Ill Manors TEDX Lecture

1) Plan B’s beliefs are that in society today young people are being seen in a negative way, so there for being stereotyped many different things. However he explains how there is two sides to the story, what young people do is bad however they have their reasons for doing what they are doing. He believes that the government does not try hard enough to keep young people off streets as they've been closing community centres down. This would leave the young people out on the streets where they can be influenced by other bad characters into doing things they should not be doing. This is because they have nothing better to do. Plan b explains how they may have problems at home so they feel their home is out on the street where they feel freer to spread their wings, and to do something as they are bored of doing nothing. 

2) The target group   for the TEDX lecture would be university students or people who have an interest in lectures. The age range for this would be from 18-50 all these people would have been well educated or are currently being educated at university. This would be of an interest for them as they talk about stuff that may interest them. In this case people are interested in what Plan B has to say about the government and the people with in urban isolated estates with in society. This would be of an interest to them as they would be able to get a person who has been in the same type of situation as the lower class, unemployed, street thug that he was. This would also give the audience a chance to see what he has to say about the government. The demographics that would apply to this would be the A, B AND C1. This is because the only people who are well educated and interested in what others have to say about society and government would be attracted to one of these lectures. Also lectures do go on for quite a while and do contain professional people who use sophisticated vocabulary meaning people who fall under the category of C2,D and E will not fully understand what is being said during the lecture as they lack in knowledge and education. If this was compared to the audience for the music video, the music video would attract an audience of people who are currently unemployed and live in poverty. For those who are have miserable and unfit lives they could connect and relate to his music videos. As all the things that have said in his music videos may be currently happening to them. Whether it’s from the government portraying them in a negative way to the crime that is being committed by them and also others, this would mostly appeal to the E demographic however could apply to the D as well.

3) Plan B explains how the media portrays the young people of society and then explains how society wrongly perceives young people through not showing all that there is to know. What6 plan b mean by this is the media choose not to show both sides to the story, as it would make the story more interesting for people. For example a newspaper agent came to interview plan b about a misunderstanding/conflict between plan b and a group of youth’s that came down to where they were filming, claiming that the place was theirs. The youths were ready to strike at plan b however; help came along as another group of youths came to scare them away, not in violence but by words.  This broke the stereotype of young people that was already out there, yet the media chose not to show the ending of the story.  Leaving the bit where the youths came in violently at plan b, this is only one example of many other situations. He also explains how the media change the meanings of words and label people as “chavs” the word chav meant “boy” however the media have created another meaning for the word. “Council house and violent” is what people see it as now.