Author: BRENIKA BANKS

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Journalist: Brenika Banks

CUE: Sunday, March 27^th marks opening day for the Macy’s Flower Show 2022 located at the flagship store at 34^th Street in New York City. Fashion design students from Fashion Institute of Technology created floral outfits specifically designed for the Macy’s Flower Show to display. Student designer, Jacob Caraccilo, 28, attended the opening with his parents. Images and soundbites.

HEADLINE: Macy’s Flower Show 2022 springs into action during it opening day

SYNTHE:

Jacob Caraccilo (man), Alissa Horton (woman)

SHOT LIST:

NEW YORK CITY, MARCH 27, 2022

SOURCE: JRN 4500

SOUNDBITE 1, Alissa Horton (woman), fashion lover and student (8 sec): “I think it’s beautiful. I love the perfume theme that’s going on around with all the different displays of those. It’s really cool.”

SOUNDBITE 2, Jacob Caraccilo (man), Fashion Institute of Technology student (8 sec): “It’s a dream. I mean, I worked really hard so I’m very happy with how it turned out. Very proud of myself.”

SOUNDBITE 3, Jacob Caraccilo (man), Fashion Institute of Technology student (8 sec): “I’ll always be interested in every Macy’s Flower Show so, I’ll probably try it again [in] the next show.”

SOUNDBITE 4, Alissa Horton (woman), fashion lover and student (7 sec): “We’ve had a couple of classes together, it’s awesome. He always does his own prints, which is really, really cool and unique. And very ‘him’.”

WS of Macy’s Flower Show Sign and outside of store

WS of inside the store with Flower Show attendees walking around

VAR of Flower Show attendees taking pictures

WS of Jacob Caraccilo standing with his piece

VAR of more Flower Show attendees taking pictures and walking around

 

Working Title: Black Resilience

The opening scene starts at the Skyblue Design Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. The camera will show different angles of inside the gallery, the artworks, gallery-goers, and the artist who are there. There will be close-up shots and wide shots of people talking and interacting with the art. The artists will be speaking about the gallery and what Black art means to them. The camera will capture Jimmy James Greene, an artist featured at the gallery. This gallery showcase will dominate the first three minutes of the documentary. B-roll will include artwork on the street in Brooklyn and Harlem, as well as landmark Black places in Harlem.

A flashback scene will be talking to Jimmy before the gallery show while he is at home in his studio. The camera will capture him working on his paintings and talking about his different pieces. The camera will catch all the beautiful artwork throughout his apartment and his art studio at home. The camera will also capture what inspires Jimmy and shoot them leading up to the next gallery showcase.

The documentary will showcase works from Calabar Gallery in Harlem, NYC. The camera will showcase the different contemporary African artists and African diaspora artists globally. It will capture these artists works that are often underrepresented in their zone creating Black art. I will also capture a conversation how about a recent incident where the gallery was burglarized and vandalized. Designer Sahara will tell the camera briefly what happened and there will be a shot to show what the break in looked like and the repair window.

The narrative arc is the challenges this person faces as a Black artist, especially as the pandemic still lingers. The main character of the documentary is the Black Artwork with jimmy and Sahara as supporting cast mates. The documentary will end with another art gallery showcase.

Main Characters: Black artwork, Jimmy and Sahara

Crew: Bre

Filming Locations: Brooklyn and Harlem

Shooting Timeline: End of February 2022 to April 2022

When Lambs Become Lions’ theme is about survival by any means necessary. Illegally hunting elephants is the characters way of earning a livable income for themselves and families. The camera does well by moving with the characters and provide shots brings the audience into scenes. The dramatic arc of the film followed the path of poaching elephants in Kenya. The main character “X” operated similarly to a drug lord by how he ran his business of illegally hunting. “X” is comfortable with referring to his actions being, “like a king,” at the start of the documentary.

One scene that helped the audience understand “X’s” drive was when he was on the phone with his son and mother of his child to make sure they had the necessities. The documentary’s exposition was the wild life training gun place for hunting out in nature with intentions to sell for profit. The rising action happened after Asan and Lukas observed before shortly leaving a march against killing animals; the documentary then reveals the poisoned arrow they deceptively use to hunt. The turning point of the film was first the moment when they didn’t get the ivory around the 26 minutes mark. Capturing intimate family moments, like the Asan’s wife while she’s in pain before giving birth, is another turning point for him in the documentary.

The climax of the documentary was when the characters were approaching the elephants at the 01:51:48 mark. The director captures one of the characters aiming their poisoned arrow at an elephant off camera for an unsuccessful catch. The falling point of the film was when the characters returned to the shooting range training area without the ivory. Thing changed in the film for Asan while his wife was dealing with the challenges of afterbirth and doesn’t approve of how he disciplined their older son. The denouement of the film was finding Lukas to finish the ivory hunting and gun shooting training at work. 

The editing of the documentary was excellent and enhanced the story, especially how instead of the director showing the defeat of poaching, X’s side of a conversation elsewhere revealed it. Structuring shots to tell this heart wrenching story kept When Lambs Become Lions interesting until the very end. 

I want my mini doc to center around a Harlem based artist from the Calabar Gallery. I want an artist specifically from this gallery because the gallery showcases contemporary African artists and African diaspora artists globally. It would be great to capture one of these artists who are often underrepresented in their zone creating Black art. I have spoken to a woman at the Frederick Douglas BLVD gallery location who gave me permission to record during my 10-shot sequence video. I intend to capture shots of the artist moving throughout Harlem, the artists’ work in the gallery, the artist in his/her own apartment or space or a studio (whatever is most comfortable for them).

My idea for a narrative arc is the challenges this person faces as a Black artist, especially as the pandemic still lingers. I would like to capture this person in some intimate life moments, capture them interacting with on-lookers in the gallery, as well as moments with the people close to them. I want to capture what inspires them and shoot them leading up to the next gallery showcase (They are monthly). I believe I can complete this doc in two to three months.

For a backup idea, I have a friend who wants me to help their friend with a video to promote their barbershop business. I envision me recording some great in actions shots of him working. As far as a narrative arc, I would have to find out what this barber has going on or what he is looking forward to… something what would be interesting to follow him around to see completed.

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