Its been a busy few weeks! right now im so looking forward to the holidays and actually have a day off and talk to people back home. I miss you guys! Talk to me more!
Its funny how your perceptions of things change after being in london. You realise that all the beurocracy and non sensical stuff that seems so pointless in the rest of the country actually makes sense in london.
Also my perception of ethnicity has changed too. My first walk down lewisham high street was like ":O im actually the only white person here", but now i see that its about half white half black, and it was just the shock of going from a totally white area to a more mixed one.
City living subtly changes your psychology - if you worried about litter here, you wouldnt be able to function and have time for your day. Pigeons undeground in tube stations becomes a normality. talking to strangers is no longer a problem. green space becomes prized, and you dont realise you are living without it until you find some of it and take a deep breath and actually stop. being busy becomes normality. London loses its mysticism. everyone knows what dupstep is. you stop thinking of london as a city and more like a county where the towns all merged together
that kinda thing~
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
TrueTube
Truetube was awesome! The finished result is *mint*, and it may be up on www.truetube.co.uk - search for "A Positive Press Report", search words like "lewisham team, XLP" etc may also be useful. It may not be up there yet, I will send you the link the moment i know its up there, and when we get the DVD with it on from the lovely people at TrueVan, i will post it here and on facebook.
watch this space~ [ ]
We had 2 and a half days to film and edit our film, and we were pretty much free to do what we wanted with it. All the teams chose to focus on their boroughs, or a place in their borough. We decided to look at the positive issues in Lewisham, rather than the negative ones. This sprung out of people's attitudes around here concerning several of the estates, like Milford Towers, where there were several murders a few years ago, and the percieved "grottiness" of the area. We wanted to prove them wrong.
The first afternoon with the lovely TrueTube team we spent looking over our ideas, and filming the green screen scenes with Ruth, who is the news reporter in our film. Yes, they have a green screen in their van! How cool is that?
The second day was spent mostly filming, and me, Davina and Andy, went to do some interviews and vox pops in lewisham, and Rich came with us to oversee us and help with ideas for filming. We unearthed some interesting issues about the market - having a market stall used to be a family tradition, and we met a few traders who have had a stall there for generations, but they are now in the minority. Some have made it big and now commute in to trade there, and more than half of them are new traders, or foreign. Along with the traditional fruit and veg stalls, there are now carribean food vendors, and asian carpet-sellers - even double beds were being sold at one stall!
The traders themselves seemed to have quite a negative view on the pace of change, but the people shopping loved the variety and mostly thought it was a vibrant place to be.
watch this space~ [ ]
We had 2 and a half days to film and edit our film, and we were pretty much free to do what we wanted with it. All the teams chose to focus on their boroughs, or a place in their borough. We decided to look at the positive issues in Lewisham, rather than the negative ones. This sprung out of people's attitudes around here concerning several of the estates, like Milford Towers, where there were several murders a few years ago, and the percieved "grottiness" of the area. We wanted to prove them wrong.
The first afternoon with the lovely TrueTube team we spent looking over our ideas, and filming the green screen scenes with Ruth, who is the news reporter in our film. Yes, they have a green screen in their van! How cool is that?
The second day was spent mostly filming, and me, Davina and Andy, went to do some interviews and vox pops in lewisham, and Rich came with us to oversee us and help with ideas for filming. We unearthed some interesting issues about the market - having a market stall used to be a family tradition, and we met a few traders who have had a stall there for generations, but they are now in the minority. Some have made it big and now commute in to trade there, and more than half of them are new traders, or foreign. Along with the traditional fruit and veg stalls, there are now carribean food vendors, and asian carpet-sellers - even double beds were being sold at one stall!
The traders themselves seemed to have quite a negative view on the pace of change, but the people shopping loved the variety and mostly thought it was a vibrant place to be.
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