An alternative way to find out exactly what happens at raves

Have you ever been to a rave party? Probably not. In the current series of Songbirds drama episodes, a group of college students who are studying journalism are asked to write an assignment on rave parties in Hong Kong.

In the extract below, Dr Lo, the journalism tutor, is telling his students about the project. Usually when a tutor sets an assignment students have lots of questions, and this is the case with Dr Lo's students, as you will see below.

Bax: What's our next topic Dr Lo?

Dr Lo: Rave parties have become very popular in Hong Kong but unfortunately the young people who go to them may take drugs. A lot has already been written about this phenomenon, but nothing through the eyes of a teenager. What I want you to do is to write about it from a teenager's point of view.

Ted: Does that mean we have to go to a rave party, Sir?

Dr Lo: No, I don't want you to go to a rave party, Ted. I want you to explore rave parties and drug use through interviews.