Steven Murphy
Jennifer Hudgens
WRD-110
November 10, 2015
I would like to start off my documentary off by using some pictures of the new puppies that a service dog organization here on University of Kentucky’s campus has gotten in. The whole purpose of doing this is because I want to emphasis that they get their dogs from puppies and train them for a year and then send them off for further training at ADAI in Ohio. The sole purpose of this picture is to give an insight on how young it is that dogs can begin their training to be a service dogs. In the background I will have a very common happy, up-rising tune to brighten the mood upon seeing a very young puppy(8 weeks old to be exact). I chose to use a beat that is very happy and exciting because I think it will set the tone and mood of puppies and a good vibe, which is the job that these dogs do once trained properly. I want to just start off with this one picture of one of the puppies, even though not all puppies that go into service dog training are this exact breed or size, it just goes to set the tone that I will be doing my documentary over something involving dogs, which will lead me to my next point.
After this opening scene, I would like to actually go about defining a service dog for a short bit and just inform the audience of the several types of service dogs around the country, and the world. I will input information all the way from a definition of service dogs, all the way to what allows dogs to go into buildings with their person and some other common rules, regulations, inquiries, and charges etc of service dogs. Definition of service dogs-dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. All of this information is going to come from the website provided here- http://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm
I would like to provide all of this information because I feel it is some common knowledge that everybody should know about service dogs in general because it is something we will all run across in some time and place in our life. Plus, it will give us a better idea on the way service dogs work and a better way to approach a situation if we see need to help someone with a handicapping disability explain why their service dog is allowed in the store with them and that no excuses may prevent the dog from entering the store. This website also gives us all basic information of service dogs, which I think most people need to understand
After providing all of that information, I would like to insert a small piece of a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn9WO1FCb0) to back up my evidence of common things said to people with service dogs. I want this small video to be input into my documentary because it shows that I am not the only one out there that realizes that service dogs and their people are looked down upon, not quite so in a bad negative way, but in a disrespectful overlooked way. The next thing to follow is going to be some edited lines put on the screen to show common things said about service dogs, “Can I pet your dog,” “Your dog is so well behaved,” “Awww, your dog is so cute!!!,” “Are you blind sir/ma’am?,” and so on. The whole purpose of this opening is to put the idea of service dogs in your head and then to open your eyes up to the real problem at hand, how much service dogs are looked over and how they don’t get the credit they so well deserve. Once I bring up the quotes, I want the music in the background to stay the same, not quite what song yet, but any song with an upbeat musical to it will do. The whole tone behind this scene in my documentary will be a very mellow, yet serious because I want everyone to understand that the information being provided isn’t a funny problem, but instead a serious concerning problem.When I bring up the quotes, edited to pop to the human eye, but visible still, I will make sure to leave each one up for enough time to read each and every word in them, even though they are short, because I want them to process the words that are said by many to these working animals and their people. The purpose of this scene with all the common misconception things said to the people and their dogs is to set the mood and tone down to a sad low music level in the background after the small video clip because although repetitive after the video tells you, it just goes to show how repetitive a person and their dog hear it, which can sometimes be disrespectful to the dog and their person. That and when the person the dog is with can be very offended by these said things, which doesn’t help anything, but instead makes it even worse. I would like to do a voice over after these quotes are done saying, “What would you say to someone with their service animal?” I do this to set the tone to a very intense questioning tone.
After I do the voice over asking that question, I will go about informing people of some proper things to say. When it comes to communicating with someone about their service dog and their own disability, you should really just treat them the same as you would any other visitor into your building/shop/store. These people and their service dogs are no different from anyone else and they shouldn’t be treated as so.
Another short clip of a video on service dogs I would like to include is how service dogs benefit PTSD soldiers. In the video I will provide a short 20-25 second clip from it showing how service dogs can benefit PTSD soldiers when they return and I plan to take the background sounds out, except for the speaker in the clip, and add a sad music tune behind the conversation. i want to do this because it is sad how the soldiers return home with PTSD and there isn’t much that we can do to help, but that’s only us humans. This is why there are organizations that benefit these PTSD vets when they return, one distinct one is Paws for Vets, and I tell you about them because they serve the whole country, not just a state or certain states. The purpose of putting this into my documentary is to prove that service dogs don’t only serve as seeing eye dogs or the common service dogs that you’re used to seeing. The tone of this scene is going to start as a sad and depressing music theme and then change to an upbeat tone when the dog gets up in his lap to calm his PTSD vet after he got frustrated after recalling the moment where his doctor told him he had he had PTSD and “needed help.” First off, that isn’t the way he should’ve gone about it, but the whole point of the video segment is to show that service dogs are much more important than given credit for (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_a_V1QD3U).
