Organizing Our Thoughts

      Today, we got to sit down with our teacher and clear thing she up. She explained that she enjoyed our topic but then asked us what our overall theme us. Unfortunately, we were still unclear on that. However, she guided us into thinking about how the way the elderly are perceived is changing. She also mentioned how “The 40s are the new 60s,” since people are starting to live longer. Right then and there, all of us started to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
     After she asked some questions to get us to think, I mentioned CNN’s decades series and how each decade has about seven episodes. I asked if we are marketing our project in the same way and she’s confirmed. Now that I compared this project to something I was familiar with, I finally understood that the project we were conducting was a series and that we needed to market our excerpt as if it was part of a TV documentary series.
    We also talked about how we would distribute the series on Netflix. Our series would mainly be about aging and the elderly challenging the stereotypes and myth so that come alongside with aging. According to this article, aging becomes

• Depressing
• Loneliness
• Unproductivity 
• Erases libido
• More religious 
• Less creativity 

  So we thought about creating our interview questions. Of course, we wanted our questions to be about how the elderly are percieved. Also, each episode of the series would contain a different topic of age.  

Citations

• Anderson, Jeff. “Myths and Stereotypes of Aging.” Senior Assisted Living Guides: Find Senior Care A Place for Mom, 14 July 2017, www.aplaceformom.com/blog/14-18-4-aging-myths-dispelled/.