'You don't know the half of it'

Articles we looked into that discuss the topic of "Social Masks": http://feelhappiness.com/take-off-your-social-mask/

Back to  original idea 21/11/2018 So after we all slept on our idea change, we realised that it wasn't a topic that we were all really excited about. So we have decided to go back to our original idea, but add a slight change to it. We are still using the same tag line 'You don't know the half of it', but we want to relate it more to 'Social Masks' and go more in depth into this topic. We will be using the information we have already gathered but also looking more into the idea of Social Masks.

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Documentary Research After watching different documentary styles we decided we want to do an observational documentary. We will sit back and film we will also incorporate interviews with random members of the public and members of LGBTQ+.  We don't want our voices heard but we will be asking questions. 

Tomoko Sawada, ID400 1998-2001 For this photo series, Sawada visited the same photo booth outside a train station in Kobe, Japan over the course of four years to create 400 different black and white ID card photos of herself. [

Is gender a social construct? Web Source: Youtube What is gender? Web Source: Youtube Do you know the difference between sex and gender?  Web Source: Youtube Toilets, bowties, gender and me | Audrey Mason-Hyde | TEDxAdelaide Web Source: Youtube Biological sex refers to biological traits that are determined by chromosomes. Gender Identity is a social construct used to characterize traits within a person; colours, clothes etc. Gender is not determined by biological sex. Gender is how you see yourself. Cisgender: Gender matches Biological sex. Gender is a spectrum. advocate  –  1   noun  : a person who actively works to end intolerance, educate others, and support social equity for a marginalized group.  2   verb  to actively support/plea in favor of a particular cause, the action of working to end intolerance, educate others, etc. agender  –  adj.  : a person with ...

Idea Change 19/11/2018 After speaking with our supervisor Sinead we decided to change our idea. We were still struggling to describe our message, we were hoping to highlight differences and show that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. It was always a long winded spiel though and we struggled to communicate what our message was. We have reached out to Noah, he is a transgender male and founder of This Is Me trans health foundation. He is willing to share his story with us.  We were all excited to explore gender. After speaking with Sinead she thought it might be more interesting to focus on Noah and gender identity. From this we have began researching and educating ourselves on the topic. We are planning to do a documentary and educate ourselves and others on gender identity.

This week we all sat down and discussed with Sinead and Siobhan how we are going to turn our project into a campaign, as we discussed this, we again decided that maybe this wasn't the best way to present our project. If we were to create a campaign, we would have to provide our views with resources and information on how to deal with these issues, and we felt that this isn't what we want our project to be about. We also started to reach out to different people and communities that we would like to work with during this process, people who we would like to hear and share their stories. We started off by messaging a number of drag queens from the Dublin area to see if they would like to share their story with us, so far we have only gotten one reply and they apologised as they had to decline due to other commitments. We also got in touch with the ' ITB Colours Soc - LGBTQ +  ', which we got a  reply  from one of the members, Noah, who k indly  agreed to share his sto...

Progress: This week we were focusing on our prototype ideas for our presentation. In a few weeks we will have a working prototype for our group. It will convey what our final project will look like by the end of the year. This week we were brainstorming different ideas for how we would go about making our working prototype. We decided on Monday that an interactive magazine idea would be too broad for our chosen theme and idea therefore, we decided to change our final or prototype to be a campaign. It will include a website that will have a range of different media for example; our interviews and visuals through the use of graphics that we will design ourselves using illustrator. We will also create a social media account too and have them all linked to one another.           We all signed a contract for our group on Monday. We did this because we needed to ensure that all team members would participate effectively and to make sure we all did our specif...