Today, Joe and I pitched a short film idea based on the culture of Liverpool. We were given the theme "Art" so we decided to discuss "What Is Art?"... Unable to come up with a definitive answer between us, we hit the books and the telephone books. With myself being an ex art student, I was able to dig deep into the history of art to try and answer the question. I came up with a lot of information as to how the meaning of art has changed over the years, coming from a privileged skill to a democratic meaning. However, no matter how much research was done, we needed expert opinions from those in the field. With Joe being more familiar with Liverpool than I, he was able to find and contact a street artist, Phillip Garrett. We interviewed this artist to find his views on the subject. We also found a worker of a local gallery, Joan Burnett, to give us an alternate opinion in order to appeal to a broader audience . We structured our intended film narrative around these characters in order to bring the documentary down to a subjective human level, and added slices of valuable objective information in-between. I feel our pitch went well as we were well rehearsed and our words were heavily backed up with research.
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| snapshot from interview with Phillip Garrett |
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