Statement of Intent - Documentary

 This is the statement of intent for our group, this will highlight what we want to address in the documentary

Audience

Our target audience is made up of young adults between the ages of 12 and 25. With the integration of both male and female beauty standards, we target both genders. Although the documentary is intended for a global audience, we will primarily target Western and Asian audiences. Students in high school and college are typically affected by this issue, which is why this video focuses on them. We think a simple, sincere approach would be welcomed by our audience. 

Media Language 

This documentary is intended for people who are interested in healthy living, exercise, cooking, and eating. The dramatic lighting, dramatic scene, ambient and tense music, as well as the narrative, which will bear the weight of our message that we want to transmit to people, are the genre norms we will portray.

Representation 

We will speak for youth and young adults alike, students, and "beauty-involved industries" as role models as we raise awareness of this issue. The documentary will portray them in a way that discusses their contribution to the impact of the problem and how we continue in a cycle where these problems predominate because of the media they are exposed to. 

Industry

The distribution of this work will take place on social media sites like YouTube and streaming services like Netflix. We may include new media into our promotional strategies by using Twitter and Instagram to generate interest in our documentary. Since we are primarily interested in students, we will use posters to spread awareness of our campaign across the school. We can ensure that our media output reaches as many viewers as possible by utilising social media.

Development - Documentary

*Before creating this blog post me and my team created a google docs where we shared any changes, ideas and the schedule for filming and editing*

 Nadine - https://nadinedivamudjeshty.blogspot.com/ 

Rania - https://raniasurimulyadi.blogspot.com 

Theo - https://theosgallery.blogspot.com/

Satria - https://satriamediastudies.blogspot.com/

Title Ideas:

Breaking the Chains

Unveiling the Struggles

Breaking the Strings

Beneath the Skin: Beyond Eating Disorder

When Scales go Up

Fighting Shadows

Off the scales

Beneath the Scale

WTF (Where’s the Food): 

(Watch the Food)

(What The Food?!!!) <33333

We decided to choose what the food, because it sounds catchy and a very common phrase to hear and will atrract peoples atention. The initials WTF are also a common phrase used by younger people in our target audience. This double meaning will be more interesting and appealing to an audience member. Also We can have more fun with the thumbnail as WTF will be what catches the eye. Furthermore What the Food is also a play on the documentary What the Health, which was a great source of inspiration for our documentary. This intertextual reference will alert the audience to the similarities between our documentaries. Fans of What the Health may decide to click on our thumbnail. 

Scenes structure Idea

1st Scenes Structure:

1. For Your Information - Sharing resources for victim to visit

2. Role Model Montage - 

3. Statistics and Facts - statistics and facts to highlight the seriousness of the issue.

4. Personal Stories - Interview victim

5. Expert Insight - Interview

2nd Scenes Structure:

1. For Your Information - Sharing resources for victim to visit

2. Statistics and Facts

3. Expert Insight - Interview 

4. Societal Pressures - Examine the influence of societal standards of beauty, media portrayals, and cultural expectations on body image and self-esteem.

5. Breaking Taboos - Explore the stigma surrounding eating disorders and the hurdles individuals face in seeking help.

Synopsis:

"What The Food (WTF)" is a powerful and emotional documentary that delves deep into the lives of individuals who have battled and triumphed over eating disorders. The film aims to shed light on the harsh realities of these disorders, while also offering hope, inspiration, and guidance to those who may be struggling.

List of people we will interview + questions: 

• Ms. Anita (counselor) 

• Summary about eating disorder (what is eating disorder, how does it affect the mental health and what caused eating disorder) 

• Do you think eating problems affect our youth? 

• Mr. Bram (biology teacher) 

• How does eating disorder affect our health/body? (including what diseases caused, which organ get affected) 

• Muti (student - model) 

• As a model, how do you manage your diet? 

• Have you ever felt stressed/depressed when you’re eating? How does “food/eating” pressure you? 

• Alden (student) 

• How do you maintain your diet in order to gain and maintain muscle mass? (keep the fat low but still gain muscle) 

• Have you ever felt insecure seeing men on social media? 

Down below are my thumbnail research that I researced through out the project time line, there are screenshots from Netflix with the search "health" and there are also drawings by me and Rania with our own idea.

