3rd Documentary Ross Kemp on gangs - Poland

Ross Kemp - On Gangs (Hooligans)

This is my third documentary that I will analyse, the person I choose is call Ross Kemp is an English actor, author and BAFTA award-winning investigative journalist who rose to prominence in the role of Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Since 2006, Kemp has received international recognition as an investigative journalist for his critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs.

1.) What is the social issue being focused on in this documentary?

Ross Kemp travels to Poland to visit the Polish football hooligans who have become some of the most feared gangs in Europe. Ross joins an elite police riot squad as they escort a notoriously violent hooligan gang and travels to Gorzów, to meet the leaders of the brutal Stilon Fighters. They don't show faces on the front of camera, they want to keep they identity. The meaning of hooligans is basically football hooliganism or different Soccer hooliganism refers to unruly, violent, and destructive behaviour by overzealous supporters of association football clubs, including brawling, vandalism and intimidation.

Football hooliganism normally involves conflict between gangs, often known as football firms, and this from the British slang for a criminal gang), formed for the specific purpose of intimidating and physically attacking supporters of other teams.

2.) Summaries what happens in the beginning/ middle/end of this documentary.

Beginning
What happened on the beginning of Ross Kemp documentary is that he came to Poland for the reason to find out more about gangs which is means football hooligans which cause the violent, and destructive behaviour by overzealous supporters of association football clubs, including brawling, vandalism and intimidation. Ross went to a football match against Wisla Krakow Vs Lech Poznan and he was for all the time with the Police waiting for a opposite team supporters before they will arrive to the station and he see all the security steps what police is doing, what weapons they have with the such as shotguns, gum bullets etc.

Middle
Ross Kemp went to Gorzów Wielkopolski to talk to hooligans on stadiums and why they use name of Adolf Hitler on stadium? why they using the Adolf Hitler cross? and why they are so close to him and his life

End

The end of documentary Ross Kemp saying that, it is his third week in Poland and he come back from Gorzów to Krakow for the derby match Cracovia Vs Wisla Krakow and basically what is the distance between those team is just a small path inside the park and this is an example. The stadium which is on the front of this Picture is Cracovia stadium and the futher stadium is Wisla Krakow and they are basically most enemy is Krakow (Cracow) against those two teams.

Ross was very shocked because police is trying to push away Cravovia fans away from Wisla supporters and what he see is a women walking out from her shop and throwing a rubbish either fights are going around her shop. 

3.) What type of documentary is this? Conventions used?

4.) What techniques are used to maintain the audience attention?

The techniques which are used to maintain the audience attention is basically shots and camera angles which are showing the stadium vandalism and force of police to keep away supporters from home team, plus Ross show real gangs when he met them in secret spot and they choose the place where they want to meet and what time.

5.) What is the purpose of this documentary? What changes is it campaigning for?

The purpose of this documentary is focusing on gangs in Poland and football hooligans and I think it is to show a gangs and police and to know how to fight and stop this on different stadiums not only in Poland but around the world. That was another example of Ross documentary on gangs.

6.) Who is the target audience? Age/gender/interest/location/language etc. 

I think the target audience for this type of this documentary is audience at age 15 and above, the gender which this documentary is targeted is mostly male because the whole documentary is based on hooligans and gangs and we mostly see males because is all about fighting, and racism on stadiums or either outside and we have experience this in Ross documentary.
Interest of this will be people who like football, support they own team, like to fight and hating security/police.

Location is very clear which is mostly we see is happening on stadiums or on private spots where two different members of different teams bringing 15, 20 or either 30 people to fight where they only using fist and no any different weapons.

The language which is basically used in Ross Kemp documentary is in Polish but we all see English subtitles and this documentary is focused on Poles and Poland and all this which they said is mostly translate but not all of it because they might cover some of the swearing content etc.  

7.) How have they been targeted?

How the audience been targeted is about the content which is included in this documentary, plus in documentary the gangs saying that they coming to the stadium for the match from very young age and in my opinion the best age will be 15 and above.

8.) How the audience encouraged to participate in creating change