Subject research

WOMEN OF COLOUR. 
  • I am really interested in producing a piece which explores stereotypes and breaking these as a woman of colour in 21st century Britain.
  • In order to further this interest and gather as many poosible takes on this idea, over summer I took part in a day at University College London which explored what its like to be a black woman in buisness in the city of London.  I spoke with an organisation called Women in the City Afro-Carribean Network (WCAN) who gave me some brilliant statistics I can use in my documentary and a particularly brilliant audio anecdote from the founder of this company, giving her own perspective on how she became succesful and broke down stereotypes from the begining of her career.
  • Recently, I have begun reading 'Ain't I a Woman', a book by media theorist bell hooks, in which she examines the effect of racism and sexism on black women and specifically the feminist movements for universal suffrage throughout woman-kind.  In her book bell hooks argues a point I believe to be not so far-fetched at all, she suggests that the fallout of the slave trade and the view that black women were wholly disposable at this time, contributes to women of colour currently holding the lowest social status in Western society.
  • She talks about some stereotypes I am particularly interested in discussing, particularly black female promiscuity and the agreement of immorality and aggression with a woman who speaks out. I have a vision of articulating stereotypes through powerful close ups of women who communicate them through facial expressions, for example 'aggressive' spoken through the intensity of a women who speaks her anger.

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