Ill Manors: TEDx Lecture

1) Make notes on the lecture: focus on Plan B/Ben Drew's views on the opportunities for young people in London and how these inspired Ill Manors.

Plan b talks a lot about the opportunities for young people in London in the school holidays for example.As its hot outside and they want to be able to do something productive and so they cant no more as the UK had been in recession and cut the funding for community centre and other organisation who don't receive payments other than children being satisfied and being happy.So know the youth whenever they go outside to play they have nothing better to do than just muck about and cause trouble and get into trouble.Therefore plan B describes the opportunities for young people to be very limited.

2) What are Plan B's beliefs/politics? What are his values/ideologies? Explain your answers.

The youth that he talks about that are misbehaving he beliefs are like him and they come from poor backgrounds and broken families.So he beliefs that they are not giving any positive regard they have no role models or guider to tell them they can do it and be whatever they want.They only thing they have is rap music as that their role models and so they listen the gang violence, drug use and sex they talk about.So he beliefs that school or other organisations like community center or local football teams should take them in not only to take them out of trouble but to also make them believe they can be something and not believe that no body cares about them.

3) Who is the target audience of the TEDx lecture? Demographics? Psychographics? How do you know? How does this compare to the audience for his music/films?

The target audience surprisingly are the older generation or the politicians themselves. I know this because of the audience from the TEDx lecture were mostly older adults. I think Ben Drew has purposely planned to aim this at those because they are the people that seem to 'demonise' the youth. Also, he believes that they are the people that have the power to change the youths' lives by making a change in areas where there are the most disadvantaged. I know this because Ben Drew also speaks about the fact that 'every person watching the lecture knows one person who is less fortunate than them that they can help'

4) What does Plan B say about the media? Explain how this can be linked to Cohen's media theory of moral panics? Read this summary of moral panics and the definition from Wikipedia and use them in your answer.

Plan B believes the media are ignorant and only target the people from the lower backgrounds such as the council estate families.So that's were they word,plan b believes, the media fueled the fire and made it okay to say the word chav on regular basis just because of what people were and where they are from.Also plan b talked about a story about how group of lads ,youths with hoodies,help him from a sticky situation.He told a newspaper in a interview and then they manipulate the story and forgot about the part were he was saved.They stop the story at were plan b was in a bad situation and they concluded that youths from the council estate are trouble and so they try  cause a moral panic in the population.Making society go against the youths of this country.