Story Board (1st draft)

28/09/10 (First day of filming)

Today we all went to Waterloo Graffiti Area and Waterloo Tunnel for filming. As it was our first day of filming we were all excited plus nervous too but we all  managed to capture a pretty good video.

Waterloo Graffiti Area and Waterloo Tunnel (While Filming)

Meeting Minutes (28th of September- Tuesday)

We all went for a filming today from 3-8pm. We even clicked some pictures of graffiti area and had a sucessful filming.

2nd Weekly Update

during the second week we continued with th research in to our chosen topic area. we also travelled to london to see some of the art pieces, that south bank free wall had to offer and waterloo bridge. By going to these places, we filmed some cut-aways. and took photo's of graffiti. we also started to look at possible people to interview.

Graffiti Research

Graffiti : Street artist, Vandels, or Political free speach
 when looking at what areas to cover in our documentry there was many different roads in which we could take after looking at graffiti on the internet and the contriversal, issues surrounding the sensitive subject.

some of the questions that arose when discussing it was ; What is art? how do we define art? damage to property? and Is graffiti a form opf political free speach?

 While looking at the polictiacal side of the graffiti one name was high lighted. Banksy. bansky is a highly know UK street artist that that does political messages through his work.



a very political image that banksy has created the message saying "political and lords are a bunch of chimps"



one of the most famous pieces from banksy

I also look at the astetic appreaciation of graffiti, and how some poeple find it beautiful to look at.



a piece of work what displayed in londons south bank


There is also the criminality of graffiti. The laws on public property are very strict and anyone caught doing graffiti can be arrested and prosecuted under the Criminal Damage Act 1971. people that are found to be doing graffiti can be fined up to £5,000. If the damage caused is less than £5,000 they may be given a community service order instead of a fine.
as well as this the new Anti-social behaviour law (2003) gave local councils the power to punish offendersby making them clean illeagal graffiti. these include;

• On-the-spot fines of £50 to anyone caught doing graffiti on public property. These can be given out by police officers, community support officers or local authority officials
• Giving local authorities the power to give clean-up notices to owners of street furniture such as phone boxes if they have graffiti on them. If the property is not cleaned in 28 days the authority can remove the graffiti themselves and charge the owner for this service
• Making it an offence to sell spray paint to under-16s. If a shopkeeper can't prove they took reasonable steps to determine the age of the person, they can be fined up to £2,500.

Even with all these laws and regulations in place we find out self ask why do people still do graffiti.?

I also wanted to see the knds of different paint that is avaliable, after speaking to a graffiti artist they said the best type of paint was Montana gold. This is because of the duel pressure that the can can have so when doing a pencil thin linbe the can exerts a slow pressure and when doing a larage sapce the can then does a high pressure. This to graffiti artist of especially appealing becuase at £5.99 a can they can save paint as well as this there is over 120 different colours and for artist this means nthey can get the best possible finish and mixx the colours they want.

Pre-Production

Pre-Production

Planning Checklist

Planning Checklist

Meeting Minutes (27th of September- Monday)

Today we all did some research on our topic "Graffiti" and decided to start our documentary filming tomorrow. We even selected a place (Southbank and Waterloo Tunnel) to film some graffiti area.

Research (Graffiti-Draft)

"Graffiti is any type of public marking that may appear in the form of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti are from the italian word graffiato which means scratched in italian".- wikipedia

More than half of the population in Britain thinks graffiti as a vandalism rather than art.

Let's look at the Britain's most popular graffiti artist Banksy. He's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene. He is also best known for political activist artist whose work is somehow connected with the political, social and economic issues.

Peace Soldiers by Banksy

via google.

Bristol city museum and art gallery was also closed because the museum kept the secret from top council officials about doing a exibition of Banksy's art works. Though the 49% of people out of 100 finds him interesting and inspiring where as 51% of the peoples are still against his work and they think Banksy is encouraging the youth to do more vandalism. But the more we ask this question to the people the more answer we get from different perspective.

Bristol city museum and art gallery--Banksy's art work

via google

After doing this research some question occured in my mind like

Will people stop making graffiti if they get right to show their work in the art galleries like other artist?

The answer could be Yes or may be No.

Perfect Way To Frame An Interview

Brain Storm

Mind Map of Possible Ideas

Documentary Proposal

Documentary proposal

“ Is graffiti an expression of art or just another form of vandalism”?

 In this topic, we plan to explore the very controversial idea of graffiti, and whether it seen as an artist portraying a message through the expression of art or just seen as vandalism of the streets in London today.

We will look at both, for positive arguments of graffiti and the negative argument as well. And look at both perspectives of the too sides.

A source shows that it’s a common view that graffiti is frowned upon in society. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1637000/1637333.stm)

“Graffiti is disgusting and gets people into bad habits, wherever people find a blank space they scribble all over it.”

Although there are many schemes and project that have been set up to remove graffiti. People still show hostility towards it.

Project’s like ‘orange rock corps’ have been set up to remove graffiti, and because it nation wide it covers a wide regional area and these projects have been strongly backed by the government.

In order to finding conclusion to the debate that is graffiti, we will be interviewing people that support graffiti and people that don’t mind it, as well as people who are strongly against graffiti. We also believe that there no better way to see how the artist themselves feel about it so will we also interviewing them and finding there perspectives on what they do. We also intend to interview some public figures to show what they feel about the graffiti. Additionally, we will speak to other general members of the public that hold their own and find out whether they feel the media influences these ideas.

We plan to have cut-always of piece of art that have been produced as well as people doing graffiti. As well as these we plan to show the length that people go through just to “get up” (graffiti) photo’s of black books (Were people design there pieces of work before they put paint to wall)

For a list of speakers I would like to interview 2 graffiti artist’s (one that’s big, and a up and coming one). I would also like to interview people that work on the projects at orange rock corps. As well interviewing companies that remove graffiti them selves and some people that are the general public.

For this our group roles are:

Philip – editor

Lauren - director                       

Sustika – sound

Anju – Camerawoman

1st Weekly Up Date

This week got together to organize what we was going to do our documentary on : our documentary proposal is going to be on graffiti whether its a form of art or vandalism.

After concluding on what we discussed. We then created and organized our blog and linked the personal blogs to the group one. we also done a lot of research in to the topic area in which you'll see in later post.

Meeting Minutes (21st of September- Tuesday)

Today all of our group discussed about the topic that we are gonna make a documentary about.
We all had different ideas but we decided to stick toward Philip's idea which was "Graffiti Art, Vandalism or Political free speak".

Meeting Minutes (20th of September- Monday)

Today we choose our roles in a group of four.
Lauren as a Director
Anju as a Camera Person
Philip as a Editor
Sustika as a Sound Person