Representations of the MarginalizedSacrificial offerings of spectacle for drug prevention strategies: Through a Blue Lens

Methodology

A methodology created for film documentaries from three areas of theory; those being: Semiotic, interpretive and discourse analysis, the intent is to discover and interpret the way that ideologies are created and produced in audiences understanding/being educated on substance using populations with complex multiple barriers.

Social justice models and political/moral models also considered.

Through a Blue Lens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJgszNUn8LI&feature=relmfu

Things to consider

History of the harm reduction movement.

political landscape in 1999, 2002, 2010.

PSA (public service announcement) strategies vs christian charity models vs single filmmaker approaches.

ideology motivations from numerous perspectives.

acts of resistance: sanctioned and unsanctioned.

Fix: Story of an Addicted City

http://citizenshift.org/fix-story-addicted-city-clip-1

Streets of Plenty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiofrCBaMXI&feature=relmfu

Work through the ethics, privacy and consent process with your partners before you begin, and adapt your project accordingly. Sometimes it means changing your whole approach – or even dropping it. That’s the cost of being ethical. Here’s a controversial one. An undoubtedly gripping and raw film, Through a Blue Lens (1999) raises serious questions about the ethics, privacy and consent issues when police arm themselves with video technology in the “mean streets” of Vancouver. The police motivation for making this film was honorable: they hoped to create an educational tool to help prevent drug use among young people by filming what they witnessed on the job every day. But video in the hands of law enforcement is a tricky issue. How much did the subjects have a say in the making and distribution of this film? This is one of the NFB’s best selling DVDs of all time. But should this film have been made in the first place? Katarina Cizek (NFB website)