Thursday, 3 October 2013

Similar product research by Kim Potter. Candidate number 8180

Colour Outside the Lines




Mode-Reflexive? Looks at the history of black tattoo artists and how things have changed for them, and how they are now more accepted.

Mise en scene-People in tattoo shops, their art in the background on the walls. Visible tattoos when talking to the camera. People tattooing people. Tattoo guns, latex gloves, tattoo ink, tattoo drawings on walls.

Camera work-Medium/ Medium long shots when talking to the camera. Fade from a long shot of the woman to a close up of her tattoo. Lots of close ups of tattoos on different people and of tattoo equipment such as ink and tattoo guns.

Editing- Voice over of a woman tattoo artist talking about her career as a tattoo artist. People talking about their work in an interview over them tattooing.Shot reverse shots of people being interviewed then to their tattoos or tattoo equipment in the shop they're sat in, and then back to them being interviewed. 

How this documentary could help us-The main focus of this documentary is the background of black tattoo artists in America and how they started off in the tattooing career, and also how hard it was for them to get into the business when they did. The use of close ups of tattoos and the equipment they use could be useful to get ideas for our own documentary as I believe using close ups of tattoos may be effective within our documentary. Also as it focuses on black people and their struggle when first starting off in tattooing around 20 years ago, which I personally never knew was an issue, this helps to show that there are/have been stories and struggles for people, not only for people with tattoos and getting careers because of this, but also for people and their careers within the tattooing industry.

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