Research on Deafness

Rachel and I know a little bit about the Deaf world since we take the sign language class at school but we’re not THAT educated on the topic so we decided to do some research on how people can go deaf. The reason we didn’t choose to do research on people who were born deaf is because in our storyline, the girl becomes deaf at a later age.

We found out that some causes of deafness include: head/ear injury, medication, illness, sound disruption, old age, etc. but this information wasn’t exactly useful to us. We needed to find a way that someone inherits deafness. So after some more research we made an important discovery: Otoscelrosis. Otoscerosis is an inherited disorder that causes hearing loss due to the ear’s inability to amplify sound. This is perfect for our plot! It’s an inherited disorder as well as one that specifically takes away the ability to amplify sound, the most important part of music!!

How will we incorporate this into our film opening? Well, we’ve decided that the parental figure is going to the father. In the flashbacks talked about in the previous post, we’re going to demonstrate the father and daughter growing up and how it was different from the average family life since he’s deaf. We’ll include certain scenarios that may be easy for an all hearing family, and show how they were more difficult since the father is deaf. This is kind of a foreshadow and emotional appeal cause later on, she goes deaf and now life becomes ever HARDER. We hope to make a way that the audience can infer how she overcame these struggles.