Education, Education and Education

A slight change in my idea. 

I've realised that filming within different primary schools is going to be a very big challenge, one because of the age of some of the children, its going to be difficult to explain my idea and get them to do exactly what I want. Also, because i've emailed the local schools and they're being a nightmare about getting back to be and thirdly, after being in school for nearly 14 years I have realised what hoops staff have to jump through to allow filming and photography of the children. I thought I may be able to combat these last two problems by filming in a private nursery near my house, however i've just decided to adjust my idea slightly. 

A had a slight panic when I thought about changing my idea, however I looked back over my previous research and remembered all the work I had looked into concerning surrealism. I've always liked the basic message of the surrealist movement. 

Surrealist artists such as Dali, film makers such as Bunel and theatre practitioners such as Artaud all want to express something. They take social issues and then create something showing them at the absolute extreme. I like the idea of dealing with some kind of social issue. Perhaps a social issue that's incredibly current, yet timeless playing on the traditionally paradoxical theme of surrealism. 

I realised that already, my original idea of education and the journey through school, is an idea in itself. Its plagued with different injustices that I can extract and play with. 

Using "Education" as a heading a mind mapped a few ideas just to get my brain into gear. I thought about that political aspect of education. I did some research into the education sector and minister for education etc, however I found nothing inspiring... 

...Until I had a eureka moment. 

I was repeating the word education in my mind to try and evoke some sort of stimulus as idea's were running dry and then I remembered Tony Blairs 1996 pre election speech "Education, Education and Education" 

It made me think about what politicians idea of what schools actually are like. The majority of MP's have most likely attended some of the most prestigious schools such as Eton and then jumped through hoops to attend either Oxford and Cambridge. This in itself surely is an injustice.

This made me think about what impact government decisions have on myself, as an average school girl. The only things that came  to mind where the occasional change in grade boundaries and the scrapping of the national diploma's. Small things like that. 

I suddenly realised how awful it is how little I do know about the educational sector of the government. I thought back to the last time me and my friends had a conversation about governments intervention with the state school system... probably never. 

I then brain stormed all the things me  and my friends do talk about. Key themes such as: 

-Weight Loss

-People's smoking habits 

-Boys 

-Uni 

-Parties. 

I thought perhaps that this is something I could play on. Focussing the issues individual people go through, especially through their teen years at high school. Its  relevant and extremely close to home.