Recessions Reflection

I am working on a unit from my art foundation that is about recession.
I wanted to do a found footage video on the Tottenham riots as it is a goverment debate on who is to blame for the riots. Even now there are different opinions but there is one truth, and found footage shows a reality to the event.

Once I got the footage I picked it apart into clips that I could use, this is to give an opinion or meaning to a now senstive subject. The artist that helped me to develop my work through was Susan Hiller as I experimented with her uses of colour and effects helped with my development of the found footage piece. As well as Elizabeth Price as the sound and text on her video that won the Turner prize effected how I work with another two video developments, all came out different to each other, giving varied effects to the same subject.

Despite trying different approaches I thought that this idea was coming to a dead end as I did not know how I could develop further, as I thought that I couldn't get my point across. All of the found footage showed only one side of the debate, that the public are in the wrong. I decided to get a second opinion on if I should countuine with found footage and the subject. My tutor reminded me that I work better if the subject is more personal. So I changed my idea from political to metaphorical, using the other meaning of recession as the focus of my work.

Final video's (for museums)

The Zabludowicz collection  
I chose the Zabludowicz collection because of the collector himself as he can have the lifestyle he wants and how he wants to relate to the public.Also it has a very interesting background with the building's history and with the owners history with arms dealing and he is political where as he bought a religous building.

Chaim "Poju" Zabludowicz is a London-based billionaire who has generously funded the Conservative Party in the UK and the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI).

To know more clip on the texts, this will send you to the website.

This is his gallery website, link is below:

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• This is the first video which has the hangover 2 sound track. This representing the history of the building and owner.
• the sound show is taking a wishy washy meaning as the film is my that strongly related to the piece but still give the piece more meaning by showing it in a different way.

This is the positive video- video one out of three but cut down to two for my project

This shows his background of arms dealing and the history of the building being a chapel.  this is about where he got his money for to start this gallery from helping people kill too helping people learn more about art as well letting people and schools go in there for free and viewer these new artist.

Name of video two: Chose your side

("Zabludowicz is the ambassador who finances and personally deals with advancing the status of Israel, but on the other hand he has sharp criticism about the information services provided by Israel.' He is 'well-connected to [British] politics, and in recent months he has been one of the businessmen and contributors with very close relations with David Cameron, the Conservative candidate for Prime Minister, who, according to surveys, is viewed as certain to be elected. The evening of the day he is being interviewed, he asks to finish by 18:00 because, at 19:00 he is participating in a meeting of a select few with Cameron.")

• This has 007 music,this link to weapons and relate to the owner of the gallery as he is an arms dealer.

Negative viewed video-video two out of three but two was presented

This is the negative video as he has this gallery because he sold weapons that kill people and he buys a gallery for his wife out of his arms dealing that made him one of the top 20 richest person in the UK.

007 gives the idea of action and weapons, but I want to show what he is and how he helped to kill many people by giving them weapons for money. you can say that if he didn't some else will.

He seen as an enemy to some people and considered a hero to others and I am trying to capture the point of both arguements.

I learned with working on the project that it is diffcult to work with imovie 09 when it comes to split screen as imovie 011 would have made the video much more clearer as well as given more of a message to the split screens it self. I preferred the hangover video to the 007 video as I wanted to the meaning to be hiden within the video. Where as the 007 video needs a different kind of split screens to show what I wanted it to mean.

If I were to do the project again I would re-film with a dolly and tripod to get at better quality of film, as well as start filming from the outside of the gallery. I would start filming as the location is interesting (chapel) and can reflect on his crimes also it can relate to a documentary format.