Secondary Research Write Up
Idea 1: Street Art: Vandalism or Art
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37410164
Title: Banksy artwork removed from Liverpool Street to enter street art museum
Author: BBC
Date: 19th September 2016
Summary: This article talks about how one of Banksy’s street art pieces was being put into a gallery. “Sam Fishwick, a graffiti artist from Liverpool, dismissed the idea of a street art gallery. "It's not street art any more if it's hung up in a museum," he told the BBC.” This shows that street art can be seen as vandalism but that idea is dismissed when people such as Banksy create a piece.
Impact: This influenced me as it made me want to portray both sides of street art and how some street art, such as tags, are vandalism but things like murals are not vandalism and should be seen as art. This encouraged me to want to film my documentary to get rid of the stigma behind spray paint.
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/graffiti-art-or-vandalism
Title: Graffiti: Art or Vandalism
Author: Learn English Teens
Date: Updated 2016
Summary: This article talks about graffiti and Banksy. It talks about how Banksy’s work is viewed as art and not graffiti and how graffiti is an excepted art form in his home area of Bristol.
Impact: This has effected my idea as it made me want to talk about the different views towards street art and how people see it differently.
http://www.neighbourhoodjustice.vic.gov.au/home/news+and+resources/news/fightingvandalism
Title: Fighting Vandalism with Spray Paint? It Works!
Author: Neighbourhood Justice
Date: 12/7/16
Summary: ‘“We work with young kids who have been in trouble with the law for vandalising property, and it’s fair to say some of them are heading towards more serious trouble. As our kids admire the artistry behind street art we steer them away from vandalism towards skilled art practices. The kids learn how to draft up work, work with clients and in teams, and we give them purpose in life.”’
Impact: This showed me how street art can influence people in my target audience. This influenced me as I can use it to help me make my documentary engaging to this target audience.
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall07/sanchez/art.html
Title: Graffiti as Art
Author: Noel Sanchez
Date:
Summary: ‘Although many consider the spray-painted pieces a nuisance, graffiti has been gaining recognition from the art world more and more as a legitimate form of art. ‘
Impact:This influenced me to want to include the opinions of people who view graffiti as art rather than just looking at it as vandalism. I wanted to use this article to look at different pieces of graffiti art and how they’re seen as more accepted now.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/art-crime/0/steps/11888
Title: Art or vandalism: the street art debate
Author: University of Glasgow
Date:
Summary: This article is from a free online course. It looks at two different street art artists and how the community and local authorities view them differently.
Impact: This influenced me to want to talk about the different views on street art and whether it is considered art or vandalism and how this view differs and why.
Idea 2: Female Technicians in the Music Industry
Title: CENTRE STAGE: Where are the female producers?
Author:
Date: 10th September 2016
Summary: ‘The obvious absence of female producers often goes unnoticed, until a direct question is posed. American singer/songwriter Regina Spektor, when questioned, admitted to the BBC that she had “never even seen the names” of female producers on her record company shortlist.’
Impact: This article showed me that there is a clear noticeable gap between males and females in this sector. This influenced me to want to include expert female technicians and see their view on how they try and get in the industry and what their experiences are.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lara-baker/women-in-the-music-business_b_3472612.html
Title: Women In the Music Business: Mind the Gender Gap
Author: Lara Baker
Date: 21/06/2013
Summary: This article talks about one woman’s experience to getting into the music business, and while it was easy for her she explains how it is often difficult for many females to do the same. It includes facts and figures such as, ‘the gender divide across all music industry related jobs is 67.8% male to 32.2% female’ and ‘statistics consistently show that women in music earn less than their male counterparts. Despite the music industry signing up to UK Music‘s Equality and Diversity Charter at the beginning of 2012, there is little sign of things improving’.
Impact: This influenced me to want to look at the facts and figures and talk about the misogyny in the music industry and how it is harder for women in this industry. As a result of reading this article I wanted to make a documentary about how women often find it hard to access any other sectors of music than performing, as they have to be seen as a symbol rather than have a job based on how good they are.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2010/may/07/behind-the-music-gender-gap
Title: Behind the music: the gender gap shows no sign of closing
Author: Helienne Lindivall
Date: 7th May 2010
Summary: This article talks about how even though there are many female artists, there is a lack of women behind the scenes (66% Males behind scenes, 2010).
Impact: This article made me want to include facts and figures to show in my documentary about the actual statistics of women in recording companies or behind the scenes of a performance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19284058
Title: Why are female record producers so rare?
Author: Mark Savage
Date: 29th August 2012
Summary: ‘More than 95% of record producers and sound engineers are men’. This article looks as the example of a woman named Trina Shoemaker. It talks about how she had to work as a receptionist and maid in the recording studio before she eventually got a job operating tape machines. It also talks about ‘the problem seems to be restricted to rock and pop. In the theatre, in Hollywood, in radio there are dozens of female sound engineers. Roughly one-quarter of the BBC's sound mixers are women’.
