BuLlYcIdE

Bullycide is formed from the words bully and suicide and homicide. Bullycide refers to the suicide or killing of a child due to bullying, or a bully victim seeking fatal revenge against his or her bullies, such as school shooting. Since bullying can cause an individual to feel hopeless about himself, he may have very low self-esteem and may suffer depression as a result. This can eventually lead to suicide.

Bullycide can refer to school violence that is provoked by bullying, as well as murders that occur as a result of bullying. Bullies can pick on people physically hard enough to actually kill them.

Progress so far

Finally filming is just about complete and logging and editing has begun after a whole load of HARD work. After going to extreme measures to get the best footage possible we feel very proud.

We feel weve really tried to make scenes of emotion as expressive and emotive as possible, by using vicks to encourage tears, food colouring for blood (after almost staining rajans sofa oooooops!) and using dark settings and fast paced movements to build up tension.

Weve gone to all extremes and efforts to get the best resuls, this does not include making long journeys and meetings for interviews because these would have no relevance to the type of documentary we are doing, but we did go out and buy our own tapes for 13 whole pounds which is alot when ur a student.

Weve filmed a lot of footage i believe about 7 tapes in total, which may be too much but this is something we will hopefully work out in editing.

KIRAN

Symbolis in Bullycide

The key symbolism in Bullycide are the empty spaces that reflect how alone Baljit is (Protagonist).

Buiding up to our climax the red carpet in the scene foreshadows whats to come.

KIRAN

Bullycide and Smoke weed every day

Our documentary and Smoke weed every day have a lot in common:

They both refferr to very seriouse topics.

Thye both can be seen as problems in middle schools.

• They both have negatve outcomes.

Another simularity is the narrative of our documentary and Smoke weed every day. For Bullycide our group is doing alomost a story like doumentary that develops into disaster to express the extent to which Bullying is dangerouse therefore we are including no vox poxes etc etc.By following around our protagonist we come to see from his point of view how it feels to be bullied. Just like Smoke weed every day there is a protagonist and he is focuseed on at all times. Smoke weed was very successfull and we very much liked their technique, we hope to do just as well and even better.

KIRAN

ANTI BULLYING WEEK

Anti-Bullying Week runs from the 22 to 26 November, the Anti-Bullying Alliance focused on encouraging schools and those who work in schools to work towards reducing bullying incidents and make schools safer environments for learning.
The week sees a host of events organised by members of ABA at a regional and national level, including a conference for young people organised by ChildLine, and the launch of an Anti-Bullying Award by the Diana Memorial Awards.
ABA also launched a number of key resources for parents and professionals:

Parents
Bullying: a Guide to the Law is a new 16-page document written in conjunction with the Children’s Legal Centre. It provides information for parents and carers on bullying and what schools are required to do to prevent and deal with it effectively. The guide also provides practical advice on what parents can do if their child is being bullied, and what to do if the school fails to support their child.

Schools
Making schools safer using effective anti-bullying strategies Spotlight briefing focuses on bullying, which blights the lives of thousands of children every year. It can happen anywhere, in school, in the community and in the home. But there is increasing evidence that there are effective strategies that schools can use to reduce its frequency and its impact as well as managing bullying incidents effectively. This briefing explores some of those strategies.

School & community
A special edition of the magazine Spotlight features articles and information about examples of good practice in anti-bullying work in schools and community settings.

KIRAN

OUR PROGRESS SO FAR

So far id say were pretty much on track. We have majority of the footage done with some remaining and were enjoying ourselves in the process.

Althought today was a mess because Gurveer has a farting problem weve really got into the experimenting mode which has turned out well. Such as today we were experiementing with veriouse shots when filming a brief interview with the protagonist.

Gurjot (protagonist), Gurveers cousin has been great at acting and keeping a strait face so farrrr (touch wood) and co operates even with his timetable being so different to ours.
Weve done many interviews with Gurjot but now have to focus on other shots including the "bullies" where things begin to get tense.

Weve also done alot of landscape shots and paid attention to detail when filming.

Were hopiong to bring everything together by the end of the week ready for editing.

KIRAN

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female BULLYING

Girl's bullying 'as bad as ever'


Shona Hughes will only return to school for her examsA 15-year-old who was driven to try to take her own life by school bullies has said their taunts are as bad as ever.

