The document provides information about the London Borough of Redbridge and a social action project being undertaken by youth in the borough. It details that Redbridge is located in northeast London and has a population of around 296,800. It is administering a competition for youth to create short films on issues in the borough, with the best film being broadcast on TV. The purpose of the social action projects is to raise awareness of issues in the community and motivate residents to address problems. Creating the films provides opportunities for youth to learn new skills and add to their portfolios for university or jobs.

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Task 1
Client information
The council of the London Borough of Redbridge
have created a Brief and issued it to the youth of
the borough. The London Borough of Redbridge is
based in the North East of London, the council is
administering its headquarters at redbridge town
hall in Ilford. The Redbridge mayor at the moment is Linda Huggett, she was elected
at the Annual Council meeting on Thursday 11 May 2017. Redbridge counselors are
selected to represent their part of the council, the counselors are usually members of
a political party. Some counselors are not part of any party and are called
independents. Local counselors are responsible for making decisions on behalf of
their community, the decisions are usually based on the best interests of the public.
The estimated population of Redbridge at the moment is 296,800, this is an increase
of 3,800 since the 30th of June 2014. An estimated of 67,500 people aged between
0-15 are children. 193,000 people aged between 16 and 64 years of age are
working, and 36,200 people aged 65 and upwards have retired in redbridge from this
day. The project we are working on will be based in Barkingside, this is a borough of
Redbridge. In Barkingside there are three counselors all part of the same political
party (conservatives), Councillor Ashley Stephen Kissin, Councillor Karen Packer
and Councillor Keith Prince. They all have their designated responsibilities and roles
to work on during the year. For example,
Councillor Keith Prince has the
responsibilities of Chairman of the
Transport Committee, Deputy Chairman of
the Audit Panel, Member of the Budget and
Performance Committee and Member of
the GLA Oversight Committee.
Structure of Brief
The structure of the brief includes competition between thousands of young people
in the Borough of Redbridge. The competition is to produce a short film about issues
affecting an area in Redbridge, the best short film produced will be broadcasted on
TV. The people making the short film can make it how they like, the projects is
informal as Redbridge want the producers to have creative control over the short
film. Not everyone needs to participate in creating a short film, it is a free
advertisement to show off their work in the community. During the competition, there
is no guarantee of winning, but it allows people to create short films to advertise
themselves in the borough of what they can do in the media industry. No contract is
officially signed, meaning there is no written agreement for me to create the project.
For example for my short film i will be specifically filming in barkingside and this is a
part of the redbridge borough so i would find out information on the main issues in

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this area. I would not be forced to create the short film but i have chosen to create
one. When creating the short film its an informal agreement meaning the people
making the short film abide by any rules allowing them to have full control of their
product and can be as creative as they want to be.
Usually when involved in a competition it would
encourage people to work harder and make the
best product they can. It can motivate the people
involved and work harder for the end result of
being broadcasted on TV. Competitions usually
help young people get ready for the world ahead
as when they leave school they need to always
have the mindset of being in a competition to
always be on top when working. Doing
competitions like these helps the people involved to learn new skills and also create
work to add to their portfolio to use when looking at universities or jobs.
Purpose of the Project
The social action project is a multi step process which young members of the
Redbridge borough address an issue they care about talking about solutions on how
to fix the issues in the community. The purpose of the project is to raise awareness
of certain areas. Once a project has been aired on TV it allows people all over the
world to see and examine what it's like in certain areas of the world. One purpose is
for surveillance to find different information about certain areas of the world. For
example there might be issues such as
knife crimes and burglary in the area.
During the video we create we would find
ways to motivate and convince the
community to make it a better place and to
get involved with stopping crimes in the
area.
The purpose of these projects are to raise
awareness of what issues are being
brought up in the borough. Usually the short films would be ways of helping the
borough and how to stop the problems from occurring. From watching the short films
the public will become more aware of what's actually happening around them, this
makes the public change their attitudes and behaviour in the borough of Redbridge.
The short films usually have a positive impact towards the community who view the
project.

