Kingsmead Eyes
Please watch the video in the link below.
Kingsmead Eyes from Kingsmead Eyes on Vimeo.
I came across this project when I found this article
The project by Gideon Mendel is so relevant to the work I want to achieve with my final project. The Kingsmead Estate is in Clapton Park, where I live, and will be producing my final project. Some of this teenagers that are envolved in my project live on the Kingsmead estate, and went to the Kingsmead primary school.
I previously spoke with D.Wiafe about the idea of giving camera’s to the teenagers in my project, and allowing them to capture their own lives, their own world. I love the ascetics and nature of disposable cameras, and the ‘happy-snap’ photography. This is also a much more viable and affordable option for my project.
In the video I love the voice overs by the children themselves. This is also something I have always envisioned for my video project. I never thought of a poem idea, but love the concept. Poem writing, and lyric writing, prayer writing is something I have always wanted to encourage for the youth churches I run currently with the teenagers in my project, as this, especially lyric writing, is something they can really relate too, as they are all huge music fans.
I love the still image video, I myself want to do something with moving image, rather than just still image, as I am very aware that we are meant to be creating a body of work, rather than a simple piece. I want to be able to explore lots of mediums, and outputs through my final project to see what works best.
Gideon’s work is a great find to help me with my project, as it is so close to what I am aiming for. It is currently still being exhibited at the V&A Museum of Childhood, which is my very favourite museum, which, as a child, visited almost every weekend. So I will be going to see the exhibition very soon. I may even get in touch with Gideon, or the Kingsmead school about the project.
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