Here’s another multimedia offering from this accidental journalist.. My friends Alice, Lydia and I made the following video last week, using proper video cameras with tripods, and edited it using Final Cut Pro 7 in our university Mac lab.
This one’s about Britain as a surveillance society: Is there too much CCTV in our society? Do you feel like your every move is being tracked? Is it all a little too Big Brother-esque? Where is the right balance to be struck between too much surveillance and too little? We – ironically – took a camera into City University’s Northampton Square to ask students and locals about their thoughts on the subject.
Here’s what we came up with…
For more information on the secret surveillance society underpinning the UK, check out this great story on Computeractive, and Wikipedia’s take on mass surveillance, which has some great stats. Did you know that a YouGov poll published in 2006 indicated that 79% of the public agreed that Britain had become a ’surveillance society’? Or that in 2002 it was estimated that the United Kingdom was monitored by over 4.2 million CCTV cameras? It’s pretty scary stuff – just look at the shocked expressions on our faces in the YouTube clip above. Serious journalism indeed.
More videos and audio from the Accidental Journalist coming to a blog near you soon..
