This document outlines the initial ideas and structure for a documentary script about the effects of video game violence on students. It includes potential expert quotations on topics like the academic and psychological impacts. It also discusses conducting student interviews about their video game habits and experiences. The script would include background footage from YouTube comments and introduce interviews with experts and students on their views. Statistics about video game usage would provide context. The overall documentary would explore the issues raised and different perspectives on how video games influence adolescents.

1. Initial ideas for what needs to go into the script (Documentary) :
Experts quotations:
Julie: How students are affected academically
How a students mind can be affected due to video game violence
The psychology of a student and how their mind works
Mike: Feminism comments
Views on society today compared to before
Nick: Comment about Shakespeare and theatre
Younger and older generations (video game experiences)
How video games are used to change a generation's mindset
Student Interviews for each of the questions:
How many hours are spent a day on video games?
What experiences they /close relatives or friends have had with video games
Anecdotes
Voiceover background footage for Youtube comments:
Talking about how they can affect adolescents today within how they type on the internet
Introduction: Video games are a popular and much loved aspect of pop culture in the 21st
century with teens spending as many as....(vox pop answers: hours)
Second ideas
Introducing interviews -The youth are the most affected.
Julie Maitland - We asked the Student Development Counsellor at the sixth form college to
explore her opinion of the effects of video games especially on her personal experience with
her students.
Nick - Nick Waring, a film expert, expressed his views too.
Mike - Media specialist Mike Green provides a more feminist approach.
Introducing the college -
We came to The Solihull Sixth Form College to ask their students what they thought about
the issues raised by video game players.
Background footage of us being on the computer looking on YouTube - We thought it was
fundamental to show you real footage taken from video games to show the extent of the
graphic violence (after Nick's interview)
Introducing the YouTube comments: These comments from a website called Youtube, are to
show how video games influence how people talk to one another.
Introducing vox pops

2. Introducing vox pops with people who like video games - But who's voice is the most
important? ... The people who play the games themselves
Introducing joe - so whilst people enjoy playing video games, one student voiced his
concerns at home
Start - background video games two background footage clips
Facts and statistics:
How many gamers are there in the world?
How much is spent on games?