Wilmy Ink

Preparations for the documentary interview shoot are underway! After spitballing ideas on Saturday, we decided on a topic that we are all excited about. Grace, Kayla, Hillary, Naomi, and I were successful in securing our location for filming today and it definitely got our creative juices flowing. We went downtown and met with Jason, an artist at Hardwire Tattoo; he loved our ideas for filming and was more than willing to allow us to feature his shop and artists for the project. So we will for sure be shooting at Hardwire and either Jason or one of the other artists will be our expert interview. There are many different attitudes and opinions towards tattoos & body modification, but for our project, we want to highlight its positivity and focus on the emotional ties with tattoo artistry and the meaning behind tattoos.
Here is the list of questions we comprised to ask our interview subject:

·      How long have you been tattooing for?

·      How did you get started tattooing?

·      What is your favorite style of tattoo & why?

·      What does it mean to you to give a tattoo that is so significant to someone?

·      What is your favorite tattoo & explain the tattoo?

·      Why does it have meaning?

·      What’s your favorite tattooing story?

·      What would you say to someone who thinks negatively of tattoos? 

·      What was your first tattoo experience like? [getting a tattoo] 

·      What was your first experience as an artist like? 

For our vox pops, we will interview people with approving attitudes towards tattoos and

have tattoos themselves. We will film right outside the shop (on Front Street in downtown Wilmington) and utilize the shop customers and anyone on the street that agree to be featured. 

The questions we will ask our vox pop subjects are three of the questions we will also ask the artist:

·      What is your favorite tattoo & explain the tattoo

·      Why does it have meaning?

·      What would you say to someone who thinks negatively of tattoos

We are all looking forward to a fun and productive shoot..and who knows, someone in the group may walk away with some new ink :)