This year for Digital Portfolio, I plan on focusing on Political and Social Issues. The way I will work on this concept and create my project(s) is by getting real life events, and turning them into short films. I will also be creating false stories-(Imaginative)- and continue showing Political and Social issues through fictional and Nonfictional events. I will be focusing on more then one topic, to hopefully express feelings to the audience and show current events, and what it's like to have to go through what that person is going through- and then looking at how the Government and other people around them are handling the situation. Whether it would be them agreeing or disagreeing on the matter, or how the person(s) physically or emotionally react to the issue.
For example, I am thinking about creating a film that is involved with the Texas Rape law, and how our government has handled the situation and how people from around the U.S. have handled the topic. For the film, I won't focus more on the rape aspect but how/what women are doing to fight back. It'll focus on a single girl who lives in Texas and is fighting for women equality and fighting against the law, following her as she goes through struggles. She will post videos of speeches she made, showing as she gets a lot of backlash, bringing her down a bit. But one day she gets a text from a random stranger who wants to help her. She's hesitant at first but the more they text, the more they gain their trust for each other. They end up meeting up getting more and more people/followers, fighting against the government. In the end, the women who fight, end up winning, and the government takes away the law.
The second film that I plan on focusing on is LGBTQ+ matters and how being a trans boy, whether in the past or present, can affect so much of their life. It'll focus on him being bullied, and how there was laws made, and rumors of conversion camps. The kids at his school would throw things at him, make him depressed, call him slurs, etc. He would end up getting very depressed. Falling behind in classes, not eating or getting out of bed. Then, one day, he decides to turn on the TV and sees a "Breaking News" update, explaining how a young teenage trans boy was bullied and ended up ending his life. The news anchor then continues to talk about how the Trans group the boy was in, is mourning the loss. The Protagonist of the story ends up searching the group name and finds that they are allies of the LGBTQ+ community, who wishes that anyone who is part of it, to join and become part of their family. The protagonist then watches a welcome video and what the group is part of, and ends up going to one of the meetings.
Throughout the year, I will be continuing to create different films based off of society and how we tend to handle things. Some of my films will be true, and some of my films will be ones I base off of events, but add in my own little twists. I'm excited to see what will happen.
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