Peer Assesment

After the entire filming editing and production of the documentary was completed.
We as a group had to sit down and agree on who got what mark out of 100 % depending on their responsibilities and their participation in the group assesment.

It was a rough journey deciding who got what mark as majority of us did the work but some of us were lacking that group participation, and those individuals found that doing their independant work was more important then this assignment.

Here is the footage shot on Atif's mobile of the discussion we had during the Peer Assesment marking.

Grim Reaper of Gedling (Documentary) COMPLETED!!

An interesting journey were i learnt a hell of a lot about new individuals and the talents they can bring to a progressing group.
For me i found that being able to work with certain people that will participate is good as you have a mutual understanding and are able to share your work load.
I have also experienced the more difficult side of individuals were i found it harder to work with them or get them to participate in tasks that brought the entire group down.
There are a few regarets I had during this production piece, one of them being not taking conrol over certain situations at an earlier stage.

I admit i can be a control freak at times but when you have a deadline to meet, you will go to extreme extents to make sure its met, wather that be upsetting someone then apologising once its done or just being down right ruthless and kicking someone out of a production group.

I understand that being part of a team is a big responsibility but when someone or some people dopnt pull their weight, making sure they are not credited for things they didnt do, ill make sure that this situation is reconised.

On the other hand i would like to Thank:
GARY
ATIF
HAROLD
SANDRINE
AND ABDUL
for putting up with me during these last few hard months and taking my shit.
All in all here is our finished documentary and i will post more of the pre production work, research, photo's and raw footage once i get hold of it.
once again THANKS YOU GUYS X

Grim Reaper of Gedling (Documentary) 1:2

As per Jool's critisim we decided as a group to re-shoot parts of the doc which we also found under-lit.
this was due to less natural light exposure as majority of the shoot was filmed indoor's int he evening.
The only part that was shoot during natural daylight was the introduction of Jim as he comes to the Club to perform.

Grim Reaper Of Gedling (Documentary)

As part of our fiction documentary we had to come up with a idea that would work that would attract the audience's attention and make them want to watch our doc.

We formed a group of 5 people making sure that each and everyone of us had 1 or 2 roles to play to make this documentary a success.

1. Gary- Director

2.Beena (me)- Producer

3.Sandrine- Camera woman

4.Harrold- Editor

5.Atif-Lighting/Sound

Here are a few picture's of the day's we went to shoot at the Gedling Bowling Club in Carlton Nottingham.






During the 1st 2 shoots we did the lighting was not always what we expected.
when we showed our first set of footage to Jools he wasn't as positive towards the footage as we thought he might be.
His advice was to re-shoot parts of the documentary that was un-lit as this would make a big difference to the entire dinal finish.

Hunger (film by steve McQueen)2008

The scene that struck me the most and made me feel connected to was the picture of the police officer sat alone thinking reminiscing about something that means alot to him or something that is important.

You can see the atmosphere around the charector is busy and you can imagine that it is very noisey.

But the scene only focus's upon the main charector to show you that he is able to block out the world and drift off into his own world as his problems are more then he can handle.

Movie Review: Hindi Welcome

A strait-laced man has his work cut out for him when he falls in love with a girl whose two brothers are gangsters. Akshay Kumar is the man caught in the middle in this Indian comedy directed by Anees Bazmee.

Gangsters have been tackled in several ways in Hindi cinema, ranging from rank incompetents to dreaded killers. In the 1990s they were often the pivot, epitomising 'bad' to emphasise the 'good' of the hero who vanquished them. In the 2000s though, films like Satya and Company have attempted to show them as gritty and realistic if still glamorous.

Having exhausted those avenues, gangsters have lately become objects of mirth, bumbling idiots who do more harm to themselves than to others. In Welcome, Anees Bazmee, who last made 2005's biggest grosser No Entry, picks up on the inept thug theme, making the thugs fun guys the audience can laugh with, not at.

That Bazmee's gangsters have a sister, the beauteous Sanjana (Kaif) whom no 'decent' guy wants to marry because of her family, makes them human and earns them sympathy. When auctioneer Rajiv (Kumar), unaware of her antecedents, falls in love with her, he has no idea what he is getting into - and when he finds out, he doesn't really care. But his uncle balks at Rajiv's choice of partner and refuses to give his consent until the brothers adopt a cleaner way of life.

