Tutorial Four: Video Production Session

Hello Everyone!


So it's been a while since my last post. And....you might notice that there is no 'Tutorial Three' on my blog. This is because in that tutorial, we had to actually create our blogs. Hence no post for Tutorial Three. Good? Good.


So here we go, again.
In this tutorial we had to plan and produce a one minute long film based on one of four concepts. Occupational justice, occupational disruption, occupational transition, and lastly, occupational deprivation.
My group chose to base our film around occupational deprivation of vertically challanged people.
Have a look:

Occupational deprivation is defined by Ann Wilcock as unequal opportunities to "participate in occupations of choice or in occupations having individual, familial, or cultural meaning" (Wilcock, 1998, p. 305). It is also important to understand that occupational deprivation is caused by external factors, rather than internal. These factors "may be social, economic, environmental, geographic, historic, cultural, or political in nature" (Christiansen & Townsend, 2010, p. 305).
In this case, occupational deprivation is caused by society's disregard for those who are vertically challenged and are unable to reach high cupboards in public places. This is a barrier recklessly set in place by society that limits a portion of our population to participate in everyday activities.


In creating this film, we went on a hunt for a super tall guy at Wintec. After getting his permission to make a film of him and one of our group members, we drew up plans as to how we would portray to the audience the difficulty that vertically challenged people have in society. We drew up a story board of all the frames to be filmed which made the actual filming very easy as we were all on the same page as to what needed to be done and how we were going to achieve that. After a fun-filled afternoon of playing around with camera's and frames, we had a few minutes worth of film that we had to cut right down to one.
All good fun!


Gotta run, have a good week!!
Sally~




References:

Christiansen, C. H. & Townsend, E. A. (2010). Introduction to occupation: The art and science of living (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. 

Wilcock, A. A. (1998). An occupational perspective of health. Thorofare, NJ: Slack, Inc. In Christiansen, C. H. & Townsend, E. A. (2010). Introduction to occupation: The art and science of living (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.