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What does this tell us about Plan B's intentions in making the film?

Plan B's intention was to show people that kids brought up in rough estate's should not be judged as they are in a location where the government does not care about them and they would need the money what else can they do. Plan B gives the idea that Media goes against these kids and that it’s not the fault of the kids but the politicians not wanting to fund and help the youth with their problems. Plan B wants send a message that older people like him should give these opportunities to youth as for example such as he did for film but couldn't as it was limited places. He believes every youth should be able to have a fair life and should not be stereotype as bad people. The movie also give intentions that they want people to feel emotion and also believe that they can have a personal relationship as feeling sympathy for the character.

What do we learn about the production process for Ill Manors?

We learn from production that no movie production or any deals wanted to be made as it was a good story but they did not believe that Plan B could be good so he made short films and slowly thought that he wants to do ill manors so he continued it on but with no deals as they came after his album hitting number one but Plan B still continued and had to work with a tight budget of a movie but still got it done. He gave a draft to the producer and the producer thought it was amazing and that they should do this so they worked on it with a budget and good actors where they got them from the east London the schools as they wanted an actor who was actually from the area.

What can you tell about the possible target audience from this short documentary?

The audience I believe for this documentary would be 20 going to 40+ as they want to know more about the movie and how it was made. It for psycho-graphics such as the reformers and believe in seeing something new. Another group would be the strugglers to understand that there is more about the movie history and would get a different idea of how it was made. The uses and gratifications would be the surveillance of the documentary as for example the audience would want information about the movie as where is the location and why the actors. The other uses and gratification would be the diversion as to just being interested in the movie as to away distracting yourself from something else.

Does the film successfully do what director Ben Drew (Plan B) set out to achieve? Explain your answer with reference to both the film and the making of documentary.

The film does do successfully in my opinion I thought it was realistic and was very intense, it built the emotions of me very well as you feel an actual personal relationships to some characters as hard it was for them and understand what they had to do to in the movie. Ben Drew in my opinion was good in his directing and making these true events happen same time made it even more in emotional for the audience. I believe that Ben Drew set to make people realise the tough areas of east London that people are not treated right and are misunderstood for what they do and actually want help people. I believe that the movie was amazing and you can see from the budget in the documentary it was not easy.