Contributors

-
After discussing with my group what type of people we decided to settle on people who our audience can relate to. Meaning we wanted them to be of similar age and have a good knowledge on the topic.

Why we choose them: my group and I decided to choose these three to interview for various of reasons. We wanted to interview young people, so our target audience could relate to them but also because they have a different/more modern look on fashion and drag queens. We wanted Amy because she has a wide fan base with her fashion blog/knowledge/opinion on fashion, and you can see she is easy to talk to and knows what to say. We chose Wilson because we were aware that he dressed in drag drag and by speaking to him we knew that he would have a lot to say about the treatment of drag and make up. Furthermore, when speaking to Wilson you could tell he was relaxed and had no problem discussing about drag queens. With Irene, we wanted an extra opinion on the use of fur in fashion, we chose her because she is studying Fashion Design and wants to be a future designer. Therefore we felt that she would have an opinion about current designers and the choices they are making in the use of fur and how she would like to see that change.

How we knew of them and chose them: Truthfully we knew our contributors from university. Wilson was very approachable and easy to talk to, so we felt comfortable to ask him to take part in our video. We knew Amy from her blog as well and approached her to see if she would also be willing to share her views on our video, and luckily she was.

Amy Ashmore: fashion blogger and upcoming youtuber

  






Wilson Mccabe: identifies himself as drag


Irene Menelaou: BA Fashion Design 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Now or Never (2011) - A short film about family relationships

-
Image
Vivandy Productions  Director: Vivandy and F.C Rabbath  Written and Produced: F.C. Rabbath Synopsis: Its about 3 generations of women; the grandmother, mother and daughter. The same story is being repeated between grandmother and mother as well as mother and daughter. Each mother is trying to reconnect with her daughter; both being unsuccessful. What intrigued me:  Showing the mother getting prepared (I'm planning on doing something like that for my video)  portrayal of family drifting (arguing about being too busy for each other)  when she opens the bathroom cupboard when she's young and closes it when she's old (i like the technique it uses to show time passing)  having the same conversation with her daughter as she did with her mother  the way we are shown that there is an issue (phone call from doctor)  VO flashback to the same line she said her mother 'You're being selfish' = realisation the ending:
Read more

Evaluation

-
Writing the final versions of the script was fun, exciting but also a long process. Having a clear idea of what directions my episodes where going I wrote skeleton drafts to begin with and worked like that. With each new draft,  added new jokes, stories lines. With guidance from Simon and his suggestions for certain characters I did make a few changes to some story lines and slightly changed my characters personality. In the first few drafts of each episode Hara was becoming somewhat annoying and lacked a lot of humour. Therefore I decided to make her into a bit of a spiritual person who gives herself a pep talk in each episode but also one of those people who believes in positive thinking and constantly carries a positive thinking book with her, sage and incense.  Kotchy, didn't have much of a story, if you got rid of him you wouldn't even notice. Therefore I made him so that each time his family does something humiliating he captures it on camera or Sebastian does and he
Read more

Greek Cypriot Culture

-
Image
Family: Family is very important in Greek society; either by blood or even marriage - when a relative marries someone that person becomes your koumbaro (for men) or koumbara (for women). Also, businesses are usually family run.  Food:  One of the most important things in Greek culture; famous Mediterranean food. Greek love to use fresh ingredients such as garlic, onions, fennel, zucchini, grapes, dates, figs and herbs (dill, mint and oregano). Meat is also a very important part of their diet; every Sunday families gather together for Souvla (basically a barbecue)  Food in tavernas are usually meze based meaning a variety of small portions of different types of food is served (usually over 20 different dishes) or there is also the famous Ouzeri where you are brought typically light food such as greek sasuges (pastourma) and halloumi to eat as you drink Ouzo.  Typical Greek Cypriot food:  tzantziki octopus dolmades (which is grape leaves filled with rice and beef
Read more