The overall creation of the documentary has started with a few issues. The general limitations around schooling or education had some issues in term of what sort of idea we really wanted to explore without being too critical of the school as a whole. We explored other ideas such as the social groups within the year in students, but one of the issues we realised would certainly limit us there is getting interviews with students who maybe unwilling to appear on camera.
Although we have not proceeded with the concept of social groups throughout the students, we will still need to interview students for our current idea and if they wish to remain anonymous, we will need to blur their face, which we will be able to do in the editing process. Our current idea is to explore the presentation of religious values within our school, especially in terms of religious education and assemblies. Exploring people's views on religious values being taught would be very valuable to exploring the issue as a whole. As well as this, we are very interested in going into the idea of the conflict between teaching religion and religious values which often have very traditional, conservative roots and promoting modern, far more progressive values, such as the inclusion and acceptance of the LGBT community and how perhaps these religious concepts can deal with this. However, we as filmmakers need to make sure we are not overly critical, presenting a balanced view of both the school's intention in promoting these issues, but also exploring the inherent issues within the religious texts being presented. We want to remain as objective as possible if we can, to try and refrain from pushing our own ideology onto the film (which should be possible considering the spread of our own personal views as directors - relatively varied in terms of religious positioning). The film will have challenges further down the line but we have begun to confront and solve the problems we have faced thus far.
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