All this is, of course easier said than done and Rajiv has to convince the brothers without actually letting them know what is going on. The double and triple cross that follows ensures there are numerous harebrained plots for Bazmee to keep the ball rolling. Though this provides its share of laughs, it is often infantile and so slapstick that the joys of some of the more subtle gags are lost under an avalanche of juvenility. Toilet humour abounds but a fair sprinkling of running jokes keeps the film moving.

One of the plot devices used is to convince one brother (Patekar) that he has been discovered as an actor and signed to act in a film. This gives the usually boisterous Nana a chance to indulge in some OTT histrionics and the director an opportunity to make digs at Bollywood stars, another much-used ploy in comedy films.

The other brother (Kapoor) meanwhile, discovers his sensitive side and is busy painting canvases and wooing Ishika (Malika Sherawat), who's also playing Nana's heroine in his fake film. Nana is in love with her too. To complicate the already convoluted plot, Ishika throws a spoke in the Rajiv-Sanjana engagement by turning up as Rajiv's jilted fiancé. This makes for some brainless comedy, not always a bad thing but overdone in this case.

The cast of Welcome seem to be having a blast but unfortunately that doesn't always translate into audience enjoyment. There are several points at which the narrative flags and no amount of twists and turns help it rise above the level of mediocrity.

Verdict: The only way to enjoy Welcome is to go with the flow and not think too much about what is happening while it is happening. Akshay Kumar, who has matured into a fine comic actor, ensures your attention stays on the screen as long as he is around.

Director:Anees Bazmee

Release Date: November 23rd 2007

Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda

Animated comedy martial arts fable, with Jack Black voicing an overweight panda who becomes a warrior to protect the lands from a formidable foe.

In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda (Jack Black) dreams of being a martial arts warrior. The prologue to Kung Fu Panda is a beautifully animated, stylised 2D dream sequence about Po - "Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose legendary skills were the stuff of legend".
Only Black could get away with such lines. In reality though, Po is seemingly destined to take over the noodle business run by his father (Hong), who insists, "We are noodle folk. Broth runs through our veins." Po's only connection with the real martial artists is a fanboy's encyclopaedic knowledge of their moves and deeds.

Everything changes when the venerable tortoise master Oogway (Kim) selects Po, seemingly by accident, to be the "Dragon Warrior", a fabled martial artist who can protect the Valley from the dreaded return of the fearsome Tai Lung (McShane). Oogway's protégé at the Jade Palace, Shifu (Hoffman) and his five highly skilled students - Tigress (Jolie), Monkey (Chan), Mantis (Rogen), Viper (Liu), and Crane (Cross), aka "the Furious Five" - are understandably bewildered, nay miffed at this decision. They resolve to humiliate Po into giving up and leaving the Palace. Po knows full well he's useless, but he's always wanted to be more than just "me", so good-humouredly persists. Meanwhile, Tai Lung has broken out of prison. He believes it's his destiny to be the Dragon Warrior, despite Oogway's decision to the contrary, so he heads back to wreak destruction and claim the mystical "Dragon Scroll".

There's not much in the way of Shrek-style knowing humour here, beyond a fond affection for the kind of mystical mumbo jumbo to be found in many old martial arts movies. Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, the writers who get the story credit here, previously played around with this kind of comedy homage in Bulletproof Monk, but this film is better realised, picking up on elements of Stephen Chow's comedy martial arts movies (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle).

Its storyline of a nobody given the chance to fulfil his impossible dreams is as hoary as it comes, but the whole endeavour is realised with a highly likeable verve. The cast of characters are like the CGI descendents of The Jungle Book's anthropomorphised animals; they're distinctive, well-rounded and doubtless destined for ranges of much-loved toys and games.

Black lifts Po out of the realm of cliché, while Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane have a lot of fun bringing their characters to life - especially McShane, who is spot on as the aggrieved snow leopard who has some serious father issues. It's such fun, even the tackiness of the inevitable message about self-belief ("To make something special, you just have to believe that it's special") is made tolerable.

Verdict: Just what you need from a family film - Kung Fu Panda is visually striking, exciting, likeable and, most importantly, funny.

