On the year of Leah Bettss death, her mum and dad joined up with the media to show and educate to other people and mainly to the youngers, that taking a drug is very dangerous and can cause death and decided to make a video called sorted.

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        In 1995, the year of Leah Betts’s 18th birthday, had taken ecstasy which is known to be a class A drug and illegal. She had thought that taking the drug would make her all hyper and in a party mode for her birthday, but sadly that wasn’t the case. She had died by taking the class a drug. Statistics show that the drug is taken on twenty five million occasions a year which is half a million a week as a result of
this; there are five related Ecstasy deaths per year. There was an story written on her tragic death by Nicholas Saunders and also a film called ‘sorted’ by the media and also co-operating with the media were Leah Betts’s family and friends. I look at Saunders’s article ‘the Leah  Betts story’ and showed how effective the film ‘sorted’ was in educating young people into the dangers of taking the drug ecstasy.

        On the year of Leah Betts’s death, her mum and dad joined up with the media to show and educate to other people and mainly to the younger’s, that taking a drug is very dangerous and can cause death and decided to make a video called ‘sorted’.

“The British media went to town over the death of Leah”.

The writer shows the reader that the media were overhauled by this news and wanted to publish this which everyone would be interested in, about the incident. The word ‘death’ suggests that a death is serious news for everyone, and that people would sympathize over her death. The word ‘British’ suggests that possibly every media went to the town where she had died to make an interview or story on her death which would sound ridiculous. I personally think that the media went ballistic over the death of Leah because they saw a chance were they could make money and her parents cooperated because they wanted to alert young people to the dangers of drug-taking, releasing a photograph of her in intensive Care. Leah Betts’s death was a sad story but also shocking because she was not an addict. She only took some tablets of the drug for her party, so that she can be hyper. As she did not know how to use it, the scenario escalated and the worst possible scenario had happened. She felt dizzy and drank a lot of water, which caused her death.

In the film sorted, it begins with a billboard poster of Leah Betts in hospital being with ‘wonder wall’ sang by Oasis as a background. The song ‘wonder wall’ from oasis would be an ideal as the song itself is a sad song which is why they chose the song and it is well presented with the billboard. In this film not one person had come to tears as they were trying to get the message across that drugs are very dangerous. One of her mates who also took the drug described her,

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“Sort of person who would do anything for her friends”.

In this speech it reveals the type of person that Leah was and that she wasn’t an addict. This suggests that anyone could die from taking drugs. In my opinion at this point, the film ‘sorted’ reveals more facts and reasons why you shouldn’t take any drugs at all and shows images to see how serious it is then the story. The story so far only tells what the media did; it does not give as imagery for us to imagine what is happening.           ...

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