so we started outlining of what we could do with this as we thought this would be a much more interesting to a wider audience.
We came up with a working title very quickly of "Urban Art" and with the concept of whether or not graffiti is art or a crime. We chose to do it on this for a few reasons, firstly we all find graffiti interesting and also what's behind graffiti in the scence that you dont usually see them being done there is a blank wall one day and the next there can be something on it. So we think it would be interesting to find out the charachter behind this.
we then thought of some aspects we would like to look into such as:
- How he got into it
- How he got recognised
- Why they see it as an art
- Has he ever been caught
- What message he sends from his graffiti
The visual side of it we planned to start with short videos of people saying there opinion on a graffiti but not show or say what it is then show the graffiti and have the title fade into the picture. The following scene we would film the artist doing a graffiti onto a canvas but speed it up and have a VO from the artist speaking about his work and answering our questions. We would also fade in other pictures of art his done that correspond to what hes talking about.
For the target audience we thought of people that are to do with art such as art students and other artists
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Group Meeting New Project 5.11.2008
In the morning we met up before our lecture and went to the YMCA and the police station to find if they knew anyone that we could use. The YMCA said that they couldnt help us at all, but the police gave us some names of institues and their phone numbers. We then went back to one of our groups houses and tried calling the numbers we had been given and searched the internet for other simmilar institutes that could help us find someone.
After a while we decided that we should think of a whole new project we came up with four ideas of who to do it on which were:
- A Community Support Officer
why: We thought of this as everyone sees them around town all the time but not many people know exactly what they do. You also hear alot of people saying they dont do much so to show their side of the story
- A Big Issue handout
why:Tell the story of people that are unheard, everyone knows who you mean when you talk about people selling the big issue but no one knows why they do it or what life style they have, and this is to show this.
- A Community Centre
why:To find some one that is helping the community in someway. This was to find someone that is helping the community and we would look for someone with an interesting background.
- A Prostitute Help Centre
why: Whilst browsing for drug rehabilitation programs we came across a prostitute help centre and thought of doing it on the founder of this organisation for a variety of reasons and we made a short outile:
what: Why the organisation was started and what it means to them?
where: at the POW institute in nottingham
Why: Around where we live in nottingham there are alot of prostitutes about at night and so we see them all the time. We also found it interesting as it is not trying to stop them do it it is mainly aiming on making it safer although they do also teach skills.
Target Audience: People that know prostitutes, for POW as a Promotion for their organisation and for school as educational purposes.
Half way through this we got a call, saying that we could do a the documentrary on a graffiti artist that is part of the "Oxygen Theivz" graffiti crew.
After a while we decided that we should think of a whole new project we came up with four ideas of who to do it on which were:
- A Community Support Officer
why: We thought of this as everyone sees them around town all the time but not many people know exactly what they do. You also hear alot of people saying they dont do much so to show their side of the story
- A Big Issue handout
why:Tell the story of people that are unheard, everyone knows who you mean when you talk about people selling the big issue but no one knows why they do it or what life style they have, and this is to show this.
- A Community Centre
why:To find some one that is helping the community in someway. This was to find someone that is helping the community and we would look for someone with an interesting background.
- A Prostitute Help Centre
why: Whilst browsing for drug rehabilitation programs we came across a prostitute help centre and thought of doing it on the founder of this organisation for a variety of reasons and we made a short outile:
what: Why the organisation was started and what it means to them?
where: at the POW institute in nottingham
Why: Around where we live in nottingham there are alot of prostitutes about at night and so we see them all the time. We also found it interesting as it is not trying to stop them do it it is mainly aiming on making it safer although they do also teach skills.
Target Audience: People that know prostitutes, for POW as a Promotion for their organisation and for school as educational purposes.
Half way through this we got a call, saying that we could do a the documentrary on a graffiti artist that is part of the "Oxygen Theivz" graffiti crew.
Group Meeting: pictures and who can we do it on? 4.11.2008
During the day me and chase went to take some photos of possible location of where to film, We walked around town looking for places we could shoot an interview, and also other photos that we could use in the project. Here are a few of the pictures we took:
In the evening our group then met up and we discussed who we could do the documentary on and where abouts we could go to find someone. We decided that we would go to the YMCA and the Police to ask if they knew any rehabilatated drug addicts that are doing talks to current addicts.
