Proposal / Story Board 9.11.2008

We decided to give our documentary a new look and decided to take out what we were going to do at the start of it. This was the shots of peoples faces explaining their oppinions on the graffiti, but to keep the artist doing a graffiti for us. The Graffiti we want him to do fo us is a character that will be representive of his personality, we shall then focus the film around differnt parts of the character as he is painting it. This will tell his story and answer what his oppinion is to whether graffiti is art or a crime. As the parts come together the audience will then be able to see the artists charachter revealed.
Our group started to discuss the proposal and firstly looked at some similar documentarys, here are two that we found:

Atlas Graffiti documentary
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0s5hkYWbY
FOX News L.A. Taggers
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tPJIYfAMgHw&feature=related

The first one on the Atlas Graffiti group kind of had the same feel to how we wanted ours to flow. It also showed graffiti artist going to extreme lenghts to put up their tags.
The second documentary wasnt very usefull as it was more about a gang that tagged things rather than a smaller graffiti group. We thought this one coulde have been usefull as it would have showed graffiti more as a crime.

We came up with a story board of how we wanted it to look which was as follows:

Scene 1: We are going to have shots of Kid33’s work fading from one to another with the title and production name showing. We will use a hip- hop song named “Hell on Earth” for the duration of the introduction as it will set the film off with the urban feel that we intend to portray. The total duration of the introduction will be roughly 15 seconds.

Scene 2: We will ask Kid33 to paint a picture of how he sees himself. It will not necessarily be a the conventional way in which someone might portray themselves, but his own abstract interpretation of what represents him as a person i.e. personality, experiences etc. Through out the film the camera will focus on various areas of the piece of art such as parts of the face or body to help convey the relevant message Kid33 is trying to get across. This scene will contain rough background of Kid33s life and how he began his life as a graffiti artist. We do not intend to show Kid33’s face, however the questions he answers to through out the scene will be used as a voice over. This will give the viewer a sense of ambiguity around Kid33 as a character who seemingly has a hobby of which can have a criminal background. Other shots of his artwork will be edited into the scene. The duration of this scene will be roughly 45 seconds.

Scene 3: The second scene will flow into the third carrying on the theme of graffiti often being known as a criminal offence. We will be focusing on the legal issues regarding graffiti, his opinions on graffiti as a whole and if he has had any previous encounters with the police regarding his artwork. This camera will be focusing on the mouth of the painting that he creates and other images of work he has done that relates to this topic. This scene should last for roughly 45 seconds.

Scene 4: The fourth scene will focus on areas in which he may have helped the community such as work shops etc. Keeping the theme of focusing on a specific part of the painting he created, we will edit in shots of the representation of his hands. Shots of his artwork that he may have produced in projects to help the community will be edited in through out the scene. This scene will last for roughly 45 seconds.

Scene 5: Scene five will be our overview in which we will show still images of Kid33 and his graffiti group Oxygen Thievez’s artwork in public areas. The camera will also cut to the image of his eyes in his artistic interpretation of himself. This section of the film will last for roughly 20 seconds.

Scene 6: This will be our final shot of his finished art work where his portrait is revealed to the viewer. We will attach a piece of cellophane to the camera lens for Kid33 to sign as the credit roll across the screen. This section will take roughly 15 seconds.

Our group finished discussing what we were planing to put in it and after the group meeting Chase and I started to write out the proposal.