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- 1. FMP • Collect theories and relevant practitioners for your style of FMP • Research graphics designers, filmmakers, fashion designers, artists, photographers, authors, journalists. • Even if you don’t like their work, if they are significant to the area you are working in, find out about them. • Collect their work, beliefs, approaches to work. • Focus on the person- who they are? What they believe? Their approach to work. What have they said about the medium your working in? • Make it detailed. Become an expert on the people you look at. • Include images to illustrate the topic. • Explore a MINIMUM of 3 people • Look at BOOKS (Library and Google Books) • If you find someone you like- put there name in Google Books and see if anyone has written about them or if they wrote a book • Use Harvard referencing (Neil’s Toolbox) • If your struggling- google search: ‘(Your Medium Here) Theory’ or ‘Magazine Theory’, etc. • Branch out into representation theory if your product will predominantly represent a specific social group. What other theories could you include? • Use what we taught you in theory lectures on a Monday to develop your work.
- 3. Dexter Navy “Dexter Navy is a filmmaker and photographer. Across both mediums his aim is to create work that is psychedelic, cinematic and at all times holds an authentic feeling. Dexter’s career began at the age of 18 when i-D Magazine stumbled across his photographs on Tumblr and asked him to start shooting for them. Now a regular contributor to i-D it was through the publication that he would meet the musician A$AP Rocky, an encounter that would prove to be pivotal to his career. Since then the pair have collaborated on numerous projects but it was Dexter’s video of Rocky’s hit L$D that really put his name on the map, earning him a Grammy nomination for Best Video and an MTV VMA for Best Editing. In 2014 he held his first solo exhibition of his photography, “36”, at the Hoxton Gallery, London. A rising talent with a clear aesthetic style Dexter is currently developing his first book of photographs and is working on a feature.” https://dexternavy.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ274umjhFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtV6gGld_SY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNzc6hG3yN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQI-o02JYU
- 4. As Dexter's career has sped from one success to the next, the constant has remained his allegiance to La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz's 90s black-and-white feature film that follows three 20-something lads' struggle to find their place in the politically volatile suburbs of Paris. It's arresting and honest, depicting real life through the eyes of the youth. On watching the film, the connections to Dexter's work are immediately apparent. Now 20 years old, the imagery in La Haine is still particularly relevant, it captures a generation but also transcends it entirely. Its depiction of youth communicates a spirit of curiosity and passion and the same can be said of Dexter's imagery. Although his work lives and thrives in the 21st-century ecosystem of the internet, it also represents much more, because in a world of over-composed selfies they capture a childlike honesty and intrigue. "I think youth is about how you feel. My granddad is 72, he has energy, he still plays football and he says he feels 17. It's not an age bracket or a style, it's not about saying you're young, it's the way you think," Dexter explains. It's capturing that youthful energy that has marked his success. Whether photographing rising stars for i-D or shooting critically acclaimed music videos for A$AP Rocky, he's fast-becoming 'The Youth Guy'. "When we were young all we could do was change the channel on the TV. I didn't have the internet as a kid, I had to use my imagination. Kids now don't have to imagine anything. They don't need to imagine a tree with a flying horse next to it, they can find a picture of it." So how does being an 'inbetweener' impact the way he works? "My style is not old but it's not new. Every time I take on a project, I look to shoot the opposite way to everyone else. I shoot on film not because I'm nostalgic but because it gives an aesthetic and colours that I like and because it's different to everyone else. I work with new people and I do things a different way." The recipe is working. Where previously Dexter's over- active imagination was inhibited by shoestring budgets, now that teen spirit is something people are keen to get a piece of. "Before I was doing everything with no money. Now I can make these things I'm imagining into a reality." They're playing by his rules too: "Success for me is when people will hire you to do exactly what you want. Where they trust you to make a film the way you want to make it. Luckily that's happening for me and I know it's not that common.” Dexter Navy
- 5. Though he may not have been fed an internet-based diet as a child, his adolescence was played out on social media. "I'd only put up a couple of pictures on Tumblr and then I had all these people hitting me up. I just started enjoying it so much. Once I'd got 10,000 reblogs on one picture, it made me hungry to get my stuff all over the internet." This network has been Navy's making: "Tumblr was like my own magazine, that's how people found me." Six years on from that first post, social media and Dexter have grown up together: "All the work that has changed me has come through the internet. If someone wants to ask me a question they just ask me. I'm always hitting people up online." This issue, Dexter has photographed his own IRL social network. "I've just shot people I'm friends with, people that I'm surrounded by. There's Lucien Clarke, who I haven't worked with before but I met him when I was shooting Supreme in Paris recently. JME and King Krule are great musicians that I really like. Jamie Isaac I just shot a video for. They're people I admire." And what's in it for Dexter? "Every time I do something, I'm learning. For me, all of this is school to make a feature film. Every job I do is a test for a scene in a film, to figure out the light that I want, the colour I want." Born and raised in Notting Hill, Dexter is endlessly inspired by the world outside his window: "In West London you have such a mixture of people. All these second generation kids have been brought up here but with parents from all over the place; the West Indies, Morocco, Iran. There is this amazing mix of languages, energies and cultures. Everyone has a story and everybody is willing to tell it - and I talk to everybody!" So will London be the Paris to Dexter's La Haine? "I think people would expect this West London Kidulthood from me for my first film but it's gonna be based in Egypt and it's all gonna be in Arabic. Land like that is incomparable to any set I could ever build, from the pyramids to the place my dad grew-up." Though Dexter's heart may lie in Notting Hill, he's headed for bigger things and if the last six years are anything to go by it's going to be quite the coming of age story. Dexter Navy