Our film These Streets Are Our Home is about two young adults that have been in an situation where they have been homeless at one point in their life and still manage to go to school. In this documentary you will meet two young man by the name of Emmanuel Baptiste & Clevins Brown. Each teen will talk about life out on the streets of New York City and the events that lead to them being homeless. In the film we will also talk about how even though being homeless these teens managed to make it to school and succeed one way or another.
This film will stand out because usually when people hear the word "homeless" they begin to think of people being lazy or on drugs , but in this case its a matter of family issues and health problems. What also makes this documentary interesting is the fact that even though these teens were homeless they never let it get in the way of them going to school and succeeding in the things they want in life.
In order to bring life to our film our team plan to do a research on how many teens in America as well as New York City live on the streets or are in homeless shelters. This feeling is as if there are many teens and families living under the radar of being homeless without any help from the government when in fact they should be getting help one way or another. Researching these topics will help put awareness on the growing epidemic of homeless people and people in shelters in general.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Essay Blog
Towards the end of the school year we the production team, NYC Wicked Kids, will be making a film on homeless teenagers. We will be interviewing some students at New Design High School who have been homeless before including our friend Emmanuel. Emmanuel was homeless as a child and has lived in shelters. His brothers and sisters were actually taken away by the state. Emmanuel now lives in the Bronx with his mother again.
We took a shot photo essay of a typical day in the life of Emmanuel. One of the first pictures is him in the hallway followed by shots of him in the classroom followed by shots of him working on his future followed by the shots of him being in the church. There are 20 photos of Emmanuel from one of our interviews with him. In the photo essay, we was able to show how much Emmanuel life has change over the years that he lived when he was homeless. This will be a better way of showing the interviewers emotions with out no words. It can also help for making the subject more comfortable when he/she gets in front of the camera. It show every move that he make's because we was able to take a lot of different angles of him so it can show the different moods. It shows connect with the questions that he was asked.
Us the team would like to model this essay of one of subjects named Emmanuel most likely about his life style. The series captures Emmanuel life where he goes to school when he gets out of school also what are his goals for his future. The shoots of him were while he's going to his home with his close friends and family members. Capture some good shoots of him of how his life has improved because of Emmanuel making good choices. Wish us the best so this film can turned out to be the best of all times that the NYC Wicked Kids have filmed. To see the rest of the photo essay click the link below
Photo's of Emmanuel
Monday, March 26, 2012
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