Summer Project - Political awareness - Terror

Terror

noun

1. 1. 

   extreme fear.

   
   

   "people fled in terror"

   
   

   synonyms:

   extreme fear, dread, horror, fear and trembling, fright, trepidation, alarm, panic, shock; informalfunk

Our Summer project was to create a concept  for a video along the theme of 'Political awareness' of course due to all the on going attacks I felt that this would be an interesting yet sensitive subject to touch upon.

A terrorist is defined as 'a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.'

Society already dictated that muslims are terrorists but people forget if we go right back to 1605 the gunpowder plot Guy Fawkes was a terrorist as he attempted to assassinate the King, Guy Fawkes was born and raised in York. 

Between 1939 and 2000 almost all documented terrorist attacks in the UK came from the IRA (Irish Republican Army) The most terror attacks by this group was 24 in the 1990's.

This year the UK have been hit hard with the terror attacks starting in Westminster where a man drove in to pedestrians on Westminster bridge and then later stopped by armed officers, This was treated as an act or terrorism motivated by Islamic extremism. Then that same day up in Manchester an explosion went off outside the arena where Ariana Grande held a concert, killing 22 people and injuring 250.

Despite all this, what stood out to me the most was our motivation as a country to not give in to fear and to show we will not back down! As a country we came together in times of hardship and continued on, Even Ariana Grande organised a benefit concert to help raise morale. 

I watched a programme called 'Manchester: 100 days after the attack' i've linked part one here (Part 1) I could watch all of it as I found it really hard to watch, but what it showed was a lot of the people affected by the attacks and the days that followed, including injured and the parents of those who died... 

One story was of a little girl who had been hit with shrapnel and wasn't breathing, Her parents got her out of the carnage and in to a car park where a police officer found them and blue lighted them to the children hospital in Manchester, she survived and later met the police officer which got her to the hospital. 

It told the accounts of the emergency services involved, one of the ambulance crews told the interviewer how the police where such a major help in getting people to hospital by making make-shift stretchers to get people out and into ambulances.

Recently the police have put out a new scheme called 'Run, Hide, Tell' which is what i'm going to name my video, it states that in the event you are in the middle of an attack or see one happening, you sound 

Run away

Hide as best you can

Tell someone what is happening if it is safe to do so 

This video gives advice on what you should do in the event of a firearms and weapons attack, it was uploaded to youtube by the NPCC or National Police Chief's Council. 

This is also very beneficial to University's much like ours to educate both students and teachers on what to do. 

My main idea is to basically show our optimism in times of hardship as a country and what to do in the event of an attack, what you can do.

I intend to do this through very short clips at the beginning of news reports but then having longer clips of us as a country banding together, stronger than ever.