Video Documentary Projects

With my video documentary project, I chose to work with a topic that is very personal to me...gay rights. I feel like this is a topic is something which is much talked about and is still considered to be quite controversial. This controversy may not be as intense as it was 40-50 years ago, but it is still there.

I want to make my movie almost a time line of events starting from the views/ideas of gay rights in the 1960s to now when gay rights is still hot topic, but the rights are being granted to the gay community. I think I will end my video with the most recent gay right dealt with, gay marriage and New York. Having gay marriage legalized in NY was a great win for the gay community and big step in granting the rights to all.
Throughtout the movie, I would also incorporate video that I took myself dealing with this issue. Going to SUNY New Paltz, I have had the opportunity to immerse myself into a world that is very gay friendly and where one can be completely comfortable who they are. I want to ask various students around campus about the notions and ideas brought up in the video and incorporate them within the found videos. 

Videos that I want to include or draw inspiration on will include:
-Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech (Not about this exact topic, but addresses equal rights)
-1960s "Homosexuality is WRONG" videos
-The TV show The View and their discussion/argument on gay marriage
-Harvey Milk (The first gay elected official in California) and his speech when elected
-News clippings on the win for gay marriage in NY.

I'm not going to use the entire video from each clip, I want to cut/splice them together while playing Lady Gaga's "Born this Way" song in the background. This song has been called an "anthem" for the gay community, so why not incorporate it to show that we are all the same and have been since birth.

Sound Collage Popplet.

Here is a photo of the Popplet© I created for my sound collage-Zombie attack scene. 

Theory & Practice Presentation Lesson Plans- Idea 1

So for the lesson plan that Sarah and I are planning to do, we want to draw inspiration from the work of Wangechi Mutu, an artist we used in our presentations. I've posted works by her on here before, but I want to show more to really capture the nature/type of her work.
Mutu primarily works with collage work and recontextualizing to give the work a new meaning. This is what we want to draw on in our plan. Taking the style of collage, we are going to have the other students in our class work from magazine, newpapers, journals, and other types of materials to have them create an image that deals with women and the roles they plan in their own lives. When asked the question in class, many said those roles were mainly mother..teacher..grandmother..etc. (All dealing in sort of a caregiver, family/friend area)

Here are some more examples of Mutu's work and work by other artists who work with collage.

 

Other artists (More for technique not so much theme):

Richard Hamilton