Thursday 3 November 2016
official monologue (script)
"gender neutrality is a form of a escapism from all gender discrimination/expectation"
(negative) imprisoned, minority, forced, isolated, expectation, normal, different, construct, binary
(positive) liberated, comfortable, embraced, choice, empowered, community
What is the gender? is the first thing people want to know.
Before we even see the light of day, before we have any concept of life itself, we are grouped placed into boxes.
People are not born with the freedom we're led to believe, our freedom to be who we are. Something as simple as colour seems to have society define me already.
The way in which I walk or talk or play with toys.
I am a prisoner in my own body, my expression is frowned upon, discriminated in one way or another.
school, changing rooms and toilet are uncomfortable.
bullying, loneliness and isolation leads to depression.
The Fear getting bigger and bigger.
I lose faith in myself, in humanity.
Why do we limit ourselves and throw away the horizons we want to reach just to simply fit into a system, a box.
production page
produced by I 7even productions
directed by I joshua manley
first ad I gabriella livingstone
second ad I alessia leo
camera operators I joshua manley, jacopo la spada and oya malgir
grips I jacopo la spada, joshua manley, gabriella livingstone and ryan loebell
runner I ryan loebell
location manager I gabriella livingstone
location scout I ryan loebell
editors I joshua manley, gabriella livingstone and alessia leo
cast I film
ryan loebell, gabriella livingstone, oya malgir, alessia leo, and roberto
cast I meet the people
eve maleham, dan seamarks and louie woodcock
Wednesday 2 November 2016
evaluation
Evaluation
Pre-production
We were assigned production teams in order to produce a 90 second film that would be inspired by an art piece from The Tate Modern. Our first decision was to decide on a day to visit The Tate as a group. After a few hours of viewing the art and getting to know one another and listening to each other's opinion on the various art pieces, we came to a conclusion that the nine-minute short film called ''Make up-Make down'' by the feminist artist Sanja
Ivekovic would be what our film would somewhat aspire too. It was hardly surprising that with everyone's different backgrounds we would all have various opinions on different subject matters and ultimately art. After hours of discussion, arguments and conclusions we could not come to an agreement. However, after a few days of learning about each other and understanding one another's opinion we all realised that we had to come an agreement by compromising. For instance, we firstly had a couple of ideas that the majority liked however some had questions about if the theme was contemporary enough? or if we should produce an abstract film or follow a linear structure. We decided the best way for us to agree was to include everyone's idea in one form or another. In most film projects such as this one, it would have been difficult to create a film that fused all our ideas together. On the other hand it worked well for us as we all had ideas that would compliment one another without even realising it at the time.
As the film, 'Make up - Make down' ultimately focused on the idea of feminism we initially thought that our main 'contemporary theme' would be focused around feminism and how to make it a contemporary issue through the use of film as it has been a issue in the past and is continuously is one. Unfortunately not everyone agreed with this idea as they argued that in a way the theme of 'feminism' was not particularly a contemporary issue for us right now in comparison to 'hot' news such as 'Brexit' and 'Trump'.
Listening to our tutors was very helpful because we did
understand that our idea was not at all something to do with feminism. All of
us had a different concept of what feminism actually is. I was a bit
disappointed after the tutorial because I thought that we were going the right
way but we were not.Our idea was more about gender discrimination and, through a
lot of research and people's help we found out about gender neutrality. In the beginning some of us were a bit confused about this
subject because none of us ever heard of it before. I found it very interesting
and I honestly even started questioning my gender.
We watched many videos of gender neutral people, we read
some of these people's stories and we tried to understand what other people
thought about this matter through a small, simple survey. We too were able to
have a little chat with university LGBTI society president about gender
neutrality and interview a gender neutral person that we luckily met on campus
who nicely talked to us about his personal experience. It has been hard work even because the group has not always
been together. We have tried our best to keep this group united but some of us
have not been either productive or interested in what we have been doing. Nonetheless, we have kept on carrying on our work and I
personally have learned a lot from this experience and I have been lucky to
work with people who are already familiar with film-making, photography and
editing.I reckon I could have done much more but as I am brand new
to the media practice world I have been a bit shy and I have not been sharing
my ideas with the others. Although, I have tried to be supportive and learn
from them and I feel way more confident about my practical skills. I am sure I
will be much more prepared for my next project.
We decided and plan make 90 seconds short film about gender neutrality. We influenced art video about feminism at Tate modern. In the beginning l ask myself how contemporary feminism is? What is contemporary at the moment? How l can take feminism to contemporary level? As a artist l don't like to look people with gender. As a subject feminism contain gender. I think whatever contain categories brings division between us. Feminism see woman right only. I believe todays society biggest problems are human rights. We need to learn and respect each other's right. To understand we are all equal. We are all human beings it doesn't matter what race, genders, religious ethnic we born with. Been woman or man just sex we born with.
I begin to ask my self how we invited all this gender roles. I looked anthropologist research study. My research shows gender constructed by society. Biggest discovery for me I never question my gender before. I accept my gender roles with out question it. And how little l know about gender neutrality. I believe l know deep down if l ever question this roles is e biggest mistake biggest weakness or wrong in me. Some how they teach me never ever question gender.
As a concept gender neutrality is a very new for lot of people. To understand what other people think about gender neutrality we need to teach also what is the gender neutrality? To achieve this we set survey questions.
Our tree survey questions are find they know about gender neutrality. Make them to understand this concept. Give them definition about this concept.
We ask:-Do you know what ‘Gender Neutrality’ is?
‘-Gender Neutral’ in the dictionary only refers to the choice of words being used such as pronouns, but does not explain ‘Gender Neutrality’ in society, however do you agree with the definition that ‘Gender Neutral’ is “the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than another”?-Gender-neutral language is “language that avoids bias towards a particular sex or society's view of gender”. Do you agree with the definition above? During the this survey l talk to over 100 people l observed how people feel insecure uncomfortable think, questions or talk about their gender. How big defends mechanism we built around. Just thing themselves out of gender box how scary for people. Feel like we all came to this world just to playing perfect gender roles. Hold on very tight this role which is constructed by our ancestors society.
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