Director's:Directed by
Mark Osborne
John Stevenson

Release date: 4th July 2008

Movie Review:The Road To Guantánamo

In this compelling docudrama by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, the 'Tipton Three' narrate their own experiences in America's controversial offshore detention camp
The Road To Guantánamo opens with archive footage of George W Bush, flanked by a stern-faced Tony Blair, declaring his certain knowledge that all the detainees held in Guantánamo are "bad people". Everything that follows is designed to turn these words inside out, as three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for over two years, and discuss the Kafkaesque horrors that awaited them there, until finally they were released without charge or apology.
The title may evoke the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope 'Road' movies of the 1940s, travel-themed musical comedies with a vaguely racist depiction of non-Americans, but the exotic journey embarked upon by the so-called 'Tipton Three' was to take them into areas that were politically incorrect in an altogether different way. About to get married in Pakistan, Birmingham lad Asif Iqbal (Usman) invites his friends Ruhal Ahmed (Harun) and Shafiq Rasul (Ahmed) to join him there for a holiday. Accompanied by another friend called Monir (Siddiqui) and Shafiq's cousin Zahid (Iqbal), they head into Afghanistan, hoping to offer humanitarian aid to their fellow Muslims and to see the place for themselves. After several weeks, they realise they've made a terrible mistake and try to head back to Pakistan, instead ending up under heavy bombardment near Kundun. Separated from Monir (who is never seen again), they become captives of the Northern Alliance in the notorious Sheberghan Prison. Once it is discovered that the three friends are English, they are at first relieved to find themselves handed over to American custody; but in fact their nightmare is only just beginning, as they are passed from Kandahar Airbase to Camp X-Ray, from Camp Delta to solitary confinement, facing mistreatment, injustice and endless, pointless interrogations.

In The Road To Guantánamo, the misadventures of Asif, Ruhel and Shafiq are vividly reconstructed by actors, while at the same time anchored to reality by the intercutting of extensive interviews with the real trio, as well as occasional barrages of archival news footage. The result is an utterly devastating, gripping portrayal of innocents abroad falling foul of both large-scale international events and a US policy that seems cruel, inhuman and willfully blind, with the three men's testimonies a stark reminder that the awful, often darkly surreal events unfolding on screen actually took place. 'Intelligence' comes out of this film looking almost comically stupid. The interrogators are entirely convinced of their captives' guilt, but seem less sure of (and indeed less interested in) easily verifiable details like who the detainees are, what language they speak, and whether they were actually in England (under well-documented police probation) at the time that the interrogators insist they were meeting Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
What the three actually have to say is rarely heeded, while manipulative lies, brutalisation, beatings, stress positions, and months of solitary confinement are regularly employed to persuade them of the interrogators' point of view. Of course such abuses will come as little surprise to anyone reading the newspapers, but to see them re-enacted (albeit with a certain restraint), and to hear the victims' personal accounts, has a much greater impact than the written word, putting paid to America's claims that the treatment of so-called 'enemy combatants' is, as Donald Rumsfeld puts it, "humane and appropriate and consistent with the Geneva Convention for the most part." It would be easy to criticise The Road to Guantánamo for being one-sided (it is), and for failing to contextualise the conduct of the US (there is not even a passing mention of 9/11), but such objections miss the point. Many times Bush, Blair and other politicians have used their considerable public platforms to present a similarly partisan, at times even subsequently discredited justification for different aspects of their 'War on Terror', including the unlimited detention without trial of men like the Tipton Three. The trio, and the more than 800 prisoners who remain at America's Cuban base, were not able to communicate their version of events to a lawyer or judge, let alone to the outside world. The Road To Guantánamo gives them their day in court, and the story these "bad people" tell is one that well deserves a hearing.

Verdict: Gripping, nightmarish, and at times bleakly funny, The Road To Guantánamo is far too important a personal testimony to go unheard.

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Release Date: 9 March 2006

Movie Review: Partner

A successful 'love guru' struggles to get a hapless client hooked up with a national beauty in this lavish Bollywood comedy starring Salman Khan and Govinda.

Every now and then the complaint that Indian movie plots are 'inspired' by Hollywood stories (check out the similarities between, say, Kasoor and Jagged Edge or Main Azad Hoon and Meet John Doe) gets wheeled out and rapidly wheeled back in again.

For a start that would imply Hollywood is a source of originality; secondly, the name 'Bollywood' scarcely suggests a radical departure from the American way. Besides, how many US non-musicals ever stop the action for full-on dance extravaganzas?

Thus there's no real 'hitch' in surmising that the concept for Partner came from Will Smith's comedy smash Hitch. Salman Khan plays the smooth 'love guru' Prem, while co-star Govinda takes the role of the buffoonish Bhaskar, head-over-heels with out-of-his-league socialite beauty Priya (Kaif).