Thumbnail Research:

In this screenshot that i took from Netflix with a search title of “Health” consist of many different documentary series the related to health such as food and of course health. I chose this selection because they are the same as my sub genre. The genre conventions I can see are images of food, the human body, often medical equipment. I think I will subvert it because they seem a little repetitive. I want something that will stand out. I really like the idea of the first documentary in the top left “WHAT THE HEALTH” i really like the concept of the thumbnail of documentary bringing a phrase that people often use as we know the phrase “what the” is a very common phrase that many people use to curse or when they are in shock of something with this concept of thumbnail in the documentary it is very catching when people hear of this phrase. The font that are used in the thumbnail are very simple and all are on caps lock, with all upper case form makes the phrase more serious. The fact that they put a burger patty in the back enhances the meaning of this documentary series and allowing audience to know what are they trying to present to them. The documentary series in the fifth row and two down “mind your manners” i think doesn’t really support or show the topic health from both the title and background and i think it lacks of meaning that support their topic, beside that it also lacks of color for the thumbnail it only have white and black for the color on the other hand “WHAT THE HEALTH” has a lot of color which makes them more pleasant to see and not boring to see. 

I really like this picture of a puppet propaganda the way i can relate this picture with the topic of my documentary series is that we make it look like eating disorder are the hand that control people, in fact the hands plays a role of how the person will act and the stickman person below the hands present a role as they are the puppet that are getting control by the hand same goes as our topic eating disorder that can control how people eat and act in the future and eating disorder will create a big impact on the human society and youth

Thumbnail Development:

This picture above is Rania's idea of thumbnail research she drew it on paper, because she doesn't have her ipad with her she left it at home. In her drawing consist of idea of thumbnails that are later going to be an idea for our final thumbnail in the future, beside that there are also font idea on the bottom to give more ideas for our title font. I think the one with 

This picture above is my drawing that contains my idea of thumbnail research i drew using information that i consume from the internet and social media. These drawings above i got the idea from Netflix(Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned and operated by Netflix, Inc) the documentary series i use as an idea are "the bleeding edge" and "dont f*** with cats" with this two documentary series allows me to gain ideas for my thumbnail in my documentary series in the future. Down on the bottom are examples of font ideas that i can think without using the internet.

Here is the script for our documentary project

Voiceover script

Intro - insert Ms. Anita, Mr Bram quick cut

(If you’re dealing with an eating disorder and need someone to talk to, theNational Eating Disorders Association helpline is 1-800-931-2237; for 24/7 crisis support, text “NEDA” to 741741.) 

• When researchers followed a group of 496 adolescent girls for 8 years, until they were 20, they found: 

• 5.2% of the girls met criteria for DSM5 anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder. 

• When the researchers included nonspecific eating disorder symptoms, a total of 13.2% of the girls had suffered from a DSM-5 eating disorder by age 20.

• Source: Stice E, Marti CN, Shaw H, and Jaconis M. (2010). An 8-year longitudinal study of the natural history of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders from a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118(3):587-97. doi: 10.1037/a001648

• In contrast to American media, which appears to be increasingly supportive of the body positivity movement but still glorifying thin, idealised bodies, K-pop culture is a welcome shift for some fans who struggle with eating disorders. The thin-centric ethos of the K-pop business is openly displayed. A survey found that South Koreans had the biggest preference for skinny people over people who are overweight out of people from 71 other countries. In fact, it is entirely transparent about the strict beauty standards, especially how bodies are viewed as ideal in South Korea.

• (Role model montage) Even though a number of idols have opened up about getting treatment for eating disorders, such as singer IU, who demonstrated in 2013 that she had been on a severe crash diet, igniting the "IU diet challenge," and then revealed in a 2014 talk show appearance which her method had gotten treatment for bulimia, K-pop culture as a whole glorifies extremely restrictive eating habits.

• Particularly typical eating disorder diagnoses for males is binge eating disorder (BED). Although people with BED exhibit bingeing behaviours similar to those seen in bulimia nervosa, they refrain from participating in compensatory behaviours following bingeing.  40% of those with BED diagnoses are men, while 36% of men and boys experience BED. -> source: Unknown (2021). Men and eating disorders. National Eating Disorders Association. Retrieved from https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/men-eating-disorders.

• (Kpop dance montage) The media and K-pop idols frequently portray Korean beauty standards as emphasising certain physical characteristics including slimness, fair skin, and particular facial features. These norms may contribute to concerns with self-esteem and body dissatisfaction, which in turn may have an impact on the emergence of eating disorders. It's crucial to understand that eating disorders can be caused by a variety of variables, including heredity, psychological issues, and social pressures that go beyond aesthetic standards. While Korean beauty standards may have an impact, treating eating disorders calls for a multifaceted strategy that takes into account each person's unique circumstances and mental health issues. 

• (Mutiara Montage Fashion Show) Much research has documented the extent to which seeing images of these ultra-thin models contributes to body image struggles or eating disorder symptoms in women. 

