Cyber-Bullying - Voice of Victims

Описание: This video was created as an assignment for Preliminary Legal Studies. The task was to create a product that raised awareness about a certain issue in regards to an individual and technology.
My product is a story I made for a 60 minutes episode. My issue is cyber-bullying. 60 minutes is an award winning Australian TV show that tells stories through the eyes of those involved by personalising stories and issues. The informative nature of it raises awareness to issues that need to be highlighted which is why I chose to make this product. The goal of this video is to attract audiences via the relatable stories/answers of the students I interview. It is directed at teenagers going through cyber-bullying problems as it will be a guide to dealing with their problems and specifically highlights the fact that cyber-bullying victims are not alone. The people I interview are all from year 10 (the year below me) . This means the audience (particularly year 11 legal studies) won’t have any individual connection with the interviewees. The students interviewed all have several social media accounts and have had no training or research on the topic of cyber-bullying.

Legal Studies side of things:
Throughout my interview, I ask questions to students that demonstrates the interviewees’ knowledge of the legal implications of cyber-bullying. Most of the interviewees have no idea cyber-bullying is against the law and all of them mention a scenario where they have been a victim of or have witnessed cyber-bullying. One of the questions in the interview is “Under the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 it is a criminal offence to misuse telecommunication by cyber-bullying as it comprises the abuse of internet and phone services. This is proof that legal implications are enforced for cyber-bullying. Is cyber-bullying such an offense that it needs legal consequences?” The majority of the interviewees say definitely, the punishment should be greater.
In regards to reforming the law I raise the question “If you could make any changes to laws and consequences in regards to cyber-bullying what would you do?” The most common response was to strongly enforce the laws so that everyone knows it’s against the law by advertising it over Facebook pages and other social media sites. This answer displays the need for law reform.

Team:
Sam Dunworth's assistance was amazing in filmography and editing. The students interviewed are (surname alphabetically):
Yasmin Avery, Sam Dunworth, Maaike Hofman, Meg Lanham, Kaevern Lee, Lucie Leonard, Jess Logan, Natalie Mavridis, Ella Mitchell, Jess Ratcliff and Taylor Springthorpe