The Clock Tower

The closest thing that I could find that had any similarities to the Big Ben was the clock tower in bexleyheath and we decided to use this to start off our title sequence.

Making the title sequence

We looked at several different title sequences for different news programmes and we found that, especially with ITV, they included quick snap shots and film clips of the stories and news items that they were going to cover in the programme.

As a result of this we decided to do the same, because the weather was snowy for a very long time we decided to use this to our advantage and shot small video clips of people broken down in the snow, which is the clip that we have decided to use.

We also decided that we would use the clock tower in Bexleyheath Broadway as our own version of the Big Ben in London.

We also thought about many events and circumstances that are happening in and around london at this current time and we decided that the current recession was still extremely relevant, as a result of this we have included a short clip of a graph in our title sequence which shows a moving graph which conveys the rise and fall of the economy.

The interview with Mr James Heath

We asked Mr Heath the same questions that we asked PC Harding and we found it very interesting because we found that many of the answers that he gave were very similar to ones the Donna Harding had given up, which reiterated the opinions of many in the local community.

Due to the fact that so many of the answers and reasons given were so similar we decided to look through and listen to each clip from both Mr Heath and PC Harding and we made several choices about which answer we thought was best and why.

We also found that we had to do a considerable amount of editing with Mr Heath's clips too because we felt that some answers may be seen as being very long winded. I also looked at severeal of ITV's news programmes and found that it was very rare for them to stay on one clip for more than 1 minute at a time.

The interview with PC Harding

We met with PC Donna Harding at Belvedere Police Station and we chose to film the footage in one of their less formal interview rooms.

Below is the list of questions that we asked her

) From your own experiences what do you believe are some of the main causes of Anti- Social behaviour?

2) What suggestions would you give to combatting Anti- social behaviour and making those who are offending understand the wrong they are doing?

3) In your opinion do you believe that Anti- social behaviour is on the decrease since the introduction of PCSO's?

4) What are your views on the new policing pledge and do you feel that this is a positive step forward?

5) Do you feel that there are enough PCSO's and police officers patrolling the area and why?

6) Why did you choose to become involved in the police force?

7) Do you think that there is a certain group that are commonly known for being involved in Anti- social Behaviour?

However we did not think that it was appropriate to use all the film that we recorded so we cut down on many of the clips, we also editing some down because we felt that there were some parts of the answers that PC Harding gave us, which were more important than others.

The clip shown above is film footage that we orignially recorded. However as mentioned above, we cut out certain parts of the video because we felt that the whole clip was not needed.

Conatcting a local youth worker

As we decided to base our main news item around Anti-social behaviour I thought that it would be a good idea to have people with different positions in the community. As we have already contacted the PCSo's in the local area, I decided to contact a local church youth worker so that we could get his views on the subject.

Below is the email that I sent to him

This is the reply that I recieved

Choosing the location

There was several different locations that we thought would be of good use to use to us, especially when filming Alison. We thought about using a derilict house with boarded up windows (before realising that we didnt know anywhere that there was one), we thought about recording outside a school (but realised that we needed permission to film, just incase there were any pupils around) and the final idea was to to find somewhere with vasts amounts of graffiti. I found a local recreation ground near where I lived and found huge walls filled with graffiti (which we later found out was actually legally put there and also funded by the council).

Here are some Photographs that I took of the graffiti...

Contacting the Safer Neighbourhoods Team

One of the main jobs of the safer neighbourhoods team is to patrol the local area so that there is a strong police presence on the streets. One advantage of these patrols is that it deters many young people away from the area and prevents the likelyhood of anti-social behaviour occuring.

As the theme for our news report is anti-social, I thought that it would be a good idea to interview a PCSO about their thoughts on anti-social behaviour in the area and for them to make comments on reasons why they believe it is on the increase.

I contacted them via the bexley borough council website ( shown below)

Below is the email that I sent them...