ARTIST STATEMENT:
Our concerned citizen started out as a single individual and
by the time the project was done, we felt it was unfair to focus on the
individual when we both felt that it was a community effort in this BYU/Provo
City Easter Egg Hunt. There were so many collaborators, staff members and
volunteers that showed up to this event and set up for hours. They knew the
hunt would maybe last 10 minutes. The concerned citizen is the community as a
whole. Who says it has to be one? Who says that any one person should be
spotlighted for this group effort?
We pieced the interviews together to make the basis of
sound. Though the editing process we discovered that we wanted there to be
multiple interviews form several workers and that for out “concerned citizen”
the project manager just wouldn’t do anymore.
We decided to do a very noticeable and very deliberate increase of
saturation with each clip to visually demonstrate the importance and the
selflessness and understanding that grows within each interview. Each realization, each citizen understands
the purpose behind the egg hunt, the ideal of community and the ultimate
purpose of children and the home was represented within the saturation
increase.
We were also inspired from a certain quote form the text.
The reading stated, “chose to have a soft approach to change, a smooth,
non-violent, gradual pace: no wars, no conflicts, no denial of rights; dialogue,
understanding and empowerment of rights instead.” We implemented that in both
the editing with the color gradient and the focus of the subject matter. How
important the next generation is. There can be no better use of service and
community welfare than on the youth. The
particular part of the quote that really stuck us was “a soft, smooth,
non-violent, gradual pace.” The way to improve out communities and our future
is small and simple things to do within the family and to do with your
children. How simple and easy an egg hunt is to go to and how many memories and
feelings of love there are that are communicated within that 2 hours. Hundreds
of people work for months to give that. They give way more work than children
give back, obviously as it isn’t in a child’s nature, and they do it knowing
that it’s for the good of the family.
The technicality to the piece was inspired by Moulin Rouge!.
The coloring within the film directs your thoughts and emotions behind each scene.
The playing off of red and blue as heaven and hell. They communicate so much
through color and though it is obviously not utilized in such a perfect way
such as in Moulin Rouge! But the basic concept was inspired from that film. The
power of coloring even if seems more abstract and theatrically it can have a
very realistic effect on people.
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