Documentary film project- Research and newspaper articles

In the first session we decided that Paul was going to look for a good newspaper article for the base of our documentary, although i personally looked and had no luck in finding any good articles, and these were the one's that he found. Realistically the first article would be very difficult to achieve in the short space that we had in terms of planning time and in shoot time as to make the story link to our piece, it would preferably have to entail visiting schools and places where 'Jordan' had had an impact with his teaching, if not talk to 'Jordan' himself which could be difficult as the boy isn't given a surname, plus the fact it is based in schools would mean gaining a lot of permission which may not have been granted by the time we had to shoot. This could probably be similar to the 2nd story about a street artists tragic death as i'm sure it would have been hard to find people specifically related to this story as well as it being a raw subject for such people. I don't think much depth would have come from it either if we chose to interview several artists about the dangers involved, this could once again be time consuming. The story that we decided to go with was the story about the knife crime in Liverpool being linked with graffiti artists to get the word out about the dangers of knife crime as well as the interesting point about a Government grant being awarded as it is believed that a lot of the council money now-a-days goes on trying to remove such work.

One of the other points that we were trying to show is other people's opinions about graffiti as a whole, is it art or vandalism? When looking through numerous newspaper articles on line, i found a few (not specific to Liverpool but interesting none-the-less).

I found this article interesting because although Jeremy Hunt is the Shadow culture secretary, he still expressed a positive meaning for some graffiti. In the article he states: "Sometimes graffiti — however objectionable and anti-social it is in principle — can be very thought-provoking". To the disarray and later disapproval from Home Office Minister Tony McNulty, goes on to call a specific piece from a fence alongside the M40 into London as being 'Wonderful'.