This is a piece of text from a source that I found on the uky library website (http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=9&sid=864d2e35-6a21-411c-b112-c2fb0d4a1811%40sessionmgr4003&hid=4110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=95611342&db=a9h). I chose to use this piece of text from the article off of UK Libraries website because it just goes to show how underprivileged some of the service dogs still are being treated even as of today in 2015!! It’s ridiculous and the tune of music I plan on putting in the background behind this scene is going to be a very assertive and upset tone, somewhat of a pissed off tune because the fact that not all service dogs perform the same jobs, or some don’t help people with handicapping abilities, go to show how low society can be. These dogs that benefit PTSD vets and help to keep them calm. If that isn’t being defined as doing a job, considering there are also organizations and groups of people that specialize in training service dogs for helping PTSD vets, then that’s why the tone and music behind this scene is going to be a bit aggressively aggravated/upset. The purpose of this scene is to get the message by that all service dogs, rather helping someone perform a task they cannot do by theirself, or just to help keep their person calm, should be allowed within any business that their person can get into.
The next scene I would like to include in my documentary is going to be a graph that represents some of the positions that service dogs are proven to help people out during and some graphs off their page showing these positions and what exactly service dogs(in this case, therapy dogs) help out and in what way. The purpose of providing these graphs is to give everyone that sees this documentary a visual insight on just how helpful service dogs can be for anyone that needs to undergo the slightest of work to their teeth or all the way to anyone who needs to have hemotherapy done or a major surgery. Behind this scene there will be a softer, but calming theme of music going on to make everyone understand that these dogs calm the people they are taken to help. I’m hoping by providing these graphs and the calming tune in the background will help the audience understand that these facts back up the proof that service dogs need to be given more credit than what they truly are given.
Next I would like to run in some further details on the details of a service dog's training and what the requirements are for these dogs to then be considered a service dog. These requirements are produced and approved by ADI(Assistant Dog International). As listed below:
- The dog be specifically trained to perform 3 or more tasks to mitigate aspects of the client's disability.
- Dog demonstrates basic obedience skills by responding to voice and/or hand signals for sitting, staying in place, lying down, walking in a controlled position near the handler and coming to the handler when called.
- Dog works calmly and quietly on harness, leash or other tether.
- Dog is able to perform its tasks in public.
- Dog must be able to lie quietly beside the handler without blocking aisles, doorways when possible.
I want to incorporate this information into my documentary because training a service dog isn’t as easy as it is made out to be and it takes much longer. These are some more common misconceptions that are made about service dogs and I plan on having each one of these go along the screen in my documentary one by one so I can give a short description of why this is important when it comes to training a service dog and why each one is needed. I feel like by doing this I will be able to give a better insight on what service dogs have to go through in order to become the service dog position they’re being trained for. In the background I would like to insert a softer, somewhat relaxed music tune in order to be able to describe why each of these are important and the role that they serve while my audience reads them off the screen. The tone of inserting each of these facts is to be an informative message to my audience. My purpose of inserting these is to also create the informative message that service dogs don’t have it as easy as everyone looks and thinks that they do because they work as hard as anyone else does and hold a job as well as we do.
Lastly, I would like to include a final transition between the last scene and this one with a change in the music in the background to a supportive themed song to show that I support the service dogs. The purpose of this scene is going to be to show my support of the service dogs, not just here on campus, but all of the service dogs everywhere. The tone of this final scene is going to be very upbeat and peppy because I want everyone to feel happy and somewhat excited, possibly to the point to where they may want to help out with service dogs someday. I am going to put a couple final photos of some service dogs up on this final scene because this is something that the trainers of dogs here on the University’s campus go through, is giving their dogs up, so that the dogs can move on to the next stage in their training process to becoming a service dog in a field. The dogs have to move on, and I will also provide a picture of a facility nearby that helps the service dogs in training brought in from here on our campus. Our campus!! Yes we have service dogs and yes, students here on campus train them. The purpose of the pictures are going to be to provide support on how well it is for students to train service dogs because it helps both the students here on our campus and it helps the dog with social skills with all people because it is a broad community here on campus so the dogs are introduced and made social through meeting all the people on campus. This is also a requirement for service dogs is to be social so it benefits the dogs in the end to be trained by these trainers here on campus, which are actually students who want to help the handicapped in the future with the dogs that they train.
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Shit People Say... to Service Dog Handlers. Dir. Morgan Krug and Britt Novitch. Perf. Morgan Krug. Youtube, 2012. Film.
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