A tattoo is a marking made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment for decorative or other reasons. Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification, while tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification or branding. The term "tattoo" or from Samoa, "Tatau" is first referred to by Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Cook's ship the "Endeavour" in 1769 where he mentions it in his journal. To paraphrase. he states, "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition".
Tattooing has been practiced for centuries worldwide. The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally wore facial tattoos. Today one can find Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), Māori of New Zealand, Arabic people in East-Turkey and Atayal of Taiwan with facial tattoos. Tattooing was widespread among Polynesian peoples and among certain tribal groups in the Taiwan, Philippines, Borneo, Mentawai Islands, Africa, North America, South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, Japan, Cambodia, New Zealand and Micronesia. Despite some taboos surrounding tattooing, the art continues to be popular in many parts of the world.
Wikepedia – used in voice over?
Ami James – Miami Ink owner and a very talented tattoo artist – used to show tattoos in cutaways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKQ3ETNOzY&feature=channel
London Ink archive footage – Ronan Keating getting a tattoo – shows celebrities also get tattoos and may influence other people to get them
Kat Von D is the most famous female tattooist. She is also covered in tattoos herself so this shows she loves her job – used in cutaways
This was found on the internet – shows the general/funny meaning of tattoos - cutaways
This was found on the internet and portrays the meaning behind each tattoo. However some tattoos may not follow this outline – cutaways
If you've made your mind to get a tattoo, you must be wondering as for which design to go for. Choosing a tattoo design can be difficult because it would be imprinted on your body throughout your life, so definitely it should be a good choice. Though it's entirely a personal choice, you can choose tattoo symbols for your reasons and with your own significant meaning. Here is given a brief idea of the most popular tattoo designs and their general meaning:
Tribal Tattoo
In fact, this is the most common style of tattoo seen in all places. Such tattoos represent primitive history and culture, and have their root in continents like Africa, Asia to Oceania and the Pacific islands.
Animal Tattoos
These tattoos cam be chosen for many different reasons, however, basically indicates the affinity and respect for animals.
Bird Tattoos
These tattoos are also commonly preferred, and have many variations from small swallows, to crows and owls. In general, bird tattoos are associated with freedom.
Cross Tattoos
These tattoos, found in different styles and colors, generally represent religious symbolism. It's more often than not connected with Celtic stylization. Such tattoo designs symbolize fusion of religious and Celt history.
Eagle Tattoos
A popular tattoo design in the USA, eagle is a great symbol of power that represents one of the ultimate predators. In fact, in America, it's a symbol of strong patriotism and often eagle tattoo designs feature the colors of USA flag.
Face Tattoos
Face designs in tattoos put across our own view about humans. Most of the people either get face designs (portraits) of decease family members, or mythical and fantasy characters.
Sun Tattoos
Like tribal tattoo designs, Sun designs are rooted in the history and culture of many civilizations. The Sun always held a special place across many continents and times, being the giver of life. It's a symbol of rejuvenation.
Fairy Tattoos
Fairy designs make the popular female choice. It perhaps represents the child in us which thinks of fairies and pixies.
Flower Tattoos
Flowers, again, are loved more by the women. It generally suggests the nature element.
Horoscope Tattoos
These designs, suggesting a tribal form, are also common among people. And the most popular horoscope design is of scorpion, which refers to sting in the tail.
Wolf Tattoos
The wolf design, in general sense, gives the impression to invoke and symbolize the primeval savage ruthless beast in us.
Meaning Of Tattoos – Voice over
http://tattoos.iloveindia.com/tattoo-meaning.html
The history of the art of tattooing has its roots in the ancient times. The word ’Tattoo’ has originated from the Tahitian term ’Tatu’ or ’Tatau’, which means mark or strike. In fact tattoo is a very popular form of art through which people used to put on decorative marks on their skin, and they still do so, all over the world.
Some scientific discoveries reveal that certain marks were found on the skin of the Iceman, a mummified human body dating from about 3300 B.C. Those marks are actually believed to be the tattoos and thus we can say that they represent the earliest known evidence of the practice of the art of tattooing. Then there are more widely recognized tattoos that were found on Egyptian and Nubian mummies dating from about 2000 B.C.
