STATEMENT OF INTENT: Reflect and review your mind-map and mood-board AND produce a statement of intent that clearly defines how you wish to interpret the theme of COMMUNITY as a 30 sec animated film and digital image:

3 words: Love thy neighbour

A sentence:  “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matthew 22:37-39)

A paragraph: The LGTQ+ community has been oppressed by various communities about their beliefs and practices, one being Christians. This is disappointing to think about because Jesus says to “Love thy neighbour” in Matthew 22:37; love not judge. As personally being part of both communities, I have found a way to balance same sex attraction and The Kingdom of God, so I found it my duty to show to Christians the sort of hurt and anxiety they cause to people part of the LGTBQ+ community, remind them that they should not judge but love and help these people. Another example that Christians should remember to follow can be seen in John 7:53-8:11:

⁵³ Then each of them went home, ¹ while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. ³The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, ⁴they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. ⁵Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” ⁶They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.”

This powerfully shows that Christians should not condemn anyone but help them in faith and love.

For this film we are not trying to agree or disagree with the topic of “is homosexuality a sin” rather try and find a balance and peace between the 2 communities.

We will do this by having same sex actresses go into a church, read the Bible to show that they are helping each other in the faith, then when they make eye contact the film cuts to snaps of them running away from society and judgement; we did this to reveal that sometimes the pressure is so hard on these people that sometimes it feels like just giving up and running away to live your fantasy. We then will snap to riots to powerfully show to the viewer the kind of pressure the LGBTQ+ community faces. Finally, the film will go back to the actresses reading the verse “Love thy Neighbour” strongly recommending not to push either community away but helping them and direct them to the Father (God) instead of condemning them.