Documentary 2- 'Young Kids, Hard Time'

At the very beginning of the documentary  there is graphics used telling the audience who the production people are and the main title. The title 'Young Kids' is shown first and the 'Hard time' appears afterwards underneath  this is already creating tention. The writing is written in a white font on the top of a black background, this makes the title stand out. The stereotypical colours that are linked with the prison are black and white. The music is instrumental at the beginning of the documents, its not till the actual video shows that you start to hear a heart beat which creates atmosphere and gets the audience on the edge of their seats. It immediately cuts into actuality footage of prison life and a selection of people in there. After the audience have got an understanding of what the documentary is about it cuts into an extreme close up of a young prisoner allowing the viewer to see the emotion on his face and try to get an understanding of how his feeling in the inside. This is a shot of an informal interview admitting to the cameras to why they are in the prson and how long they have been sentences to "I got 30 years..." this sets the scene for the whole of the documentary. The music is still playing with the heart beat. It cuts to one of the prisoners room with the young prisoner standing in the corner, it pans the room showing how small the room is and what the prisoners have in there. (A Bed and a Desk). It zooms into the young boys face, by the look of the emotion on his face we can tell that he is to young to understand the meaning behind the prison like. It then cuts to a medium shot of an older women, there isn't any graphics shown to tell us who the women is, however we can tell she is completely against treating the 12 year old as an adult. As the women is talking er voice turns to a voice over and the audience are showen a master shot of the 12 year old boy walking on the prisons grounds. The footage is played in slow motion creating more tention and getting the audience in thinking that it isnt right. It then cuts to a hand held shot in slow motion of one of the older looking boys walking from a celler to another, it then seamless edits to an extreme close up of his face showing the emotion on his face. The music gets louder and making the audience sit on the edge of their seats. Graphics then appear on the screen, showing a quote from Nelson Mandela. Afterwards an early morning time is shown on the screen this tells us that were going to be watching a typical day of prion life. underneath the time the location of the filming is shown.Hand held, high shot of the prison life. We can see bars across the front of the screen this could indicate were a fly on the wall. Graphics are shown on top of the actual footage telling the audience the cell block and the unit type. It then cuts to camera shots that look like they have been taken from a CCTV camera in the bedroom of two prisoners. In there room you can see that they have a tv shelf area to put there belongings and a bunk bed. The clock is still ticking at this point showing that time is going on. It then seamless edits i to a fast zoom of an adult prison, the audience can then compare both units to the prison. The footage that is shown from the adult unit is of a man doing pull ups in an empty room. Hand held shot of a young prisoner being led out of the study room. The camera them has ambient voice of the echoes in the room. The camera cuts to a close up shot of the young prisoner who was interviewed at the beginning of the documentary  this shows that its going to be based on his life in the prison ell and how they treat him. After it seamless edits to an outside footage of the adult prison playing sports and hanging around talking in the grounds. Then it cuts to the young prisoners dong the house keeping, this coud show that the adult prisoners get it easy and the younger prisoners do all of the work and have no time to play games. The toc clicking gets louder and faster and the cuts out as the black screen appears. this has got the audiences heart rates increasing.

The documentary now starts, it cuts to a black screen with graphics written at the bottom of the screen. This has a voice over telling the audience what life is like. The black screen then fades in to a panning shot of the prison building. The voice over is of an old man with a deep rusty voice. A various range of different footages from inside the adult prison are shown as the man is explaining why they could possibly in there for. The documentary only just goes into telling us about one specific young prisoner and why he is in prison. The camera is a hand held shot following him into the bedroom where it then seamless edits to a high angle shot of him sitting on his bed being interviewed as to why his in prison. It then cuts to graphics of a news paper which has been blurred out except for the headline, this is explaining as to why his in prison. By having the news paper article it makes the documentary seem more realistic to the audience. It then cuts to a part of the newspaper saying what the young boys has done, as this is being shown his talking over the top saying how he feels about being put in an adult prison it zooms into the small passage which makes it more intense.