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I want to interview a college councillor because I want to see how they feel
about the subject, how they feel about the NHS not getting enough funding,
how they help the people that ask for help and how someone can get the help
needed to support them through there depression.
I want to interview a parent because I want to know does it effect them, do they
know much about the mental illness, do they even care! Questions like this will
build a picture on how people perceive depression.
How do you intend to represent these characters?
I intend to represent these people I am interviewing fairly, giving them a fair
chance to voice their opinion. For example, I wont be representing depressed
Teens as stereotypes because I want to take peoples pre-conceived ideas and
hopefully prove them wrong and by making all the people I am interviewing into
stereotypes would be wrong.
Will there be any conflict between characters with opposing points of view? If
so, how will you show this in your film?
There might be different points of view when I ask people Is the NHS
underfunded to combat the rising mental health rates in young people.
Because the MP could say no its not (maybe a few others, but thats just an
example) and someone else could say yes it is. Thats one of the main talking
points of my documentary, I want to find out how people react to depression in
Teenagers/Young People.
Bias of The audience of your documentary might have preconceptions or fixed beliefs
Audience about your topic that you would like to change. What might these be?
The main fixed belief I reckon people will have is stereotyping young people
cause some people (not all, but some) think that depression is just a phase and
young people will grow out of it. So, in my documentary I want to break the
stereotype and really push for people to have a better understanding about
what this mental illness is.
What evidence will you show to get the audience to see things differently?
My evidence for my documentary is going to be:
1. Stats Stats are an amazing way to make people see a different point of
view because until people see the numbers, most people arent really
convinced and people like looking at statistics.
2. Interviews (by professionals) By having interviews with professionals,
it really can back up the stats and facts and, the news stories.
3. New Stories Just like stats, news stories (especially tragic once), wake
people up and it also for some people make it personal. This can be a
very effective way of convincing people to look at it from both sides.
All of these together can make a very effective documentary and really make
people see things from not only both sides, but maybe even the world around
them and how they treat others.
What codes and conventions of documentary filmmaking will you include and
why?
The codes and conventions that would be in my documentary would be
performative mode because I want the documentary to be more personal. I
want it to have a really connection with the audience and if the film maker is
there, he can take in all the information with the audience.