DOCUMENTARY UNIT: MEETING WITH ZOE - CHOOSE AN IDEA

With our session with Zoe, we discussed all of our ideas as a group and begun to think of which idea we would like to go with. I started by explaining my idea for looking into Gay Adoption, Zoe explained to me that it's a classic BBC 3 way to go, but I would need to focus more on the children's side of it since the theme of the Documentary is 'Teen Spirit'. She also explained that we would need to find a very interesting character to focus on, such as my friend Ella.

Trine's Idea
Trine's idea was to make a documentary on what it was like to be a teenager during the Holocaust. This would involve getting in touch with a Holocaust survivor and either experts of the Holocaust or another survivors as well. However, Zoe suggested looking into people who disrespect the Holocaust as well to add more to the story and told us about a story of students stealing artefacts from the Concentration Camp Auschwitz. We also told Trine about the project 'Yolocaust' which was set up to stop people from taking selfies on the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. (Yolocaust Video)

George's Idea
George's idea was to focus on Young Carers. As they can have to deal with full-time education, social life and also caring for a parent or sibling with a disability or serious illness. George suggested looking into this topic and talking with young carers that are teenagers and finding out what it's like to be in that situation. Zoe explained that this would be a good topic and good for BBC3 as well as it's something that they would focus on.

Simon's Idea
Simon wanted to look into prosthetics for teenagers after he saw a video about a company that built a bionic arm for a 7-year-old boy called Alex Pring. BIONIC ARM VIDEO. Simon suggested getting into contact with a company that makes prosthetics and follow a teenager and their story as we watch them lead up to getting a prosthetic and then getting it. Zoe liked the idea but pointed out this could be really difficult to find and could have an issue getting permission.

After meeting with Zoe and talking through the ideas we all had we finally decided to go with Trine's idea since it was the most original. But rather than focusing on holocaust survivors and their experience of being a teenager during the Holocaust, look more into the suggestion that Zoe said about looking at young people discriminating the memorial and looking at that side of teen spirit.