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1. Campaign Posters
• Campaign posters are typically used for charities or to raise
awareness. I looked for several in the process of creating my mood
board and I found a recurring theme of a victim’s loss of their voice
when they need help. Here, on the mood board by point one we can
see the slogan ‘Don’t be silenced, say NO to domestic violence.’ This
helped me in my decision to title my film ‘Broken Voices’ as not only
does it link to the male victim, it links to the victims lack of a voice.

2. Location Recces
• These are images I have taken around the areas where I would like to
film as I think they would be suitable locations for the scenes where
the victim is being attacked outside. These images were obviously
taken in daylight hours but it will be filmed at night.

3. Statistics
• Statistics for male victims of abuse: According to an article in The
Guardian more than 40% of victims of domestic abuse are reported
by men. A campaign group have also reported that male victims of
domestic abuse are often ignored by police and the media. This
article also claims that 2/5 victims of abuse are in fact men. This is
one of the reasons why I initially decided that my short film was going
to cover domestic violence against men as I am aware that it happens
to men too but due to lack of coverage in the media and societal
beliefs that men are significantly stronger than women, both mentally
and physically and therefore can't be victims not many people are
aware of how many men it really affects.

4. Deviant Art
• Many deviant artists have redesigned both Disney princes’ and
princess’ to look like victims of domestic abuse. They attach a
statement such as ‘when did they stop treating you like a prince’ or
‘when did they stop treating you like a princess’ for emotive effect. It
has been a very successful campaign as it has gone viral on social
media in the past year.

5. Other Short Films
• I have watched many short films about domestic abuse and many of
them only focus on women as the trembling female victim or damsel
in distress is conventional to these particular films. I am hoping to
break convention in my film.

6. Domestic Violence Against Men
• I watched a film which featured domestic violence against men, which
was created by a university student. I liked how it was used as a
campaign and they encouraged men to speak out. I would like to take
inspiration from this and use my film as a campaign.