Documentary proposal

Director: Lauren
Camera Person: Ola
Editor: Hayley
Sound: Jessica

The chosen topic of discussion will be based around Stops

and searches.
The documentary will cover a range of perspectives and
mixed opinions about the matter, making sure the
discussion is fair and unbiased.

Key facts -

Is the actual procedure of stopping and searching

problematic?

- Links to stereotyping/harassment
- Police and young people’s verbal/non verbal
communication skills
- Is it a waste of tax payer’s money?

Are the strategies the MET police using working effectively?

- Overview of gun and knife crime rates

- Actual convictions of crime rates
- Personal experience / opinion
- More state power /less individual control
-Recent examples in the News (police abusing power status)

Does the stop and search procedure allow member of the

public to feel safer? - Matter of public opinion

(Link back to history before and after act was introduced)

- Is it an invasion of privacy?
- Was it safer traditionally?
- Does it stop individuality?
- Disallows freedom of movement, expression and choice?

Is the stop and search policies fair?

- Does everybody get treated equally?

- Why might certain ethnic minority groups feel at a
disadvantage?
- Do police tend to abuse there power status?

If you personally could change anything about the way stops

and searches are carried out what would you do differently?

- Allows the mind to wonder (free of rules and regulations)

- An insight to public opinion could change ever happen?

Principle position and perspectives

Political ideas in relation to my topic

Liberal - A libertarian is somebody who celebrates

individuality. They would prefer less government control,
and would feel that stop and search laws and procedures are
an invasion of public privacy. They would deal with the
argument that if you have not committed the crime, you
have nothing to hide.

Conservative - The traditional values and ways of life

appeals more to a conservative, they may feel that stops and
searches may be beneficial for the public, and allow the
public to feel that the environment there in is much safer.

Marxist - A Marxist may argue that the stop and search laws
keep everybody in a hierarchy, and this helps capitalism and
keeps the government in control of the public.
This is said to be a bad thing as the public have no say in the
matter, and the working class will never benefit from this.
The state apparatus is designed to favour the upper and
middle class. (all those in power)

List of possible cut away’s -

- A young person being stopped and searched - long shot

- A police officer speaking to a young person - medium close
up
- Police cars and sirens driving passed - long shot /
establishing shot
- Busy streets - long shots , birds eye view
- Stop and search booklet - extreme close up
- The outside of a police station - long shot
- Handcuffs/ police battens - close up
-The public moving around freely - over the shoulder shot,
establishing shot
- Newspaper clippings from passed stops and searches,
reports and photographs
(Bombings, Brixton riots, victims of gun and knife crime) -
Mid shots , screen dissolves

List of possible speakers

- Dave Norton (interviewee) MET Police

- Tracey Major MET Police
- Andre Rosindell Romford MP
- Jon Nerwood - Doorman / Bouncer
- 3 young people of mixed ethnicity
- 3 trainee police recruits
- Lynettee Okibolah - Youth Worker