School documentaries
School documentariesHow have schools been represented in the documentary “Summer Hill at 70” and Panorama “The Ridings School” and the BBC drama “Hope and Glory”?
In this essay I will be writing about three television programmes two documentaries “Summer Hill at 70″ and the Panorama documentary “The Ridings School” I will also be writing about one drama “hope and glory”, which is a fictional BBC drama.
“Summer Hill at 70″ was filmed in 1991 at Suffolk. “Summer Hill at 70″ was founded by AS Neill in 1921. The genre of “Summer Hill 70” is real-life, has factual interviews, features filming things as they happen and is edited in particular ways. The purpose of the programme was to show a negative view of a school, to shock, entertain and to inform watchers. The programme was aimed at adults, governors and inspectors, I think.
The aim of the school was to allow complete freedom to children and teenagers, no adult authority, equal voting rights for teachers and pupils, the children were allowed to decide whether or not they wanted to attend lessons or not, teachers had relaxed lessons, children had no bedtimes set they were just free to do what they wanted when they wanted and how they wanted.
“Summer at 70″ is represented as a very destructive and violent school, like the Panorama documentary “The Ridings School”. Pupils were allowed weapons guns, knives, and we were told there were darts being thrown around and we were shown kids making arrows with bits of twig and a penknife.
The pupils came from all parts of the world such as America and lots of different parts of Asia, but Matthew Appleton complained that the programme did not show the spread of nationalists. There were also lots of different types of lessons such as massage lessons and science lessons where they make bombs to test on the field.
The editors selected only bad images over a large period (one and a half term.) of time filming at the school.
Annual weekly meetings solved all problems that occurred but the video didn’t actually show any problems being solved which made us think that no problems were solved the camera didn’t show every meeting but I’m sure that some were, there would be at least one person of the meetings shown who would end up in tears. They constructed a meeting from lots of different ones, mostly all bad parts of the meetings. In the video they also showed a boy that was being bullied by another boy and I don’t think they showed all the meetings, only the worst parts of the meeting they were involved in. In the video they showed a girl who had about fourteen pounds worth of make up stolen, but the problem was never solved the meeting came up with the idea of searching the room of the girl accused. The only place of security is the...
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