Hands

Overall, the main theme for our doc as dictated by the brief is 'Hands'. When I think of hands in the context of Drag Queens, I think of the hands that transform a man into a woman, and also how the hands are the one masculine element that is normally recognizable (unless you are blessed with small hands of course).

What got the ball rolling was a student in our college who we were referred to by our lecturer for our doc class. He dresses in drag and will go out to clubs etc., so aside from hooking us up with contacts we plan to have a transformation segment of our film where we show him transforming from a cis gender male to his female drag persona.
Today we touched briefly on how this would be shot. It was unanimous that the studio would be best and we could dress it up to look like a dressing room and have Matt (our subject) perform his transformation in front of a mirror. It's a good way of using what's open to us and at this stage it seems relatively stress-free compared to tomorrows shoot in Lurgan.