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Rhianne’s Family Could learning about the way Rhianne’s parents feel about stress and studying the home she grew up in indicate if we are a product of our environment? Also as it was Christmas time, which is supposedly the most stressful time of the year, in terms of pleasing your family with gifts and the pressure to cook a perfect dinner, the girls thought it would be ideal to capture this on camera to illustrate how Rhianne and her family interact. It was also a relevant day to get a short interview from Rhianne’s dad, Noel who is a catholic and speak to him about how he goes about stress relief in terms of his beliefs. Rhianne did get some cutaway shots of the general antics on Christmas day, however it was decided at a later date that bringing Christmas into the documentary didn’t feel right and that the links were not strong enough. Christianity As filming was going on during the Christmas period, the girls thought about doi