Teenage Driving Opinions

It is poor drivers who like to show off and act hard who give young drivers like me a bad rep, and even worse a disgracefully high insurance premium. Why is it so unfair for young drivers trying to get insured?
Joe, Nottingham

I've seen a few seminars about young drivers and road accidents and it really hurts people when they see them but there aren't enough seminars.

Jordan, Dunfermline

I had the opportunity to live in England for 3 years during my military career. I saw first hand all the car meets and young driver antics. I also saw a complete LACK of Police to even try to hinder these actions. Cameras do NOT work, REAL cops need to patrol and enforce laws like speeding and racing. Many people were able to speed at will at any speed because there was no fear of being caught/suspended

Phil, Seattle, WA

a 1.1 litre car is able to go plenty fast enough to kill anyone limiting power wont help; neither will increasing the age at which the driving test can be taken, the ones that want to offend will do so, licence or not. Even the alternative, a scooter is just as likely to get someone killed, especially as they are not limited to road use (children's play areas are quite popular too). Education and discipline are the answer.
Steve Curtis, Bath

I think the age at which people are allowed to drive should be raised. I have three daughters aged 21 and over. My eldest two began to drive at over age 25. That seems more reasonable to me. But we need decent public transport too, so they can get about safely. These accidents are very sad.
Yvonne , Bexhill on sea, East Sussex

Source: BBC

Drive Alive Request

We have contacted, by e-mail, an organisation called Drive Alive that specilaise in seminars about safe driving, they have useful statistics and information about teenage driving that would be a great help to make the documentary realistic and therefore more effective in the message we want it to deliver. We are curently awaiting a reply, when this information is obtained it will help to move the project forward.

Storyboard

We sat down in a group and began to brainstorm ideas for the project, ideas were written and sketched on paper as a brief outline of what shots we wanted to acheive.

Once this stage was completed it was possible to create a storyboard in more depth on the Apple Mac's iMovie, by takeing still pictures we were able to import them into the software and place them on a time-line. iMovie enabled us to edit the pictures ways that would not be possible without the software, for example, text can be added to the still pictures in order for the audience to understand what is going on, pictures can also be edited with effects such as distortion, exposeure and zoom.

The group is now looking for archive footage that is relavent to the project.