That's a wrap... for now!

As of last Friday we have completed principal photography for our documentary! Having shot the bulk of the 'drag' segment of our doc, which was the interactive/performative part of the piece, we only needed to shoot the interview with our subject and we were good to go, provided reshoots weren't necessary (After looking at the footage from last Tuesday I'm happy that we have all that we need)

Now comes the edit. Since both shoots we've been throwing around some ideas for editing techniques and music. During the interview Glenn (our subject) mentions a couple of celebrities or figures in the media who are associated with the things he discusses. A few pe
ople of note are Eddie Izzard, the extremely cross-dressing comedian, known for performing his comedy sketches in drag but not being gay himself. Another is Rob Halford, the lead singer of the British heavy metal band 'Judas Priest', an openly gay man who one might not normally associate with the heavy metal scene.

One of the main points that we discussed and that we'd love to focus on in the edit is the idea of how the media portrays sexuality stereotypes, e.g. a gay man would be portrayed as very flamboyant and camp and a gay woman will be portrayed as very masculine and butch. Despite this preconceptions by the media, in our society we have very masculine gay men (Rob Halford) and very feminine gay women (e.g. Portia De Rossi, wife of openly lesbian TV presenter Ellen Degeneres).