First meeting of Clear Sky Films. All group turned up and was a productive session. Wrote a list of subjects we thought would be interesting and then researched them.

Islamophobia.

Definition- Islamophobia is the fear and/or hatred of Islam, Muslims or Islamic culture. Islamophobia can be characterised by the belief that all or most Muslims are religious fanatics, have violent tendencies towards non-Muslims, and reject as directly opposed to Islam such concepts as equality, tolerance, and democracy.

It is viewed as a new form of racism whereby Muslims, an ethno-religious group, not a race, are nevertheless constructed as a race.

A set of negative assumptions are made of the entire group to the detriment of members of that group.

During the 1990's many sociologists and cultural analysts observed a shift in forms of prejudice from ones based on skin colour to ones based on notions of cultural superiority and otherness.

(definition found at http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-a-definition/)

Ideas related to this subject would be a documentary following a Muslim showing the racial hatred he receives of just being a Muslim.

Human Trafficking
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5343036.stm Good information on what human trafficking is and the human trafficking situation in the UK.

Immigrants
would look at the situation of immigrants in the UK and what it is doing to the unemployment statistics and the way they are treated.

Yob Culture
Meaning young people acting in a violent way for no reason. hanging in streets causing trouble and when ask to leave they attack and some times kill. some times young group just attack random strangers. we ask why do they do this and who is to blame.


MP's idiots or not?
looking at Mp's to find out if they actually do anything. do they do it for self gain or to improve the way of life for others.

Terrorists

for film ideas we talked about:
looking at a terrorist orginisation and how they set up for a terrorist attack and then them being found out by police or goverment.

National parties

Here we began to think about nationalist parties such as 'skin heads,' BNP and other organisatiosns that don't believe in accepting foreigners and other races into the country.

For the film idea we wanted to show the violent nature of these groups and how they go about their work. For the main character we wanted to have a more passive member of the gang that isnt too sure if what he has decided to become is the right thing.