26 Jan 2013

HAITI / URBAN MOSAIC

Haitian artist Prince Luc is training a group of children on the technique of mosaic. Before, they could hardly draw a straight line. Now the kids’ drawing is gradually transforming the wall of St Jean Bosco church in Petion-Ville. MINUSTAH

Posted at: January 26, 2013 12:46 am

Duration: 04:33

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STORY: HAITI / URBAN MOSAIC
TRT: 4.33
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 6 JANUARY 2013, PETION-VILLE / JACMEL, HAITI

SHOTLIST:

6 JANUARY 2013, PETION-VILLE, HAITI

1.	Tilt down, patchwork art 
2.	Close up, patchwork art
3.	Pan right, patchwork art 
4.	Med shot, kids cutting paperboard under the gaze of the teacher Prince Luc
5.	Close up, hand and scissors cutting piece of paperboard
6.	Med shot, head of a child and Prince Luc watching in the background       
7.	Close up, child's hands sticky piece of paperboard 
8.	Med shot, Paristil sticky piece of paperboard while the other children and Prince Luc watch
9.	Close up, little girl looking up 
10.	SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lucner CANDIO (Prince Luc), Training Artist: 
"I worked with them on color theory. You need to know how to assemble the colors and get a whole set of colors. You take a piece of ceramic, and break it down into a variety of little pieces that you then apply on the drawing."
11.	Various shots, Prince Luc's hand delimiting a piece of paperboard 
12.	Wide shot, children watching while Prince Luc is drawing on paperboard 
13.	Wide Shot, Morne Hercule street
14.	Close up, project poster with partners' logo 
15.	Med shot, Prince Luc watching  
16.	Med shot, Paristil Jean-Louis drawing a tree on the wall 
17.	Med shot Prince Luc watching Paristil drawing
18.	Cutaway, drawings on the wall
19.	Wide shot, children placing plastics on the wall with the help of Prince Luc 
20.	Med shot, children calking the drawing on the plastic under the gaze of Prince Luc
21.	Med shot, Sabine Doris calking the drawing
22.	Close up, Sabine calking the drawing 
23.	SOUNDBITE (Creole) Sabine DORIS, Beneficiary:
"The mosaic is a collection, a gathering of little pieces: bottle, porcelain, teacups, beach rocks, cars windows… They told us they could stick it on the wall. They told us where it came from: Rome. The first place where ceramic was used was in a cave.''
24.	Med shot, ceramic boxes 
25.	Med shot, Prince Luc teaching children to cut ceramic  
26.	Close up, ceramic cutter 
27.	Close up, hand putting down tiles on the net
28.	Close up, hand with glove cutting a tile with pliers  
29.	Med shot, child putting  down tiles on the net
30.	SOUNDBITE (Creole) Paristil JEAN-LOUIS, Beneficiary:
"I'm growing up now. When I will be 18, 20 years old, I'll work, and make money. And I'll be able to help my parents."
31.	Med shot, tiles on the net 
32.	Close up, hands and water 
33.	Med shot, water on the drawing  
34.	Med shot, children and Prince Luc spraying water on the drawing
35.	Close up, a child's head with safety goggles 
36.	Close up, hand mixing glue in a bowl
37.	Med shot, wall with glue and children's hands hanging the pattern on a net
38.	Close up, hands fixing the pattern on the wall 
39.	Med shot, children fixing the pattern on the wall 
40.	SOUNDBITE (Creole) Jamesson MISERY, Coordinator, Conseil D'Organisation et de Gestion Central (COGEC):
"Before choosing the subject, we had to interview the elders, and other famous people of the neighborhood. They taught us the history of the place, and we are now reproducing it as a drawing, which becomes the artistic work that we offer those two neighborhoods today."
41.	Med shot, wall
42.	Pan right, wall 
43.	Close up, mosaic portrait of Gerard Nau
44.	Wide shot, mosaic wall
45.	SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gérard Nau, Local Resident:
"My wish, honestly, is to see the neighborhood become the clean area that it once was.  When they did that in this zone, they brought happiness. Every person that walked by – I don't know what they're thinking! – but when they look at the wall, they see something beautiful. I think it was a wonderful idea from the kids and adults who made it." 
46.	Med shot, hands placing a tile directly on the wall
47.	Med shot, Gérard Nau watching
48.	Med shot, hands fixing tiles
49.	Close up, Gérard Nau watching
50.	Med shot, staff working while Gerard Nau watching 
51.	Wide shot, kids and COGEC staff working on the wall
52.	Med shot, people working
53.	SOUNDBITE (Creole) Luckner CANDIO (Prince Luc), Training Artist: 
"When we're working, they tell me: teacher, let's do it like that! That means they have ideas. I think if we are supporting the kids, as I used to say: 'You can't act on a tree! You have to shape it in the right way when it's still a shrub'. We have many little potentials like this. If we focus on the kids, in 10, 15, 20 years, we will have a new Haiti."

