In our second week of filming, after having to rearrange our expert interview with the Sixth Forms Councillor we decided to gather background footage.
In our background footage we attempted to get clips of each stereotypically social group amongst the Sixth Form to emphasise the segregation of the groups and vast diversity of people at the Sixth Form.
While filming background footage we decided to ask people what social group/stereotype they belonged too by asking the critical question; 'What social group/Stereotype do you belong too?' However, when asking people this critical question, it became apparent that people found it hard/awkward to categorise themselves.
Which lead to us to the investigation of another point in our documentary of stereotypes not being created by the individual themselves but others around them.
In the first week of filming we started off by filming a lot of our voxpop interviews with people around college and also we created a video of one of our arranged features in which we made a girl into each of the stereotypical groups that we wanted to explore, we did this in order to show exactly how easy it is to change your appearance and to change the way different people perceive you.
Although these images are unclear (as the participants were camera shy) they show four students discussing the ideas put before them by us about the stereotypes of younger people. During the focus group I spoke with the students about their feelings surrounding the ways in which young people are stereotyped and how it affects them. The main subjects that came up were; older generations negatively stereotyping young people because of the media and the stereotypes which young people put on themselves (goths, chavs and nerds...) in order to feel as though they fit in.
These subjects helped us to choose the topic of our documentary because we thought that many people would have an opinion on the stereotypes which they are faced with and also the stereotypes which they place upon other people. The aim of our documentary however, is to show that on face value people can be completely wrong about the type of person that you are when they judge based on appearance and clothing.
RESEARCH:
In preparation, we will use questionnaires and focus groups to gain the information to fuel research into the target audience of the documentary, and the topic content of the documentary. We will discovery more about each of the stereotypes. (Goth, Hipster, Chav, Popular, Geek and Rocker).
For each stereotype we will use our focus group to discover what people think about the clothing and appearance of each stereotype. Also, we will give out quiz's that will be crafted from our research to revels what peoples stereotypical social group would be, and whether there is truth behind it.
To discover the media's influence on the labels linked to these stereotypes, we will look up newspaper articles and stories linked to the impact and the result from these harsh stereotypical labels
DOCUMENTARY:
The aim of the documentary "Social Stereotypes" looks into the labels society has given for the image of individual and the effects of these labels. The documentary will explore the concepts of these labels and the representations and the appearance we associate with this. By interviewing students from Solihull Sixth Form College and teachers will allow our documentary to see the opinion of students who are given these labels judged by their appearance, then by teachers who see many students in there lives and can give an insight as to whether some of these stereotypes attached to these social labels are true.
The documentary will show the transformation of a student to the different social groups, dressing accordingly by following the stereotypical clothing and image that the labels connotes.
We will select movie clips that help aid our argument in the representation of stereotypes, in the negative ways they are portrayed in movies. We want to highlight the use of mise-en-scene in movies and the specific choices they make in costume, make up and even the way they speak to display what social group they belong to.
As we all now understand the concept of this coursework, we can now work out the conventions of a documentary, magazine listings page and radio trailer. Also, we can now start to plan our content and what chosen topic we will base our documentary on.
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