Sunderland Culture is holding an exhibition called "Who Am I?" exploring regional identity. They have asked young practitioners to create media works on this theme. The client wants to improve life in Sunderland through culture. The applicant proposes focusing on the LGBTQIA+ community in the Northeast. They plan to interview LGBTQ youth and groups about their experiences and resources. The documentary will highlight identities and communities people in the Northeast can relate to.

1. REGIONAL IDENTITY
PROJECT
Brief: Sunderland Culture are holding a mixed media exhibition, which will
be titled Who Am I? The exhibition will be held at the National Glass Centre and
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. Young practitioners have been asked to
explore and develop ideas for media work relating to the theme of ‘Regional Identity’,
which explore the question Who am I?
The aim is to engage young people and to encourage them to think about and express
their own regional identity.

2. THE CLIENT: SUNDERLAND CULTURE
Sunderland culture is an organisation that was
created to bring together Sunderland’s most
important culture attractions, activities and realise
that the city has excellent creative potential. We
operate National Glass centre and Northern Gallery
for Contemporary Art, Sunderland Museum & Winter
Gardens, Sunderland Stages, Sunderland Cultural
Partnership, Arts centre Washington and The Fire
Station with a combined audience of over 700,000. IN
addition, we run cross-city programmes such as the
recent UK city of Culture bid and our Great Place
scheme. Our mission is to improve life for everyone
in Sunderland through culture.
-https://sunderlandculture.org.uk/about-us/
Sunderland culture was founded by Sunderland
council, Sunderland University & MAC Sunderland.
CLIENTS NEEDS: The organizers have requested
that your final project be in the form of video
media (a short film or documentary), print
media , or a combination of the two.
Client wants to improve the life of people living in
Sunderland through culture.
 Creating a project dedicated to specifics in
Sunderland (eg. Places, people, interests)
 Highlight something a lot of people can relate too

3. MY IDEA
I would like to focus my regional identity project on
the LGBTQIA+ society in the north east and the
outlets available to LGBT youth in the North east.
I feel like the North East could head towards a quite
an LGBT safe place but I don’t think a lot of queer
youth don’t know the resources available to them.
I would like to highlight some of the North-East
colleges pride societies and also look into pride
groups/ support that is available in the major cities
(Sunderland, Newcastle, Durham).
So I would be interviewing individuals about their
experiences of being LGBTQIA+ in the North-East and
how they feel about the resources available to them.

4. TARGET AUDIENCE
Age • 16-25
Education
• college students
• upper end secondary
school (yr10-11)
location • North-East
England
Demographic
I hope to appeal to the audience by using
experiences that they can relate too in my
documentary and giving quite a raw look into
lgbtq+ life in the NE.
I want to include people that have different
sexualities, gender identities but also include
people outside the student life/ the
community. Such as owners of pride societies,
LGBT figures that are from the North East,
teachers, parents to figure out how they also
feel about the community in the North east.

5. POSSIBLE INTERVIEWEES
So far, I have been in contact
with Sunderland college and
Durham sixth form about
Their pride societies so
hopefully I will be able to talk to
their students and teachers. I am
hoping to maybe get in touch
with pride groups/lgbt support
outside of colleges as well/

6. KEY FEATURES OF A DOCUMENTARY
Documentaries can typically be broken down into these 5 key features Subjects, purpose/pov, forms, production methods/techniques
and experiences.
1. Subjects-The subjects is what the documentary is about. Typically, documentaries tend to focus on something that is very specific
to a certain audience and has a lot of fact behind it which is why they tend to focus on topics involving social issues, politics and
crime.
2. Purpose-The purpose is what the film maker is trying to say about the subject if their documentary. The topics inform the
audiences about the people, places, events and problems with the subjects. The whole purpose of most documentaries is to record
and interpret actual problems so that it will convince the viewers to get a clear view or take action.
3. Form-The form is the process of the documentary; it includes the filmmakers’ original concept, the sights and sounds used and the
structures into which they are fitted.
4. Production method-The production method refers to the way the documentary was put together. Its how the images were shot,
how sound was recorded, how the documentary was edited.
5. Audience experience-The overall outcome of a documentary is to immerse the audience in an aesthetic visual while also affecting
their attitudes towards a certain experience to prompt change.

7. ANALYZING EXISTING PRODUCTS
Disclosure
1. Subjects-Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact it's left on both the transgender community and American
culture.
2. Purpose-To raise awareness on the harmful depictions of trans people and why it is dangerous to have these depictions in media.
3. Form-The director took inspiration from the celluloid closet and ethnic notions as both films look at the depiction of people in
media (celluloid closet focuses on gay and lesbian depictions while ethnic notions focuses on the depictions of poc people).
4. Production-The documentary mainly involves the interviews of trans celebrities/ trans figures in media, it gets into the history of
representation of trans people and how theses depictions affected these people. The whole production of this movie involved trans
people from the cast involved to the crew.
5. Audience perception-

8. ANALYZING EXISTING PRODUCTS
Disclosure
1. Subjects-Pat Henschel and pro baseball player Terry Donahue -- begin a 65-year journey of love and overcoming prejudice after
keeping their relationship a secret for seven decades.
2. Purpose-To highlight the fear lgbtq+ people used to and still do feel about being open and out.
3. Form-The director is personally related to the couple and wanted to share the story. I believe he did it to highlight how the world is
now opening up to accepting lgbt relationships but back in the 40s -peoples perceptions were different.
4. Production-The production was filmed over a few years as we followed the couple on their coming out in old age, it went through
their history and through interviews with their friends and family.
5. Audience perception-

9. MOODBOARD

10. PRODUCTION TIMELINE
Start ofProject
Weekbeginning27/09/21
ResearchandPreproduction
October–Startof November
2021
Start Production
EndofNovember2021
Onsight Interviews
December2021
Offsight interviews
EndofDecember
2021/January2022
EditingMarch-April2022