Shona Hughes took about 80 painkillers after being bullied about her weight by fellow pupils at Bebington High School in Wirral, Merseyside.

She returned to school on Monday but is refusing to go back again because, she says, "nothing has changed".

Head teacher Brian Jordan said the school took bullying very seriously and were tackling incidents.

"I just decided to take tablets, I think there were about eighty, and I just went to sleep," said Shona.

"I wanted to kill myself because I didn't want to be in school, I didn't want to be around, I didn't care if I died, I wanted to die, it wasn't a cry for help, I did want to die."

Shona said she was now determined to stay away from the school until she takes exams in Spring.

"Even with the school involved and warning these people it is still carrying on, they just don't care, and they're not really bothered about what's been said or the fact that they're supposed to stay away from me," she added.

In the last academic year Bebington High, which has 1200 pupils, temporarily excluded nine children for bullying and permanently excluded one.

Mr Jordan said: "We take the welfare of our students as a high priority in school and any allegation that is made will be investigated fully.

"We have very robust policies supported by parents and students and in recent inspections they have been praised."

ReAsOnS fOr BuLlYiNg

Health: 10-year-old girls obsessed by body image

Young girls blame their problems on their bodies Girls as young as ten-years-old think their unattractive bodies are to blame if they are teased or bullied by their peers, research indicates.
Scientists are concerned that the girls are becoming obsessed with body image at an ever earlier age.

They found that dissatisfaction over body image was unrelated to actual weight or to pubertal development.

US researchers from the Stanford Center on Adolescence studied concerns among 157 girls aged 10 to 13 years.

Youngsters who were physically abused by peers, or who felt socially isolated or neglected had a lower opinion of their own phyiscal attractiveness.

Those girls who were popular socially had a much higher level of satisfaction with their own bodies. 'What's wrong with me?'

Researcher Dr. Kris Gowen said: "Ten to thirteen-year-old girls who are picked on may question what is wrong with themselves, and accordingly they tend to believe that if they were prettier or skinnier, their peers would not tease them."
Studies have shown that social victimisation is related to loneliness, depression, social anxiety, and social avoidance among boys and girls, and teasing has been shown to cause anger and sadness.

Media hype


the media plays a crucial rolePeter Wilson, director of the mental health charity Young Minds, said children were becoming preoccupied with their body image several years younger than in the past.

He said part of the reason was that youngsters were reaching puberty slightly earlier, but he said the major factor was exposure to a media obsessed with image.

Mr Wilson, a child psychotherapist, said: "The penetration of media hype into young minds is very, very forceful, and all children are exposed to this - there is a pressure to grow up.
"The majority of children will weather this problem, by I am concerned by the 10-15% who might become overwhelmed."

Mr Wilson said it was vital that parents gave their children an inner confidence by making them feel good about themselves.

But he said schools should also set time aside to teach children about the changes going on in their bodies, so that they were equipped to deal with outside pressures

Bullying taken beyond just schools

Bullying is an issue which is not seriousely adressed as it should be. Following our documentry id like to prove just how seriouse this issue is and the extent and behaviour it can lead to. It is thought that this type of behaviour is temporary highschool behaviour, however this is wrong. Evidence shows that bullying takes place in places of work. In my ow opinon i find if the problem was tackled at the root ( at school) then pupils are less likely to find it acceptable to behave in this manner later on in life.

The following extract talks about bullying at work. You would have thought grown ups were mature enuff to respect each other and act appropriately but instead were left thing just grow up!

BULLYING IN THE WORK PLACE

Employers are beginning to take steps to make bullying as unthinkable as sexual harassment or drunkenness in the workplace.
Schoolyard bullying - the torment of one child by another - is often compared to workplace bullying. Both types represent a grab for control by an insecure, inadequate person, an exercise of power through the humiliation of the target. School bullies, if reinforced by cheering classmates, fearful teachers or ignoring administrators, grow up to be dominating adults. When they join the work force, they continue to bully others.
Psychological Violence

A 1999 International Labour Organization (ILO) report on workplace violence emphasized that physical and emotional violence is one of the most serious problems facing the workplace in the new millennium. The ILO definition of workplace violence includes bullying:
"any incident in which a person is abused, threatened or assaulted in circumstances relating to their work. These behaviors would originate from customers, co-workers at any level of the organization. This definition would include all forms or harassment, bullying, intimidation, physical threats/assaults, robbery and other intrusive behaviors."
CUPE's National Health and Safety Survey of Aggression Against Staff, published in January, 1994, mentions verbal aggression and harassment in its definition of violence:
"Any incident in which an employee is abused, threatened or assaulted during the course of his/her employment. This includes the application of force, threats with or without weapons, severe verbal abuse and persistent sexual and racial harassment."
Bullying (general harassment) is far more prevalent than other destructive behaviors covered by legislation, such as sexual harassment and racial discriptions.

