VOGUEThis is my final version of my documentary 'VOGUE'. This documentary combines my research, collage, interviews, dancing along with audio giving a more thorough insight into what Vogue is. I am really happy with my final outcome, it allowed me to combine my interests, passions and hobbies. I feel this documentary expresses everything I originally wished to convey within my story, it allowed me to understand techniques in the editing process which I hadn't have much experience with in the past and further my knowledge about dance within the LGBT community.
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This is the beginning of my documentary, I have used a lot of my footage in this and so far it is 3.21 minutes. This is the start of my editing process, I am beginning to get a better understanding of editing through Premier Pro and how I can manipulate my footage to create this documentary. I am really enjoying creating this and looking through my footage it has opened my eyes to how I can continue the editing process to promote the history of voguing. After looking through my footage I will continue the editing process, I have decided to add different footage of my collage book I began creating at the beginning of this project. This book is a combination of photos from old fashion magazines including Vogue, I began doing this so I could get an insight into the models and poses that sparked the dance form. Throughout the editing of this footage I realised that just because I had accumulated all this footage did not mean that I should therefore use it all, from this I decided to narrow down my chosen assets to produce my final documentary.
Below is all my footage I took from the most well established LGBT club in Brighton 'Revenge'. This club has been the biggest gay club since 1991, it consists on three floors and two different dance floors. Here I came across two LGBT supports Henry Slein and Demiti Parker, they wanted to voice their opinion on the dance style and give me more of an insight into why Vogue is important in the drag community. Here I also caught footage of a well known dancer in Brighton who uses a combination of Vogue with Wacking within his style, Gabe is a dancer and teacher down Marina Studios who represented the United Kingdom in the Hip Hop Internationals in 2016.
My idea of doing my own documentary originally came from watching 'Paris is Burning'. This documentary focuses on the LGBT and drag community living in New York City, this video gives an insight to their house culture for the balls they attend and how the community around them support the performers to 'throw shade' at each other through the combination of dance, modelling and fashion. This documentary focuses on issues such as racism, sexism, hate and poverty. This film focused on a few popular names in drag such as Willi Ninaj, Dorian Corey and Pepper LaBeija. Below are a few videos which I found inspiring, these include famous Vogue dancers around the world. Most of my knowledge behind Voguing and the scene itself came from competition videos and looking into dances who perfect the art form. Unfortunately the Vogue scene in Brighton is still focused within club and the LGBT/Drag community as there were no classes I could find which specialise in the art form, nevertheless I continued my journey to find peoples opinions on the style and background.
Starting off this Project I visited Snoopers Paradise, It is a second hand store which sells almost everything you could need! from clothes, nick nacks, jewellery and photos. In here after from thorough searching I came across an area which stocked old 1980 Vogue magazines and Vogue Patterns magazines. I want to make a scrap book/collages which shows the comparison between models in Vogue magazines and the dance movement which exploded in the LGBT community around the time these magazines were published.
Looking into articles focusing on Vogue and it's background I found one listed 'A short history of voguing – an art, a sport, a way of life American drag balls were the original safe spaces; now voguing can teach queer Russians how to survive' By Kasia Maciejowska and' Strike A Pose: A Brief History Of The Art Of Voguing' by Nina LaPres, These articles allowed me to further my knowledge on Voguing and the history behind it.
Looking further into my artist relation I found Five Sfmoma which is a group who gathered footage for a related documentary film that he plans to debut in 2019. “Voguing is part of the queer black and Latina diaspora, and as a participant, I feel it’s important to make work for and about that community.”