The classical authors also contribute in this regard by mentioning the use of tattoos in connection with ancient Greeks, Germans, Thracians and Britons. But the general belief is that with the growth of Christianity, tattooing was forbidden in Europe. However the practice continued in the Middle East and other parts of the world.
The history tells us that in some of the countries the art of tattooing has been in fashion for thousands of years whereas in other countries it is a newly adopted art. In the ancient and medieval period the people in different parts of the world employed different methods of tattooing. But the fact is that this form of tattoo art was hugely popular throughout the world in general and the US and Europe in particular. Another interesting fact about history of tattoos is that the tattoos seemed to be missing among populations with the darkest skin tone and in most of China until more recent centuries.
No wonder, like many other things, with passage of time this form of tattoo art as well as the tattoo artists have also changed. The tattoo artists have skillfully adapted themselves to the latest changes and adopted the newest techniques of tattooing in order to keep pace with the modern time. For the same reason the methods of tattooing have also changed.
The Maoris of New Zealand and the Japanese people were expert of the puncture method of tattooing. Later the sailors introduced this art into Europe. However the modern method of tattooing employs an electric needle for drawing the tattoos
http://www.womanjunction.com/topic/tattoo/history-of-tattooing/
These pictures can be used in cutaways to show that many people only get tattoos as a joke and to make people laugh.
Primary Research For Documentary:
- We created a questionaire to give out to the public to get feedback to what they think a documentary should be like. We recieved feedback from the questionaires to create a documentary that the audience would like.
- We went to golden square to do our voxpops and around chester, this enabled us to get alot of voxpops to narrow it down to the few we want to use.
- We got a interview with a Tattoo Artists in Warrington, from a parlour called Ashes Tattoo. We asked him the questions to get an understanding to how his business works as a whole and how it operates as a servive.
- We filmed cutaways around Warrington at multiple Tattoo studios for possible cutaways such as Ashes Tattoo parlour, Salsa, and Voodoo. We also created a collage to film as a cutaway.
Running Order:
Documentary: Indelible Art
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Thursday 21st October 9.00pm – 9.30pm
Duration: 28 minutes (including advert break)
Montage of images of different tattoos from all different people while a voice over introduces the documentary and generally talks about tattoos.
10 Seconds
Establishing shot of town centres and tattoo parlours. With the title ‘Indelible Art’ shown.
10 Seconds
Straight cut into tattoo parlour and footage shown of the inside of it.
5 Seconds
Part of the interview with the tattoo artist shown along with cutaways of different people and tattoos and equipment to back up what he’s saying.
20 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘Do you have a tattoo? (Where?)’
20 Seconds
Archive footage of someone getting a tattoo done
20 Seconds
Part of Interview of laser specialist who does removal of tattoos
20 Seconds
Another part of interview with the tattoo artist shown
20 Seconds
Montage of different tattoo parlours
20 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘What do you think of people who have tattoos?’
15 Seconds
Back to interview with tattoo artist. Question posed about infections.
25 seconds
Montage of pictures of infected tattoos
10 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘What’s your favourite celebrity tattoo and why? (or least favourite)
20 Seconds
Interview with nurse/doctor about complications with tattoos that they have encountered.
20 seconds
Montage of more tattoos and the types of people who get them, voice over speaks about facts and figures on tattoos.
20 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘What do you think about having your partners name tattooed onto you?’
15 seconds
Interview with someone who wants their tattoo removing.
15 Seconds
Footage of someone getting a tattoo done.
20 Seconds
Interview with people who have lots of tattoos, what their tattoos mean, if they like them and do they regret them. Staged as more of a conversation about their own tattoos between friends.
25 Seconds
Montage of people walking through a busy town to portray ‘the public.’ The voiceover speaks about public and tattoos.
15 Seconds
More interview footage with the tattoo artist.
20 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘Do you have any nicknames for tattoos?’
15 Seconds
Archive footage of Miami Ink, L.A ink and London Ink – with voice over speaking about how popular tattoos have become that even shows are dedicated to watching people get them done.
