STORY AND CHANNEL IDENTITY
In this post, I intend to overview a few of my ideas regarding channel identity and the story which I intend to pitch to my group on Thursday.
The Idea
Broadly speaking my idea centers around the plight of Londoners who are being priced out of their own homes by BtL landlords and the rising tide of international super rich who are a leading cause of this forced gentrification.to be more specific we'd be looking at the death of london's counterculture and the rise of gentrified "culture" in the capital.
the story germinated through a contact of mine whom I visited Tuesday evening, a long-time member of the counterculture. someone who is sad to see the city he moved to twisted and redesigned to cater to the super rich and upper classes.
the other aspect, the aspect regarding house prices comes from my experiences near to the isle of dogs, now canary wharf. the disparate cultures of bui8sness and slum meet at the excel center's DLR station, dirty, underbudgeted slum housing on one side and the sleek, false corrupt corporate side of the business centers and expo space.
The channel would take on an industrial, cyberpunk feel, uses of large amounts of blacks, rusts and reds in graphics and web presence, the use of lots of dystopian imagery, a political skew away from the institutionalized news companies to provide for the counterculture that simmers beneath the overly advertised, and advertised for 'hipster' pop culture. a deeply cynical political outlook with no real political allegiance.
an example of this idea can be found in the iconography of the festival, Boomtown. an event that exists as a living hypocrisy in the form of an anarchic institution.
more to do with the tone, anexamplee of BTN or the "Boomtown News" is below.
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