any parents out there?

[Charlotte]

Hi there,

I'm researching for a documentary for Channel 4 Education in the UK 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

[James not Bond]

For this 'documentary' to work, the parents involved would have to be filmed doing their job. What depths can these documentary companies sink to, just to get shock television? Think about it, daytime television and porn just do not mix, even when labelled 'educational'.

[Charlotte]

We wouldn't be looking at the subject from that perspective, we certainly wouldn't be able to show anything at all of that nature. Especially as we intend the bulk of material for the programme to be shot by the son/daughter!

Much of the material would be video diary from the teens perspective at home, out with friends, discussing issues of sex and dating, and also I suppose porn. It's really focussed on them rather than the parent (s). It would be the teenager making the programme. It's intended to be frank and interesting and heart-warming rather than smutty. - Not generally, I can imagine, the angle most docs come from when approaching you guys.

Anyway, I hope you can consider it and perhaps have a talk about it with your families.

best wishes,

Charlotte

[steve56]

sounds a bit iffy though ;what are calling the show keep it in the family?lol.

[steve56]

or wait till your father comes home or even father came too.lol.

[Jacques]

Sponsored by Waddingtons, the family game?

[steve56]

instead of monopoly sexopoly.

[jimslip]

S, have I got this right? A pornstar gives his kids a camcorder and says to him "OK son, I want you to follow me around and film my antics", he then films his dad or mom, packing the lube, the HIV certificate, stockings and general paraphanalia of porn and follows them on their merry way to the next jolly 'ol porn shoot.............................

Are YOU ALL MAD!!?? What kind of grotesque sleazebag would wish this on their offspring?

Why can't you telly-toffs leave us all alone, go and do the same documentary on someone in undertaking, a much more interesting subject. There you go, a free idea and I haven't even got a degree in Media Studies!

[The Last Word]

Charlotte wrote:

>Much of the material would be video diary from the teens perspective at home, out with friends, discussing issues of sex and dating, and also I suppose porn. It's really focussed on them rather than the parent (s). It would be the teenager making the programme.

The only angle this documentary could work at (and interest the viewer) is how his/her parents work affects them. Otherwise why bother? It would be just another dreary, ten-a-penny teen lifestyle doc, so of course it's about the parents, albeit indirectly.

>It's intended to be frank and interesting and heart-warming rather than smutty.

I thought he idea of these things was to see how things naturally occur (sadness, tedium, excitement etc) rather than have a set intention such as heart-warming? Unless that's how you arrange it to be beforehand or whatever.