In the wake of the upcoming performances, Newsome plans to produce a set of aluminium sculptures that echo the dancer’s motions. “If you can imagine the line of the dancer’s hand and turning its movement into physical form, that’s the sculpture,” he said. “It’s in the lineage of action painting; it’s post-action painting. I want to challenge the ephemeral nature of performance.” Newsome also goes against vogue’s established routines by excising house music from the mix. “We have a synthesizer to reference the post-punk and goth industrial sounds that were dominant in Germany in the 1980s,” he explained. This video is really expressive and has shown me ways I can communicate the meaning of vogue within my own documentary. FIVE SFMOMA excerpt from RASHAAD NEWSOME on Vimeo. ![]() This is my first chance to create my own personal project and use software I have discovered this year. I think this will be a great chance to include my own interests into a project and create come up with my own brief. Thinking of ideas I could focus on I am considering on producing a documentary which includes dance, this is something I have used in a few of my projects when I got the chance, It's a topic I am very passionate about and would like to combine design with my hobby. Recently I have been interested in the background of the LGBT community, I have been helping out two of my friends with their drag makeup in my spare time (image to the left) and am currently watching season 10 of RuPauls Drag Race, this is a competitive program focused on who is Americas next drag superstar. I find that the LGBT community has a big influence in my life, the people I know who are apart of it and the programs and documentaries I watch including Paris Is Burning. I want to create a documentary that tells the story of something that is really important to the community yet integrates with my passion for dance. I think that creating a documentary that tells the backstory on Vouging (one of the most popular dance forms which was originated in the LGBT Harlem ballroom scene) would be a successful way to produce this project as it highlights the two topics I wish to convey. I am aiming this documentary to be for young people who enjoy dance and the LGBT community, I want this video to help communicate what Vogue is, what it looks like, where it originates and audio backing up the theme of the documentary. I hope this is also visually interesting to watch and will include a mixture of video representation, audio and images of vogue models - the origin of the dance style. The ‘Personal Voice Project’ is a body of work entirely of your own devising (in agreement with the L5 staff team). Write your own brief as a ‘Statement of Intent’ (to be submitted Friday 5th May to your tutors) In preparation for the project we would like you to write 200 words, which describe your intentions.
Please sub head your ‘statement of Intent’ as follows: 1/ Aims/Content/theme You should outline what you are proposing to investigate both in terms of content and theme (the nature of the material you wish to document, research, examine, explore, analyse and communicate) 2/ Form/format of the outcome/outcomes (image making, book design, editorial illustration, moving image/film/animation, a graphic novel, interactive work/web, branding, games design, information design, AR, VR, etc) 3/ Process/medium you use to make the work (drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, time-based media, photography, digital image making, mixed-media, 3D etc) 4/ Professional Context (list) You should identify at least 5 professional, illustrators, designers, design groups, photographers, animators, artists, writers, researchers, etc, who’s professional expertise and work provides inspiration or who’s ideas influence your work. 5/ Technical Considerations (list) You should identify what technical facilities, equipment, software, and materials you will require and what new skills you may need to learn. When designing your project ask yourself: 1. Who? (You) 2. Is saying what? (What is the project, the message you hope to communicate) 3. To whom? (Your audience) 4. By what means? (What is the form of the project, the format) 5. To what effect? (What do you hope to achieve? Is it to inform, persuade, etc.) • A well-designed project should capitalise on your interests and strengths while challenging your thinking and working methods. Build on previous learning, setting challenges to push your work forward. • When designing projects be very clear and concise about the subject, method of investigation, goals and format, as this will help you to focus your thinking. • If you have an idea for a project but can’t focus on it, try using text. Find an article in a magazine, a newspaper or a chapter in a book, a poem, a song, etc. this will help locate the project, giving you a point of view and specific information to work with. • It may sound restrictive, but by setting boundaries, or establishing rules in a project will help you to be more creative. It will help you get beneath the surface of a subject and you will produce work that is more insightful and individual. • Don’t underestimate the value of planning. It will help you move methodically through a project, making decisions when required and allow you to work more efficiently and effectively. Storyboards, roughs and pencil sketches will also give others an opportunity to better understand your project and your thought process through it. Outcome/presentation: The Personal Voice Project will culminate in an end of year L5 exhibition (May/June 2017); the work you produce will form the content of your exhibition and must include the written brief (200 words) to support and contextualise your work in relation to research concerns etc. (this brief should demonstrate your maturity and professional awareness within your specialist area) Final Outcome: A collection of final work of your choice, ready for inclusion in an exhibition in May/June (inc. 200 word written brief) Plus: research and development. Hand in: Written brief / statement of intent (200 words) Research Development work Final outcomes |
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