This document outlines the planning and organization for a project covering the topic of femicide. It discusses choosing femicide in Turkey as the topic due to its relevance and growing problem. Initial research was conducted on defining femicide and the statistics in Turkey. Interviews were planned with Turkish women to sensitively discuss the issue while avoiding man-hating. The design of three short videos to be shown in airport screens was created to raise awareness. Ethical considerations were made to protect interviewee safety. The group organized document sharing and assigned roles to collaborate effectively on the project.

1. ‘The problem of FEMICIDE’
STAGING PLAN

2. Table
of
contents 01 OUR DESIGN
02 Project research and
planning
03
organisation
How we organise ourselves, our
process, communication, team
participation & contribution
04 OPPORTUNITIES AND
LIMITATIONS
05 SKETCHES
06
OUR FILM IN LOCATION
The problem of
femicide
07 08
Appendix a
09
Appendix B

3. 01 The problem of femicide
WHY WE CHOSE THE TOPIC OF
FEMICIDE
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4. WHy we
have
chosen to
cover The
Problem of
Femicide
● Lack of knowledge about femicide in some
first world countries (particularly the UK)
● High numbers of victims, hundreds of
women killed due to femicide in Turkey
alone last year
● Lack of action being taken against
femicide, with campaigners fearing that
the number of victims will rise further in
2020
● Lack of understanding of the reasons
behind #womensupportingwomen
● The topic of femicide is not covered or
given enough press within the UK Media &
News
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5. Our
AIMS
● Spread awareness of what’s
happening outside of Turkey
● Make the reasons for the B&W
instagram selfies widely known
Lot of people seeing celebrities
B&W posts but may not be
understanding the meaning behind
them
● Approach the topic sensitively
● Avoid man hating!
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6. 02 OUR DESIGN
OUR DESIGN IDEAS
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7. 3
Different
videos
Featuring 3
different
interviewees
Interviewee 1
★
Interviewee 2
★
Interviewee 3
★
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8. 3
Sections
In each
video
Intro
Primary interviews
Agency/end section
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9. Intro
Actuality footage
Text on screen
iPhone screen
recording ig #
Portrait
News reports, newspaper
articles, social media
posts.
To make our information on
femicide more accessible to our
audience within a noisy airport
environment.
Replicating the orientation of an
iphone & instagram, linking back
to the ways people can support
the campaign.
Showing the progression of the
campaign, its growing support &
awareness.
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10. Primary Interviews
Subtitles
2 questions answered
It’s important that everyone, regardless of gender, location etc.
hears about what’s happening in Turkey & supports the
movement. Subtitles make the information accessible to more
people, including the deaf community & those who don’t know
Turkish.
We aimed to keep each video under 3 minutes long, making it short
yet effective. Within an airport environment, passers by will have
little time to stop & take in a longer audiovisual piece. Each 1st
interview question will be different within each video, allowing for a
wider scope on the topic & new information within the differing
videos.
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11. Our own b&w photos supporting
#womensupportingwomen
Last interview q
links to agency Qr code bigger
The 2nd question will link to
agency, & what the audience
can do to support the
campaign.
More accessible to the
audience from differing
proximity to the screen.
An example of our own support, encouraging others to join in &
do the same.
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Agency/end section

