... film especially. Film in the past has portrayed popular youth to be usually pretentious, self-obsessed, vain and cruel, and contrastingly un-popular youth to be 'geeky', studious, weak and often friendless. Such denotations of younger generations though stereotypical are often true to the case and we wanted to portray popularity in real situations, and show real adolescent and also older peoples view point upon it. With this idea in our minds, we wanted a setting for our documentary, so we came up with the idea of using our college, St Robert of Newminster sixth form, to be the area in which our documentary would be based. We brainstormed many different ideas about how the documentary would deal with popularity, whether it would be portrayed in a negative or positive way, who it would involve, how it would involve them and just generally how we would go about creating a media product. ...

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