Stacey Dooley Investigates

Kids Selling Drugs Online. 

• Dramatic music during certain scenes to highlight emotions, e.g. tension, anger, upset, etc. 
• Features factual information throughout. 
• Originally on BBC Three, which was a mainstream channel but got shut down on 16th February 2016 and now only aires online. 
• Documentary Reality. 
• Young, white, working class, female presenter who the show is titled after. 
• Shows what will be featured throughout the show at the beginning to make audience more intrigued. 
• Multistrand as there are multiple different people being interviewed who are from different walks of life. 
• Mainly aimed at a Teen/Young adult audience. 
• Audience have a moral judgement over the people being interviewed due to their age and the acts they are carrying out.
• People with accents often get subtitled, the presenter however does not as she has a recognisable regional accent. 
• The presenter finds out information throughout the show along with the audience. 
• Urban settings e.g. Croydon 
•  Hidden Camera footage which is often accompanied with tense music to connote danger. 
• Blur out the faces of the 'Drug dealers' due to regulation reasons as they are mostly underage. 
• The 'Top drug dealers' covered their faces with masks in order to not be identified. 
• She undergoes covert operations initially by making the dealers think she wants to buy drugs and then meets them and tells them who she is and why she met them. 
• Her opinions are often told directly to the camera for direct engagement with the audience. 
• Young dealers were often shown to be vulnerable and sympathised whereas the men that made the drugs appeared ruthless and were seen as dangerous. They were the antithesis of each other in how they were shown and how they were meant to be judged by the audience.