Not only does Prem have to strong-arm Bhaskar into romance, he finds his own allure failing to snare independent single mother, Lois Lane-style photojournalist Naina (Dutta).

Hitch was amiable if hardly groundbreaking entertainment and in this respect, Partner follows its lead. Comedy hitmaker David Dharwan decks his movie - and his stars - out in designer gladrags, revs up the catchy song-and-dance numbers and sits back with knowing satisfaction. The muscle-bound Khan, better known as Bollywood's bad boy, is no Will Smith in the charm department, coming over more as early period Sylvester Stallone, but his three co-stars all fulfill their designated roles, notably Govinda, who's given the lion's share of the one-liners.

Anyone hoping for an in-depth study of the morality of matchmaking will be disappointed; this is broad, brash escapism with the substance of candyfloss.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, particularly when you get, for example, a scene of a voice-activated rocket targeting a man on a jet-ski followed by a dance number straight out of 'Club Tropicana'-era Wham!

The dance numbers in general are colourful and high-energy, though a neat flamenco-esque pastiche works far better than a lame hip-hop rip-off.

So long as it hews close to the formula, Partner is at the very least inoffensive.

But a couple of brief moments mocking Thai people (on a Phuket jaunt) and some cliched homosexual gags don't sit well with the affable atmosphere.

And the unquestioning attitude that everything and everyone glamorous and wealthy is great makes you think the 1980s never ended. One shouldn't expect Satyajit Ray social commentary from every Indian film but if there's one Hollywood trend Bollywood doesn't need to ape, it's designer vacuousness.

Verdict: Exuberant, empty-headed entertainment cribbed from Hollywood but put through the Bollywood mixer to produce a crowd-pleasing blend for fans.

Director: David Dhawan
Release date: 20 July 2007

Movie Review: Khuda Ke Liya (In The Name Of God)

There has always been an impression that Pakistani film industry churns out the most pathetic films ever on the face of this earth and I can`t blame anyone who thinks so.

It has been years since the Pakistani film industry has managed to produce even a single decent movie (let alone a good one).

However, things now seem to change with the arrival of a Pakistani movie called “Khuda Ke Liye: In the Name of God”.

This is the most big budget movie ever in the history of the Pakistani film industry and is a movie of international standards and quality, which consists of an excellent plot,excellent performances,great music and great camerawork.

The film is produced,directed and written by Shoaib Mansoor, who had been directing Pakistani TV serials before and this is his first attempt at film-making. The film stars Pakistan`s top film actor, Shan, Pakistan`s No.1 model Iman Ali along with Fawad Khan, Austin Sayre, Rasheed Naz, Simi Raheal and (in a guest appearance) Naseerudin Shah.

The movie is about the problems faced by the modern,educated and liberal Muslims in today`s times who are disliked by the fundamentalists in their own community because of their modern thinking and their western attire and at the same time they are viewed suspiciously by the western world too because of their Muslim names, post the 9/11 incident.The film tells the story about two brothers, Mansoor (Shan) and Sarmad (Fuwad Khan).

Both of them are musicians and belong to a well-to-do family in Lahore.

One day, Sarmad, through a religious friend of his, meets Maulana Taheri (Rasheed Naz), who tells him that music is har*am (prohibited) in Islam. He also asks him that as a Muslim it`s his duty that he should grow a beard and should not wear western clothes.

Due to Maulana Taheri`s brainwashing, Sarmad completely transforms himself into a mullah. He grows a beard,starts wearing shalwar kameez and gives up music.He even asks his mother to start wearing a burkha. On the other hand,there is Marie (Iman Ali), who lives in London with her Pakistani father.

Her mother had passed away years ago and currently,her father is in a live-in relationship with a British woman.

Marie has a British boyfriend called Dave, whom she intends to get married with. Marie`s father does not approve of this relationship as he feels that if his daughter will get married to a non-Muslim, it will be a disgrace to himself, within his Muslim community.

Therefore, he deceives Marie by asking her to go with him to Lahore and promises her that once they return to Londond,he will get her married to Dave. Marie believes her father and goes to Lahore.

Mansoor and Sarmad happen to be Marie`s cousins as they are her paternal uncle`s sons. Therefore, Mary and her father stay at their place. Marie`s father tries to convince Mansoor to marry his daughter but Mansoor refuses this proposal as he doesn`t want to cheat Marie.