In the evening our group then met up and we discussed who we could do the documentary on and where abouts we could go to find someone. We decided that we would go to the YMCA and the Police to ask if they knew any rehabilatated drug addicts that are doing talks to current addicts.
Semminar and Group Meeting 3.11.2008
Between now and the 23rd we have been waiting for the guy we were planning on doing our documentary on to email back but as we hadnt heard from him we decided that we had to change our project. this is the outline of what we came up with for our new project:
- Change focus away from the personal asspect of addiction to the community
- Not a grime/urban feel anymore
- More uplifting/ light music
- To shoot it where the new person we choose works
what: A personal insight that shows you can still live your life afer addiction
where: Where the person works, around the YMCA possibly and his home
Why: To show a story of someone overcoming a devil to give hope and inspiration to people that struggle after or during addiction, and to help the community.
how: With using voice over from the person we use teaching or working, Film of him at his work place, photos of projects he is working on, a relaxed editing atmosphere.
music: light hearted uplifting; classical/ electronic/ instromental
Reasons:
Heart - sympathys with the audience, his passion for what he is doing, wants to use his own experience to help others. hits the audience with a heart warming story.
Mind - Informing people of rehabilitaion programs
- Change focus away from the personal asspect of addiction to the community
- Not a grime/urban feel anymore
- More uplifting/ light music
- To shoot it where the new person we choose works
what: A personal insight that shows you can still live your life afer addiction
where: Where the person works, around the YMCA possibly and his home
Why: To show a story of someone overcoming a devil to give hope and inspiration to people that struggle after or during addiction, and to help the community.
how: With using voice over from the person we use teaching or working, Film of him at his work place, photos of projects he is working on, a relaxed editing atmosphere.
music: light hearted uplifting; classical/ electronic/ instromental
Reasons:
Heart - sympathys with the audience, his passion for what he is doing, wants to use his own experience to help others. hits the audience with a heart warming story.
Mind - Informing people of rehabilitaion programs
Me My Mum and Heroin 23.10.2008
Today our group met up at my house and watched a documentary on channel 4 called Me My Mum and Heroin. This was about a girl and her boyfreind who were both addicted to heroin, the mum was also part of it who was just trying to help her daughter and the boyfreind out. (more to come)
Recall
I haven't writen on my blog for a while but i have kept a written journal of what we have done as a group and so i shall say what we did and when in the following posts.
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Video Journalism Workshop 29.10.08
A Video journalist came from the bbc to talk to us. I found this quite usefull from the camera techniques that he was telling us.
This first thing i learnt about was what the minimum shots should be used within one sequence, these were a close up of the hands so you can see what they are doing, a close up of the face so that you are able to identify who it is, a wide shot to give the audience a idea of where the person you are filming is, a shot over the shoulder so you can see as the subject sees and the final shot is a creative shot to make it a bit more interesting.
The second bit of valuable information i got out of this workshop were 4 tips on our documentarys. These were that you must hit the audiences Mind in the sence of teaching them something new, secondly the Heart by making the viewers feel for what you are filming and touch them, thirdly money because when you bring money into it for instance the credit crunch it will get alot of people interested and finlly it was a technique of keeping all the eyes together, being the eyes of the people and the eye of the camera (although this is for interviews)
This first thing i learnt about was what the minimum shots should be used within one sequence, these were a close up of the hands so you can see what they are doing, a close up of the face so that you are able to identify who it is, a wide shot to give the audience a idea of where the person you are filming is, a shot over the shoulder so you can see as the subject sees and the final shot is a creative shot to make it a bit more interesting.
The second bit of valuable information i got out of this workshop were 4 tips on our documentarys. These were that you must hit the audiences Mind in the sence of teaching them something new, secondly the Heart by making the viewers feel for what you are filming and touch them, thirdly money because when you bring money into it for instance the credit crunch it will get alot of people interested and finlly it was a technique of keeping all the eyes together, being the eyes of the people and the eye of the camera (although this is for interviews)
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