graffiti research

Graffiti : Street artist, Vandels, or Political free speach
 when looking at what areas to cover in our documentry there was many different roads in which we could take after looking at graffiti on the internet and the contriversal, issues surrounding the sensitive subject.

some of the questions that arose when discussing it was ; What is art? how do we define art? damage to property? and Is graffiti a form opf political free speach?

 While looking at the polictiacal side of the graffiti one name was high lighted. Banksy. bansky is a highly know UK street artist that that does political messages through his work.



a very political image that banksy has created the message saying "political and lords are a bunch of chimps"



one of the most famous pieces from banksy

I also look at the astetic appreaciation of graffiti, and how some poeple find it beautiful to look at.



a piece of work what displayed in londons south bank


There is also the criminality of graffiti. The laws on public property are very strict and anyone caught doing graffiti can be arrested and prosecuted under the Criminal Damage Act 1971. people that are found to be doing graffiti can be fined up to £5,000. If the damage caused is less than £5,000 they may be given a community service order instead of a fine.
as well as this the new Anti-social behaviour law (2003) gave local councils the power to punish offendersby making them clean illeagal graffiti. these include;

• On-the-spot fines of £50 to anyone caught doing graffiti on public property. These can be given out by police officers, community support officers or local authority officials
• Giving local authorities the power to give clean-up notices to owners of street furniture such as phone boxes if they have graffiti on them. If the property is not cleaned in 28 days the authority can remove the graffiti themselves and charge the owner for this service
• Making it an offence to sell spray paint to under-16s. If a shopkeeper can't prove they took reasonable steps to determine the age of the person, they can be fined up to £2,500.

Even with all these laws and regulations in place we find out self ask why do people still do graffiti.?

I also wanted to see the knds of different paint that is avaliable, after speaking to a graffiti artist they said the best type of paint was Montana gold. This is because of the duel pressure that the can can have so when doing a pencil thin linbe the can exerts a slow pressure and when doing a larage sapce the can then does a high pressure. This to graffiti artist of especially appealing becuase at £5.99 a can they can save paint as well as this there is over 120 different colours and for artist this means nthey can get the best possible finish and mixx the colours they want.

spider diagram of topic area to explore

when i first started to think of what we could do for a documentry i looked the the bbc news night web sight and looked at the ideas that they had. from there i then went on to produce a brainstorm of ideas that we could produce in the amount of time given.

i created a mind map using mindmap42.com which a free online program that allows to to create mind maps.

documentary proposal

Documentary proposal

“ Is graffiti an expression of art or just another form of vandalism”?

 In this topic, we plan to explore the very controversial idea of graffiti, and whether it seen as an artist portraying a message through the expression of art or just seen as vandalism of the streets in London today.

We will look at both, for positive arguments of graffiti and the negative argument as well. And look at both perspectives of the too sides.

A source shows that it’s a common view that graffiti is frowned upon in society. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1637000/1637333.stm)

“Graffiti is disgusting and gets people into bad habits, wherever people find a blank space they scribble all over it.”

Although there are many schemes and project that have been set up to remove graffiti. People still show hostility towards it.

Project’s like ‘orange rock corps’ have been set up to remove graffiti, and because it nation wide it covers a wide regional area and these projects have been strongly backed by the government.

In order to finding conclusion to the debate that is graffiti, we will be interviewing people that support graffiti and people that don’t mind it, as well as people who are strongly against graffiti. We also believe that there no better way to see how the artist themselves feel about it so will we also interviewing them and finding there perspectives on what they do. We also intend to interview some public figures to show what they feel about the graffiti. Additionally, we will speak to other general members of the public that hold their own and find out whether they feel the media influences these ideas.

We plan to have cut-always of piece of art that have been produced as well as people doing graffiti. As well as these we plan to show the length that people go through just to “get up” (graffiti) photo’s of black books (Were people design there pieces of work before they put paint to wall)

For a list of speakers I would like to interview 2 graffiti artist’s (one that’s big, and a up and coming one). I would also like to interview people that work on the projects at orange rock corps. As well interviewing companies that remove graffiti them selves and some people that are the general public.

For this our group roles are:

Philip – editor

Lauren - director                       

Sustika – sound

Anju – Camerawoman