Goddard

Trinity Turrell

Permission for location: 

Initial planning:

Risk assessment: 

Shooting schedule:  

Equipment:

For my short film, I used a variety of Canon cameras, a tripod and a boom microphone and I borrowed the equipment from the college, mainly over weekends.

TV show inspiration:

As my short film is inspired from the TV show ‘Come Fly With Me’, I watched more episodes to motivate me to create more recurring characters, such as my English student played by Trinity. In ‘Come Fly With Me’, there is a recurring character called Precious and she is always in every episode at least once twice, and the audience get to know her and like her.

Contingency planning: 

If any of my actors dropped out, I had back up actors ready to step in. As I do Drama A Level, I have a class of actors willing to step in if necessary. Also, my script is very versatile, if I wanted to do an outdoor shot, I could easily change it to somewhere indoors, or change to a different shot.

BBFC, OFCOM and BECTU:

BBFC is the company who decides what certificates should be placed onto films. The certificates range from PG and U to 18s. The BBFC is a none profit organisation and are a non government bodied organisation.

I would say that my short film is a U (Universal) because there is no swearing, violence or nudity. As my target audience are teenagers, this rating seems appropriate. Also, any aged person can watch this, however teenagers and adults may appreciate the humour and relatablility more than children who have never experienced college life.

OFCOM is the communication regulator in the United Kingdom. It’s their job to regulate TV, radio and video on-demand areas of media. They ensure that people have the best communication services and are protected from scams.

My short film could be shown on TV at any time because there is no inappropriate content. I think that my film is better suited to be on the internet as opposed to on TV but it is appropriate for viewings of all ages.

BECTU is the website that shows the average amount of money earned by people who work in the film and media industry. Although my film was free to make, if it was made in a more professional setting, I would have to consider how much I paid each member of staff.