Ill Manors: Tedx Broadcast

Notes

• I think that the audience are not of which Plan B is used to
• may have felt ignored by society
• poetry being a powerful tool in his fight for his opinion 
• reference to the word "chav", showed a strong dislike towards it
• comes from hard backgrounds with dysfunctional families 
• they didn't respect anyone else's authority 

Plan B's ideology/political ideas

Looking at Plan B's songs you could say that they are quite political and you can really see how he's trying to show off the negatives of his and others community to show the harsh reality to what needs changing and what the politicians are ignoring. In his song Ill Manors he makes references to certain politicians in particular which shows his aversion to the government. A quote that Plan B had in his film Ill Manors "we are all products of our environment" is quite  significant as it shows not all environments are the same and he believes the one he came from and which so many other are coming from is not stable enough to support these humans as it will just turn them out how everyone sees them as thugs and "chavs" but the believes more can be done to help the environment that they come from.

He also goes on to talk about a vicious circle, if you go on to call these kids derogatory terms then they are going to hate you and your going to hate them because they are different. This is the fuel to the fire as it works two ways, for example the people didn't start the London riots for no reason as it was down to the long term racial stereotyping and negative reinforcement that people had that led to the violent outbreaks.

Target audience

The target audience is unusual in this case as a typical Ted audience would be for people that fit into the psychographic group of aspires and explorers and they may not be Plan B's typical audience as some of the groups that may fit into is struggler's who aren't necessarily an audience for Ted lectures, however this could be good as the people at the Tedx lecture would need to be ones educated about this matter so they don't just see one side of what the mass media has to say and stereotype they can hear it first hand and un-changed. I think that that a usual demographic for Ted lecture may be a higher percentage of females, roughly 55/45% or 60/40%. You could also suggest that the audience may be slightly older, approximately around the 40-50 mark, this is because they may just have more spare time and be more interested in new topics than younger people.

Moral Panics

In terms of moral panics there is a second stage which is the involvement in finding the "folk devil" this is someone who is portrayed by the media as the problem and the reason for the outbreak of the moral panic. The folk devil in this case people may be referring to is the damaged youth. Plan B goes on to say about the media that they demonstrate the youth in the media in such a way that everyone is falling for it but if  you were to actually go and talk to the kids you'd know and understand that you can't always base judgements and form stereotypes on a group of people without knowing both sides of the story. In this case the moral panics surrounding the young people could and can be avoided but too much negative stereotyping and scapegoating is preventing the youth from seeing positivity and therefore staying in the vicious cycle the media has helped to start.