Running Order

Documentary: Teenage Evolution




Channel: Channel 4




Scheduling: November 10th 8:00pm till 8:30pm




Duration: 27 minutes (including advert break)



1.) CCTV Footage and news report articles of antisocial behavior by teenagers cut together slow at first but gradually getting quicker and quicker to emphasise the large number of cases. - 10 seconds


2.) Opening credits and titles of teenagers and their change in appearance i.e. stereotype, age group etc. - 5 seconds


3.) First shot panning in close up of teenagers, their parents and their grandparents with a voice over giving facts and figures about antisocial behavior through the generations and how it differs. - 15 seconds


4.) Voice over introduces the topic and introduces a case study of whether the youth of today are more violent and the main differences between todays current youth and the youth of other generations. - 15 seconds


5.) An expert on the topic gives information on what causes this behavior. -40 seconds


6.) Cut away shot to the case study a troubled teenager who ives an interview on what got he/she where they are today and what should be changed etc. - 40 seconds



7.) Interview with parents of the teen and information on what things were like when they were teenagers. - 1 minute





8.) Voice over talks about aspects of why teenagers behave this way, shots used of archive footage and the way teenagers are presented in the press. news reports and headlines from newspapers. -1 minute 15 seconds





9.) Next the camera moves to the side of teenagers that the media don't show, the good side from working to help the elderly to youth centres that have been set p to help struggling youths. - 45 seconds





10.) Street team go out and ask members of the public to share their thoughts and opinions. - 2 minutes





11.) Reconstruction of one persons account of antisocial behavior voiced over by themselves. - 1 minute 30 seconds





12.) Moving back to the expert to diagnose the problems and why this happened. - 1 minute





13.) Cut away shots of blanked out teenagers hanging around street corners drinking taking drugs, then merging them into the credits before going to an advert break. - 30 seconds





14.) Opening credits and titles set against news headlines- 5 seconds





15.) ADVERT BREAK - 3 minutes





16.) Opening credits and titles - 5 seconds



17.) Voice over introduces some statistics with a montage of website clipings, news headlines and reports with interviews from people who created the surveys and stats. - 1 minute



18.) Case is brought up by the voice over on a police matter involving a teenagers death, then information is introduced that will link in with the next shot. - 1 mintue



19.) Police views on the matter and members of the police sharing their accounts of their run ins with the youth of today, using archive footage, teenagers in cells etc - 2 mins



20.) A look back through the years on ways of which the authorities dealth with teenagers causuing trouble on the streets and whether or not they worked and had an impact on their behavior. - 1 minute



21.) Camera moves back to the case study and applies some of the techniques that were used back in the olden days to the youth of today to see if they will work like they did back then. - 40 seconds



22.) Footage of a week with the case study and how they got on during the week having implamented some of the rules. - 2 minutes



23.) Interviews with the parents of the teenagers to see if they noticed any changes in behavior or their attitudes during the past week. - 30 seconds



24.) The teenagers themselves are interviewed about their experiences and are asked whether or not they thought some of the things that were tried would work if roled out nationaly. - 45 seconds


25.) Static camera of all teenagers walking together with all different sterotypes towards the camera then breaking up and going off in different directions. - 30 seconds


26.) Experts, teenagers, parents and grand parents are all brought together to discuss what they have done and seen whilst making the documentary. - 1 minute



27.) Voice over summarises what has been seen throughout the documentary, with cut aways of footage already seen linked together linking to what is being said by the narrator. - 45 seconds


28.) End credits in the same style as the opening titles, using different colours brighter - 30 seconds