Progress Report

22 - 29 January 2007
Over the last week, I have researched productions linked to my group's production. For example, using the search 'Bhangra Productions' on the Youtube.com website, I found several videos showing Bhangra. This allowed me to collect information on the topic of my group's production. I am going to give particular examples and discuss this at my group's next meeting.

Satti

PROGRESS REPORT!

LAST WEEK I GOT SOME FILMING DONE AT THE ASIANA ASIAN BRIDAL SHOW 2007 AND SOME RESEARCH DONE LIKE BOOKLETS AND STUFF COZ WE HAD A STALL THERE TO PROMOTE PARAGON ROADSHOW ALSO IT WAS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS TO COME AND MEET US AND DISCUSS REQUIRMENTS.
ALSO THIS WEEK I MADE AFEW BEATS WITH A FRIEND THAT WILL BE PLAYED IN THE BACKGROUND AND OPENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND WE GOT SOME FILMING DONE DOWN SOUTHALL BROADWAY AT SOME MUSIC SHOPS AND JAS MUSICALS A INSTRUMENT SHOP

DALJIT
PARAGON ROADSHOWWWWWWWWW!!!

PLANS 4 FILMING!

WE ARE GOING TO BE FILMIMG SOME FOOTAGE OF SOME ASIAN WEDDINGS WITH THE PARAGON ROADSHOW AND ALSO AT A DINNER AND DANCE ON FRIDAY SO WE CAN HAVE DIFFERENT SORTS OF CROWEDS, THEN WE WILL GET LITTLE SHOTS TOGETHER AND START ON THE OPENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY

DALJEET
PARAGON ROADSHOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I'm British But- Gurinder Chada, Analysis- Vivek Pun

"I'm British but" by Gurinder Chada (1990)uncovers the rising of a defiant popular culture, gradually unfolding itself amongst a Western Audience. The rhythms of Bhangra music set the pace for this lively collage of interviews with British Asian youth. Mixing archival footage with present day street scenes of Asians in England, this film exemplifies Britains multicultural society, and how along with the rising range of British Indians during this time period, came the rising of a popular Asian music Genre Bhangra.I'm British but..., shows both cultural diversity in Britain, and shows how Bhangra plays a role in the everyday life of British Asians, and how it has developed into a Genre contending with other Western Mainstream Genres, such as Hip hop , Drum n Bass e.t.c. This film will be of great influence to us as it was one of the first if not the first, to uncover how Bhangra is a developing Genre with rising Western Popularity. Moreover it will provide great input to our documentary as it's running time is short and effective ( 30 Minutes), as we aim to do with our Production.

Analysis of Bhangra Performance, and Dj sanj Next Episode Video-Vivek Pun

The video below clear signifys how the influence of Bhangra from the past has enabled its success to thrive in the Western World. We can see this performance alone is being viewed by a predominantly western audience. Due to the influence from the artists that merely sung in the "Villages" of India, Bhangra was enable to Influence its western Audiences to inspire Western born Indians to follow careers as Bhangra Artists. Below there is also a video of the track by DJ sanj- The next Episode Remix (Patola). This Bhangra track combines Western Music ( Next Episode- Dr Dre) with Old school Bhangra Lyrics, producing a fusion of both Hip Hop and Bhangra. These two videos illustrate how the Bhangra Movement was able to generate itself from being a Genre merely popular in Punjab into a Mainstream Genre forming a Fusion with highly Popular Western Genres such as Bhangra.

Old school Bhangra Performance in front of Western Audience.

DJ SANJ- Next Episode Remix

Bhangra originated in India as a male folk dance performed in the villages of Punjab during the harvest festivities. Following the migrations of Punjabis to Britain, a new form of bhangra, characterised by the encounter between the traditional dance and mainstream Anglo-American popular music, spread through the communities of the Indian Diaspora, coming to the constitute one of the means for immigrants both to identify themselves as “Punjabis in England” and to reaffirm their tradition and social values.

Multimedia exhibition charting the History of Bhangra music and culture – This archive exploration into the U.K Bhangra sound presents some of the unsung hero’s who pioneered this cultural event.

Bhangra has undergone many changes since its inception five hundred years ago and has become one of the most popular forms of music within the UK and abroad. Birmingham has led the way internationally as a centre of Bhangra music. West Midlands based artists including Malkit Singh, Apna Sangeet, DCS, Apache Indian and Dr Zeus are all idols for a younger generation of Dj’s to look up to.

