Summary of the work so far...

Ideas discussed:

In order to produce a successful documentary we need to conform to the conventions:

Archives of news-reports, images, newspaper articles/headlines of relevant issues. We will be using a montage sequence which is fast paced, where each of the newspaper reports will overlap the other, to emphasise how big this issue is in society.

We will be using an interactive/reflexive mode: as young women ourselves we want to enforce our own ideology of feminism. At least one group member should appear in the documentary to create a, more personal effect on the audience.

An interview scene of an expert sociologist will be talking about feminism, facts and statistics will also be used. This will create a sense of professionalism to the documentary.

During the documentary, binary oppositions of two characters will be used. The first character being of the stereotype of women being a "housewife" and the second character being the alternative view of women being "sex objects" therefore conforming to Strauss's theory.

In certain scenes, contrapuntal music will be used, for example a scene of a "housewife" at home, looking after the children, but then using contrapuntal music promoting a view of "independant women" such as Destinys Child. By using this music it will not only create a more powerful image, but also create a sense of humour to the audience.

Pooja