KIRAN

COMMENTS

1. What do you think of our blog?

- What do you particularly like about it? What's especially impressive?

- What could be improved? What's missing or could be added?


2. Based on what you've read on the blog (and maybe seen in test screenings in class)

- what suggestions do you have regarding what we could do to make our Practical Production really successful?

- What other things could we include in the production?

- How should we go about filming any remaining scenes or editing the footage during post-production (+ suggestions for music, etc.)?

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VIDEO ARCHIVE

Mints finally found some archive footage, check out the bbc news website yeh, there is bare!!!

So far we got most of our scenes done, with some sick acting done by Gurj. Hopefully we'll be finished after the first week back. Sinbad and Rishi, hope you lot having a good time cause when you get back, you lot are gonna work your ballz off!!

Gurveer

THE GUARDIAN: BULLYING ARTICLES

Police investigate bullying claims after boy, 13, hangs himself
Martin Wainwright
Wednesday November 30, 2005

Police are investigating claims that a bullying campaign may have led to the death of a 13-year-old boy who was found by his mother hanging in his bedroom from a homemade noose.
Officers have been told that Paul Moran, who started at Lytham St Annes high school last year, had been targeted by bullies.

Paramedics tried to revive the teenager and he was taken to the Royal Victoria hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival there.

A spokeswoman for Lancashire police said the bullying reports were being investigated as part of their inquiry.

Headteacher Philip Wood said staff were working with police to try to verify the bullying allegations, but Paul's death had come as a complete shock.

He said: "Paul was a pleasant and friendly pupil who had a positive attitude to school. We just had no inkling that this was coming. The whole school has been devastated by the news."
Counsellors are working with pupils at the school which Paul joined in September last year.
Detective Inspector Andy Webster, head of the inquiry, said: "Paul's family have reiterated their wish that their privacy is respected at this difficult time. This is a tragic incident and our thoughts are with them."

The death was not being treated as suspicious, he said, but police were following up all possible lines of inquiry.

Michael Jack, Conservative MP for Fylde, said: "Clearly there has got to be a full investigation into the causes of his death and I am sure that if there are any aspects of this connected with bullying or activities in school it will need to be very thorough indeed."


Taunted teenager killed tormentor with pool cue ·
Life for manslaughter after night of drink and drugs·
Bullying victim endured years of humiliation
Steven Morris
Thursday November 10, 2005

A bullied teenager who battered one of his tormentors to death with a pool cue was yesterday jailed for life. Tommy Kimpton, 19, the target of taunts about his appearance since he was five, finally snapped and killed Ben Williams after a night out.

Kimpton admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility or provocation but was cleared by a jury at Truro crown court of murdering the 17-year-old victim.

Judge Graham Cottle said Kimpton's personality had "developed in an abnormal way" because of his "very difficult childhood and adolescence." For 14 years Kimpton suffered taunts about his weight, his glasses, large ears and arched feet and his inability to get a girlfriend.

Giving evidence, he said: "I didn't look the same as everyone else - I was always very different. I was overweight and had to wear thick glasses, and I had big ears and goofy teeth. Everyone found it funny and took the piss."

The court was told that rather than keeping himself to himself, Kimpton tried to get along by befriending the bullies, especially Williams, whom he hero-worshipped. Kimpton said: "Everybody liked him. He was good at sport, he was funny, and I wanted to be like him. When we were on our own he was brilliant, but as soon as we were in a group he would take the piss."
As he grew older, the taunts became worse. His tormentors daubed graffiti about him on a bridge in his home town of Penryn, Cornwall, and at one party he was forced to drink his friends' urine. After the party, photographs of him on the toilet were circulated around his school and posted on the internet.

The court heard both Kimpton's parents had drink problems and he took refuge on the internet, developing an alter ego to impress girls.

