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.

interview questions for eve and dan

1.state name, course, how many years doing the course, job title
2.how long have you been in the committee and how long have you been president?
3.what is your personal story and what made you want to join the committee at first?
4.what do you know about gender neutrality?
5.how did the idea of getting gender neutral toilets come about?
6.how long have the genders neutral toilets been here?
7.was it difficult convincing the university to support the idea of gender neutral toilets?
8.what does gender neutral mean to you?
9.are there any future plans in the university to accommodate to gender neutral people?

test shoot - paint

day 2 shoot evaluation

In this second shoot we attempted to counteract the difficulties that when encountered in the initial shoot. In order to do this changed a couple of things but kept the same lighting setup using the same camera settings and gels on the light. Firstly we discovered how to switch the macro lens to its manual focus capability. This allowed us to have much more control over where the camera focussed, allowing us to perform pull focusses and framing shots to how we wanted, gaining effective depth of field. This also allowed us to keep the subject in focus rather than the focal point moving and ranging. 

Another thing we changed in this shoot was that we kept the use of hand held shots to a minimum and ensured that we used a tripod or shoulder rigs when filming in order to record stable and smooth footage. This still and smooth footage allowed us to achieve a sense of calmness with the stillness of the camera. Here we could experiment with movement of the subject rather than movement of the camera. We also experienced with smooth pans/tilts and general camera movement. We filmed a range of parts of the body such us collar bones, shoulders, backs, mouths as well as extreme close ups where we focus on the texture. With extreme close ups we had to film parts of the body that were hairless as we felt that seeing lots of hair on the body would automatically cause the audience to assume that it is a male. So therefore we wanted to keep the audience guessing the identity of the character and ultimately achieving a sense of enigma, which intrigues the audience further.