12. Slidesgo
Flaticon,
Freepik.
Qr code
On the bottom of every screen throughout
WHY include a qr code?
● Encourages & makes it
quicker & easier for
audiences to support
the issue by using the
# on their own B&W
selfie on instagram
● Increases the likelihood
of our audience
supporting the
campaign against
femicide
WHat does the qr code
lead to?
● Takes our audience
who scans it on their
phone to the
#womensupportingwo
men hashtag on
instagram
● Enables them to see
other people's
photographs/selfies
who have joined the
campaign
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13. ★ To fit in portrait airport advertising screens
★ Links back to the physical layout of instagram (which is
a focal tool in femicide awareness)
^Why we chose to create a portrait screen^
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14. 03 RESEARCH & PLANNING
PLANNING
INITIAL RESEARCH & PLANNING
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15. What Is
Femıcıde ?
The killing of a woman or girl, in
particular by a man and on
account of her gender.
Violence against women includes a
wide variety of acts – from different
types of emotional abuse and verbal
harrasment, to every day physical or
sexual abuse. The final point is
femicide: the murder of a woman
(WHO 2012).
Femicide Definition
Femicide Definition
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16. Research
Femicide in turkey
At least 474 women were killed in Turkey
last year, according to the women's rights
group (We Will Stop Femicides Platform).
(BBC 2020).
Every year, the problem is getting worse: in
2019 women being murdered mostly by
partners and relatives, the highest rate in a
decade in which the numbers have
increased year on year.
Effect of Covıd-19
lockdowns?
Effect of coronavirus lockdowns has
increased the rate of femicide (The Guardian
2020).
This issue has become more global because
women in Turkey started protesting this on
social media to make their voices heard.
Turkish social media users joined a "women
supporting women" campaign by sharing black
& white pictures of themselves to call for
solidarity over femicide and violence against
women in the country, where hundreds are
killed every year (BBC 2020).
CAMPAIGN
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17. #Womensupportingwomen
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18. ACTUALITY footage
ARTICLES
NEWS REPORTS
Why we used actuality footage in our piece
(We are allowed to use these clips for Educational purposes as long as they are referenced accordingly)
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19. Video Reference list
AFP News Agency, 2017. The deeping tragedy of Turkey’s murdered women [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWRNmdHgRWg&t=22s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
AJ+, 2015. Men in Skirts Protest Violence Against Women in Turkey [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMJ8O_mfFg&t=37s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
AJ+, 2016. Flash Point- A turkish Student’s Murder Changes How Violence Against Women is viewed [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2yC-SjD5s&t=10s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
Amnesty International, 2020. Turkish Femicide [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73KQ5RynnGM&t=22s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
CBC News, 2019. Women in Turkey protest attacks on what they’re wearing [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XbfXRt5j0o&t=57s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
CBS News, 2020. Violence targeting women surges in Turkey [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy7yoDibMMQ&t=53s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
DW News, 2019. Turkey: Violence against women on the rise | DW News [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg31QlGpRn8&t=36s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
Euronews, 2019. Murder case highlights problme of violence against women in Turkey [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQzv_2EjY5g&t=46s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
IndiaThinks, 2020. Reason Why Women Are Posting Black & White Pictures | #ChallengeAccepted | Turkish Femicide [video,online].
Youtube. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH0QWFyZmdo[Accessed 15 November 2020]
Ruptly, 2019. Turkey: Hundreds of women perform “The rapist is you” at Istanbul protest [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AS1akMsum4&t=7s [Accessed 15 November 2020]
Ruptly, 2019. Turkey: Women lawmakers perform viral anti-femicide protest song in parliament [video,online]. Youtube. Available from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_pcWg8ePfg&t=20s [Accessed 15 November 2020]

20. Article Reference list
Bellut, D., 2020. Turkey’s long history of femicides. DW [online]. 24 July 2020. Available from:
https://www.dw.com/en/femicide-rates-turkey/a-54311038 [Accessed 17 November 2020]
Blunt, R., 2019. Femicide: The murders giving Europe a wake-up call. BBC [online]. 6 September 2019. Available from:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49586759 [Accessed 17 November 2020]
McKernan, B., 2020. Murder in Turkey sparks outrage over rising violence against women. The Guardian [online]. 23 July 2020.
Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/23/turkey-outrage-rising-violence-against-women [Accessed 17
November 2020]
Shojaei, M., 2020. The long-overlooked problem of Femicide in Turkey. Human Rights Pulse [online]. 6 October 2020. Available from:
https://www.humanrightspulse.com/mastercontentblog/the-long-overlooked-problem-of-femicide-in-turkey [Accessed 17 November 2020]
Yalcin, D., 2020. ‘Black and White’ campaign highlights femicide in Turkey. BBC [online]. 30 July 2020. Available from:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-53596483 [Accessed 17 November 2020]
WHO, 2012. Understanding and addressing violence against women. World Health Organization [online]. Available from:
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/77421/WHO_RHR_12.38_eng.pdf [Accessed 15 November 2020]

