WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT DUE TO THE NATURE OF MEDIA/FILM STUDIES SOME CLIPS MAY CONTAIN SWEAR WORDS. DO NOT WATCH THESE CLIPS IF YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE OFFENDED BY SUCH LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!! P.S. THE ROSS KEMP EPISODE PART 1 IS A PRIME EXAMPLE

MY HYPOTHESIS

Focusing on British media, is it fair to say they glorify the contrast between urban street crime and young black youths?
Case studies to support this hypothesis include:
1) Bullet Boy trailer
2) Ross Kemp on Gangs - South London episode (part 1)and (part 2)
3) Kidulthood trailer
As i am focusing on British media, I have specifically chosen these three case studies to analyse in my critical research as they are all British productions and focus on the young black youths within Britain.

RESEARCH TECHNIQUES

The research techniques I have used so far with my A2 Media Studies Critical Research consists of the following: secondary research (The internet and soon I will hopefully have access to past or present newspaper articles) which could then contrast with Quantitative Research (research with figures).
At the moment I am relying mainly on Secondary Research techniques to achieve what I am working towards so far, but I am considering taking up my own primary research in the form of questionnaires to get the feedback I need for my chosen topic, or just use the blog as means of getting feedback.

ROSS KEMP ON GANGS - SOUTH LONDON (PART 1)

BULLET BOY TRAILER

BULLET BOY SYNOPSIS

Bullet Boy (released in cinemas 2004) stars Ashley Wlaters a.k.a. Asher D (memeber of the former UK Garage group So Solid Crew) and follows the story of his character 19 year old Ricky and his younger 12 year old brother Curtis. Ricky has just finished serving time behind bars in youth custody for stabbing another teenager, and is determined to stay on the right side of the tracks, but his plans are crushed as his hot headed friend Wisdom sparks off a minor confrontation with a local rude boy which quickly escalates into an on-going street clash. It's not long before Ricky finds himself with a revolver tucked into his tracksuit bottoms with death hanging over his head, and his younger brother being sucked into the violent spiral unfolding. Once again, this movie has an all black cast and looks into urban street culture as far as crime is concerned, with both Ricky and Wisdom loosing their lives because of a silly feud Wisdom had with the local rude boy for accidentaslly smashing out his tail-light when reversing.

MY CRITICAL RESEARCH - CRIME AND MEDIA

After careful consideration and decision making, I have decided to base my critial A2 Media Studies Research on "Crime and media" centered around how young black people are shown to glorify crime on the big screen. To begin my brief exploration into this topic, I have uploaded the trailer for the movie entitled "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" which stars Curtis Jackson a.k.a. Fiddy Cent.