Week 3: Proposal

M o e : Director.

J a c k i : Editing. 

K r i s t i n a : Sound. 

S a l m a n : Camera & Cinematography.

S T A R T E R  Q U E S T I O N S 

How has the internet revolutionised the dating world?

Why do people use online dating?

Has the internet made online dating a breeding ground for sexual encounters alone? 

How is sexuality effected by online dating?

How does online dating effect homosexuality and the gay sex scene?

Our Ideas 

M O D E : Participatory; our perspective. We want to address the audience and take them on a journey with us through online dating, sexuality and through the stories of homosexuality. We also want to use aspects of poetic mode, using fragments and lyrical representations of subjects to show an emotional, artistic representation of their dating lives.

How do gay men use online dating? 

Is 'Grindr' a key to the gay online dating world?

How do different aged/types of people use online dating apps and websites?

How does the internet allow people to explore their sexuality and bridge the gap between sexuality and dominant ideology? 

A U D I E N C E : Mass audience, want to appeal to a large group of people as we want to show them a side of online dating that has not fully been represented before. 
T A R G E T  A U D I E N C E : Young people/ straight and LGBT community to show a side of online dating they might not normally encounter. Also want to target the older generation (middle aged 40+ etc) as these are the types of people who commonly use online dating as well as the young people looking for love/sex. 

W H A T  I S  A L R E A D Y  O U T  T H E R E ? 
'The Secret World Of Tinder' Channel 4 Documentary 2015
'Panorama: Tainted Love Secrets of the Dating Game' BBC documentary 2013
'The Grindr Project' Online Youtube Documentary by William Means 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mjOffjXUoY
'Catfish' 2010 Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman 

M U S I C  A N D  S O U N D 
Jazz/ Sensuality/ Sexuality/ Erotic atmosphere/ Electric Jazz/ Saxophone
Sennheiser K6 Kit/ Boom poll (On location shooting) Contact Microphone (Clip), (Interviews) 
Diagetic- ambient sounds of interview setting 
Non Diagetic- Jazz creating the atmosphere in the film

E D I T I N G 
(Still in idea prosess) 

C A M E R A 
Go Pro/ Stop motion photography/ Establishing shot/ Tracking shots/ On screne recordings of appas and websites/ Text and Titles (online tone)/ Close ups.

W H A T  W E  W A N T  T O  C R E A T E 
Take the viewer through our (the film- makers) journey into the online dating world through the perspective of homosexuality. Using the brief of 'Self and Other'. 

"Self and other:
In what ways do people live / perform their sense of national, ethnic, religious,
sexual, class or gendered identity? (e.g. explored though an ethnography of
aspects of British society looking at what might seem strange to people coming
from elsewhere). How is our sense of self defined in relation to what we think we
are not?" 

In our documentary we want to explore the ways in which people use online dating and their reasons for using it. Also addressing the greater topic of how the internet has revolutionised the dating scene. 
Through many group meetings and discussions we have come to the conclusion, from our research, that 'Tinder' and more specifically 'Grindr' opens up the gay community to... yes more sexual encounters but actually 'Grindr' also helps bridge the gap between gay people in our society.