Not in a million years would I think there
would ever come a time where people could wear the clothes our grannies used to
wear back in the day. I remember, growing up as I would browse through my
granny's old pictures and I would just be like “what on earth were you wearing,
I’m glad that fashion has evolved because your fashion sense sucked".
Little did I know that I would be in the year of 2015, where the clothes I used
to mock are the "in thing".
Vintage clothing has made a comeback as a
trend among young people and I have based my last feature package on the
fashion sense trend.
Basically, the inspiration behind me
choosing this topic is because almost every day I am surrounded by people
wearing vintage clothing around campus. As versatile as City Campus is, this
style of clothing is trending among students. So the main question here is
“Are young people pulling off the vintage look better than the previous
generation?”- Well the documentary and the crowd source opinions will help shed
light on this.
By the way, choosing this topic was not as
easy- even though the inspiration was right in front of my eyes. With this
being the last assignment and all, I wanted to exit New Media with a bang! Yes,
a bang because I did quite well in the previous assignment and this time I
aimed to do better in every aspect. I noticed all the minor errors I did in the
previous documentary and all I wanted to do was correct all those mistakes.
Okay, this was my initial thought but as
always there are mishaps by the way. Well, I own my personal video camera so
usually I do not get frustrated in terms of booking equipment and everything.
This time was quite different, I discovered that my camera doesn't work- for
reasons not known to me. I had to borrow the school camera and as I was
shooting I discovered that the battery was low and that led to me having to
cancel the shoot.
In terms of the shoot, the sequence was
quite simple- taking a few shots of people on campus wearing vintage clothes,
take a few shots at a vintage store ( to witness the reasonable prices) and
getting at least one interview. This initial sequence of events was simple and
straight to the point with no exaggeration but I had to change everything in
terms of sequences but the ideology is still the same. I did not get a change
to shoot at the vintage store because they refused.
All in all, as challenging as it was- it
was interesting and YES I now have interest in vintage clothing and seeing how
reasonable the prices are, I’m going vintage. Who knew an assignment would be
such an eye-opener in terms of my fashion sense? Well now I do. That’s it for
New Media 3- it’s been real.
