Studio Brief 2 - Tell an Untold Story Pt 1: The Visual Journalist - Peer Review & Project Proposal

Peer Review

I found this peer review session really helpful and enjoyed seeing what other people had come with as a result of their research trips. I also found explaining my ideas and what I had experienced at the West Indian Centre got a great reaction as not many people know a lot of about the centre, or its history or even its events which was a surprise.

Kristyna really helped solidify some ideas I had about where I wanted this research to go and seemed to really like the ideas I had come with so far. As a result of the this peer review session, I would really like to re-visit the centre suing the daytime not only to get a comparison with what I experienced on the field trip, but also see another side to the centre and what it is about.

I am a little gutted that the West indian Carnival is held in August as I think I would have really liked to explore this further. There seems to be so much meaning and preparation involved with it and the colours of costumes alone really inspired me. - Maybe a project for the future? 

Ideas to take these ideas further:

• Re-visit the centre and attend some of its other events and clubs
• Look into comparisons between the events held at the centre - explore visual ideas
• Research into different experiences had by different people at a specific event depending on who they are/what job they are employed to do
• Do the centre justice - look at all aspects of how it benefits the community across leeds
• May look into the religious aspects behind the music at the events held here. The meditative side and what the DJ's are all about when producing and playing the music that they do

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Project Proposal

This for me is just an early look at what I want to propose in terms of this brief and what I aim to achieve. So many ideas floating around that I am bound to change them at some point, but here is a look at where I am so far.

Christmas Break 'To Do':

• Re-visit the West Indian Centre and attend a variety of their daytime clubs. Speak with employees and locals
• Visually explore the research I found so far - EXPERIMENT!
• Maybe attend another event at the centre (if I have enough money) in an attempt to get another chance to speak to event goers and gain better perspective of the variety of experiences to be had.
• Research Rastafarianism