2. Existing products 1.
What's this documentary about?
This documentary is about this
young street enthusiast with a
message for the world to get his
passion out he choose two main
style of graffiti were 'stencil' and
'wheatpaste' which was fitting to
the messages he wanted to give.
The documentary follows him
from when he was young and
getting into graffiti all the way to
his career in fashion owning his
own fashion brand 'OBAY'
influenced a lot through his
graffiti. The logo what he use to
stencil onto walls now its onto
clothes and gives him a better way
to spread his messages.
Obay giant
What went well?
I think this is a really well put together documentary for the
main reason in which it had a famous graffiti writer to talk
you through it something I would like to incorporate in
mine (not famous). The first hand perspective makes it
work really well along with all the shots of the stencils and
stuff being made and put up it is really nice to see in a
documentary. The angles and shot types also work really
nicely with a wide range of both. It was filmed in 2018 so
the technology was a bit dated that in my opinion gave it
an even better look as it had its own style to it. The style
was an older rebellious type of vibe which helped put the
watcher into the position of this writer something I really
liked. Overall I really enjoyed this video and thought it had
a really nice story line.
What could be better?
Overall I don’t think they could have made it any better the
fact it was a personal documentary with one writer made it
easy to stay on track with what messages he wants to give
and on a tech side of things nowadays it yes could have
looked cleaner but the audio and shots where all good and
clean.
3. Style wars – existing product 2
This is a documentary I
covered in my research
and I really enjoyed re
watching it. It is a unique
documentary filmed in
1983 New York, which at
the time of filming has
just the fraction of the
amount of graffiti it does
now. This documentary
really pushed the already
growing scene in New
York and would be a big
influence to the spread of
graffiti globally. It follows
the younger generations
of graffiti writers growing
up in New York from a
time where the scene was
only starting to take off.
Goods, Bads and overall view...
What is 'Style wars'?
I think this is one of the best
graffiti documentarys ever just
because of the time period and
how well it was made. In the time
of making graffiti was a new
thing and was getting a lot of push back and people didn’t
understand or like it. So for these guys to go out and make this
documentary was a huge step for graffiti as a whole. The filming
was also really good for those with decent cameras unique
spots and exclusive interviews with these writers is amazing to
watch. The style as well is very good as the producers clearly
understand what they doing and the graffiti they are shooting it
is just crazy the quality of this video.
4. Beautiful losers
This is a documentary about a group of writers in 1990s the writers that
feature are ‘ Mark Gonzales, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills,
Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, and Ed Templeton’
these are only a few of them. The artist Shepard Fairey is also in this video
he is the creator of ‘Obey’. He has his own graffiti documentary I have
already covered as he helped influence a lot of the graffiti and stencils in
now days. However this documentary shows how these guys all grew up in
the skating and graffiti scenes and how they influence the whole graffiti
scene most of them now have gone into professions such as art or skating.
This video looks at it from a very arty side which helps as they get all the
information along with how they filmed it very nicely. The technical aspects
of this video is very good for the time of filming and the fact that they are all
artists made it really appealing to me as I am into that as well and even for
the people that aren't it gives them a nice in site to art . It also is really easy
to follow as they filmed it in a way that everything makes sense in the order
that it is.
Overview and thoughts.
5. Stations of the
Elevated
This is very different to all
the other ones I've look at
as it is just all about the
graffiti no talking or
sounds other than of
trains and so old jazz very
fitting to the style. It
doesn’t really follow
specific people but more
specific spots all to do with
the railway system in 1981
New York. There are no
interviews so it doesn’t
really say what its about or
what's happening but it is
all just hundreds of clips of
people doing graffiti in the
1980s a very important
time in graffiti history.
I really enjoyed watching it as I have a passion for graffiti however I believe
a lot of people wouldn’t like it and would get bored quite easily of it as it is
just back to back shots of graffiti. Form my perspective the quality is very
good and the range of clips is very good for that time the music also fits in
nicely with this as it is jazz from around those times. The whole video flows
cleanly and each clip fitting to what they wanted to show. I'm not to sure who
came up with the idea of this but I think it a piece of graffiti history that
needs to be treasured. Much like ‘style wars’ they are both filmed in a time
where graffiti was so controversial and there were so many negative opinions
towards it, I find it truly inspiring to create something to show how graffiti
has progressed in that time. The whole culture has changed so much and
there isn’t even that much hate on it now days I think this being the reason
why most these graffiti films were made in a time where it was. Overall I
really enjoyed it but can see how to some people they could hate it and get
bored.
Overview
My thoughts and opinions.
