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Recent progress

Me and Naomi have been trying to put the last few pieces of editing together over the last weeks, it has been VERY difficult due to the fact that we had gone over our time limit by 10mins meaning we had 15mins worth of work, this was very hard to break down to 5 minutes. We have to yet include a few more clips so we have not yet finished producing the whole documentary. Naomi has been making a print advert and is currently still working on it, she has also been looking up some inspirational products presented by Channel 4 to give her a rough idea of what she will be producing for our documentary she has found a picture emerged with many different faces and finally formed to make one face in total. I have been trying to produce a radio advert with a reasonable speech. The radio advert is going to be short yet sharp and straight to the point it may possibly also include some factual and contextual background knowledge to help draw in the audience. We have to yet put in our introduction, voice over, statistics of mixed race people in the beginning of the documentary and also the ending. We are currently trying to work towards our audience screening which was originally suppose to take place today but due to the fact that we have only an incomplete documentary to show we've decided to extend it to possibly next week. We are also trying to bear in mind that we have to do our commentary which is also going to take quite awhile and we have to gather all the pieces which we've cut out from our original documentary to meet the minutes of the final piece which we should be producing.

Print Analysis

working on the documentary

Today, we were editing our documentary. unfortunately one parent of a mixed race child that we was meant to interview has cancelled therefore, we have to continue editing our documentary.

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progress

We have started to interview our people in order to start the editing of our recording. Firstly we interviewed a parent of a mixed race child, who gave us his personal experience of how society has perceived his marital mixed race relationship with his wife and also how members of his family had reacted towards him having a mixed race child. Some of the questions we asked was 'Has society changed their perspective of mixed race children?' he answered that 'society had certainly changed their perspective of mixed race children only for the better'. Secondly, we interviewed a group of black and white girls and asked them of how they generally perceive mixed race children and whether or not they are as accepted within the community as other races. The girls enthusiastically contributed well and gave us a variety of examples and analysis which gave us an understanding of contemporary society's view on mixed race pupils. We than interviewed an older mixed race person, who is also a teacher at our school to give us her interpretation and experience of being mixed race, she openly discussed issues such as racism and her family's response and her upbringing. We also asked whether she felt to be more black white or neither she answered that she preferably not tie herself down to a particular race her background enables her the freedom to be both therefore, she embraces her cultures from both sides and accepts the variety to be found within her. We are currently editing the clips and are looking forward to our final interview with a mother of a mixed race child, we have already discovered the paternal perspective of having a mixed race child however, we are now determined to explore the maternal perspective of having a mixed race child in today's society.

The interviews

Me and Naomi are going to interview many different people in order to get their personal perspective of mixed race people.

The first group of people we are going to interview are group of young girls, who attend the Lea Valley sixth form to contribute their understanding of mixed race people towards the documentary. The questions we are going to ask are:

1. Do you know any mixed race people?

2. Do you think there is any stigmas/stereotypes attached to being mixed race?

3. Do you think a mixed race person is more black or white?

4. Do you think society has changed their views on mixed race people? Negative/Positive?

5. Are mixed race people at a advantage or disadvantage in terms of racism?

6. President Obama is clearly mixed race do you think it is acceptable to refer to him as black?

The second person we are going to interview is a parent of a mixed race child.

1. What is 'Mix' is your child?

2. Do you think there is any stigma attached to having a mixed race child?

3. Was your family supportive of your child being mixed race?

4. How do you think being of a mixed race heritage has changed society?

5. Do you feel like you have to teach your child about both their cultures? How?

Thirdly, we are going to be interviewing mixed race people.

1. What 'Mix' are you?

2. Which of your parents are black/white?

3. Are you 'accepted' more by one side of the family? if so which?

4. Which side of your family do you feel most comfortable with>

5. In your opinion do you feel more black/white or neither?

6. How do you personally respond to racism?

7. Has society changed their view on mixed race people?