As a result, Marie`s father asks Sarmad to marry his daughter and so they take Marie to Waziristan (a hilly area near the Pak-Afghan border), where they forcibly get Marie married to Sarmad.

On the other hand,Mansoor flies off to USA as he gets admission in a music school in USA. There,Mansoor meets Jenny (Austin Sayre) and both of them fall in love with each other. When the 9/11 incident takes place,Mansoor and Jenny get married to each other before things might get worse.

One night,when both of them are asleep the USA police authorities take Mansoor to a jail and arrest him, suspecting him to be a terrorist who played a part in the Twin Towers attack on 9/11.

So,now there is Marie,trapped in Waziristan and trying to escape from there and in USA, there is Mansoor who is being manhandled by the USA police authorities.

The strongest points of this movie are Shoaib Mansoor`s direction and the dialogues. Despite the serious and socio-political theme of the film it doesn`t bore the viewer at all. The film is very gripping and some of the best scenes of the movie are as follows:

-When Sarmad turns into a maulvi and tells his brother that he wouldn`t play music as it is haraam

-When Marie is taken to Waziristan and is forced by her father to get married to Sarmad.

-When Marie tries to escape from Waziristan and her husband chases her with help of his mullah friend

-When Mansoor is in the police station and writes ‘I LOVE USA’ on the wall but after sometime adds MA to USA making it ‘I LOVE USAMA’.

-The BEST scene of the movie is where Naseerudin Shah gives his speech in the courtroom.

That is the major highlight of the movie.
The dialogues of the movie are excellent and have a great impact on the audiences. For example the dialogue ‘deen main darhi hai,darhi main deen nahin’ (‘having beard is in the religion, the religion is not in beard’) and there are also some funny one liners such as ‘Maybe Osama Bin Laden is gay and he likes me’.

The dialogues in Naseerudin Shah`s speech in the courtroom are such that they make you sit up and think.

The film tries to answer some of the most important questions which every Muslim wants to ask; questions which interfere with the daily lives of millions of Muslims such as; is music har'am?

Is it necessary to have a beard?

Is it a sin to wear jeans,etc.?

Is it sinful for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man?

Does Islam encourage terrorism?

The film answers these questions in such a convincing manner that you can`t help but agree with everything.

The music of the movie is also really nice and my favourite songs are ‘Bandya’ and ‘Allah Hoo’.

The Verdict: Interesting movie that i would encourage film lovers and non-film lovers to take a look at, will change your thought's on Islam altogether.

Dicrector: Shoaib Mansoor
Release date: 2 November 2007

Movie Review: U, Me Aur Hum (You, Me and Us)

An energetic, careening Bollywood story of love at first sight that embraces tragedy, comedy and everything in between.
All that can be said about U, Me Aur Hum is implicit in its truly barmy plotline that borrows from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Dirty Dancing, and 50 First Dates. A distinguished looking man and his teenage son are in a restaurant when they strike up a dare to woo some women. The son picks his father's target and he endeavors to win her over by telling what at first appears to be a love story about a couple he used to know.

The film-within-a-film begins, the couple played by the same actors, but it will take some time, three hours to be precise, to discover the reason for this. Ajay (Devgan) and Piya (Kajol) meet on a cruise ship. She is a bar steward. He is a psychiatrist, and accompanied by two couples, one 'unhappily married' and one 'happily unmarried' we are told.

One drunken night in the cruise ship's pole dancing club, Ajay falls in love with Piya. She is unamused by Ajay's advances, so he sneaks into her room to leave flowers, and discovers her diary or 'Book of Possibilities' - a scrapbook of memories, hopes and dreams.

Ajay sets about putting this knowledge to good use, and manipulates Piya into falling for him over the course of several early morning salsa dancing lessons. Ajay is pressured by his friends to confess, and eventually does so, causing Piya to renounce him immediately.

Months later, Ajay has bought a Labrador (Piya's favourite breed) and an all-white apartment with a huge portrait painting of his true love hung on the wall. One day, Piya arrives on his doorstep professing her love.
They roll around on the off-white carpet, they walk around barefoot holding glasses of wine, they kiss on the balcony, and they get married. Piya becomes more and more forgetful, until Ajay finds her wandering outside their apartment, having blanked on their address, his number, and his name.
A doctor diagnoses the 27 year-old Piya with Alzheimer's disease. She's also pregnant. Her condition worsens with the progress of her pregnancy, and when the baby is born, she has a full-time carer. After a near-tragedy when the baby is left alone in the bath tub, Ajay decides Piya must go into a care home. He has a crisis, resolves this crisis, and decides to bring Piya home.

