If somethings not done yet it’s waiting to be done.
If the idea you have isn’t recognised, because it’s not been done before, you might be onto something.
If you seek professional mischief making over popularity, you represent something.
If the task at hand represents an embodied experience, in which you wrestle with subjectivity and objectivity, aesthetics (kantian) versus aesthetic (corporeal), you represent something.
If your representation, is questioned and you’re prepared to listen, you represent something.
If you move with your camera as a haptic device and your words envelop poeticism, you’re saying something.
But often the question is who’s listening?
Something’s happening. We seek doors to enter in believing adventure is on the other side. And you are helping to shape that key for others.
Your audience is committed, ambivalent or not interested. You cannot bask in the glory of finalities. Because there are none.
Each task begets another and another. The only thing fulfilling is to be unfulfilled. But that’s what you love — the chase!
If your glass is never empty, but you know how, and choose whether you want it filled, you’re onto something.
If the road less travelled, is the road you’ve taken, then often you’ll find the solo traveller awaiting you. Here you’ll share ideas that pass by the mass consensual dogma.
To you there are no masses. There is no mass media. The media delimits the message. Your message is unbridled. Meta. But your path is your own.
If you believe it so much, and the air is dark, and the naysayers make their point. Listen, but excuse yourself, because you’re onto something.
Shhh (quietly) I believe you represent something. BIG!
Developing a heurestic for videojournalismDavid Dunkley Gyimah
PhD SMARTlab, University College Dublin
Artist in Residence at London's SouthBank Centre
Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster
Royal Television Society Juror, 2011-12 Innovation in Media
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10th - April - 2011
