Any parents out there?

[Charlotte]

Hi there,

I'm researching for a documentary for Channel 4 Education which is about teenagers who have both, or either, parent working in the adult industry. This can be anything from escorting to webcams to poledancing to porn. It's for educational daytime programming.

It's an attempt to be frank about sex and the industry from the perspective of a young adult who is developing their own ideas about it for the first time but doing so from a a unique perspective of having a parent working in the field. ideally they'd be 16 - 19. We'd give the teen film-making training and expenses. At the end of the film they would be given a DV camera to keep.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has a teen son or daughter who they think might be confident enough to make a film on this subject.

Hope to hear from you and thanks for your time.

best wishes,

Charlotte
charlotte@angeleye.co.uk
0777 963 7845

[Tequila_Woods]

Here we go again *rollseyes*

[Charlotte]

What?!

[Tequila_Woods]

We get at least one of these posted every month, and they always get shot down in flames. Do you really think any parent would put their kids on national tv to talk about such a 'controversial' subject?

And yes, i know...Its not going to be slagging of the adult industry blah blah blah....

[Charlotte]

Well, there we go thinking we were original! Appreciate your point. It would depend very much on if there's a teenager out there who might want to make a film about the subject and how confident they are. I know we'd be responsible and respectful, I personally have made films with teens on more delicate subjects. But, as you say, I don't know if it's going to be possible. We thought by getting teens to make their own films could allow the families to keep that control over the subject matter and what's filmed.

I suppose all we can ask is if people have teenagers they might put it to them and see what they say?

Thanks and sorry to be intruding on your forum,

best,

Charlotte

[James not Bond]

'I know we'd be responsible and respectful,'
Prove it, in my experience documentary companies go to any lengths to get what they want.

'We thought by getting teens to make their own films could allow the families to keep that control over the subject matter and what's filmed. '
Ever heard of editing Charlotte?


As you cross posted, I put a reply to your posting on the OT forum. Read that one.

[mark cremona]

wait until Jim Slip sees this one

[Charlotte]

Just responding to this post aswell because the two had different points. I do appreciate the points you've made because it can be an unscupulous industry.

Here is a link to the last film I made for Ch 4 Education to show I'm not disparaging about my contributors (I also pasted in the write ups below. I know people can be edited to look bad but for that programme we made agreements on the release forms for two of the girls that a) that they could see the programme before it aired c)we would not quote them out of context

There are things that you can, and to be honest probably should do if you feel wary.

Anyway, here is that link.

best,

Charlotte

http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/T/thinclub/

Here is the write up about the 3 contributors on the 4 website

Sabrina

Sabrina is a fun, sporty and active 16 year old living with her parents in Lincolnshire. She has always been slim but has been using pro-anorexia sites for four months to help her lose a lot of weight quickly.

Like many girls she's ultra-conscious about her figure. She's had a history of dieting but not anorexia. She diets alongside online friends and posts daily in her online journal with updates of her weight loss.

She admits that the majority of girls on the pro-ana sites have a higher BMI (body mass index) than her but finds the sites helpful with her extreme weight loss goals. She feels the girls on it are 'really supportive and lovely'.

Her first goal was to get from 106lbs (7st 8lbs) to 102lbs (7st 4lbs) for her prom and she looks forward to her next goal of 98lbs (7st) for her GCSE results.

Pro-ana sites seem to be making her weight loss obsession more extreme ? she is now picking up tips from the sites on ways to avoid eating.

Feodora

Feodora is a super-bright, warm and strong-willed 17 year old who began sliding into anorexia after going on a simple health kick at the age of 14. For three years the illness has dominated her life and pro-anorexia sites have fuelled the disorder and weight loss.

Feodora has developed a growing disgust for the whole concept of pro-anorexia as she's struggled to recover and to forget the misguided weight loss advice, tips, tricks and 'thinsperation' pro-ana sites have offered. Now she wants to get on with normal teenage life and not immerse herself in a world where war is being waged against food.

Now down to a life-threatening weight of 90lbs (6st 6lbs) she is admitting herself into a unit and will begin trying to readjust to gaining weight. Things are so severe, Feodora feels this might be the last opportunity to leave it all behind her.

Lilly

Lilly is an articulate and quirky 25 year old living in Brighton. There have been issues surrounding her weight since she can remember but she developed an eating disorder around the age of 14.

She had previously joined a pro-anorexia site on a live journal community called simply 'pro-anorexia', but it was targeted and overwhelmed by people hostile to 'pro-ana' and so she left.

With others she started up a site called 'proanamovement', which is a private online community where eating disorders can be openly discussed between members without criticism or interference from those outside.

Lilly maintains that such communities work as group therapy. They give people who would otherwise be isolated by their eating disorders a nurturing place where they can be understood and listened to rather than being shunned and dismissed.

She has close relationships with those in her group. Despite being 'eating disordered' herself, she fulfils an unofficial motherly and advisory role to younger girls within 'proanamovement'.

[steve56]

im sure its a wind up.

[James not Bond]

This must be the sickest attempt at documentary making ever.
No matter what angle this company use to approach this subject, mixing kids and this profession is just plain sick. Who thought of this idea?