Good morning my sweet angel delights,
It's just over a month since this project started and it's gone from looking at everyday discomforts to rejecting hyper-consumerism to discussing happiness. We've all agreed the topics of study are ridiculously broad but fascinating at the same time, so after the conversation at Natura on Wednesday I think we should decide once and for all on a headline for this project.
Let's meet today and decide as we can then take out the camera and begin to collect the first reels of interviews/vox pops/background imagery for any potential advert.
I'm also thinking if we have the camera then a small mini-documentary could also be achieveable. With text, spoken word over a moving image and interviews we could construct a short but punchy take on people's discomfort/happiness and use it to construct a narrative around the politics of everyday life.
Chuck on some comments and we can get this train chug chug chugging
Josh
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Was thinking of the possible title change we were talking about. Instead of something to do with tyranny of happiness, what about something to do with the/a Happiness Programme? Was reading bit of lefebvre and the word 'programme' kept coming up and was thinking it might capture more of the subtleties/form/sense of the issues better?
ReplyDeleteYeah, i really like the use of the word 'programme' it seems more clinical and thus more capitalist in a way? Like tyranny is a very evocative word but programme is cold and impersonal, kind of like capitalism itself.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited for tomorrow to play about more with interviewing people as our practice interviews on friday were really interesting
I adore programme! Clinical is the exact way I would describe it too.
ReplyDeleteA/The Programme of Happiness.
This is definitely better to streamline and focus. I imagine there is much literature we can focus on too.