I am a new media artiste, a beginner, I employ media making as a
creative endeavor to educate and portray generalized misunderstandings. Through
my work, viewers may shift their perceptions regarding the Black Continent and
displace the myths associated with it. I seek to share my personal experience
and background to transform misconceptions about the African Continent and its
culture. I was inspired by documentaries I had seen in Africa when I was young.
Those documentaries were made from a western world viewpoint, contributing to
the ''perfection'' of the European world. They kept us, young Africans, dreaming
based on the images and stories being shown. Therefore, my aim is to use the
same tool, to demystify the myth concerning the African Continent and its
African culture. The diversity of the social and cultural facets of the Black
Continent life will be shown in the documentary along with its rich fauna
and flora. The documentary will show basic images, with mostly black and white
colors. The documentary will demystify the stereotyping associated with the
black continent by showing home-made designs, sculptures, paintings, music,
handmade objects and others African inventions always emphasizing on its
diversity.
Last semester, I took MEDP150 and as a result, I was able to create my own
website and be familiar with material such as Photoshop and illustrator. The
experience gained helped me become aware of the multiple and best use of the
learned tools, as a media maker. As for now, in my MEDP160 class, I am looking
forward creating my blog, being familiar with the material by keeping it updated.
The process is interesting, challenging and yet rewarding.
Continuous sources of inspiration are my surroundings, whenever and
wherever. I always question directly and indirectly interactions I am both
being subject of, and witnessing.
Hopefully, those experience based on our daily endeavors ,will be portray via documentaries.
