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Teen representations - Critical Investigation - Teenage pregnancy

My mini linked production was based on teenagers bunking. Their views and how it may affect their education. Also the reasons as to why teenagers bunk. However, I decided to do my critical investigation on teenage pregnancy and the ongoing concern in relation to it.

Teenage pregnancy is a rising concern in todays western society. It is claimed that 'kids are having kids'. Before girls of young ages are able to look afer themselves, they have another life to look after. There have been many websites made to support this. If an individual does end up getting pregnant, there are many sources they can use to help them through the process. Because of this, I believe that teenage pregnancy has become so common that now it is fine to create such websites which therefore make it look normal.

The primary sources I will be using to discover more about this topic are...
Links on Youtube, The movie Juno and the reality programme 16 and pregnant. These media texts will be used to establish how teen pregancy has been represented throughout these different texts. My aim would be to see how teenage pregnancy has been interpreted through these different texts.

The secondary sources I will be using are...
Newspapers and the arguements portrayed based on teenage pregnancy. What different representatives have to say about it and how it is affecting the society.
I could also use surveys which have already been completed, to convey facts and statistics on teenage pregnancy. The higher the figures of teenage pregnancy the more concern there is.
I can also use different websites to get the relevant information I need regarding the issues on 'kids having kids'

These are some eye opening facts about teenage pregnancy:
- Despite the fact that the teen birth rate is slowly falling for years, there are still an estimated one million teen pregnancies in the US alone.
- Alfie Patten said to have fathered a child at the age of 13 with a girl aged 15. This raises moral panic and questions the fact that it is maybe because of the early sex education at school. Because children being aware of such things at an early age, they are growing up to think that it is 'normal'

I'll be using many facts and figures to do with teenage pregnancy. Also outlining representations of teen pregnancy in movies like, Juno or reality programmes such as 16 and Pregnant.

My critical investigation will begin with an introduction to the topic, following on with representations and facts and figures. Then finish off with a conclusion, summarising the problems, issues, concerns and arguements in relevance to teen pregnancy.

Bibliography:
http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/teenpregnancy/a/teenpreg.htm - information on just US alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/the-big-question-why-are-teenage-pregnancy-rates-so-high-and-what-can-be-done-about-it-1623828 - The newspaper -Independent, has issues relation to teen pregnancy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4584175.stm - BBC news article stating problems to do with teen pregnancy.

Teen representation - Bunking (Evaluation)

We worked quite well as a group as we are aware that there is a lot of traunting of lessons done by teenagers. We used the documentary format to create our piece of teenager representation. We personally thought bunking was a good topic to work towards as it can relate to many teenagers. We had actors in the documentary, such as myself to really get the feel of teen environment included in the documentary. We didn't do much research, we used our own experiences of school life to build up a teen atmosphere and environment.

We could have included more shot types and lighting to make the documentary more engaging. We could've involved content that went against bullying, as everything said by the speakers was surpringly positive! We could've done a bit more in terms of fully conveying the kind of teenagers that like to traunt.