Production

Subject focus: Catcalling

The acts of shouting harassing and often sexually suggestive, threatening, or derisive comments at someone publicly.

Though I seldom witness catcalling or verbal harassment, I’ve come to understand how constant and burdensome it can be for women, especially when the words used are crude, violent, or degrading.

• Why is it so terrible?
• Visually explore: how you feel?
• It is about power not about compliments or picking up women.
• The voice needs to tell stories about their experience while being catcalled, how did it make them feel? Angry, embarrassed etc.
• Get the target audiences to feel empathy and make it personal.
• Idea: interview a male perspective as “the devil argument”.
• The male perspective could say something like, “oh it’s only a bit of fun between us guys, guy banter.”
• Catcalling is about “Power” and relations within it.
• Idea: A women being destroyed by all these unwanted sexual attentions.
• Is it a form of Bullying and why?

Interview dialogue example:

Based on interviews with a few people about their personal experiences and opinions about these issues of catcalling women in public.

“I was walking into kings’ cross stations, minding my own business when theses group of men started whistling at me like I was a someone’s pet dog! they started shouting inappropriate things to me like ow-ow good looking show us your p*&^%/! I was so embarrassed I started feeling hot under the collar with anger”

While the voice-over is playing in the background, the visual metaphor will take place. Need to find women who have had an issue with catcalling and can tell us about.