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Documentary Ideas

Ideas and Development.

13/03/18 

Since beginning the project yesterday, my group and I have thought about what topic we could choose for our documentary. We have considered many controversial topics and we made a mind map of ideas we had, which included:

  • Technology
  • OCD
  • Celebrities
  • Addictions
  • Sex
  • Hyper Masculinity
  • Religion
  • Women's Body Image
  • Obsessive Love Disorder
We have each chosen a topic to research more into so we can decide what would be a better topic to make a documentary about and what is likely to be more realistic for access purposes.
I'm going to be researching into Obsessive Love Disorder and maybe broaden the theme to abusive relationships, but I need to start my research into this topic as it is a very touchy subject which could make it particularly difficult to pull off.

14/03/18

We have researched some more refined ideas as a group, the ideas being:
  • Puppy farms and the obsession over breeds and selective breeding
  • Celebrity obsessions
  • Orthorexia- the obsession of eating healthy/clean
I have been looking further into orthorexia, and I will be doing some more research into the topic, but we have come up with ideas of who we could talk to and what we could include as content in the documentary. We have considered that one of us could try one of the strict diets while keeping a video diary and monitoring our weight and other health variables. We also would try talking to psychologists and a dietician about the subject, and if possible somebody involved in it, discussing how this is happening and why. (Social media? Media pressure?)
I think this is something really worth looking into and once considering access, could certainly be a possible subject.

19/03/18

After considering our ideas further we decided that it would be going against the message to make a documentary about orthorexia if we didn't represent it perfectly. What I mean by this is that if we experimented with the diet, and anything improved about the health of the person trying it, we would in fact be promoting the diet, while simultaneously telling the audience how dangerous it is. If we were to promote the diet in any way we would be putting the audience at risk, and this is definitely something we would want to avoid. At this point, it only seems sensible to discontinue this documentary idea.
On the bright side, we have been considering the idea of selective breeding in pets.
We feel this will be a more sensible idea to follow up as although we will be challenging the idea of selective breeding, we won't be trying to find people with an illness which could be viewed as a much more sensitive topic. We will be able to talk to breeders, go to dog shows and speak to vets to get as many different points of view on the subject as possible, which will be great to get a wide opinion on the story. We can also find breeders online to see if they will be willing to talk to us, but it would be great to find someone at a dog show because that's more of a story line that we can follow and someone that the audience can familiarise themselves with other than the presenter.
On the topic of presenters, I have stepped up to take the role of being the presenter of the show. I'm looking forward to this but I need to decide what production role I will be taking as I obviously won't be able to do camera or sound myself. None of my group have yet decided what role they would like to take but I think it's something that should be decided soon.


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