1. Topic: The Recession
When we discussed the several potential topics to begin with, we were all we eager to
explore different ideas such as a rise in crime, unemployment, university tuition fees
and the recession. It was through research the we discovered all of these topics linked
together. After we weighed out the advantages and disadvantages of our potential topics, we can to a
group decision to base our documentary on the recession. We believed it would be a worthwhile and
beneficial topic to investigate. We were enthusiast about our topic and had a range of different ideas that
we believed were worth exploring. In our documentary we aim to highlight and explore how the recession
has impacted young people focusing on major subtopics such as:
• Rise in university tuition fees
• Rise in youth unemployment figures
• Challenges of progressing onto higher education
• Rise in young people committing crime
We feel that is there is a potential knock on effect worth exploring because if
people are unemployed it will lead to public rebellion and as a result there will
be
a rise in crime which we can then relate to the Birmingham riots. Since the
recession is a current topic that is affecting a range of people both in the UK
and globally we feel that with such a high profile topic we will be able to receive
a variety of professional opinions on the matter by interviewing individuals
with a professional opinion such as business mangers, business employees and
higher
Furthermore, we aim to discover how the public focusing predominantly on our target audience feel about the
education advisers.
recession, and how it has effected them personally focusing on them seeking employment or higher education.
In addition, we also aim to discover that if higher education is not an option for some people what other
alternatives are available e.g. apprenticeships