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Most groups which create the projects are made for their local areas, a lot of social
action projects are also created to be aired live on television for a worldwide view to
see what's going on in that area.
There are many social projects made by different companies to be aired, an example
of a social project is one named
panorama by the BBC. the programme
first aired in 1953 and it focuses on the
issues on what is happening in the world
and a whole. Its different to a local project
where it only issues what's happening in
a certain area. One episode aired by the
BBC on 19th of july 2017, the episode
was named London tower fire: Britain's
shame. The episode was about the fire
that started fourth floor of Grenfell Tower
engulfed almost the entire 24-storey
building at shocking speed. Firefighters
battling the inferno say they have never seen anything like it before. The purpose of
the episode was to get the people around the world aware of what's happened over
in a different location and to show that as a community people can be stronger and
fix things. The episode made people aware of the damage the fire has caused and of
the damage it has caused people. The community came together to play a football
match and raise money for the people who lost their homes in the fire. The purpose
of the documentary is to show people how dangerous and how easy it is for fires to
rise and ruin people's lives. The BBC aired this episode as people can relate to it.
Anyone can have the same problem that can escalate quickly and people need to be
aware of what can happen to them.
Another BBC panorama episode is named
Manchester Attack: Terror at the Arena, the
episode is about the attacks that occurred in
manchester. Having this episode produced
by the bcc allows people to see what has
happened to people over the world. The
program looks at the effects it has on the
people in manchester. The main purpose is
to make the people of manchester become
stronger and beat the terrorism that is
happening in the world at the moment.
People who haven't heard for the incident
may not understand the consequences of what people have occured and having this
show allows them to view the terror. As the attack happened during the concert it
allowed people all over the world to get involved, this included the artist ariana

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grande donating £500,000 to the community. Ariana grande got people together to
perform a concert for the people involved in the attacks. This shows that the people
of manchester came together and showed the world that they are strong and greater
than the terrorism that occurs in the world.
Lastly another example of a projects is based on
channel 4 named dispatches programme. Not all
episodes of the show are based in the country such
as an episode names “escaping isis” this episode is
about exposes the brutal regime suffered by
millions of women living under Isis, and the
extraordinary story of a secret underground
network trying to save them. This allows the people across the world to see and
realise the state of how people are living in different countries.
Some social action projects that are based in certain areas for the community may
be about keep the streets clean whether it may be littering or recycling. The purpose
of the project would be to make people more aware of how they keep the area clean,
this will allow them to work together as a community and make
their area a better place to live. Raising awareness of these
issues in the community would often allow people to
understand and change their ways in the community and they
would start making it a better living space. The social action
projects in the community should also strengthen people in the
area to come together and unite as one to stop crime rates and
other things such as knife crimes, burglaries and littering.
Opportunities Offered
As well as creating a projects for the community, the experience offeres people huge
amounts of opportunities including learning and discovering new and important
things about your area. Doing the project allows people to expand their knowledge
on the current affairs in the area. Another good reason why creating a 10 minute
video about the area allows us to use it onto our portfolio and onto our CV for others
to view. Having this onto my portfolio allows employers to view my work and allow
me to create contacts and maybe get a job in the media industry. As i’m hoping to
got to university it gives me an advantage of when i start studying, as i would have
already planned, produced and worked on challenging projects at the school. Doing
a social action project will allow me to gain all new sets of skills weather it may be
learning more about my community or even communication skills when talking to
others in the area during production.
My social skills will be improved as i’m working with other people. I will need to
create a questionnaire and go out into the community and ask people questions, this
is something that allows me to improve my social skills. This includes talking to

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people i've never spoken to before. Another skill this improves can be my confidence
when speaking to other people. Rather than being nervous when meeting and
speaking to new people i would be more confident and professional for the project.
Being able to stay confident is a huge skills as it can benefit me in a later time such
as when i’m at university or when i may start working in public. It allows me to be
ready for different life situations which may be benefited with me having confidence.
Another skill that i can improve on during the project is both time and management
as i need to have the project due and complete for a certain date. Having this allows
me to plan ahead of what i’m going to do task wise and when i’m going to do these
for. Other stages during the production such as planning, filming and research is
very important as i need to have these to be able to complete my project. If i have
good time and management skills it shows that during the production everything will
be able to run smoothly and be finished on time. As i need to submit the project i
would have a deadline for the final project and with these improved skills it will help
me get it done on time for the due date redbridge has set.
My practical skills will also be improved while creating the project as i would need to
know how to film and edit, also pre production will allow me to improve my practical
skills as i need to find out information about the area we are focusing on. Going out
to find information allows me to improve my research skills as well as my practical as
i would have to film my way and use devices such as a microphone. Other practical
skills such as creating a script and a budget for the project. I would also be improving
my teamwork and cooperation skills as i would be working in a group during the
project. I’ve created other projects throughout the years at school such as a horror
trailer and short film. This shows that i’ve had experience with creating projects but i
can also gain more skills from a different type of production. I’ve never created a
documentary in media so doing this will be different and will allow me to improve in
areas that i’ve not worked on such as social skills.
No matter how good the project turns out people will find it hard and find obstacles
that will make the project harder to create but doing this and overcoming the
obstacles allows you to gain problem solving skills, having these skills are vital and
useful because in the future when you start working having theses problem solving
skills will be useful as you would be able to solve other problems quickly so your
work can be finished quicker. When things go wrong it won't be that difficult for you
to overcome them as you have done other problem solving tasks in the past. Having
all these skills will help me further in the future. As the project is a competition you
want it to look unique and as i would develop all different skills it will allow me to
improve my project and make it different to others. This makes my project different
allowing my group to have a chance to win, this will help me push my creative skills
to the maximum.