For my digital essay I am unsure of which idea I would like to do, so I am proposing both.
The first is the faces of New York. Here I would go around and film people in their day to day. Showing some of the people that make up this city, and how diverse the city truly is. I would film people on the subway, famous cites, out in the streets, and less busy quieter areas as well. I am also unsure of how this will go considering I need to stick a camera in peoples faces without them noticing, because they will flip. I mean how would you like it if someone was sticking a camera in your face.
The second idea I have is to show the unseen and seen wonders of the city. Like the buildings that one may pass by every single day yet not notice what they are passing by. For this I would film the obvious sites that everyone like the Top of the Rock or the the top of the Empire State Building, and then go into the things that people know of, to finally the things that people did not really realize was even there.
The pace of the film and the music choice will come once I have decided which one to pick but I do have an idea of what type of music I would be using for each movie. Like for the first I would use a song like Donnie Darko, and for the second have some type of orchestra music playing.