21. ● Due to the serious & violent topic of this
audiovisual piece, we want to ensure we
aren’t putting our interviewee’s at risk by
recording them talk to us about this issue.
● Our interviewee’s are Turkish women, so
furthermore this issue of Femicide is a very
real & scary threat to them.
● Their safety is of utmost importance to us,
& we want to assure them & ensure that
their safety is kept & any risk mitigated.
Ethical issues to
consider
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22. ● Give interviewees the option to change
their names to protect them from any
negative backlash, including violence &
harm
(we would use real turkish names to still
make them sound like real Turkish women)
● Disclose that this is a theoretical project -
it won’t be released to public therefore
their safety is kept & risk mitigated
Actions put in place to
combat the ethical
issues we face
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23. 04 ORGANISATION
HOW WE ORGANISED OURSELVES & OUR
PROJECT
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24. Planning &
Organisation
In the beginning
As a group, we started by brainstorming
ideas for what our factual piece could be
about. Bensu, being from Turkey, proposed
to focus on the topical issue of femicide as
domestic violence cases have been rising
all over the world this year due to
self-isolation and lockdown laws.
Weekly zoom meetings
The plan of staging the visual pieces in an
airport terminal was Emily’s suggestion, as
raising awareness to British tourists about
how serious femicide is in countries like
Turkey seemed like a positive idea.
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25. Weekly zoom meetings
We have been conferring weekly about
how the visual pieces should look, what
content we should be focussing on and
what questions we should be asking
contributors. We have also been viewing
the edit that Max and Emily have been
working on as a group and giving
constructive feedback on what does and
doesn’t work. Production roles have also
been discussed during these meetings and
we have been deciding who should be
doing what.
ZOOM INTERVIEWS
In November, Bensu conducted the first zoom
interview with a women’s shelter
representative, and since then has conducted 2
more.
As she speaks fluent Turkish, she was able to
find the contributors online and contact them.
Each of these women were asked a series of
questions around why and how the current
crisis in Turkey got so serious and what can be
done by people to help & bring positive change.
Organisation
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26. Organisation of documents
Grace set up a Google Drive folder where
we all put in our relevant documents, such
as contributor forms & our own collection
of black & white photos (see Appendix A &
B).
Similarly, Bensu shared the interview files
(video & audio) with the rest of the group
through using the Google Drive too.
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We found using Google Drive easy &
effective for sharing documents with the
whole group, as well as collaboratively
working on Google documents & slides too,
ensuring teamwork & collaboration on all
aspects of the project.
We also shared the links to these
spaces/Google Drive folders on a private
Slack group & a private Facebook
messenger group, to ensure that every
member of the team had easy access to all
the files.
Organisation of documents
Organisation
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27. Organisation of ourselves
Through weekly zoom calls & daily
communications through facebook
messenger, we set goals & time frames for
when certain tasks/production documents
needed to be completed & uploaded to the
shared spaces for. Keeping in frequent
contact helped us all work in unison, as
well as making it easier to advise each
other on certain aspects of production (i.e.
the framing of interviewees & the design of
our audiovisual pieces).
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Organisation
TEAM PARTICIPATION &
CONTRIBUTION
We collectively decided which tasks we will
individually take charge of, but emphasised
that as a group we are here to help and
support each other on all tasks. For example,
Bensu dealt with anything interviewee related
but we all collaboratively decided the
interviewee questions, the framing of the
interviewees & the ideal time frame of each
interview.
We made sure all group members had a say on
every aspect of the project through our
frequent & thorough communication.
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28. OUR GROUP MEMBERS & THEIR ROLES
MAX
GRACE
EMILY
BENSU LEON
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29. 05 OPPORTUNITIES & limitations
OPPORTUNITIES & LIMITATIONS FOR THE
PROJECTS INTENDED SCOPE
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30. LOCATION
OPPORTUNITIES
LIMITATIONS
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31. Why this
location?
1
When thinking about
location we wanted as many
people to see it as possible.
2
It’s a location where
there is already
multiple screens we
can utilise.
(Specifically we have chosen Heathrow Airport)
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32. 3
Thousands of people from
across the world gather in
airports & have time to
spare whilst waiting.
WHy this
location?
4
Broadcasting these
pieces in an airport
reflects the global
context of Femicide.
(Specifically we have chosen Heathrow Airport)
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33. ●
Where in heathrow
airport?
Why?
Showing different versions of each video in
each terminal (the difference being the
interviewee & the 1st question answered)
means there would be no close screenings of
all the videos together, which could put
audiences off watching & taking in the
important information in the videos.
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34. TECHNOLOGY
OPPORTUNITIES
LIMITATIONS
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35. INTERVIEWS
Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, we were unable to record interviews in
person. This ultimately meant that all interviews had to be conducted
via zoom. We had little control over external factors like lighting and
sound, however we overcame this by positioning our interviewees
and also recording additional audio in case the zoom recording failed.
Due to our contributors only speaking Turkish, we had to translate
the conversation and add subtitles. This however worked to our
advantage as our piece not only felt more authentic but was also
accessible to a larger audience including the deaf community and
busy passers by who may be unable to hear the audio.
opportunities
LIMITATIONS
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36. 06 SKETCHES
INITIAL SKETCHES IN LOCATION
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37. About us
Jupiter
Neptune
Intro/first section
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38. About us
Jupiter
Neptune
Interviews/ middle section
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39. About us
Jupiter
Neptune
END section
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40. About us
Jupiter
Neptune
END section
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41. 07 IN LOCATION
PRODUCT IN LOCATION
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42. Our final original videos
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(SCREENSHOTS FROM THE FINAL VIDEOS)
Screenshots of parts of our introduction section, which is the same in all 3 films. They show mainly secondary
clips such as news stories, however also feature primary clips in which we searched up the meaning of femicide.