On the night of the killing in May last year, Kimpton had been out with Williams and other friends. They spent the night teasing him and at the end of the evening Kimpton invited Williams back to his home.

Kimpton, who was drunk and had taken drugs, said his friend did not usually tease him when they were alone. On this occasion, Williams did laugh and he snapped. He smashed the cue over his head 12 times. Williams' blood was found splattered on the wall three metres from his body.
Next day his mother found him unconscious in the living room next to an open bottle of vodka and packets of drugs. He had left two letters. One, to his mother, said: "Mum, I am not the son you think I am, so that is why it is better this way."

Mrs Kimpton found Williams' body slumped against a wardrobe in her son's bedroom with a plastic bag over his head.

Outside court, Williams' family expressed disappointment that Kimpton had been cleared of murder. In a statement they said: "The bullying aspect has been blown out of all proportion."

DAILY MIRROR: BULLYING ARTICLES

21 January 2006
BEATEN BY 6 GIRL YOBS

SIX girl bullies ripped out another girl's hair and cut off clumps with scissors in a vicious attack at their school.

They dragged Ann-Marie McCullough, 16, to the ground and kicked and thumped her in the head. She passed out later.

Police are investigating Wednesday's attack at St Benedict's Catholic College in Cheltenham, Glos. One girl has been suspended.

Ann-Marie's mum Angela, 38, said: "She's afraid to go back. She can't sleep and is scared to go out."

School deputy head Julian Simcox said there may be other exclusions.

4 May 2005
OVERDOSE GIRL 'BULLIED'
By Rod Chaytor

A SCHOOLGIRL'S death from an overdose of anti- depressants was partly caused by bullying, an inquest heard yesterday.

Amy Tipton, 14, had told her mum she didn't want to go to school until she knew who her classmates would be.

Ruling suicide, coroner Victor Round said "intelligent" Amy had left a goodbye note in her room.
She felt unpopular at school, but had "other concerns". Mr Round said he was well aware the family thought "some part of this was bullying".

Amy, of Kidderminster, Worcs, went to the town's King Charles I school.

A SCHOOL BULLY

• Refusal (not inability) to think rationally about themselves and others;
• Small scale Terrorist, with behavior mostly taking place during school time;
• Justifies terrorist activities towards his/her targets or victims with self psychological excuses ("I want to appear tough and in control");
• Enjoys enforcing power on others and causing extreme fear;
• Over-bearing person who bullies the non-violent and physically less strong;
• To rule by intimidation, terror;
• Threatens or acts violence on others; Calls an assault a "fight," or even” justice."

CASES OF SCHOOL BULLYING IN THE UK

30% of children bullied at school

4 August 2002: 13-year-old Jack Glasby hung himself after being bullied at

Carmarthen schoolgirl from Llansteffan ended up slashing her wrists with a compass in a cry for help because teachers weren't able to protect her from months of bullying. Things got worse when the bullies were actually identified instead of getting better.

Each year in the UK at least 16 teenagers commit suicide due to bullying whilst there are 19,000 attempted suicides by school-age children.

6 May 2002: 12-year-old Aaron Vays suffered from physical and verbal abuse from fellow students. When he stood up for himself at school in the absence of the school taking effective action, he was further victimised by the school principal (in schools where bullying is rife it's usually because the principal does not have control of discipline)

18 April 2002: 14-year-old Adam Grigg hanged himself with a lanyard from his sea cadet's uniform after three years of bullying which started at his Primary School and continued when he moved to high School. He endured three years of being spat at and beaten up, and had threatening notes written in his school books which ended in his suicide being the only way to escape the violence.

13 April 2002: 13-year-old Laura was found hanged in her home near Cardiff, after complaining about being bullied at school.

5 March 2002: 15-year-old Hannah hanged herself with her school tie after having problems at school which included peers talking about her behind her back. Previously Hannah had visited her doctor with self-inflicted cuts which she told him were due to problems at school.

28 January 2002: 14-year-old Laura committed suicide in July 2001 after planning her funeral and preparing a will. Now her parents have decided to publish her letters, one of which described her daily and painful ordeal of physical and verbal abuse.

23 June 2001: Nicola Raphael, 15, died after taking an overdose of painkillers at her home. She had been the target of bullying for some time. The bullies at her school had targeted her because of her style of dress - which they labelled as "Gothic" - and had branded her "a freak".

