Research

For my Thesis Project , I did it on the anxiety I experienced going to a barbershop growing up and even as a young man. At first I wanted to do the visual part of my project to be a short film , but later I changed it to photo montage that I will create using the many photos I took at the barbershop. For my research I looked at the film La Jetée film on YouTube, this film, which came out in 1962, and I wanted to the artistic style of this film and how I might be able to use it for my Thesis Project. I took many notes on how it made me film as well as the angle shots and tone of the film. After I looked at this YouTube Video touches based on what makes a movie a scary movie. The video was based on Skinamarink, Tray Clancy explains that the atmosphere, and less of the actual plot is the real true reasoning for the movie , long shots of different areas of the house , distorted voices images , white noises are the main sources of the noise, low angle shots and it isn’t centered, and the characters aren’t in the frame so you get clear. Lastly I looked at Anxiety - a Short film, even though I didn’t do a short fire, seeing the film helped to decide what shots I needed to take with the camera to capture the anxiety I felt.

Most importantly I looked at other YouTube videos that featured queer black men that described their feelings and anxiety being at a barbershop that has the environment of toxic masculinity. I understood each one of their feelings wanted to capture that in my final thesis project.