Soho Road is one of Birmingham’s cultural hubs. Situated in Handsworth, it acts as the main conduit that connects a large Asian community Birmingham’s city centre. The road is also thriving space for cultural and business. Soho Rd was instrumental in creating a landscape for Bhangra to be popularised and was the meeting ground for many artists in the 60’s to the present day. Bhangra was popular in these areas primarily because Asian people who lived in these areas were from Punjab.

The Punjab is the birthplace of Bhangra music. Photographer, Gursharan Chana, a stalwart of the Bhangra scenes has been taking pictures for the past 20 years and has records, flyers, archive footage and posters of events. A short documentary has been devolved, highlighting the unsung heroes who were originators & innovators of the Bhangra scene.

Satti

Introduction

Our practical production is about the rapid popularity of the bhangra music genre which has become more and more popular in the uk. we have chosen this issue to base our production on as we all can relate to this music genre and have a great understanding of the genre and its famous artists such as the new revlution idol jazzy B to the master of folk and bhangra himself Gurudaas maan. we are going to prupose the issue of how bhangra is being included in more westernised music which has tooken of at a very rapid rate of sucess. we can relate this issue to famous groups such as the rishi rich project as they themeselves have took of through this image. As we can know see people like juggy D are shown on such mainstream music channels such as Mtv for there indian and english mix of music. We hope to acheive our goal which is to inform our audince of this genre through our documentry .

Karandeep.D. {jatt)

Plans For Next Week...

We plan to complete all our research for our production ASAP and also DALJIT can take some footage of afew gigs that he'll be at during the weekend and VIVEK will be making some beats that we will be adding to the production and KARANDEEP along with ANAMUL will be going down to southall broadway to get some research done and SATTY will just be at home sleeping

Also DALJIT will be attending the ASIANA BRIDAL SHOW 2007 in RIVERBANK PARK PLAZA with his crew PARAGON ROADSHOW as they have a stand there and would be a perfect opportunity for customers to ask some questions and discuss requirments!!

DALJIT!
PARAGON ROADSHOW!!

Introduction

We are doing a bhangra documentry. We will be looking at the past bhangra documentries, and we will be comparing the style of bhangra fromt the past, to the present. We will be interviewing some celebrities and getting thier point-of-view on the whole bhangra topic. We will be using clubs such as the works and a ministry of sound. We will also be informing our audience about bhangra and its history. We will be interviewing such artists as Jazzy B and Nihio. We will also be interviewing past artists, and getting thier opinion on how the bhangra gernre as changed over the past few years.

Satti

Introduction!!

In our practical production i will be working in a group of 5 with vivek, karandeep, anamul and satty to produce a opening of a documentary called HOUSE OF BHANGRA, it is going to have exclusive v.i.p backstage interviews with some celebratys and djs, also ull be able to see some of them preforming live on stage at some of the biggest clubs in the UK (NEWLIGHT & ZOO BAR), and some of main aritist that will be interviewed are JUGGY D, BOBBY FRICTION, DJ-H (ISHQ BRANDY) AND ALSO JAGZ KLIMAX, and there are plenty more.
Our main aime is show to how bhangra has changed in the many years from back in the days of HEERA and ALAAP and now big names like DR ZUES and AMAN HAYER, PMC hit the mainstream with a big bang with THE NIGHT RIDER tune, its very well know in all the clubs world wide and also has been played in the background of eastenders.

DALJIT!
PARAGON ROADSHOW!

RDB TV

http://www.rdbtv.com/wvx/show062.wvx

This is a one of the shows taken from the RDB show, its very similar to our production as its showing you behind the scenes of a club and also interviews with big time promoters and famous live p.a at one of his shows, difference is that ours is gonna be a documentary which means no shout outs and compertitions, we will have some footage of a couple of gigs and also some back stage interviews with some of the famous acts of the nights.

It is a show made for people all over the world for people who like bhangra music and gigs and also for people who want to know about bhangra music, this was recored in summer 2006 in central london at the ministry of sound by RDB who are djs and producers.
The target audience for this is teenagers who like their bhangra music and i no this bcoz of house the RDB brothers speak using slang and bhangra music because thats what its all abt.
I would expect it to come on channel four at about 10 o'clock on a thursday or friday but as its never been done before on televion im not quite sure.

F.B.I
DALJIT
PARAGON ROADSHOW