Fingo Revolutionary Movemement and the Save our Schools Campaign
The Fingo Revolutionary Movement and the Save our Schools and Community Campaign are two youth dedicated non-governmental organisations that operate in many schools around Grahamstown location. They are aimed at encouraging the youth to be positive about education. As the TV team of group 7, we decided that it was most appropriate for us to profile these programmes because our group had chosen the theme; Youth Crime and Violence, focusing specifically on school. We wanted to focus on the solution to crime, rather than focusing on the problem we decided that we should rather find programmes that the youth can get involved in to avoid crime.
We have completed a mini documentary on the “Fingo Revolutionary Movement” and “Save our Schools and Community Campaign”. The documentary explains what the two programmes do in Grahamstown; to link it to our area and theme of focusing. The same group also had a problem with the duo’s use of “tsotsi taal” which they felt promoted gangstarism. In defence of their role models participants of the programmes explained that being a role model does not mean that you are perfect and as a person.
As a follow up to this we have decided to do a follow up mini doccie, profiling a person involved in the programmes. We would also like to address stereotypes people have about Rastafarianism. We decided to do this part because we feel that after the response we received from the first doccie we feel that as part community journalism it is our responsibility to try and break these stereotype that people may have about Rastafarianism.
We feel that through this documentary we have been able to meet the requirements of community journalism because the subjects we have been working with our subjects since we began filming. We have also been able to take the product back to the community and through the second documentary are hoping to respond to their responses.