Increase the video quality to 720p HD for the best experience :) 'Talk to Me' by Oyinkan Ojo-Aromokudu From the minute that I started this project I knew that there were different areas that I wanted to address. I am hoping to study social anthropology next year at university and this seemed a good way to get stuck into it for real. The first area being the decrease in face to face communication. We hear it all the time that technology is taking over out lives: as a result we spend much more time in the cyber world than in the real world losing what should be important to us. I could have asked my guests these questions in an email and they would have emailed me back the responses. But, I can bet you their answers would have been different, revised and more refined. That is not what I wanted. I wanted real people. Real conversation. I made arrangements and travelled to meet these people in search of this. There is something irreplaceable about the other person physically being there in a conversation and it is something that I believe we all subconsciously yearn for. This 'thing' is what I went in search for and I hope I found it! Another issue I wanted to look at was prejudice. It is known that we judge people very little by what they actually say and mostly on physical things like what they look like and their body language. Although not entirely flawless, the aim was that you as the viewer would be concentrating on what they had to say and trying to see what you could grasp about these people as you don't know anything about them. This was the aim of introducing them backwards to you. The last thing that I wanted to tackle in this video was how difficult and easy it would be to see if peoples background, gender, race, religion, age etc effected peoples answers in an obvious way. I tried to explain what I found in the voice over, but this is simply my opinion. There has been no psychological research or anything of the sort, but it would have been interesting to include some! There may be a difference in opinion which is fine, it was almost the intention: to get people talking, and you can drop a comment. In earlier parts of the interview, excluded from the video purely for length of it, I asked them questions on four areas: immigration, racism, religion and success. This gave them the opportunity to open up to me and for me to get a sense of their background and their general thought processes. These included questions like 'Do you think people are inherently racist?' and 'Can success be qualified?'. Their responses to these questions gave me a starting point to build on when they answered the questions in the video. I chose questions that were difficult to give straight right or wrong answers to in order for them to think aloud and expose themselves. I have genuinely really enjoyed making this video. It was great talking to people and finding so much about them. Each interview took around two hours but it always whizzed by. It surprised me how much people are willing to say if you just talked to them! Talk to someone new today! MUSIC: Intro: Mr Presumption -Tinashe Main: Instrumental of Blackout -Wretch 32 and Santigold -Disparate Youth End: Instrumental of Truth- Chiddy Bang *No Copyright Infringement Intended* CAMERA: Canon 600D, no tripod used at any point EDITING: This is my first major movie project and I used iMovie '11. Approximately for each 5 minutes of fully edited film it took me around 6 hours to do!

• published: 09 Sep 2013
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