"Lady, I may be a born fool, but you got ten absurd ideas to my one, an' don't you forget it!"

After meeting last week and not really being able to come up with a good idea, we got together as a group again this week and tried to power through the writer's block to come up with a good idea. These are some basic ones we had that generally cover the idea of the kind of politics we want to talk about:

Dead-End Towns- What life is like living in a small, dead-end town.- No future, no prospects- Trapped by parents jobs in town- Friends and others going off to 'the big city'- Depressing visuals, abandoned buildings, grafitti - Stuck, nowhere to go
- Industrial cities no longer thriving, factories shut down etc
- Main source of work gone
- Influenced by Billy Elliott, La Haine, The Full MontyInvestigative Reporting- Confronting bad people about crimes they're committing- Often gets jacked in the mouth- Camera pushed away, lots of swearing/bleeping- Covers child porn, war crimes, manipulation of UK single charts- Needs a story thread, some sort of political slant - Film could move from docu-footage to narrative viewpoint
- Influenced by The Cook Report, Brass Eye, The Weather Man

The Powers of Government
- Can a government have too much power?
- What if a government used their position to exploit the masses?
- Would they use fear (terrorism, crime etc) to strengthen their own position?
- Totalitarian rule
- CCTV, ID Cards, computer databases on everyone, government telling you where to work, where to live, where to shop etc. Restrictions on leaving and entering country. Prisons for anyone who rebels. Capital punishment?
- Could things possibly go so far as to create a dystopian future?
- Influenced by V For Vendetta, 1984, Equilibrium

We will have another look at these ideas as a group and try to come up with a solid idea that incorporates some of the themes from the above notes.