Monday 25 June 2007

Review

House Of Bhangra

Satti, Daljit, Karandeep, Vivek

House Of Bhangra is a documentary which teaches the audience about how Bhangra has expanded in the past few years. It proves to be enteraing, educational and imforative.

In this documentary, we show how popular Bhangra has become. We start all the way back in the 1960's and show how it has become popular and expanded since then. We interview Channi Alaap, who was an Artist in the 1960's and 70's. He talks about when he first came to the U.K, how there was no-one listing to Bhangra music and he talks about how it has expanded in 40 years, from the past to present. He also talks about how it is going to increase in populairty in the future.

The documentary is authentic compared to other Bhangra documentaries. We stuck common documentary convetions in the film.

Overall, I enjoyed working in this Production, it was fun and educational at the same time.
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Tuesday 19 June 2007

Vivek Pun-House of Bhangra Film review

House Of Bhangra

Directors: Vivek Pun, Karandeep Dhunna, Daljit Dogra, Satvinder Garewal- 2007

House of Bhangra is a documentary which overall proves to be all entertaining, educating and informative for audiences who may view it. Combining a range of documentary techniques and methods of footage we were able to produce a unique and authentic documentary.

The short documentary follows in a chronological order , dating back to the 60’s and 70’s to today. This clearly hence exemplifies Bhangra’s development within the U.K. The documentary starts off with archive footage of Bhangra in the past and key factors that make up the genre even today, the documentary then follows onto a interview with highly successful and influential Bhangra artist Channi from Alaap and then leads to the finale which shows how exactly Bhangra did develop in the UK into the increasingly westernised popular genre it has now become. The interview in particular plays key significance and Channi, is a Bhangra artist that came from the past and still is highly effective in working with Bhangra even today. This enables him to view Bhangra from the past and view it today, enabling him to analyse it effectively and both praise and criticise it with great hindsight.

The documentary is highly authentic and unique in the fact that there are hardly any documentaries concerning the topic of Bhangra. This enabled us to be able to stick to ordinary and common documentary conventions and not have to worry about being unoriginal as the topic that was chosen itself is all original, unique and authentic. Hence we were able to effectively compile a range of archive and self-filmed footage to produce a hard-hitting, entertaining and well educating documentary about the Bhangra genre.

Interesting facts

. Satti pranked juggy D off his phone when we were planning to use him for an interview and juggy D phoned back and arranged for a place to beef him.
. A professional artist especially produced the beat in the introduction for the production.
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House Of Bhangra
DALJIT // KARANDEEP // VIVEK // SATTI
Interesting Facts:
The instrumental we had used for the introduction was made specially for the work by a producer.
Satti got drunk at my house when we was trying to edit.

Review:
House Of Bhangra is a documentry which shows how Bhangra has become extremely popular in the last couples of years,we show how Bhangra came into the Uk and the developed onto the mainstream couple of years ago and then we show how Bhangra is now in 2008.

We interviewed Channi Alaap who is been named the God Father of Bhangra, as he was the first person to bring it into the UK, he talked about how Bhangra has changed since back in the day and also what theres too look forward to in the future.

Our aim was too give it a quick fast effect, so we used fast cuts, and alot of montages, also we used beats that were lively with catchey rythms.

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Introduction to our production- House of Bhangra- Vivek Pun

In this documentary i will be working in a group of 5, including, Satvinder, Daljit, Karandeep , Anamul and myself. We aim to provide the audience with information about the development of Bhangra, from merely being sung in the villages of Punjab India into becoming a mainstream Genre with rising popularity amongst a broader Western Audience. We aim to give a greater insight into the genre, through showing exclusive interviews with reknown artist aswell as providing inside information into Bhangra Gigs, aswell as interviews with DJ'S. The history of Bhangra will be covered ranging to the modern increase in popularity in Bhangra, examples include collaborations from PMC with Jayz. Most of the places where these interviews and the Gig footage, will be shot will be at Clubs entitled, New Light and Zoo Bar. Potentional Artists to be interviewed will include, Bobby Friction, Juggy D and DJ H from the Caliber Roadshow. All of the artists listed above are fairly well known to Bhangra listeners and Juggy D in particular is known across a more broader western audience. We also aim to interview Artists who have been involved in the Bhangra Movement from the start of its popularisation in the Western Area, such as DJ's in the Paragon Roadshow. Along with this interviews will be conducted with farily well known Dhol players as this is one of the most Key and well known instruments, associated with the Bhangra Genre.