The Truth About Immigration (Documentary review)

Presented by: Nick Robinson

Aired:

Tuesday 7 January 2014

9.30pm-10.30pm

BBC TWO

In The Truth About Immigration, BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson reveals the full impact of the extraordinary demographic change Britain has undergone. Why were the doors to Britain opened to millions of migrants? And what are the benefits and perils of trying to stem the flow?

This documentary gives you the rundown on what happened to Britain since immigration and the opinions of other races who have migrated here to the UK on what they think about living here then in their homes back in their other countries. This Documentary unlike the last one I reviewed is definitely more informative. There was coverage of foreigners in our country working as well as socialising and what they like to do in our country but the showed my thoughts on the whole issue as well.

The feel of the documentary was, to me, pretty dull the colours were pretty nothing to wow yourself over as it's focus was on an issue that is pretty serious. The presenter puts himself as one of the characters and take part within the documentary. It shows how he does his research and how he gets other people (British as well as immigrants) to get involved with the issue and share their thoughts.

Other characters involve people from political parties such as Labour and UKIP to get more information out of them as possible. But some of the main characters I felt where defiantly the people who have migrated here and are making a living and sharing their stories of how they have come to the UK to start a new life and how money here is better then the place they came from.

I find it somewhat interesting knowing more on political power and how it is effecting us right now, these documentaries are slowly opening my eyes to the truth. The truth that a lot of things shall be dealing with in the upcoming election and how my vote could change everything.


The shots consisted of establishing shots to show the location where the presenter was at the time or to show where curtain issues were being held then cuts to an interview with a person related to to the issue being established.


There was a lot of over the shoulder shots when the interviews came on. It was a cleaver way to show the presenter talking to the person being interviewed without showing his face so you focus on the opinions and thoughts on the other person.

This year will be my first vote in the big election for our main government and I hope to make it count with all these things I have observed and researched.

Documentary update

New name:
Finding Home (to be confirmed)

New edge:
To tell the audience throughout inauguration that even though they are any from home and may get adjusted to living here then in Bulgaria, some people would want to go back but even when they do, they feel that their would still be something missing in a sense of find ones true home.


Character(s):

The school has kids up to year 6 which mean 10 - 12 year olds

There are adult groups as well which do activities such as dancing, which means there could be a lot of coverage to receive from this place we're going to be filming in.


Location:
Thomas Aveling School - Rochester

This is one of our location where the filming will take place. THe location itself has a very nice atmosphere to it. One of the Bulgarian tutors already gave Plamen and myself the permission to film within the location and she recommended that we both should be prepared to tackle with some of the parents about filming some of their children.

Here are some pictures of the school:

Story so far:

Plamen will be interviewing Bulgarian youngsters as well as be in the documentary himself as one of the characters.

It will start with him calling his dad on Skye and having a non scripted conversation with him. Telling his dad the discovery of this school Plamen goes on a journey to find out where his home truly lies, either here in the UK or back to Bulgaria.

At the end Pleman and I thought it would be great if someone in the adult class would be going to Bulgaria within a short amount of time. That way we could get more coverage as well as a another point of view of a character that is going back home and how they are feeling about that.

It will be powerful yet informative to see. Some of it will probably be subtitled as some of the interviews and conversations commence. But with a British audience as our target there will be aspects of brittish culture that will hopefully keep our audience engaged.

Bulgarian Research

Documentary:

Destination HD Bulgaria

Is Structured Reality Corrupting Documentary? (Thoughts and refections)

The Podcast:

http://guru.bafta.org/structured-reality-corrupting-documentary-0

Thoughts and Reflections:
I have to admit for the first few minutes where very funny say that reality documentary is growing in popularity but some of the hosts from the panel and most members of the audience don't even like it at all.

But it was interesting to hear that shows like these have documentary potential but for a television show, one of the hosts (Molly) say that it's not even seen as a documentary. The characters are funny she said and she sees a lot of potential for them but she finds that the way they are represented and acted and set makes it all less documented and more reality even thought she doesn't want to even think about it as a show in itself.

But what was quite surpassing was when one of the Panel members asked the audience if The Only way is Essex was defined as "A Documentary" and most of the audience ember said yes. Which made a bigger question said "Then what IS Documentary?".