25 Seconds
Montage of images and footage of famous people’s tattoos
15 Seconds
The history of tattoos spoken about over images to back up what the narrator is saying.
40 Seconds
Interview with someone who LOVES tattoos and has loads
30 Seconds
Cutaway to some of their tattoos
10 Seconds
Interview with someone to DOESN’T MIND tattoos
30 Seconds
Cutaway to their one or two tattoos
5 Seconds
Interview with someone who HATES tattoos
30 Seconds
Cutaway to their plain skin
5 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘What do peoples tattoos say about them?’
15 Seconds
Voice over speaks while images of different stereotypes of people are shown.
25 Seconds
Archive footage of inside tattoo shop or laser tattoo removal place.
15 Seconds
Who’s the first person to really make tattoos popular? Voice over with images on screen
15 Seconds
More interview footage from nurse/doctor
25 Seconds
Tattoos used to be a way of differentiating people in the war. Voice over with images to back up what the voice over is saying.
20 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘Do you think that tattoos generally have a meaning?’
20 Seconds
Picture of the most tattooed person in the world
5 Seconds
Titles
5 Seconds
Advert Break
3 Minutes
Titles
5 Seconds
Montage comical, or rude tattoos with the voice over speaking about how a certain percentage of people regret ever getting their tattoos
30 Seconds
The older generations view of tattoos and who used to get them in their day
15 Seconds
Interview different older men and women about what they think about tattoos
1 minute
Vox pops shown of tattooed people answering the question of ‘how much have you spent on tattoos?’
30 Seconds
Arc hive footage of laser removal of tattoos while voice over speaks about it.
30 Seconds
More of the interview with the tattoo artist.
40 Seconds
Cutaway to expand on what he’s saying.
10 Seconds
Montage of people walking in and out of the tattoo shop, over a day, but sped up really fast.
15 Seconds
Interview with doctor or nurse about implications of tattoos and also why pregnant people can’t get tattoos.
40 Seconds
Cutaway to footage of bikers with voice over speaking about how after we researched we found out that the public think that bikers are most likely the people to get tattoos.
25 Seconds
Cutaway to the most popular biker tattoo ‘Harley Davidson’
5 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘Do you like tattoos? Why?’
30 Seconds
More interview footage from with the tattoo artist and a customer
1 Minute
Cutaway to images of tattoo’s on the walls of shop
10 Seconds
Archive footage of someone with an infected tattoo.
15 Seconds
Interview with the person who has the infected tattoo.
25 Seconds
Cutaway to footage in the chemists of creams and tablets that the injury may need.
20 Seconds
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘If you had to get one, what type of tattoo would you get?
25 Seconds
Archive footage of a secret camera being taken into a tattoo parlour by a minor and showing that the person doesn’t ask him for ID.
25 Seconds
Interview with a police officer about the law on tattoo age limit and also what they think of people with tattoos.
25 Seconds
Cutaway to footage of someone getting arrested
10 Seconds
Back to interview with police officer talking about statistics of people they arrest having tattoos.
20 Seconds
Interview with the current world record holder for the most tattoos. Includes footage of his tattooed body whilst he speaks about them and also mentions his favourite tattoos and which he regrets and what they mean.
1 Minute
Vox pops shown answering the question of ‘Will or do you let you children get tattoos?’
20 Seconds
A comparison of two people’s bodies, one who’s covered in tattoos and one who’s not, the public speak over the top about which they prefer.
20 Seconds
Archive footage of a secret camera of an interview between someone who’s really tattooed and the interviewers and someone who’s not tattooed and the interviewers.
30 Seconds
Cutaway to the tattooed person walking out with out the job
5 Seconds
Interview with the interviewer speaking about why they chose the person with no tattoos to represent their company.
20 Seconds
Interview with a very tattooed person’s child and what they think of having their mum/dad look the way they do.
30 Seconds
Cutaway to their family stood in front of their house, mum and dad both covered in tattoos.
10 Seconds
Montage of snippets interviewees ending their interviews with whether they think tattoos are good over all or not.
40 seconds
Credits
20 Seconds
Total
28 Minutes
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