Group Meeting: Storyboard* & Proposal (9.11.08)

Today we discussed a how we want to approach the documentary in preparation for the upcoming presentation of our proposal:

Feedback
We no longer want to use the close-ups of people expressing their opinion about a piece of graffiti. We made this decision after some feedback from one of our lecturers when Chris (the editor) and I told him about our new idea. Basically, what was said is that if we want to play around with the idea of whether graffiti is an artform or a crime, the people's opinions at the start would already reveal what we were after, and the audience would make up their mind straight away. If we did go with that, we would have to continue with the reveal technique and try to reveal something else which will move the story on. However, we do not know what we will be revealing yet since we have not done the interview, and so will instead try to bring out our theme discreetly by asking questions that will receive replies that convey this theme.

Conclusion
What we want to do is have Nathan creating a graffiti piece which represents himself. Our main idea is that we will not fully show Nathan's face throughout the documentary, but rather incorporate cut-away shots which show only islolated parts of his face and hands, as he is painting the piece. We want to use close ups of the various body parts of the piece to symbolize what is being said. For instance, the eyes will symbolize his perception of the subject, the mouth will represent his expression, and the hands of the character symbolize the physical side of creating art and his hard work. The narration will be a voice recorded interview with Nathan, as opposed to recording a sit-down interview.

Additionally, we watched a few documentaries on the internet to gain inspiration and to compare and contrast our intentions for each one. Here are a couple relevant ones:

"Atlas Graffiti"



This one really stuck out. It had a similar technique and vibe we want to achieve. However, we want ours to be a bit more colorful and want to use different music to better emphasize the urban aspect of graffiti.

FOX News - "LA Taggers"



We found this one interesting because it shows the other end of the spectrum as far as tagging is concerned. This is an example of exactly what we don't want to do.


**See "Storyboard" Post**