Plus it was an eye opener to the discussion when talking about how people think and act now days. Saying that because of the the way it is shot and lit as well as having these good looking rich classy people who are brave enough to be themselves in front of the camera means that everyone now wants to be famous. People re starting act the way they do because they want fame, and then to keep it. I was no surprise that one of the female panel members said "Fame is becoming a problem, a curse". In someways it's true, many people or celebrities would now do anything just to have more fame then they already have.

Like Justin Beiber when that viral video appeared of him peeing in a bucket just for attention. Or from a
side of reality TV in America with 'Keeping up with the Kardashians', the family who became famous for……… well, being famous.

The panel podcast debate to me felt that it was laking in factual discussion then about how documentaries are changing and evolving. But in some ways I knew what they were saying, at some point reality structured TV does have some elements to documentary. But does that really mean as far to say that it has corrupted it? Some reality documentary shows to me are ridiculous mostly because the issues and stories involved are about the silliest things.

In the USA there is a TV reality  documentary show about women who compete on having the best……….. Wedding. To me, WHO FIGHTS OVER A PERSON'S OWN WEDDING?!?!?! The greatest day for both a committed man and woman who have made the decision to spend and cherish the rest of their lives together, but is ruined in my opinion by a huge fight all for a price at the end.

Sure a couple may win a price but someway I imagine some of those couples in the future, and their kids are going to say "so what was your wedding like mum?" Then the mum might show the kids the TV show she was on. Showing them how in secret interviews she talked back towards the other brides and then not winning the price at the end.

But mainly I see shows like this only in America, my mum likes to watch these types of shows all the time on her days off and thats how I see most of them. When I just hang out with her I see these shows about celebrities lives, competing to be the bitchyest prettiest girl, showing people celebrates houses and saying how expensive it is and how their lives are awesome compared to ours.

Inside Out South 08/03/15 (Review)

First shown: 7.30pm 6 Mar 2015


Presented by:

Johnny Casciani

This show on BBC informs of not only about the coll calls people get and the scams that come from them, but also tells a story on immigrations in the UK and there was a little something about Bulgaria that caught my eye.

This story tells of the research made by Oxford University and how immigration has changed in numbers as well as our country together.

This show is very informative mostly because they deal with issues which are current and are happening now. In the second half of this episode, there was a segment about immigration in the UK which in my Documentary I am making with Plamen happens to be a little on immigration and the struggles that come with it.

The programme had some very useful information and percentages on the numbers of immigrates that come here either to live of to work here in the UK.


For example, for Bulgarian people, the restrictions getting jobs in the UK is now possible as the restrictions where lifted since January last year in 2014.

Also Boston in Linkinshire has the most new European immigrates and 10.6 % of them are born abroad in the new EU Countries. The population has estimated to have grown to 1200 new Eastern Europeans.

For the UK, since 2011, 171,000/ 55.1% of immigrants where born abroad in the London Borough of Brent. Estimated right now is was said that the population might have grown to over 181,000 in 2015, going up by 10,000.

Then the presenter often did these box pop questions about asking people where they where from and some of the answers where really surprising. There was Jamaican, Romanian, Polish, Lithuanian, then Indian, it was quite a count of how many different people from different countries come here and live here.

For me this was really an eye opener knowing how many people moved to our country and how many have made businesses, homes and have gotten work right here as well.

Almost in conclusion it can be easily said that our country is changing because of all of these immigrations and lots of people in Britain are starting see it.

Missing Generation - Documentary Brief (The Idea)

In this new project I we are working in pairs, as in 2 people. I am partnered up with Plamen Domitrov, a classmate of mine who happens to be Bulgarian which makes him dry interesting to work with and not to mention his has a HUGE knowledge in film and directing.

This Documentary idea will involve the issues of immigration in England/ Europe. This will take mostly the Bulgarians. Some of Bulgarians move to England and this documentary will tell the powerful stories and life styles of these young 18 - 20 year old Bulgarians and how they have adjusted or finding trouble to adjust living away from home.

The title of this production will be called:

Lost Generation or  izgubeno pokolenie as translated into Bulgarian.

At the beginning of the idea Plamen got in touch with a local Bulgarian meet up group which he was going to track down and see if they would agree to get some interviews.

I was going to research more into Bulgarian culture as I admit I don't know much of, I especially wanted to research more into the more political side of Bulgaria as well.

We will be filming in mostly the Medway Area getting good coverage of the towns and places people socialise, maybe a place where most of our interviewers like to hang out some we can get a better understand of where they like to go and why they like a particular place.