Documentary

On a Knife Edge: Knife crime and young people

Documentary – Adam Merchant

Duration: 

1 x 30 mins 

Format: 

One-off documentary

Premise: 

A Documentary that will be looking at the high levels of knife crime in London, and will also be seeing victims of knife crime and talking to their families.

Contents:

You will see things like Graphic pictures of what harm a knife can actually do to you. We will be following closely the family of knife related crimes and we will also be interviewing some youths who at the time thought it would be cool to carry a knife round the streets with their mates.   

Structure: 

For the first scene in my documentary I will be interviewing the families who have ended up losing a loved one in the tragic crime. When I interview the families I plan to get as much footage of them as I can meaning that I will be asking loads of difficult and hard questions about their tragic loss. Also with the first scene I plan to have a voice over of one of the families who are talking while the camera is panning family photos of the victims past. But only plan to show happy photos. In the second scene for my documentary I will show the interviews of some young people who at first thought it was a good idea to carry a knife around. I plan to film this interview at a youth centre for troubled young people. What I mean by troubled young is children who have been abounded by their parents who didn’t want them. That’s what I mean for my third and final scene I will be showing some gruesome and violent pictures of victims of knife crime. The picture are not for people of a sensitive nature I will also be showing some video footage of people being stabbed. I will get this footage from camera from town and from mobiles in which teenagers have recorded off their phone. Because they thought it would be funny and cool and then after all that the credits will roll.