Client Project - Research

I researched a variety of things,

I first researched Lenroy Guiste to see if i can find out anything people may not know about him and found that he was part of the Porcelain Dolls, Royal Roots band, and that he toured with Macka B.

http://www.ukscreen.com/band/josieakers

• Porcelain Dolls - Josie Akers Lead singer/songwriter, Lenroy Guiste Bass Player, Tony Smith Lead Guitar, Edmund Keanan Drums
• Together for 2 years as of 2006

As i couldnt find much about just him I started researching more about The Natural Ites and found out the following from: http://andybrouwer.co.uk/nites.html

· Started in 1982, “Called it a day” 1990

· First Break when appeared on Rockers Roadshow w/ Jamaican DJ Mikey Dread

· First single 1983 “Picture On the Wall” on own Realistics label.

· Went to top of reggae charts

· Airplay on BBC Radio 1 in particular, widened the band's appeal and fan-base,

· television appearances on Channel 4's The Tube, constant gigging around the country, helped the single to enter the mainstream British singles chart, no mean feat for an independent reggae outfit

· First album 1985 “Picture On the Wall” Lead Vocals: Ossie Samms, Percy 'JP' McLeod and Neil Foster. Musicians by The Realistics

· The Picture album, released on the CSA label and produced by Johnny White.

· Recording took place in London and Nottingham, mixing at the Aquarius Studios in Jamaica.

· second single, Lion Inna Jungle, quickly followed their initial successful release

· Within a year, a third single, Lately, was making an even bigger impact and remained at the number one spot in the UK Reggae charts for six weeks

· second album, Marvellous, released in 1987 by this time, Neil Foster had departed leaving Samms and McLeod as the main pairing.

· The Marcus Garvey Studio in Nottingham was home to the recording, again under the control of producer Johnny White, with the album released on the Realistics Record label.

· Another single, Cry For You was released, followed up by a Temptations cover version, I Wish It Would Rain and Happen All Over Again.

· final album, Naturalites in Ites, was released in 1989

· failed to make the same impact as their previous releases and marked the beginning of the end for Nottingham's finest

· Within a year the band's members had gone their separate ways and the British and worldwide reggae fraternity had lost one of its finest exponents.

· Percy solo album, Upside Downside, produced by his former Realistics compatriot Lenroy Guiste

· Guiste himself is the bassist with the Royal Roots and Porcelain Dolls bands

I then looked more into different Documentary Styles: http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/interview10.shtml

The Expository Style (Direct Address Documentary Voice): The expository (or Griersonian) style addresses the audience directly, usually through a narrator. The narrator is separated from the subject of the documentary and is making verbal commentary on it. This style tends to rely on the narration to tell the story rather than continuous visual images. Expository films usually seek to inform or instruct, are very pointed and leave little room for interpretation. Interviews, voice-over, and archival images are often combined as in Ken Burns' popular Civil War (1990).

The Impressionistic Style: The impressionistic style is more artistic than real. It seeks to create the art and impression to convey a story, rather than using a hard-hitting, objective lens. A film made in this style may take on the production qualities of a fictional film (reenactments) utilizing actors, stages, and art direction.

The Observational Direct Style (Direct Address to Viewer Documentary Voice): This style tries to mirror the world, rather than create a specific argument. Often this style of film is a series of vignettes. The direct observational style is noninterventionist and focuses on the immediate time.

The Observational Verité Style (Cinema Verité Documentary Voice): Observational Verité recognizes it’s very difficult to achieve the goal of nonintervention in the direct observational style, because once the subject is aware of the camera, the subject will modify his or her behavior. Thus verité uses the camera to invoke an interaction or response with the subject.

The Reflexive Style (Self-Reflexive Documentary Voice/Cinematic Essay): The reflexive style also recognized the difficulties of the observational direct style, and overcomes this by involving the filmmakers in the film itself. For example, a film that shows the documentarians filming the film utilizes a reflexive style