Every day he must make her fall in love with him all over again. Although the audience will guess the film's conclusion an hour or so in, it is still pleasing after all the highs, the lows, and the improbabilities.
"Colorful, noisy, and spanning the extremes of the emotional scale "

The song and dance numbers are few and far between, crow barred into the plot as it takes the downhill slide into depressing illness territory. Although Piya's Alzheimer's disease leans heavily on the frivolity of the first half of the film, this change of gear revives flagging interest and makes for a gripping finale. Bollywood movies are made to be watched with an excited and involved crowd, as an afternoon long outing, involving an interval in which the audience can brace itself for the twists and turns of the second half.

As such the convoluted and hyperbolic plot is not only fitting, but fundamental to the experience. U, Me Aur Hum celebrates the cinema experience, it's colorful, noisy, and spans the extremes of the emotional scale. It valiantly strives and succeeds to tirelessly entertain.

Verdict: A cliched rollercoaster that is no less enjoyable for being just that.

Director: Ajay Devgan
Release date: April 2008

Identities project 2:3

As i have been doing my project 2 for a good few weeks here is the completed version that i handed in to my lecturer's.
This is the main page to the start of my Box/ show-case.

Identities Project 2:2

When creatign my main page i changed it a good few time's as i wasnt entirely happy with the 1st idea, then the 2nd idea etc...
As i put my idea's together i thought why not just make one main page with everythign that represents me on it to show this is a story about me!!! so i did..

Identities Project 2:1

I had to re-edit my Pixilation to import it to my flash work as the ending was not done correctly so i imported my pixilation work to premier pro and put the music behind it again and then edited some of the video too.

Identities Project 2

I am currently working on my Project 2 which is being created on Flash.
Here is a screen shot to show the progress of my timeline and how much i have added too it.

Websites

Website: Apple (http://www.apple.com/uk/)

• It looks quite plain and ordinary, doesn't have much life or colour to it.
  
• Its fairly easy to use but has too many objects all over the place, on a large scale.
  
• The content displayed is quite relavent to the website since it is the main promotor of the products and services it offers to customers.
  
• The design and contents is well organised but does somtimes get confusing when there involve many different areas.
  
• The company is also a well established in its electronic market. The design of Apple is clearly shown by its logo.
  
• The website reflects its philosophy quite well as it stands tall with its products and services. Expecially the new and current services the organisation offers.
  
• Interaction of the elements shown are fairly operatable but don't seem to have much life to give it an interactive approach.

Websites

Website: Sony ( http://www.sony.co.uk/)

• It looks like a electronic catalogue offering services and products, similar to a hand held catalogue.
  
• Simple, efficient and easy to use, expecially the products and services, one click and a whole list of pictures appear.
  
• The contents on the websites are quite relavent to its created purpose and help display information to users.
  
• Design is well created expcept the use of space could of been more productive and layout more affective in some places.
  
• The design of the company reflects it is a establised company in the market but the design doesnt reflect its respectable name much.
  
• It doesn't do much justice to its philosophy of the company but shows some level of knowledge and understanding of its products and services.
  
• The interaction is pretty simple but some areas vary a little bit of difficultly.

Box-Showcase

Unfortunatly i have been unable to access flash at home to create a Box-Showcase so what i have done as an alternative is created something that i can publish on my journal that show the idea's i have for my Avatar (project 2).
I have collected idea's, picture's and an A.V short film that i have created my self inmy own time outside of university that i felt represented myselfas a whole but also connect's with my Avatar (project 2)
Not only have i been collecting asian magazines that fit well with my representation and my culture, i have also been sketching idea's that i felt blended well with my assignment.
I have an idea from each part of my culture that would help me fulfil the showcase.

• Black Henna


• Indian style shoe's


• Indian bridal outfit


• Indian jewellery


• Indian money

To me these things show my culture overall..
They not only show the wealth of a Asian family they also show that by asian females wearing these's garments they are well off, treated well, educated, treated like princesses.
As in my culture the girl/female is classed as the parents "amanat" this meaning "presious" when a daughter is born into a family she has to be treated well and if possible given what she wants at her parents house as when she is married she shouldn't feel the need to ask for anything as her family have given her everything.
Therfore this is why i feel that these objects represent myself and my culture, hense this is why i decided to use this as my project 2, as i am familiar with it.