Statement of Intent

 This part of my blog will detail the statement of intent our group has created for the documentary

• The statement of intent was really helpful, especially since we're working as a team, as it helped us put our ideas down and understand the direction we wanted to be heading in for our documentary
• We had a preferred reading of "treat your students well or it may push them to be desperate and do stupid things" which I don't think carried on very strongly. This is due to prioritizing the tone we were trying to create with our intro. An intro is a crucial part in any sort of film as it's where an audience is first introduced to the film which means we need to give them reasons to stay so, as this is a crime documentary, we prioritized introducing the overall plot while maintaining a good sense of suspense. In the end, our message became a little neglected. 
• I feel like this is also partly due to the perpetrator not actually having any lines or showing up beyond faceless reenactments. As we prioritized the sense of suspense, we kept them faceless and let them live through the words of other characters and the audience's own deductions which encouraged mystery but through this we have neglected their personhood and experiences. Through that, we were unintentionally dehumanizing them therefore not really allowing the audience connect with that message