Friday 9 February 2007

Street art exhibition..
Today me and Rav went to the exhibition in Central London. - I got permission from Mr Jones and Mr Munro so it was ok for us to 'miss' school. The day was well worth it...!

We, the group, decided to meet outside school at 9:30 but Ramone rang me in the morning to tell me that the camera's gone a little bit funny looking so he went early to school to give the camera to Mr Baboo and just in case that one couldn't get fixed, I rang my uncle to ask if i could use his.

So, it must'v been about 10... and the groups outside school but i'm still waiting for the 120 - its been 30 mins in the freezing cold and i didn't have credit so i'm getting very angry... and then the bus finally comes... perfect. So, we finally meet up at school and realise that we've got two camera's so to save time, we decided to split the group; me and Rav would go to the exhibition... whilst Ramone and Pav would take my uncle's camera and video some legal walls... - then we'd meet up again at Greenford Station to talk about what we got. Finally, we were getting somewhere...!

So me and Rav caught the central line to Tottenham Court Road- but when we got out it took us aages to find the road! No-one in the area had heard of the road and it started to rain and my hair was getting frizzy and i was going on a nervous breakdown (we'd been searching the place for literally an hour)

Then, i realised that i saved the number of the place in my phone so i rang them from a pay phone box and the nice woman gave me nice, simple directions! :o)

So, we got to the place and it was a PRIVATE exhibition - lucky for us I had already rang to tell them we were coming so they were expecting us... but they had a buzzer thing at the door - when you press it and they're supposed to speak... except the woman didn't speak when we pressed it so i thought we were doing it wrong and i pressed the buzzer thingy about 5 times...! woopsy! - Because when the woman came she said "oh... you two are very excited about this aren't you?" and i was like "..... h-o-w e-m-b-a-r-r-a-s-s-i-n-g!"

So we went in and looked at the work - it was quite a small exhibition but it had two floors... i've got to say the work was pretty impressive, - and Rav who had reservations about the type of work we were seeing also agreed.

So we waited for a little while and the organiser came. Now, i thought the organiser was just some ordinary guy... but it turns out he works with and manages so many graffiti artists... one of which is 'futura 2000'....!! that's the equivalent of Justin Timberlake! - and by chance so it happened that he could actually spend 10 mins of his time.... god he must be a big guy!

The interview's went well ... except i forgot to put the mike in at the start and sometimes i zoomed in too quickly or panned too fast... but i hope we can hide that when it comes to editing.

I got a badge from there and the guy wants us to email him the documentary when it's finished... but he said he'd see it before its due in to give us comments - and since its there till the 24th I'm hoping if the shots aren't good then we can do a quick re-take.

Overall, today went so good for our documentary - he's a person who's more difficult to get hold of than the artists so meeting him was a pleasure. Everything he said was relevant to our documentary - I just can;t wait to see the final piece!

Rav and Vishna

1 comment:

Sherish said...

i saw the footage for this.. the dude seemed to say a lot of things relevent to the documentary so well done :D u guys seem as though ur on track..so keep it up!