In Video Class, last week's homework assignment was to take footage that represents the following 3 things:

- An action or reaction
- A state of being
- An emotion

In class we'll be discussing the ways that we can convey ideas through images. The images I took are below:

A State of Being

An Action / Reaction

An Emotion

We've also been working on planning our videos out in greater detail, for our Major Media Projects, and I've made a lot of progress on mine. I decided to create a video that could serve as a short "About Us" / PSA, to both educate the community about what REPRESENT! Is, and to raise some of the important issues we hope to tackle, as a group. We'll focus on issues like LGBTQ youth inclusion in/exclusion from transformative work in Detroit, how being people of color affects our LGBTQ identities, or how age impacts our experiences, in general. We'll especially wanna focus on topics that have the most relevance to REPRESENT!, including questions about how we relate to current media portrayals of LGBTQ youth of color, and what images we hope to change or create.

As far as planning goes, I have a pretty good start. Besides writing the script, I still need to determine exactly where I want to shoot each scene. I like the idea of just shooting most of the video on the street - but perhaps dipping into spaces where transformative work is happening, like at gardens and farms around the city, at makerspaces or at Fender Bender, at Ruth Ellis Center, or the Young Brothers United space. I need to figure out where I'll be shooting as soon as possible.

I already know who I want to be in the video. I'm interested in interviewing the youth helping to form REPRESENT! as well as any other youth who might be interested. Since, at this time, all the youth are over 18, I don't have to worry about getting parental permission for them to be in the video, but if I consider featuring a youth under the age of 18, we'll need permission slips for them to be featured.

I wanted to incorporate music produced by an out LGBTQ person of color from Detroit, and thanks to one of the youth organizers of REPRESENT!, we were already able to ask for permission to use one of Insite the Riot's songs, and were given the go-ahead. (You can check out her music here, by the way.)

I wanted to incorporate graphics into the video, but since I'm also in the graphics workshop, I'm planning to create any graphics used, so I won't need permission to incorporate those. Other than that, the only permission I think I'll need will be permission to shoot in a particular location, depending upon where we decide we'd like to shoot.