More Pitching

I don’t think we have agreed about how to shoot this film yet, not that we disagree we just haven’t talked about it much. I just bought a Canon XH- A1 so we can shoot with that, and bring a tripod and lighting kit to our interviews. We want to have the Intersexed and Transgendered people as the experts. We can use more flattering lighting for them, but then what about the other experts like doctors? I’m not sure… but we also want to see the Transgendered and Intersexed people as fun loving human beings, and want to show them do things they do on a daily basis not just in a formal interview setting. We were also interested in being a little experimental. If we can tape a drag show, it would be cool to have fast and fun camera work. Also, we can paint on film, and kind of animate the female sign and make it into the male sign, to show it’s a spectrum. Making our film style a little abstract would parallel our message of not blindly following conventions without questioning them.

For the middle school kids, we want to do vox pops with all of them, then have 4 or so do more serious interviews (my mom thinks she has a good idea who these kids should be) and then have 2 or 3 groups of 3 (friends) who may push each other to answer more honestly, or may want to show off (like in the 7 up series). We will probably conduct these in a school setting, an empty classroom, the hall, outside at recess or in the lunchroom. We shouldn’t bring a lot of lights for them.

I’m like Chris in that I like getting my message across with satire or sarcasm but I’m not sure that would be appropriate for this film. If we did that it would seem like we should be interviewing people who we know would be totally against our message, and then we would showcase their opinions so we could make them seem ridicules. Instead, I think we have decided that we would like to try to get a positive and intelligent perspective, one that hasn’t really been heard. So…for the tone… it seems like we won’t really know until we hear the stories.