5 March 2001: 15-year-old student Charles Williams shoots dead two fellow students at California's Santee High School. As with many cases, initial reports suggest Williams was the target of bullying and teasing which was not dealt with.

27 November 2000: the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor has shocked the nation. Damilola was stabbed on the way home from his Primary School in Peckham, London. He bled to death in a stairwell after an artery in his leg was severed. Before any s evidence had been released, the headmaster of his primary school immediately denied any connection between Damilola's death and bullying at his school which he said was "limited to name-calling and playground scuffles". Damilola's mother had been to the school the previous day to complain of bullying. Familiar example of bullying.

EXAMPLES OF BULLYING

BACKGROUND OF BULLYING

A bully is an individual who tends to torment others, either through verbal harassment and/or physical assaults

Bullying is broken into two categories: 1) direct bullying, and 2) indirect bullying, also known as social aggression. Direct bullying is the form most common to male bullies. Social aggression or indirect bullying is most common to female bullies and young children, and is characterised by forcing the victim into social isolation.

The following is some examples of bullying techniques:

• Calling the victim names; accusing the victim of uselessness in all of his or her pursuits
• Spreading gossip and rumours about the victim
• Theft of minor belongings of the victim's
• Demoting the victim without just cause
• Making the victim do what he or she does not want to do, using threats to ensure that the victim follows orders
• Cyberbullying through the use of various information technologiesRepeated physical assault on a person, be it to his or her body or propertyBlackmail
• Getting a victim into trouble with an authority figure, or incurring disciplinary action against the victim, Making derogatory remarks about a person's family, about one's home, personal appearance, religion, race, income level, or nationality
  

Bullying can occur in schools, universities, families, between neighbours, and in workplaces.

Schools

In schools, bullying usually occurs in areas with minimal or no adult supervision. Common places include the , cafeteria, hallways between classes, bathrooms, and the schoolyard during break.

An extreme case of school-yard bullying is that of an year named Curtis Taylor at a high school in Iowa, USA who had been the victim of continuous bullying for three years, which included name calling, being bashed into a locker, having chocolate milk poured down his sweatshirt and vandalism of his belongings. This drove him to suicide on March 21, 1993. Some bully experts have termed this extreme reaction 'bullycide'

In the 1990s, the United States saw an epidemic of school shootings (of which the most notorious was the Columbine High Shootings) Many of the children behind these shootings claimed that they were the victims of bullies and that they resorted to violence only after the school administration repeatedly failed to intervene. In many of these cases, the victims of the shooters sued both the shooters' families and the schools.

As a result of these trends, schools in many countries strongly discourage bullying, with programs designed to teach students cooperation, as well as training peers in intervention and dispute resolution techniques, as a form of support.

Since media coverage has exposed just how widespread bullying is, juries are more likely now to sympathise with victims. In recent years, many victims have been suing bullies directly for intentional inflict of emotional distress, and including their school as a defendant under the principle of joint and several liability.

Effects of bullying on a school student include:

• High levels of truancy
• High staff turnover
• Disrespect for teachers
• High level of absence for minor ailments
• Weapon carrying by children for protection
• Legal action taken against the school or education authority or against the bully's family

GROUP MEMBERS

We are a group of five:

Gurveer
Rishi
Rajan
Kiran
Sandeep

PRODUCTION OVERVIEW

Outline:

We have decided on for our practical production that we will do a documentary on the subject of bullying and its effects. The reason behind the documentary being based on this subject is because we feel there is currently not enough awareness about bullying and its effects.We come across bullying and its effects through our protagonist, a year 8 male student who has found it difficult to adjust to his new high school environment without his childhood friends. The boy, however never completely adjusts and this leads to tragic consequences.We have identified teenagers as our primary audience. The reason behind this is that we feel they are the age group who will be able to bullying or being bullied the most as they are students themselves very much like the main protagonist.Our secondary audience is parents and teachers. This is because they we aim to raise awareness amongst them so that they are able to realise when someone is being bullied or even bullying someone.

My Contributions:

In terms of contribution, i have not really contributed as much as i should have really and i have been relying on other members of the group too much and too often. I have carried out some research on bullying so far and at the moment we are discussing ideas to include in our shot list.

Future Plans:

Our future plans for our production are to have it completed within two weeks so that we are able to move onto the editing stage after the half term break.

Sandeep Brar