Thursday, May 6, 2010
Final Artist's Statement
What I wanted my project to portray was the friendly and welcoming environment of Escuela Vieau. Looking back, I can honestly say I had no idea how welcomed I would feel by all of the staff and children. I started my project with dreary music and text to make the audience feel sad about the negativity in the world. When the pictures of Escuela Vieau come up, I changed the music and the font of the text. I wanted to show a dramatic change between most of the world and the positive attitude that is taught and shown at Escuela Vieau.
In my project, I used a partial quote by the principal at Escuela Vieau where he states, "...to welcome diversity in people..." (Galvan). This quote was a useful source to show that it is part of their mission statement to welcome diversity in people. This coincides with my theme of the welcoming nature of the school. I also wanted to include the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in my project because we worked a lot with them as well as with the staff of Escuela Vieau. I also feel they are an organization that has a lot of the same mentalities as Escuela Vieau. I used a quote from their website which states, "...a positive place for kids" (BGCA). This also helped support the theme of my project.
Throughout my experience in Film 150, I have learned how the use of the camera can manipulate reality. Although Escuela Vieau is a positive place, it is not perfect. I did see a few times children arguing and fighting. If I were looking for negative things to say about Escuela Vieau, I could have taken all of my pictures of the few arguments I saw. After viewing my project, the audience would assume that people are always arguing and fighting at Escuela Vieau when the truth is that it is very rare to see the children acting in that manner.
In my project, I used a partial quote by the principal at Escuela Vieau where he states, "...to welcome diversity in people..." (Galvan). This quote was a useful source to show that it is part of their mission statement to welcome diversity in people. This coincides with my theme of the welcoming nature of the school. I also wanted to include the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in my project because we worked a lot with them as well as with the staff of Escuela Vieau. I also feel they are an organization that has a lot of the same mentalities as Escuela Vieau. I used a quote from their website which states, "...a positive place for kids" (BGCA). This also helped support the theme of my project.
Throughout my experience in Film 150, I have learned how the use of the camera can manipulate reality. Although Escuela Vieau is a positive place, it is not perfect. I did see a few times children arguing and fighting. If I were looking for negative things to say about Escuela Vieau, I could have taken all of my pictures of the few arguments I saw. After viewing my project, the audience would assume that people are always arguing and fighting at Escuela Vieau when the truth is that it is very rare to see the children acting in that manner.
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