ill Manors (song) questions

- Does the video fuel negative representations of youth collective identity? Or does the video and lyrics together attempt to challenge these negative views?

does give negative representations of youths - hoodies, scarves over their mouth to cover their identity

- Can you offer textual examples of how young people are represented in the video?

- Are there any instances in the video which show authority abusing their power?

- What was Plan B trying to challenge through his lyrics and video for iLL Manors?

- What does Plan B hope to achieve through his music and film?

Ben Drew Ted Lecture

ill Manors music video

The Guardian Article (research)

How the newspapers headlined the London riots

The Daily Telegraph's headline was one of several to highlight the 'mob'

Today's national newspaper front pages have found a variety of ways to headline the riots across London. Without exception, all feature images of burning buildings.

The Daily Telegraph's "Rule of the mob" was echoed by The Independent's "Mob rule" and The Times's "Mobs rule as police surrender the streets."

The Sun went for a single word "Anarchy" while the Daily Mail preferred "The anarchy spreads" and Metro was rather similar with "Riots: the madness spreads." The Daily Mirror chose "Yob rule."

All were bettered by the Daily Star's excellent "Anarchy in the UK". That deserved a headline-of-the-day award.

The Daily Express went for a more personalised line: "Flaming morons". And The Guardian was altogether more pedestrian, but less slanted than its rivals, with "The battle for London".

Elsewhere, the Belfast Telegraph - a paper that has covered many a riot down the years - ran a page one with the headline "London blitzed."

The Yorkshire Post devoted most of its front page to the riots, "PM flies home to 'war zone'", while The Scotsman - which was probably preparing to carry a picture of the current Edinburgh festival - published a full-page image of a riot scene with the headline "London under siege as mobs roam streets."

But what of London's local papers? How did they manage to cover riots?More on that here

Articles Analysis

These articles stood out to me because of the picture used. They are really similar because of the use of language and the photograph used. The titles stand out a lot because of the use of 'yob and mob'. This attracts people to it and makes them want to read the rest of the story. It makes people 

I think the photograph used is really interesting. It shows a young woman jumping from a building which could be her home. She hasn't done anything wrong but has to jump out of the building so she didn't get hurt. The fire in the background makes it more interesting and the bright colour makes it stand out more on the front of the newspaper.

Sky News

This news reporter goes to interview what is described as 'teen gang members'. These four teenagers have been stealing from shops when the rioting has been happening. They are wearing hoodys and something over their faces as they dont want their identity to be shown on the TV. Before the reported talks to them the voiceover talks about gangs and people from different backgrounds who saw something they couldn't resist which is describing these teenagers.
The first teenager tells the reported he stole tracksuits and electronic stuff. The after he has spoke to the other three he goes back to the first teenager who tells him that he got a van and filled it up in different locations then when the van got full he dropped what he already had off and went back for more.
The second teenager who is only 16 years old with a child tells the reported how he has done it to provide for his family and get stuff for his son. He steals clothes and trainers for him self and steals clothes, nappies and powder which he describes as a whole johnson's set for his child.
One of the other teenagers tells the reporter that he stole TV's, plasma's, PS3's and laptops which he plans to sell onto other people and make at least 2,000 pounds from.
They tell us how they went to stores where they had applied for a job and never heard anything back so they say this is payback as they never got offered a job. The places they went to were Lewisham, Catford, Bromley and Clapham Junction.
Towards the end the reported asks these teenagers if they feel bad about the looting they have done but none of them say they do, one says that it just feels like a normal day to them and one of them makes a joke out of it and say 'it feels like christmas came early'.
Overall these teenagers show the younger generation in a bad way which makes people think this is what all youths are like when they aren't.

Boris Johnson

The London Mayor Boris Johnson is walking through a crowd of people who are wanting to help clean up London after the riots. One person stops him who is described as 'one young man'. He gives a really good speech to Boris Johnson and speaks loud and clear for people around him to hear. It is described as a 'heated exchange'. The young man is smartly dressed wearing a shirt, tie and jumper which we can see. This gives him a good representation of youths. I think in this interview the youth is given a fair voice as the way he speaks up. If he wasn't talking so loud i dont think Boris Johnson would have stopped to listen to him. He also has a good use of standard English and is talking about money and jobs in society.

London Riots Timeline