Documentaries: Feed back from Zoe

Feedback sessions from Zoe Sale 

Rough Cut Review

• Actuality is needed
• Needs a clearer direction 
• Set up family - Actuality, parents relationship 
• Ask about brother's (Tommy's) journey of realisation to coming out
• Drop reverses and questions 
• Establish relationships between characters
• With sex more of a cultural discussion 
• POSSIBLE DIRECTION CHANGE: Cultural attitude shifts, a focus more on bisexuality

Between these reviews we were unable to get into contact with schools therefore weren't able to interview teachers or students and sex educators did not want to be filmed doing their job. As a result we ended up with 3 people from the LGBTQ+ community and 3 parents.

Idea Review

• Where are subjects finding information? Where should they go?
• Can we film some characters in their school?
• What are they teaching? What are they not? Why?
• Ask about bullying?
• Do school libraries have related books? 
• Teaching unions - NUT - LGBT branch
• If school is accused - ask got a responsive comment

Idea review

• Why should older audiences care about school kids? 
• Current sex Ed teaching approaches 
• How accessible is the information?
• Parent perspective as well (In news papers parents are portrayed as not agreeing with their children being taught about sex education at certain ages)
• How's it taught all over? 
• Who thinks it needs to change actually? 
• Look at sex educators? Follow them in their jobs?
• How do we protect the young people we interview? - maybe don't upload to YouTube, hide identities etc.
• Pictures?
• Central character - young and queer feels they weren't supported - reflective POV
• 2 people of differing ages - contact 

After talking as a group we had two choices; either following teenagers and seeing if growing up muslim has changed since the election of Donald Trump or looking at the sex education system. 

After our session with Zoe the first time we chose to follow the sex education route, specifically whether or not it teaches about the lGBTQ+ community and people's opinions on it.