2. Our Chosen Genre
• We’ve chosen to do a documentary on homophobic
bullying about people of in and around our age
group.
• First thing we did was ask some of the teachers their
views…
3. Mr S. Cuffy
‘No I don’t think homophobic bullying is an issue
in our school, however if it was I’d like it to be
brought to my attention’
4. Ms N. Lintern
‘I do still think homophobic
bullying is an issue at our
school that hasn’t yet been
dealt with but then again in
some cases its very under
the radar’
5. Comparing the two teachers
views…
• Mr. Cuffy’s view was very different from Ms.
Linterns.
• She clearly felt that homophobic bullying was
still an issue within our school, this contrasted
with Mr.Cuffy’s views that there was no
problem within Dunraven.
• And then we did a few short interviews…
6. Lee Smith
• Name: Lee Smith
• Age: 18
• School: Dunraven Sixth
Form
• Short interview Link:
Question sample:
1 – How were peoples reactions when you first came
out?
2 – Why do you think your Dad reacted badly when
you came out?
7. George Neish
• Name: George Neish
• Age: 18
• School: Dulwhich Boys
• Short Interview Link:
8. Stella Collinson
• Name: Stella Collinson
• Age: 17
• School: Emmanuel
• Short Phone Interview:
• I came out over the summer
when I was sixteen to my
brothers girlfriend.
• Everyone was fine with me being
gay, my parents were the only
ones who didn’t take it well my
mum told me I would ‘burn in
hell’.
9. Dave Robson
•The chairman of the LGBT Forum.
•The Wandsworth, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender (LGBT) Forum was set up in 2005,
with the support of GALOP (Gay London Police
Monitoring Group) to improve the lives of LGBT
people living, working and studying in
Wandsworth.
Their aims are:
To provide a platform for our members, to raise
awareness and campaign on issues relevant to
the Wandsworth LGBT community.
To build partnerships to challenge homophobia
and discrimination across the borough.
To ensure that statutory agencies include LGBT
communities in consultations on service
provision.
To increase awareness of people working in
local statutory agencies of the needs and
interests of the LGBT community.
10. Dalia Fleming
• A public affairs intern at
Stonewall – the lesbian, gay,
bisexual rights charity in the UK.
• "I believe that you can learn
that even the improbable is
possible.“
• Sample Questions:
• Do you think homophobic
bullying is still an issue in
secondary schools?
•What do Stonewall do to help
young gay, lesbian and bisexual
teens who are experiencing
homophobic bullying?
Scheduled Interview – November
15th
11. Data
• We created an audience survey and passed it out to
our peers and some teachers at our school.
• We received varied results - some that confused us,
some that shocked us and some that had no results
because individuals were so uncomfortable with the
subject matter, they refused to touch the paper.
12. Questionnaire Results
Do you think it's wrong to be gay?
11
26
4
Yes
No
Not Sure
Have you ever witnessed or
experienced homophobic bullying?
10
17
12
2
Yes
No
Seen But Not
Been Victimised
I Have Bullied
People For
Being Gay
13. Have you ever tried to help someone
who was bullied for being gay?
11
22
8 Yes
No
Never Seen
Somone Being
Bullied
Do you think homosexuality is a
choice?
2120
Yes
No
14. Does homosexuality make you
uncomfortable?
17
22
2
Yes
No
Don’t Mind
Do you think homophobic bullying is
an issue in your school?
11
17
13
Yes
No
Not Sure
15. Do you have any friends or family who
are gay?
22
19 Yes
No
What do you think of people who are
abusive towards homosexuals?
10
31
Positive Opinion
Of Them
Negative Opinion
Of Them
16. If you found out a friend of yours was
gay would you maintain contact with
them?
25
16
Yes
No
17. Results
• When we looked at all the results and compared we
found that:
• The majority of people in our survey didn’t think it was wrong to be gay.
• Most of them claimed never to have seen homophobic bullying and only
two owned up to being abusive themselves.
• That the opinion as to homosexuality being a choice was pretty fairly
divided between yes and no.
• Something that surprised us was that the majority of the people felt
uncomfortable with homosexuality even though they thought there was
nothing wrong with being gay.
• And a lot of people thought homophobic bullying was not an issue in
Dunraven.
18. Further Target Audience Research
• We asked ourselves where people our age
went to, in order to find out interesting news
and find out how things were affecting us
specifically.
• The answer was simple.
19. So we did some research on how homophobic
bullying was perceived on YouTube.
22. Location
• Soon we will be setting up our interviews, and after our test
runs we know certain things we need to adjust.
• We plan to film everyone in their own personal location, at
their homes or work spaces in order to communicate to the
audience what they are like through the mise-en-scene in the
shot with them.
23. Conclusion
Nowadays it is far more acceptable to be gay, and it’s
shown on YouTube, the amount of people
supporting gay marriage and protesting against
homophobia is clear, teenagers are trying to be more
informative in order to help each other and get their
point across, though not all the feedback is positive
we have derived that our film will join the growing
ranks of anti-homophobic protestation.
