No Go

    So the DECA idea was a no go. Even though my group members thought it was a good idea, we already made a schedule and we made a storyboard. But it's alright, I'm not mad or anything because I genuinely think that our adulthood idea is a good one. BUT, I have done six blog posts and I still don't know exactly what our main idea is.

    After a fifteen minute meeting with our teacher (shoutout Mrs.Stoklosa) we finally came to a main question we want to address: How are elders perceived in society? Now, we understand it's a broad question to answer in five minutes, but we have ideas of how our series is going to work. We were inspired by the CNN decade series, where each episode focuses on a specific decade in history. As for our docuseries, it will be based on how different age groups are perceived in society, in which our particular episode focuses on people 65-75 years old and their representation in society. Even though we would be one of the last episodes of the series, the marketing aspect of our single episode will ensure people are aware of the series and specifically our particular episode. We want to focus more on how society perceives each age group, but have an underlying theme in which cultural values are addressed too. 

    Something that inspired us to portray our older subjects in a positive light was another student project, called Natural Red 4. The lighting and the overall mise-en-scene of the film opening showed his grandparents as lively, and that's something we want to use FOR SURE. We as a group do not want this excerpt to be negatively representing elders as a whole, therefore we want to use white lighting and bright color schemes to show them in a positive light. 

   Finally, I feel at ease and on track with this project. Woo hooooooooo!