This week in our Tuesday night class, each group presented a pitch to a panel for our final Fact Check assignment. Overall I was really pleased with how my groups pitch went and we received some great constructive feedback and suggestions.

One comment we received from the panel was to use a timeline to show the development of the gap and with this we could use a lot of archival footage from archive.org. Even if we weren’t to use it in correlation with a timeline, I still think archival footage throughout the decades of women and men at work would be a great visual aid. We could also use it in the beginning of our video (welcome to the pay gap) before cutting to the host in the studio.

Something that the panel responded really well to that I am personally really keen to pursue is representing the mental load placed on mothers in the household as I think that is a part of the wage gap that is rarely discussed. When the gender pay gap is examined there always seems to be a miscommunication that men and women are being paid differently to do the same job which isn’t true so we really want to focus on what isn’t spoken about us much.

I think it would be really interesting to further develop the idea the panel gave us which was to have a male host in the studio and a female host for our vox pops. Similar to style in how Jimmy Kimmel does his street interviews with a different host, I think having a fun woman on the on the street who is interacting with the public and asking what they think about the pay gay still being an issue will contrast well against a more harsh male character as the host. We definitely want the tone of our video to be more comical so hopefully we can humorously communicate tension between the female and male host and emphasise how ridiculous it is that the pay gap still exists in a satirical style.