Thursday 25 April 2013

Progress report

The video is nearly done; I have been given the job of completing all of the paper work e.g. story boards, scripts etc and Raghav is completing the video editing as it is necessary for us to share out the work. I will need just a few days in order to complete the paper work as I will need to make changes to it according to the video. This is because whilst interviewing Virendra Sharma, we realised it was hard to stick with the story board and a lot of the script as he said his own views.

Rental of equipment for production.

We agreed to interview Virendra Sharma

Raghav Booked out the following equipment:

Canon 650D Slr
Regular Tripod
Zoom Lens
Memory Card
Charger/Battery

He also Rented out the following equipment for the day as well:

Canon EOS 5D MkIII
Vinten Pro5 Tripod
Canon 14mm Wide Angle Lens
Cannon 18-200mm Zoom Lens
4GB Sandisk Extreme Compact Flash Memory Card

And once again he Purchased A Zoom H1 Sound recorder in order to gain better quality sound as the Microphone build within the camera was not satisfactory

This costed him in the range of £100/£110

Magazine cover - FINAL


Two page spread writing.


There has been a great increase in teenagers as well as young adults abusing drugs in the areas of Southall-Ealing. As this has become a great concern over the years MIND THE GAP magazine interviewers organised an interview with Varinder Sharma MP of Southall-Ealing in order to gain the answers to the questions which had been asked by the concerned readers.
Varinder Sharma made it clear that he is aware of the increase in teenage drug abuse and understood many of the concerns towards it. He specified that him and The Labour party have been discussing decisions towards Southall-Ealing in order to help teenagers as well as the community as a whole.
The local MP also made it evident that there had previously been immediate actions taken place in order to reduce teenage drug abuse. The local councils and MP’s came together in order to discuss these issues. They had managed to resolve some of these issues by blocking the alleyways between roads as there has previously been evidence of drug use within the alleys.
Varinder Sharma understood the frustration of the local parents as well as the teenagers and young adults as there is not much to do around Southall-Ealing. He made it apparent to the MIND THE STEP interviewers that there have been plans to have more social groups and SWAT teams. This action will be taken place in order to reduce teenagers from drug abuse and to keep them busy and entertained.