6 JANUARY 2013, JACMEL, HAITI

54.	Wide shot, mosaic mural
55.	Med shot, mosaic mural
56.	Pan left, mosaic mural
57.	Med shot, mosaic mural 
58.	Med shot, mosaic mural with child passing by

STORYLINE:

These are not kindergarten drawings. They were made by a group of disadvantaged kids who are trying to master the art of matching colors and shapes before casting them in tile.

Prince Luc is an artist from Jacmel in Haiti. He was hired by USAID to train a group of children in the technique of mosaic. His workshop aims to give 25 possible artists-to-be an efficient start by teaching them the basics of the method.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lucner CANDIO (Prince Luc), Training Artist: 
"I worked with them on color theory. You need to know how to assemble the colors and get a whole set of colors. You take a piece of ceramic, and break it down into a variety of little pieces that you then apply on the drawing."

Before the training, the kids could hardly draw a straight line. Now their drawing is gradually transforming the wall of St Jean Bosco church, located in a neighbourhood of Petion-Ville on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince.

Plastic is used to calk the drawing before it is taken to the workshop. The kids are learning the different steps needed to craft a mosaic.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Sabine DORIS, Beneficiary:
"The mosaic is a collection, a gathering of little pieces: bottle, porcelain, teacups, beach rocks, cars windows… They told us they could stick it on the wall. They told us where it came from: Rome. The first place where ceramic was used was in a cave.''

Different types of materials can be used for a mosaic. Prince Luc is using ceramic with the children. Every piece is cut to shape with the appropriate color of the artist's choice.

The kids of the workshop don't have an easy life. They were born in misery. But they feel the training can change their social status, and they already see a brighter future.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Paristil JEAN-LOUIS, Beneficiary:
"I'm growing up now. When I will be 18, 20 years old, I'll work, and make money. And I'll be able to help my parents."

There are two ways to do the mosaic. For the direct method, you place your tiles one by one directly on the wall. The indirect method, is when you complete the pattern on a net that you hang on the wall.

And the choice of motif is not random. It is a story, a memory.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Jamesson MISERY, Coordinator, Conseil D'Organisation et de Gestion Central (COGEC):
"Before choosing the subject, we had to interview the elders, and other famous people of the neighborhood. They taught us the history of the place, and we are now reproducing it as a drawing, which becomes the artistic work that we offer those two neighborhoods today."

If the choice of this neighbourhood was a coincidence, then it's a lucky one. Léon Nau street was the residence of many talented artists.

The story on the wall reminds local resident Gerard Nau of the time when he had a coffee factory. Unfortunately, over time the neighborhood lost its beauty.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Gérard Nau, Local Resident:
"My wish, honestly, is to see the neighborhood become the clean area that it once was.  When they did that in this zone, they brought happiness. Every person that walked by – I don't know what they're thinking! – but when they look at the wall, they see something beautiful. I think it was a wonderful idea from the kids and adults who made it."

Prince Luc is convinced the project is a good investment for the future of Haiti.

SOUNDBITE (Creole) Luckner CANDIO / Training Artist 
"When we're working, they tell me: teacher, let's do it like that! That means they have ideas. I think if we are supporting the kids it's like, as I used to say: You can't act on a tree! You have to shape it in the right way when it's still a shrub. We have many little potentials like this. If we focus on the kids of Haiti, in 10, 15, 20 years, we will have a new Haiti."

Prince Luc already demonstrated his talent on a wall in the southern town of Jacmel.

When the mosaic in Petion-Ville is done, the kids can be proud to have taken their first steps on another work of great scale – an exceptional start.