Purpose/Mission Statement: We plan to expose the underrepresented beauty within colored women using visual art and cinematography (Alexia), as well as photography and poetry (Merissa). By conducting these interviews, both of us want to learn more about the struggles we face, but through the life of others; we want to understand the perspectives of our peers.
1.) I, along with Alexia, will conduct interviews with 15 women of color.
2.) I will photograph these 15 women of color.
3.) I will use editing software, such as Photoshop, to enhance their natural beauty.
4.) I will collect the best images into a 15-20 based off the interviews and my own personal feelings of the idea of representation.
1.) I, along with Merissa, will conduct interviews with 15 women of color.
2.) I will take what the women told us to create individual watercolor portraits
3.) Depending on what they say, I may or may not include other elements in these portraits.
4.) I will edit the videos captured during the interview and include voice overs from Merissa’s poems, creating a “behind the scenes”-like video lasting at least 4 minutes.
Workshop Process: We have created a google a doc where we documented all our preliminary ideas (i.e. people to ask, possible shooting locations, emails to send out, who said yes or no, etc.) We also created an exce document where we made a sign-up sheet available: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PGp7Hviv5DCxJRIntE5vPUBSnTem3laI_KvGFfNVT7A/edit?usp=sharing
We will do research on things how colorism, representation issues outside of black women, the affect the media has on self-esteem, etc. We need two separate cameras for photography and video, an external sound recorder, external hard drives for extra space, tripods for the cameras, batteries, access to photo and video editing software, watercolor paint and brushes, paper, pen and inspiration. We will both take process pictures and screenshots of our work and post them to our respective Tumblr websites.
YouTube for examples of cinematography
Tumblr and Pinterest pages as inspiration for lighting
Merissa’s high school photography teacher
February 10: Deadline for interview sign ups
February 12: Being photoshoots
Each photoshoot date can be seen in the excel google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PGp7Hviv5DCxJRIntE5vPUBSnTem3laI_KvGFfNVT7A/edit?usp=sharing
After each interview, we will begin our individual projects
Compile important parts of each interview for the behind the scenes video
February 18: Have a good amount of research done about the internal mechanisms of underrepresentation and how it affects women of color mentally/physically.
February 22 – March 1: Have some of work finished
have at least 2-3 watercolor portraits finished or close to done. If not, than at least have the sketch and base colors
have those who have been interviewed photo-edited
have a basic script of video (choose music, what goes where, etc.)
Spring Break: For those who could not make any of the times made available, Spring Break photoshoots will be made available.
have half of artwork, photography, and poetry finished
have a solid plan for the video.
Begin planning out showcase poster (get all materials)
April 1: Finish all interviews
April 12-20: Have about 75-80% of work done.
April 27: MUST BE FINISHED ALL WORK!!
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