Creating a documentary in order to raise awareness of people of 'Comfort Women'
how am I going to create a documentary
what is the purpose
of this documentary
what makes a successful documentary?
which topic am I going to talk about ?
comfort women
(Japanese Military Sexual Slavery)
to raise people's awareness of comfort women and wartime sexual violence
to make a correction on distortions about the facts of comfort women
Audience: people in IICS
what sources should be included in a documentary?
interview
video / photos
subtitles
have to learn how to
put subtitles on video / edit videos
from where?
by watching turtorials on youtube
by reading books about editing videos
face-to-face interview
with an e-mail
by a video-call
would be most effective
have to visit Korea
with whom?
with one of the surviving victims (challenging)
with an expert of this issue
(could be a professor, a leader of NGO, and etc)
videos/photos taken by others
videos/photos taken by myself
have to evaluate them
they must be from reliable sources
have to visit Korea
unbiased documentary
reliable sources
clear point
it has to be engaging the audience
requires source analyzing/evaluatig skills
how do I know whether
it is biased or unbiased/
before creatig a documentary
have to make sure what I am going to talk about
it must not be too long
has to include graphics so that audiences don't get bored or lose their interests
how do I deal with language barrier? interviews going to be in Korean but it needs to be tranlsated in Korean so that audiences can understand and access
I need to translate interviews accurately
what distortions that Japanese government have made?
informing people about comfort women and making a correction on distortions of facts about comfort women
relevance between comfort women issue and feminism(maybe)
where do I get sources?
primary sources
secondary sources
interview with surviving victims
interview with experts
what are the widespread distortions about comfort women?
what are the biggest controversies of this issue?
Japan denying their coercion of 'comfort women'
why did it take almost 50 years for victims to publicly speak out being forced into sexual slavery
negative perceptions towards victims of sexual violence including wartime sexual violence in Korean society
is there any documents or record that cleary states the Japanese coercion of 'comfort women'
how do I know whether I actually raised people's awareness of comfort women and wartime sexual violence or not?
7~8 minutes
resolution
brief historical background
interview wih an expert
Kim Hae-Seul, an activist working for the Korean Council
demonstrations in Korea
demanding an apology
assessed by my expert
assessed by peers, teachers
make a rubric to evaluate the documentary
official docuemnts
primary sources
testimony from the victims
UN, NGOs, government webisite, researchs
have an interview with my expert
have to get a permission
How do I know if my documentary was successful or not in terms of raising awareness of people about 'Comfort Women'?
get petition demanding apology from Japanese governemnt signed up from people
petition from Korean Council
create online petition with change.org
my expert, ki, hae-seul whom works for Korean Council which advocates for the 'Comfort Women'
researchs
official documents from governments, international organizations
get sign up for the petition demanding an apology from Japan
secondary students
what exactly happened to 'comfort Women'
What are the issues about 'Comfort Women'?