Tattoo Promotion:

Within our documentary we are keen to promote the art of tattoos and to present both the positive and negative aspects.




Hazelle Moscrop, supports the idea of tattoos and is a good example of a person who expresses her personality through her body art and style. She is excited to therefore speak to us about her different tattoos and the ones she has planned for the future.


She has recently been on a photoshoot for a website called 'The Suicide Girls', which promotes young women with body-art such as tattoos and piercings, and is happy for us to view and show the pictures in our documentary.

Initial Ideas and Footage...

Initial Ideas and Footage...

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Location:

During half term Lauren Claudie and myself went to Camden to take some initial footage and location shots for our documentary. We managed to interview a man who had many tattoos for our actual documentary which was so useful and is perfect for our footage.

As well as that, we decided to leave the camera running and walk around Camden, through all the market stools etc. We want to use this footage in the opening part of our main documentary as we will be editing the colours to make them brighter and exciting, as well as speeding up the footage. We are hoping that this as an introduction will meet the needs of our young target audience and give them an initial taster of life in Camden Town.

As well as doing this we also filmed shorter clips just of location, such as rotation shots and high angle shots which we can use as a montage within our work.

Tattoos presentation

Tattoos presentation

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Initial Ideas:

We decided to change our documentary idea. We wanted a theme which is controversial (so we could document a range in opinions), easily understood by an audience (so they can perhaps relate to our footage) and relates to our age so we can add our own opinions.

We chose the topic of tattoos because, as I have already mentioned, they are a controversial issue, so we can interview people of all ages about their views. We want to especially talk to tattoo artists themselves to see why they chose such a profession to see whether they enjoy it.

We want to make our documentary young and urban through our editing skills, so it is fast paced and there is a variety of colour and music used to grab audience attention.

We are planning to film the majority of our footage in Camden as it is the perfect location when finding people who have tattoos themselves, work in the professional and it also links to the poetic documentary theme we aim to produce as it is a fun, entertaining place.

Subliminal Messaging:

A starter into our research for our new documentary.
We are interested in the ideas of subliminal messaging within the media, focusing around the ideas of size zero and the effect this can have on teenagers growing up.

Here are a few links to youtube videos I have watched as inspiration. They are rather useful when developing a wider knowledge into the ideas and the fasinations with subliminal messages:

Derren Brown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1fyOWsrFY&feature=channel


Subliminal Messaging Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoOuXHlNErI&feature=fvst

The September Issue:

An observational documentary exposing the chaos, work and effort which goes into the production of Vogue's September 2007 issue. This film documentary, directed by J.R. Cutler documents the life surrounding the editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her staff.

The documentary is seen as a literal version of the film 'The Devil Wears Prada' starring Meryl Streep, and written in 2003 by a former assistant of Wintour, Lauren Weisberger.

This is a good documentary to watch based on our early ideas for a documentary, as we are thinking of a subject concerning size zero and subliminal messaging in the media (magazines.)