Aim of the documentary (Chanel Akinwande)

We aim to inform the viewers how society view teenage pregnancy taken into account religion and politics. We aim to show real life examples of teens who had children young and pregnant teens. We want to put across a non bias report on teenage pregnancy.

Research Into Similar Products - (Prescilla Nyemba)

How teenage pregnancy can be seen as a positive thing (Rebecca Ogunmola)

Teenage pregnancy can be seen as a positive thing in the lives of teens as it focuses on a big changes that require them to grow up and take more responsibility in their lives, as well as the benefits of being a young mother and growing up along with their child and providing themselves with purpose for their lives as they are more independent. It also makes them more mature and prevents them from indulging in activities like drinking alcohol and doing drugs.

Teenage pregnancy 'can be positive' (Taken from the metro)

The book, Teenage Parenthood: What's The Problem?, argues teenage pregnancy is not necessarily the result of ignorance about contraception or low expectations. Its authors say the majority of teenage mothers they interviewed were more motivated to succeed at school or work because they wanted to provide for their families.

Dr Claire Alexander of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) said teenage mothers were often stereotyped as "dysfunctional and immoral.

She said: "In contrast to the ignorance, fecklessness and hazardous consequences reiterated in policy and media, our research makes it clear that young parenthood can make sense and be valued and can even provide an impetus for teenage mothers and fathers to strive to provide a better life for their children."

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/813083-teenage-pregnancy-can-be-positive

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/12/teenage-pregnancy-study

Research presentation - Babies having Babies (Chanel Akinwande)

 Babies having Babies

 

Why such a downer on teenage pregnancy?

• A teenager expecting a baby is a bad thing. Or so you would believe if you ever read the news.
• It is proclaimed that the UK's rate of pregnancies in females aged15-19 makes it the "worst"in Europe.
• This is certainly the government's view. The stated goal of its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy is to "halve the under-18 conception rate by 2010, and establish a firm downward trend in the under-16 rate".            (Image)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7595871.stm 
• Pregnant teenagers receive negative reactions, she says. "The initial response was one of horror and shame and it made the kids feel terrible. They meet prejudice on every single corner. Going down the road looking pregnant, people looking at them in a hateful way

Government target 

•  Although the number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales fell in 2008, the government is highly unlikely to meet its 1999 pledge to halve teenage pregnancies in England by 2010
•  Figures from the Department of Children, Schools and Families show rates in England are down by just 13.3% from 1999 to 2008
• The government allocated £260m to reducing teenage pregnancy and, in 2009, ministers announced an extra £20.5m funding package for contraception resources. 

Teenage pregnancy rates

• The number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales has fallen by 4%, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
• A total of 41,325 women under 18 fell pregnant in 2008, down 3.9% from 42,988 in 2007, the figures show. Of these young women 49% had an abortion, compared with 50% in 2007
• The national target for teenage pregnancy reduction is: reduce by 20% the pregnancy rate (per 1000 population) in under 16 year olds from 8.5 in 1995 to 6.8 in 2010.

Pregnancy in Barking & Dagenham

• Barking & Dagenham is still higher than the London Average in contraception rate
• In 2006, a Sex Relationship and Education (SRE) survey was conducted in secondary schools indicating that almost 50% of pupils were dissatisfied with the amount of curriculum time dedicated to SRE
• 49% had poor awareness of where to access free contraception, compared to fewer than 5% having higher knowledge on contraception/sexual health service.
• There were a lower percentage of young people receiving information on sex and relationships from their parents.
• The local data indicated that majority of fathers were under the age of 18, the youngest was 15 years old.  It was identified that some of the fathers were youth offenders

Conclusion

• We can conclude that teenage pregnancy rate has fallen during the years however the   rates are still high.
• The government aim to reduce teenage pregnancy and announced an extra £280.5m funding package for contraception resources.
• So why such a downer on teenage pregnancy? Some people feel the government spend way too much money on contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancies.
• Why do we have the worst underage pregnancy in Europe? Is it because the poor awareness and knowledge on contraception/sex/sexual health service.

Week 3 update (Rebecca Ogunmola)

In week three we started filming , our first interviewee was the pregnancy adviser,we filmed her scene from two different angles just to be on the safe side in case one of them were incorrect. We also log and captured our footage and started on the editing of our documentary. We did research into our subject matter and next week we plan organise other interviews,start on the script and research into ways we can engage our target audience, and make our documentary and blog presentable.

Primary & Secondary Research (Chanel Akinwande)

Primary research is collected for a particular purpose and is new information. This is conducted using some means of questioning usually via a survey or intervews, or then information can be gathered through observation.  As a group we spent time planning and gathering primary research; we produced interviews, questionnaire and documentary analysis.
Secondary research gathers information which has already been collected. our project aalso consists of secondary research ; rules of thirds, documentary modes, theorists etc
We believe it is important that our doucmentary consists of both research types as we dont want to our doumentary to be based on only our knowledge and opinion but on facts figures and case studies aswell.

Media theorist (Chanel Akinwande)

John Grierson

He was the first to coin the term ‘Documentary’. He did so in a review of Robert Flaherty’s film, Moana (1925). He indicated the ability of the medium to literally produce a visual document of a particular event. He saw in the genre the ideal way to explain to people how complex modern societies functioned. By dramatising the issues and spelling out their implications, Grierson believed the documentary film maker could enable people to play a full part in the democratic process. He was a prime mover of the British documentary movement of the 1930’s and both directed and produced documentaries whilst working first for the empire Marketing Board and then The GPO unit. 

       We chose to study Grierson as we believe he related to our documentary. Our documentary dramatise the issue of teenage pregnancy, these are issues complex modern societies deal with. We wanted to raise awareness of these teenage pregnancy by creating a visual document, which is similar to Grierson's theories.