Fields and frames 7- developing my idea

When developing my idea, I tend to think more about how an idea can be technically achieved, however I struggle to think of a deeper meaning to my work. To further develop my idea I decided to think about themes I could look at. Because I want to scratch out faces, it would be suitable to aim my project around the theme of identity, however I would like to make it more developed than just the idea of identity.

One idea I have is to look at the idea of gender. One of my housemates called Emma is gay, and recently came out as being gender-fluid, which is something I wasn't too familiar with. She now prefers to be referred to as 'Alex'. after having a chat to her about her sexuality and what her take on being gender-fluid is, It made me think about how I could set up my scene, for example have one or two characters and scratch out there faces as they move forward towards the camera or just in different locations, however you have to guess which character Is male, and which character is female. This  could be quite interesting as it also looks upon the idea of stereotyping, and how people jump to conclusions depending on what you look like. 

Technically, I am going to work with a film camera and work on the steenbeck machine to achieve the scratching look I want. I was also thinking about looking into Pixellation as its quite a visually interesting animatic technique. I recently took out the book 'The animation book : a complete guide to animated filmmaking by Kit Laybourne', which gives handy technical tips on how to do Pixellation and stop frame animation.

My idea needs further developing and there is slight difficulty finding scratching example work, however i'm happy with the theme that I have chosen and will further develop my idea by researching into gender-related film work.