• Tragically, many eating disorders cause people to feel out of control and become fixated on food, their bodies, their weight, and their ability to lose weight. Many people who are battling eating disorders weigh themselves several times each day, and they punish themselves based on the results. This preoccupation frequently centres on the scale.

• (Alden gym montage) Men frequently feel pressured by society to live up to these standards in order to feel attractive, and as a result, many choose to undergo procedures like excessive dieting, genital enlargement, radical exercise regimes, skin whitening, tanning, and other surgical changes to their bodies.

Conclusion/outro;

As a result, both males and girls experience the condition in different ways, and this video aims to clarify the various aspects of eating disorders in relation to beauty standards. Not just the negative impacts but also the individuals afflicted by eating disorders should be investigated and studied.

Storyboard

Videos and comments to be used in the video

(Credits: Nadine)

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Storyboard

(Credits: Rania and Satria)

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Thumbnail

(Credits : Rania for final draft)

Media Regulation Question

Here are some debates about media regulations

1. Should media companies be in charge of regulating their own content, or should the government have bigger role in this, and why?

In creating.a content media companies can create any content they want, government need to have a bigger role in regulating the media such as censoring, bleeping, or even banning the content that was created by media companies, if a government thinks that the media content will represent negative information to their people the government will ban or censored the content and it depends if its really offensive they will ban the content and if there are only a view of them they will only censored the content, an example of this would be the series FRIENDS this series was regulated by the Chinese government at 2021

2.how does government regulation affect what we see and hear in the media? Can too much regulation stifle creativity and free speech, or is it necessary fir protecting the public?

3.do social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter need more rules and oversight, or should they be left to regulate themselves? How might this impact our online experience?

Social media platforms like Facebook or mostly and their main purpose are used for getting in contact with friends socialise to one another and getting new information from friends or the social media while Twitter they need no regulations, because in Twitter people need to know about their own opinion and their freedom of speech

4.should school teach students media literacy? How might this help us better navigate the media we consume, and is it the responsibility or educator or individuals themselves? 

Quick Cut

In this blogpost contains a mini project which is a video of an example of how to apply quick cut in a scene of an extract, this mini project was created by me and my partner Theo

This mini project help me by allowing me to unlock my knowledge of editing a quick cut and giving me a spark of idea of what can I put in my documentary project in the future.

Dominion vs Fox

Third Party regulation

It all started from the election that was held in November 2020, Trump vs Biden the election started and in the middle of counting the election Biden's election was over Trump's by a bit but Trump still state to the public that he won the election even though there nothing to proofed that he was lying or not. After all that case happened news reporter from all came to make a news about it, as we know the US has 2 parties which are Republicans and Democra. The third party regulation was very effective 

Development Target Audience

This is our poster idea for our target audience in our project

Self Reflection

With a poster or mindmap of our target aduience allows us to know if we are going abit off our target audience in the future in the making of our documentary series and reminds us to fulfil those questions in our series and turns out it helps, because it really reminds us if we are going off the target range

Media Regulation TikTok

What are the difficulties of regulating media in the digital age

The story of TikTok began in 2016, when Chinese company ByteDance launched an app called A.me that allowed users to create and share short videos. It was renamed Douyin (抖音) three months later. In 2017, ByteDance began expanding Douyin outside of China to the US, under the name TikTok.

Regulation

Nowdays media regulations are getting more difficult in the digital age there are lots of regulation that are applied to the application or social media one of the example is Douyin 2016, Douyin is an iOS and Android media app for creating and sharing short videos that is owned by Bytedance.

Douyin has a lot of regulations for users that are using their applications especially those who are below the age of 14 one of the regulation is the app is locked from 10pm to 6am beside that they can only use the app only for 40mins per day with these 2 regulations that are pointing to time limit Douyin can lower the screen time usage of children under the age of 14. Videos that are promoted are based on their algorithm for example if they like to watch science experiments the app will promote more of those type of videos. Two years later the app Douyin was rename into TikTok in 2018 to began the expansion outside China, in this new application they have the same logo but the company Bytedance rename their application into Tiktok without erasing the application Douyin so now the company Bytedance have 2 applications. The application Tiktok has no media regulation however it is protected by the US law 1992 section 230 so for example if t

Social Media Regulation US 1992 Section 230

"A media platform is not held responsible for the publicly generated content on its site. Section 230 allows platforms to moderate content without losing their immunity"

Donald Trump

On January 8, 2021 Donald Trump tweeted 

"The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!"

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

The tweet was banned due to "glorification of violence policy" it was banned, because it could inspire other people to replicate the violent acts and determined that they were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Factors

-The second Tweet may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a “safe” target, as he will not be attending. 

-The use of the words “American Patriots” to describe some of his supporters is also being interpreted as support for those committing violent acts at the US Capitol.