43. Our final original videos
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(SCREENSHOTS FROM THE FINAL VIDEOS)
Screenshots from the interview middle section in all 3 films, they all show the barcode (which
links to the #womensupportingwomen on instagram), subtitles & the interviewee themselves.
FILM 1 FILM 3
FILM 2

44. Our final original videos
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(SCREENSHOTS FROM THE FINAL VIDEOS)
Screenshots of parts of our end section, where we focused on agency & what our audience could do to help
campaign against femicide. This section was the same across all 3 films, & featured our own b&w photos as an
example of how we are joining the campaign against femicide.

45. Our videos In location
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(SCREENSHOTS SEEING AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE VIDEOS IN IT’S AIRPORT DUTY FREE LOCATION)
These are photos of one example of how our audiovisual pieces would look in situ/staged in it’s
proposed location. The other 2 audiovisual pieces we have produced would be staged very similarly to
sit within another terminals duty free area within Heathrow Airport.

46. 08 Appendix a
CONTRIBUTOR FORMS
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47. Appendix a - Contributor Forms
*This is the link to our google drive folder where all contributor forms are held*
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/
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48. 09 Appendix B
OUR B&W PHOTOS
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49. Appendix B - OUR B&W PHOTOS
*This is the link to our google drive folder where all our B&W photos are held*
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/
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50. Photos used in Staging Plan Reference list
Reuters., 2020. Women protest for their lives: Fighting femicide in Latin America. [photograph]. Available from:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/women-protest-for-their-lives-fighting-femicide-in-latin-america/
[Accessed 15 December 2020].
2020. Stoodnt [online]. Available from: https://www.stoodnt.com/blog/top-zoom-interview-tips-for-job-seekers/ [Accessed
15 December 2020].
Alexandra, R., 2020. KQED [online]. Available from:
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883979/empowerment-selfies-are-burying-a-turkish-womens-rights-campaign [Accessed 15
December 2020].
Canedo, F., 2020. El Universal [online]. Available from:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/red-shoes-mexican-women-protest-against-femicide-a
nd-gender-violence%3famp [Accessed 15 December 2020].
Michigan State University., 2019. Michigan State University Online [online]. Available from:
https://www.michiganstateuniversityonline.com/resources/leadership/common-ethical-issues-in-the-workplace/ [Accessed
15 December 2020].
Heathrow Media Centre., 2019. Heathrow Media Centre [online]. Available from:
https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/pressrelease/details/81/Corporate-operational-24/10887 [Accessed 15 December
2020].