Regarding the Contextual blog post that I made recently, our documentary falls under the last category of Performative as we were dealing with the subject of identity. Specifically gender identity in individuals.
I mentioned in a previous post that our idea significantly changed but sort of stayed the same because of certain issues attempting to find our subject matter. I also mentioned that I much preferred this. The subject matter was discovering something brand new to him, exploring just a smidgen of the world of drag in front of a camera for us. It kept with the staged studio appeal that the performance aspect of drag queens have to offer their audience, including posing in front of the camera; being the centre of attention within a studio set that was decorated and lit in a specific way for the subject. It's all rather fake but also a physical exploration of potentially a new side of this same person.
In another segment of our documentary, we had an interview process, where we received the personal views of our subject matter (Glenn Crawford) in regards to drag and gender identity in general. It's great to get a positive response from someone who is not an active member of this kind of community as it sheds a new, positive and most certainly interesting light on this. For this same reason, it also helps the audience to better engage with the subject, as they are also learning this for the first time and can better keep an open mind. It can prove to be incredibly daunting whenever an expert, so to speak, makes personal statements in the form of facts as this can potentially scare the audience or even confuse them. When the likes of our inexperienced subject comes on, he demonstrates an open mind and is easy going; this can help the audience to feel very comfortable and, of course, more than willing to listen to his opinions and open their minds as well.
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