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''Educating Essex'' is a British documentary television programme produced by Twofour for Channel 4 that ran for seven episodes from September to November 2011. It uses a fly on the wall format to show the everyday lives of the staff and students of Passmores Academy, a secondary school in Harlow, Essex, interspersed with interviews of those involved and featuring narration from the director and interviewer, David Clews. The series received mixed media coverage: it was largely praised for its insight into the lives and behaviour of teenagers and the education system, but was also criticised for its depiction of students and teachers using profanity, as well as bullying and teenage pregnancy. The show received numerous awards, including director David Clews's British Academy Television Craft Award for his work on the programme in 2012; in the same year, the show was nominated for a Grierson Award for "Best Documentary Series". In 2013, Channel 4 and Twofour announced that the next series of the programme would be filmed in a different school, Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, and that it would accordingly be titled ''Educating Yorkshire''. In 2014, Channel 4 commissioned a 4 part spin-off series where Steven Drew, star of Educating Essex, opens up a residential school to young boys and their parents in a bid to calm their negative behaviour and unlock their true potential. The series was entitled (Mr Drew's School for Boys ) and aired between 29 April 2014 and 20 May 2014 on Channel 4. In 2015, Dean who was a student at Passmores was featured in the Channel 5 series Benefits Britain: Life On The Dole, as of September 2015 Dean is currently Studying Food and Beverage Service At Harlow College. ==Production== ''Educating Essex'' was commissioned by Channel 4's commissioning editor for documentaries, Mark Raphael,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.twofour.co.uk/work/educatingessex/ )〕 after the channel pledged an extra £6.7 million to documentary programming in 2011. It is similar to other fly-on-the-wall series broadcast by Channel 4 such as ''One Born Every Minute'', ''24 Hours in A&E'', ''The Hotel'' and ''The Family'', the latter of which both director David Clews and series producer Beejal-Maya Patel had previously worked on. After seeing a "quite dull" programme about schools on the BBC, Raphael was inspired to create a series which captured school the way "() remembered it". He chose Clews after watching ''The Family'', which he found funny, an attribute he wanted his series to have. Clews was initially not keen on the school idea, as he thought it would be boring. However, he came round after visiting some, describing in particular how one student tried to pass off his mobile phone use as checking for testicular cancer.〔 Passmores Academy in Essex was chosen as the series' setting after the production team approached around 20 schools with good or outstanding Ofsted reports. This was eventually narrowed down to three after many denied or governors blocked the proposals. David Clews stated that, "Passmores was always my favourite" as he hoped for "stories unfolding within the school".〔 Regarding his decision to allow cameras into the school, Goddard said that upon receiving the phone call about the show, he had just given an assembly which encouraged students to take opportunities after the death of a classmate, and thought it would be "disingenuous" not to do so himself. Goddard received the support of the majority of Passmores governors, in particular by Community Governor Michael Hardware who, with previous documentary experience, provided some reassurance. Teacher Stephen Drew has described how he was initially very distrustful of the crew, and thought they were all "bastards" with "no morals" and "no sense of ethics", only wanting to make money. He did, however, begin to trust the team when they were honest with him and did not "cut any corners". In order to make the series, over 60 cameras were installed on the school's premises during the October half-term and filmed for a period of seven weeks, monitored by crew members in on-site prefabricated buildings. Staff and students were also allocated 22 radio microphones, based on whomever the crew thought would provide the most interesting material. When the speech of those not wearing a microphone was included, it was often barely audible and was written out and overlaid on the screen. In all, the fixed cameras filmed over 1000 hours of footage.〔 In addition, the crew interviewed students in prefabricated classrooms, mainly at lunchtime and in groups to capture the "group dynamic feel" of school life. Members of the production team were also charged with gaining the trust of around 20 to 25 students by liaising and going home with them.〔 The autumn period was chosen as the production team thought it the most "normal" part of the year because the syllabus was being taught and students were not revising for their GCSE exams.〔 As for fears that the presence of cameras would impact on students' behaviour, Clews said that students "mucked about" for the first few days, but soon forgot about the unobtrusive cameras.〔 However, Goddard did not want to have cameras back, in case pupils began to misbehave because they were there; he said, "There's no media interest better than one young person's education".〔 Channel 4 sought a new school to be filmed for a second series, and chose Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury to be the setting for ''Educating Yorkshire'', to be filmed and broadcast in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Educating Essex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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