Perez Hilton

Mario Armando Lavanderia who is better known as Perez Hilton is an american blogger and television personality. Perez Hilton has his own blog called Perezhilton.com, which covers gossip items about celebrities. He also posts tabloid tabloid photographs over which he adds captions or doodles. His blog has seen negative opinions as Perez Hilton has outed closeted celebrities.
Perez has befriended Paris Hilton and rarely reports on stories or rumours casting Paris Hilton in a negative light, and is often praising her positive achievements which is unusual for a gossip blog. He also promotes his favourite and up coming musicians.
Hilton faces problems and criticism in day to day life. A suit against Hilton for copyright infringment was filed by Zomba Label Group on October 11, 2007, stating Hilton illegaly posted recordings by Britney Spears on Perezhilton.com.
Bloggers, journalists and news agencies have charged Hilton of copyrighting content from their sites but Hilton defends his use of this material by claiming it falls under the fair use exception to the Copyright Act.
On his blog, Hilton is open about his homosexuality and his desire to 'ou' those who he claims are closeted gay celebrities.
Recent Controversy- Shortly after Michael Jackson had gone into cardia arrest Hilton claimed it was a publicity stunt. "Get your money back, ticket holders!!!!" and "jacko pulled a smiliar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in '95 when he 'collapsed' at rehersal!". After realizing the death was not a hoax Hilton immediately deleted the origional news post and replaced it with a shorter message stating Jackson was in a cardia arrest. Hilton recieved backlash for the incident and getting involved in a Twitter argument with Pete Wentz over the situation.
From this we have leanr of some of the issues the paparazzi face and the ways of publicising themselves through websites but lso the backlash from being in the public eye.

Darryn Lyons

Darryn Lyons is an Australian paparazzo and media personality who is best known for his work in britain. In 1992, Lyons founded the picture company Big Pictures, supplying paparazzi style photographs for new organisations. Mr Paparazi.com is a celebrity news and gossip website launched in 2006. Lyons gained popularity when the company sold a photo to News of the World, supporting the claim of soccer star David Beckham having an affair with Rebecca Loos, his personal assisstant.

Big pictues has a photo archive of over 5 million celebrity images and is the worlds largest celebrity picture agency, with a worldwide staff of 75 representing over 1000 photographers, supplying pictures to 40 countries.

A Life in the Day: Darryn Lyons (Times online)

"Celebrities use the media when they can to sell a CD or book, but scream 'privacy' when it suits them"

"i got sucked into the showbiz world, chewed up and spat out"

"people are scared of my straight- talking image on television"

"many celebrities offer big money to stop pictures from being sold. I protect a lot of them but only if i'm friends with them. If i detest them, i don't.

"the biggest problem with celebrities is that they forget where they came from"

"Tony Blair made us money, but Gordron Brown doesn't"

"i'v been close to death at least three times. I shouldn't really be alive"

We can use this information to build up questions for an interview, such as, 'what is the most amount of money a celebrity has offered to stop a picture being released?'

Initial Storyboard

I have started to create the initial storyboard for the documentary. I have included vital descriptions such as sound and shot type. The storyboard will help in the process of filming as it will show the shots we need. This is only an initial storyboard as after filming and during editing we may notice that clips work better in a different order or have filmed footage which was not originally included in the plan. A final storyboard may be created if lots of shot and details have changed.
Now i have made a storyboard with a rough idea of the contents, the next stage is to arrange filming. For this i will need to write to famous paparazzi's to see if they are available for an interview and if this is possible, a date, time and equipment will need to be arranged. Along with this a schedule for shooting will also need to be created.

Research cont.

I have now done a sufficient amount of research into techniques for the stage I am at. The research has so far helped me with the style of documentary but I am now exploring what the contents of the documentary should include. I have initally searched Amazon for products which have exploited the theme of paparazzi, some were positive views and others negative.

• Darryn Lyons: Mr Paparazzi (book £18)
• Paparazzi (Ps2 game £10)
• Paparazzi Celebrity video quiz (DVD £20)
• Paparazzi (film 2004 £6)
• Paparazzi and our obsession with celebrity (book £18)

The paparazzi has also inspired many song artists, such as Lady Gaga who has recently released a single called Paparazzi. LadyGaga's video is also set all around her celebrity figure who lives for the paparazzi. Below is a link to her music video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQJ9Vi8GLok

I have created a first draft of the paparazzi documentary storyboard but it is only a initial rough guide to the contents. As we are limited to a 5 minute clip, i have chosen to do the opening to the documentary as this gives a glimse into the whole documentary