brief jan 2013

we have been given our brief to produce a short film between 1-2 minutes about speeches which will advertise a new series on BBC radio. the speeches we have been given are ones from the 20th century and after listening to all the speeches i found martin luther kings to be the most interesting. I think the times that he was living in and the work he didn't made the most impact and because i didn't know much about him i thought he would be the best person to research and the times he lived in seemed to be the most interesting. 
he made the most impact in his country for the black community. When i was listening to his speach you could feel the enthusiasm and the belief in his voice. When i started to research into him further i found that he went into education with a strong mind and he graduated from quite a few schools gaining many qualifications, and he met his wife at boston university, Coretta Scott. they got married and few years later and went on to have 4 children. he took a job as the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. During these times black and white people had segregated seating on buses and if a white person got on the bus blacks had to give up their seat. in 1955 a women named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and was arrested, King got wind of this and soon the bus boycott started, it lasted 381 days (december 1st 1955 - december 20th 1056). no black people used the public transport and the buses where loosing money quickly. eventually on the 20th december 1956 a federal ruling took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws of segregated buses to be unconstitutional. and so began the rising of Martin Luther King.