380:(now Coventry University). As Soden was a student, she got together a union crew from Nottingham film workshop so the film could be broadcast. She devised the script with Steve Binnion and they edited it in Nottingham. Rather than visually depict an actual rape at the end with Rhoda being overpowered by a man, they chose to cut a random selection of images taken from filming straight from the TV depicting violent men and passive women. These were collaged together over the screaming on the soundtrack, putting the rape in a wider social context. This left problems with copyright clearance. However the concept was about wanting to depict the rape as being synonymous with gaining or assuming power (in this case because of the money the male had spent on the victim, and he assuming he then could do as he wished). It was broadcast twice; but the second time, the footage from the TV collage was taken out because of copyright problems, and substituted by a simulated silhouetted rape in a dark alley.
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