"Natalie seems like any other university student on her Policing, Investigation and Criminology degree, but she has more experience than most. From the ago of 13, she has repeatedly in and out of the criminal justice system - that helped her change. Natalie's story isn't unique. Nearly 60 per cent of all offenders on a short sentence will commit further crimes within a year of release from prison. In this documentary, Natalie explores the impact being locked up has had on young adult offenders like Sephton, who spent most of his adolescence in prison and now struggles with basic tasks such as food shopping and cooking a meal. She also meets those in charge, such as Minister for prisons and Rehabilitation, Jeremy Wright, to find out what the government are doing to tackle our high re-offending rates."
In this documentary Natalie shares her story and also meets up with three different people who have recently come out of prison and are trying to get their life back together.
1 - Martin - Looking for a house
2 - Elliott - Looking for a job
3 - Sephton - Has anxities and has been mentally scarred from prison
Unfortunately for each of these people they had the same response on what happened when they came out of prison and that was because they didn't get help with any rehabilitation, they were more likely going to go back into trouble. This happened to be a continuous cycle for some people.
While meeting each person throughout the documentary she tries to help out every person by getting them a bit closer to what they want to do, i.e. Natalie helps Sephton with going shopping and learning to cook a meal, so that he doesn't feel so anxious about doing it.
Natalie also went to visit a women's prison called Drake Hall, that did help women with rehabilitation so that they won't get back into trouble. They discovered that people who served over 12 months here had a great response with getting back on their feet, where as the people who served under 12 months didn't do so well, and ended up getting back into trouble.
Natalie also went to see Jeremy Wright who is the Minister of Justice to talk about the new scheme they have for people who serve short prison sentences. Their new scheme is to keep them in contact for a year, to make sure they don't reoffend again and if they do they can take the person to court and put them back in prison.
I noticed that for filming locations, Natalie went to the houses to interview the three people that she was helping. Natalie met up with Jeremy Wright in a pub/restaurant area, which is interesting because you would have thought that because he is so high up that the interview would have taken place in a work area such as an office.
There was some interesting parts to the documentary and one part that caught my eye was when there were drawings of Natalie when she would talk about her past. This made the interview more interesting as is mixed up the shots a bit. I also liked how there was a mixture of speaking in front of the camera as well as commentary which made it less sync heavy, due to there being quite a few interviews.
Overall it has definitely given me some ideas for my documentary, especially because how they have set this film out is similar to how my group want to do our documentary.
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