Due to the fact that we would like to expand the story about the half blinded Patricia Poo into a broader story we decided to form a group of three people including Frieder, Janos, and me.
We decided to make our documentary about (up to) three half blinded or completely blind people to compare their different ways of life, their hobbies, and point of views. Our aim is to document how they deal with their physical limitation and accentuate their strengths and weaknesses in daily life.
At the moment we made contact with Patricia Poo, who we will meet on the 14.09.2016 to get to know her a little better and to check out if she fit to our concept and ideas. Furthermore we now try to find two to three other interesting people for our documentary. We wrote emails to the Purple Parade (a movement in Singapore that supports the inclusion and celebrates the abilities of persons with special needs), including musicians, runners, and a chess player.
At the moment we are busy with contacting people and then meeting them to check out their individual stories.
On Thursday 08.09.2016 we hold a meeting to develop and extend our storyboard so that we can offer our protagonists a gross design of our documentary plans and to give them an overview about which role they could play in it. It is very important for us to find protagonists which have different kinds of blindness and different kinds of hobbies or interests to cover a broader scope and to be able to compare different ways of living and dealing with a physical illness.
