So linking to both mine and Cat's CRS (killing two birds with 1 stone and meaning all our work can count towards both) our topic is BODY IMAGE!! This ticks about a gizzillion boxes by being a current topic, affecting people our age at our school AND helps me and Cat with our CRS!
I want to get started ASAP cos we've decided we want as much time as possible to edit so here's our (not as incredibly long as I expected) to do list..
- Focus Group (For CRS and can be filmed..) - pictures of models, skinny and curvier, opinions of these? do they feel pressured to conform to these images? where does this pressure come from? etc
- Letter to GP/Eating Disorder professional/Eating Disorder organistations - beg for 2 minute interview. Send questions beforehand
- Collect stills of size zeros and curvier role models (eg Beth Ditto (yeah yeah I know Jake)).. to be used with voice overs from focus group
- Talk to parents/teachers - get adult view on debate
Now.. I really want to film a scene involving a young girl looking in the mirror.. and the mirror version is fatter that the real life one? I know mirrors like this exist but I doubt we can find one.. hmm...!!
Ideas and Opinions are welcomed (and begged for to be honest..I don't like the way Jake & James get waay more comments than us!)
Any one interested in being filmed/recorded and/or being in the focus group please let me or Cat know
2 comments:
Ladies, take a look at the fourdocs website (www.channel4.com/fourdocs). Why not follow their rules/instructions and get it published on the C4 site? This will help give you structure and also make the 'institutional context' bit of your Critical Evaluation much easier because you know your target audience and institution.
Good call Mrs B - Four Docs is great!
Also, don't forget to do some genre research on documentary too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film
http://www.filmsite.org/docfilms.html
Essential when discussing how your own work links to the forms and conventions of the genre. The more informed you are about the genre the more nuanced your work could be. Also, watch lots of differnet doc's! There is no substitute for actually seeing/analysing how these things are constructed. So get viewing! Keep up the good work. :)
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