Impact: This influenced me to want to include interviews with women in various sectors of the technical music industry.
Idea 3: Without A Phone For 24 Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMs9GzY6vkE
Title: People Try Living Without A Phone
Author: Buzzfeed
Date: 20th May 2015
Summary: Buzzfeed conducted a similar experiment to see how people lived without their phone. The people involved in the experiment documented how they felt at the beginning and end of the day. They then all came back and were interviewed about their experience and what they felt. They spoke about what living without a phone was like and how they think they will live now considering what it’s like to be without your phone.
Impact: This made me want to talk film the documentary in a vlog style social experiment and get someone to document their life without a phone. Filming my documentary like this would help my documentary, as the audience would be able to see the person’s life from their perspective.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/11/smartphone-technology-addiction-facebook-twitter
Title: How I quit my smartphone addiction and really started living
Author: Jenna Woginrich
Date: 11th February 2016
Summary: This article looks at a woman’s life without a phone and how she manages to live it normally. She talks about how she manages to keep up with contacts and work through emails and social media on her computer.
Impact: This made me want to film this documentary to how people that they do not need their phone as much as they may think.
Title: Mobile users can't leave their phone alone for six minutes and check it up to 150 times a day
Author: Ben Spencer
Date: 11th February 2013
Summary: ‘It found that looking at their phone is the first thing many people do each day – as they use its alarm function – and is also the last’. This article looks at how mobile phone users become addicted to their phone, even just by checking the time all the time.
Impact: This influenced me to want to talk about how people need to see how they could without a phone to show them how often they look at their phone unnecessarily.
Title: Without a mobile phone, you basically don't exist
Author: Alan Tyers
Date: 24th October 2013
Summary: ‘If you’re not on your phone you can’t be contacted. To other people you might as well not exist’. This article talks about one man’s experience about his friend not being able to contact him and how people have become dependent on their phones for communication.
Impact: This made me want to make the documentary so that people could watch it and see that they can communicate people without the use of a phone. This also made me want to film it in a social experiment type diary so that people could see this through someone else’s perspective so that they can easily relate to it.
Idea 4: Why Is Dieting So Popular?
https://simple-nourished-living.com/diet-plans-weight-loss/
Title: Why are Diet Plans for Weight Loss so Popular?
Author: Martha McKinnon
Date: 13th November 2010
Summary: This article talks about how a lot of people who diet believe that losing weight will make them happy and solve their problems.
‘Diets are not designed to be continued for a lifetime’
Impact: This influenced me to want to talk about how dieting can affect people differently and why it is often not the solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/10/-sp-i-tried-the-diets-of-the-rich-and-famous
Title: I tried the diets of the rich and famous
Author: Rebecca Harrington
Date: 10th January 2015
Summary: ‘Diets are everywhere. Sometimes it feels like you can’t be a woman and not think you need to go on a diet or get a face transplant’. ‘Many modern celebrities monetise their eating habits, with cookbooks and workout guides... they must espouse a “healthy” lifestyle, even if they actually keep in shape with excellent genes and cigarettes’. The writer of the article then tries different diets from famous people ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Karl Lagerfeld and goes on to explain what she had to do on different days and how it made her feel.
Impact: This made me want to include the celebrity side of dieting in my documentary. I wanted to do this to show how, in a celebrity endorsed generation, people want to follow celebrity’s diets, even if some of these diets are just products being promoted by celebrities who do not actually use them.
Title: Which diet is best for YOU? From low-fat to Mediterranean, weight-loss expert examines the pros and cons of 4 popular diets
Author: Dr Sally Norton
Date: 31st March 2016
Summary: ‘With so many different diets offering quick results and dramatic weight loss, it can be difficult to see the wood for the trees.’ This article reviews different diets and why they can be good or bad. It then concludes to say ‘Scientific studies show that no specific diet works any better than another in the long-term’.
Impact: This influenced me to want to talk about how diets can often be drastic and seen as better as a result of this. It made me want to include the facts and figures of what different diets do to a body and why certain diets can be too drastic.
Title: The paleo diet: can it really be good for you?
Author: Anna Magee
Date: 29th January 2014
Summary: ‘“The paleo diet trend is a dangerous fad,” says Lucy Jones, a spokeswoman for the British Dietetic Association (BDA). “There isn’t any proof that it improves health, and its demand that you exclude food groups essential to health such as dairy, grains and legumes could leave people seriously deficient in essential vitamins and calcium, not to mention constipated from the lack of dietary fibre.”’ ‘It’s like it’s given them permission to eat instinctively, freeing them from dieting and calorie-counting’. This article talks about a diet called the paleo diet and how many people favour it as a diet as it is more lenient and more like a healthy lifestyle than a diet.
Impact: This article influenced me to want to talk about how the idea of healthy living is a much better option than going on a drastic diet. It made me want to include the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and how that can come from the lifestyle as a whole rather than just the diet.