Research Dossier

Conducting Secondary research:

- I have found research videos on YouTube that agree with my statement saying that Violent video games don't make children more violent. In fact they have the exact opposite effect. In the last 30 year as video games have become increasingly more popular, crime and violent outburst in children have be steadily declining.

Documentary - This is a documentary about violent video games and whether they affect behavior. The main point that was discussed was about there being no link between watching violence and acting violence out.



This is a news report about the links between violence and video games. It's about a news channel in America discussing violent children playing video games. They eventually find out that more video game playing is actually associated with less real life violence.

Conducting Primary research -

- I made a questionnaire to find out whether children's behaviour change for the worse after playing violent video games.

Questionnaire data -

Once I received the answers from my questionnaire it was clear that the parents that answered my questionnaire thought that their children played on their games console too long and that that playing on their too long changed their behaviour for the worst. But most of them think that it's because they play on it too long rather than the games they play. One of the questionnaires say that their child play on their console for more than 4 hours a day. This is quite excessive but their mood doesn't change when they are playing these violent games. The shortest amount of time that a child played video games for was  about half an hour a night and this parent didn't notice any mood changes within their child. The other people who said their children play violent video games for a short amount of time said that they don't witness drastic mood changes in their children after they have finished playing their games.7 and of 10 people said that their child(ren) pick the games they play and don't stick to the age rating that they are.

Therefore this means that the children experience these mood changes but they are playing these games for a long period of time rather than the content of these games.

There are no laws against filing in public and police can't stop you. But you still need permission from the local council or the appropriate local authority.  But if you want any police/ police vehicles in the film then you have to get permission from the police them selves.

Offcom rules state that any child under 14 being used in a film shouldn't be involved in any filming that would be shown after the watershed at 9 Oclock. As I will be using young children in my documentary I'm not aloud to use them in anything that they should not be involved with. But as my documentary wont have anything offensive in it, I won't have to worry about that.

Whilst on the Channel 4 page looking at Viewer trust guidelines, I found that:  

Rule 2.2 of the Ofcom Code states that:

"Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience."

This means that my 3 minute wonder must not lead the audience astray from the truth. Even though I am portraying my views on a subject does not mean it will only be one sided. I must give valid points to both sides on the story.