Does Tiara Really Exist?

Tiara Shafa Sudijono English 9LL Documentary Rationale Word Count: 484 Our documentary, titled “Lasting Im-pressure”, is about the academic pressure in Indonesia that causes a lack of self-love in students. This pressure, we think, mostly comes from parents as a result of their good intentions yet inefficient ways of conveying those intentions. We wanted to make this statement apparent in our documentary because our target audience is parents in Indonesia. We used a mix of dialogue, sound, and image to make the audience feel that parents should prioritize their child’s self-love and mental health rather than their grades or academics. Throughout the documentary, we used stacks of thick textbooks as imagery in order to symbolize academic pressure; heavy and burdensome (0:24-0:34). This was done in order to make the audience feel inferior to the books and what it symbolizes. By using these shots, we tried to build up the idea that academic pressures are overbearing, intimid...