Making Of ill Manors

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

Plan B intended to show the audience the mind of the younger generation. This explains the reasoning behind their decisions behind their life choices and why they are like that. The production holds a dominant ideology as Politicians and the Middle class group can agree that is how the younger generation is regarded as. This ideology supports their opinion on the young generation. The audience of this production including the Middle class and Politicians can learn and understand why the younger generation do what they do, learning their state of mind and general mentality. You could also say that the film is their to change its audiences dominant ideology of the younger generations behaviour

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

The production process was hard, due to the fact that the production was made from a low budget, of £100,000. The film was made in broad daylight with a few complications in the process such as having passers by walking in the middle of shots that needed to be done or getting into a confrontation with a couple of teenagers, filming in their "endz". These were difficulties that the camera crew had to deal with and overcome to make the film as successful as it was. In the production process Plan B could not hire professional actors to play the role of the troubled teenagers, so he set out auditioning a bunch of teenagers who understand that role or have lived in that environment and know what it is like growing up in that sort of environment. 

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

The possible target audience for this documentary about behind the scenes of ill Manors, the audience could be middle class or his fan base of aged 15-25 males as the scenes and actions taken in the film are more male based actions such as crime compared to females. Another audience type this documentary would appeal to is the social class of the Middle class sector which wants to learn about his troubled start in life and also change their perspective of their dominant ideology of the younger generation. This allows them to learn the behaviour of these teens making them understand why they do it. 

4) 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.

Yes.
In my opinion the film changes the perspective of how the younger generation is seen. It shows its audience why some teenagers are the way they are, because of how they are excluded from the modern society as not wanted or needed, just there to make trouble. This film shows these teens have been alienated and discriminated against, classed as "CHAV's". This is one way of making these teens feel they are not apart of society. when these teenagers are criticised constantly for the way they talk, dress and music preference or they lack of education they may have publicly, it is another way of making these teens feel alienated. This means that anyone who is beaten into feeling low or apathy wont care about the society which they have been removed from. This is because they feel in their eyes that society has made it very clear that they are not needed and are not cared about. Ben Drew has changed the meaning of CHAV's and made it into a modern interpretation of Council Housed And Violent, which is what is used to describe the teenagers now. Ben Drew also aims a comment to the upper class group by saying:

"Just because you were lucky to be born into a family that can afford to give you a good education doesn't make you better than anyone, it makes you lucky."