Quotes

I think I will put these quotes in during the editing part of production.

 "I was ADOPTED,

which is a politically correct term for:

being clueless about one's own origins.”

― Jodi Picoult

“Adoption is grief in reverse.”
― Jody Cantrell Dyer

“My family didn't HAVE to love me,

they CHOSE to love me.”
― Charlene May

MAYBE:

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
-Oprah Winfrey   

 

Adoption was a bumpy ride — very bumpy. But, it was worth the fight.
-Mariska Hargitay

Funding!

 BBC, Open University and iTunes

A mother of an adopted Chinese girl has spoken to me about Open University and their connection with The BBC with Professor Robert Winston. I did actually have a previous interest, particularly in a longitudinal series that Open University are still doing partnered with The BBC. Thirteen years ago the BBC set out on an ambitious project; to follow the lives of 25 children after their birth at the turn of the millennium.  However, currently the episodes are no longer available to watch online.




Also she sent me a link which is where there is a documentary called International Adoption that she was chiefly involved with. It is only about 2 minutes long and is currently available to download for free and can be found on iTunes.








https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/international-adoption-for/id380232100
^Here is the link that she sent me.


Because of these real life examples in England, I think if my documentary were to really be funded and distributed these would probably be the organisations that I will decided to work with.

Things I almost forgot about

Some additional pieces that I might include:

A long time ago when me and my brothers were first adopted, we were asked by our social worker to draw what we thought we understood about what was happening, this was our Life Story Scroll. Only a few years ago, I decided to take pictures of the scroll we had drawn on and I've only now just remembered that we did it. It contains mainly drawings by us and our foster sisters and the were captions written by our foster mother, care worker and ourselves.
Here is one photo taken from it:

I also found an article that my parents still have, from when we were initially put up for adoption. I actually don't remember this being taken, but I might include this, thus demonstrating an example of how some people may have been adopted.

Final Filming

I have finished all my filming!

I have now got several interviews and one is of some children where their mother was asking them the questions, I originally planned on filming them indoors but it was too noisy so I had to shoot outside. It was difficult to get lighting done that well because of how quickly it now gets dark due to it being wintertime.....

But I'm confident that the dark lighting won't have too much of an effect on my project.

Planning Filming

I am planning on doing my last bit of filming this Saturday, 23rd November. I will mainly be interviewing groups of children and possibly some parents. I would like to get shots from different places, the locations will be at Hertfordshire Univeristy Weston Auditorium and at a chinese restaurant, both of which are in Hatfield.